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An academic publisher of scholarly and educational games | https://linktr.ee/clgs | Our Scholarship and Lore: Games for Learning series is open for submissions: https://cmichpress.com/scholarshiplore/

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Gather at Pleasant City Coffee to learn more about Line by Line, explore its gorgeous art, and play a round! This collaborative poetry-writing game from CMich Press turns players into a troupe of Bards gathering at their favorite cozy cafe to reinvigorate its business by composing poems to share.

Black text reads Line by Line at Pleasant City Coffee. Smaller teal text reads October 13, five to seven PM, Pleasant City Coffee, Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Below it is a teal box with light blue text which reads, Explore a cozy poetry-writing game and let your inner Bard play! Next to the event information is an image of the box cover for Line by Line.
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Bookmarks and the Midland Poetry Meet-Up have invited us to tell the story of Line by Line on October 21st from 6-7 PM! Join us to learn more about this forthcoming cozy poetry-writing game and the dedicated team behind it!

Rounded black text reads Special Event! Below it, slightly smaller teal text reads October 21, six to seven PM, Bookmarks, Midland, MI. Next to this text is an image of the box cover for Line by Line, which features a small human figure in an oversized teal robe standing in an open cafe window holding a big scarlet quill. Above their head is a banner with the words Line by Line. Below the image is a dark gray blue box with black text. It reads, Explore the store behind a cozy poetry game and a university press through a conversation with special guests! Next to this description is a frame for two photos. It is stylized to look like an open book, with each photo occupying a rectangular page. The photo on the far left is of a woman with short dark hair in a dark denim blue dress, and the photo on the right is of a man in a blue shirt and gray hoodie in front of a shelf of games.
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This week we led students through a mind-blowing exercise - what are the games around you? (Think about it!) Check out this video for a rundown of other things we used in class, plus a huge thank-you to all students who helped us playtest games last week as part of Break Our Games!

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We can't wait to tell you about our Vampire Game and Crafting Night with FYOV! Thanks to Watercolor Cafe for hosting! Our retailer partner this week is Good Games Indianapolis thanks for being awesome! Look out for more details on our upcoming event with Bookmarks and other Line by Line updates!

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Thanks to everyone who came to Break Our Games last week! We were delighted to playtest two student games plus a few others in development at Central Michigan University Press. It was the noisiest BOG we've had in a while, between laughter, debates, and victory yells! We loved it!

Two students play a game in a sunny corner of a library room. The game components consist of a deck of cards, plus two bags of tokens. Five students sit around a rectangular gray table next to a sunny window. They are in the midst of talking passionately. Some playing cards, some marked T and some marked D, sit in the center of the table. Each student also has a piece of paper and a writing utensil in their hand or in front of them.Five students sit at a rectangular gray table. They are all bent over a set of orange-ish cards the size and shape of playing cards that have writing too small to read on each. Each student also has a piece of paper and a writing utensil.Four students are gathered between a set of tables and chairs in a classroom environment. One student sits in a chair at the back. Another student stands atop a two-tile by six-tile long game board with a set of playing cards in their hand. The two long sides of the board are lined with playing card symbols. The other two students stand behind the student on the board, watching the playtesting.
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We had the most frightfully fun time during our Vampire Game and Art Night! Thank you to the AMAZING ladies who made up our Mackinac Island Convocation of vampires. (And a Prime-Vampire-sized thank you to our friends at the Watercolor Cafe for letting us use their space and promoting our event!)

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