Nerd Somatics
Transforming Systems & Stories, by Design
Events & Art
This page gathers what’s on the horizon — games in development, art projects in process, and places where I’m in conversation with others.
Here’s a peek at what I’m cooking up next — new games, art installations, and conversations at the edge of bodies, systems, and story.
Upcoming Games
Gorgon’s Garden (co-author): A co-created game about myth, monsters, and subverting creepy power dynamics. Launching October 21st, 2025. Selected for Kickstarter’s Witchstarter arts collaborative. Check out the kickstarter here.
White Space (solo author): A new indie TTRPG storytelling game that explores the edges of silence and imagination. Coming soon.
Turn Your Back to the Forest (solo author): A fairy-tale inspired game about a home that leaves you, and a journey to find it again. Based on the award-winning LARP (live action roleplaying) game Sam designed, Rule of Three.
Art Projects
Temple of Belonging (2024): Built and Burned - a 20-ft tall burnable bird sculpture that became a space for collective grief, release, and transformation. Large art installations are exercises in community-building, collaboration, and flexibility, and this took all three.
More art projects are brewing. Support future art via patreon.
Shakespeare at Colerain presents Much Ado About Nothing 2025 - Much Ado 2025 turned the Colerain Center grounds into a living poem of laughter, chaos, and reconciliation. What began as a play became a communal act of storytelling — a shared heartbeat between audience and performers. It was a reminder that art is as much about us as it is about the stage. More creative experiments are already taking shape. Support future art via patreon.
Pandas Playing Cello: Games with Frontiers
What do a former CIA Director, a neuroscientist who works on the edge of time and belonging, and a game designer have to say to each other? More than you might expect!
Other Ink Thursdays
A designer chat on the work of building games in the indie publishing space
Games Are for Everyone
A audio recording of a library panel in Silver Spring, MD where Sam and other designers (including Elizabeth Hargrave, maker of Wingspan) talk about the joys, challenges, and business of games.
RPG Design Panelcast: So You Wanna Make a Sexy Game?
With Meguey Baker, Apocalypse World designer. Two professional sex educators who've taught for all ages talk about the what, where, and why of designing games that touch on sexual themes. A PG chat about what is often an R-rated topic.