This will be our last newsletter of the year, and we have so many cool things to cover! We’ll keep it brief with the highlights here:
- Holiday Shopping
- We have an ongoing holiday sale on our webstore from now until Jan. 1st, 2026. Take 20% off all current titles ready to ship, plus their curriculum guides and print and play versions. Click here to shop!
- Place your order for our newest titles on the pre-order store for Art & System! Shop the pre-order store here!
- Save the Date
- For our vineyard and game lovers, get your tickets to our Winter Wine and Games Night on January 31st with Brengman Family Wines in beautiful Traverse City! We only have 50 seats open, so act quickly! Buy your tickets here.
- Mark your calendars for March 2026! We will be launching a crowdfunding campaign for Jason Morningstar’s game, The Blue Way. Get excited and look for a prelaunch page on BackerKit soon!
- On Campus
- We’ve been keeping an exciting project under wraps – until now! CLGS and CMU Museum staff supervised a combined group of Game Design Thinking and Museum Studies students as they developed a new exhibit for the CMU Museum about the history of games in society. This exhibit is set to open in early 2026: keep your eyes peeled for more information!
- CLGS Spotlight
- Go behind the scenes with the CLGS and CMich Press! This month, we have an interview with Andrew Devenney, the Associate Director of the CLGS. Read more below!
- Thank you for a remarkable year of new games, projects, and amazing support from YOU! We can’t wait for 2026!
CLGS Staff Profile: Andrew Devenney, Associate Director
Andrew is the engine of the CLGS who knows games inside and out. He says he was hooked with the Moldvay Basic D&D set; classical training for someone who would go on to create games at every level.
As the Associate Director of the CLGS, Andrew manages everything from game crowdfunding to layout to production to shipping. He also supports the Game Design Thinking program, maintains the CMich Press webstore, and is a Series Editor for CMich Press’s pedagogical game series “Scholarship and Lore: Games for Learning.”
He summarizes it well: “I keep the plates spinning in the background on all things CLGS and CMich Press related.” And there are a LOT of plates!
The core four-person staff at the CLGS is a team with various specialties and interests, and Andrew is in good company as one of three historians currently on staff. He is a graduate of CMU three times over, ultimately holding a Ph.D. in Transnational and Comparative History of 20th Century Europe. Throughout his studies, he had a chance to study with the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland and received a Fulbright to study in Ireland at Dublin City University. In the world of games, he is also Co-Owner and Publisher of Superhero Necromancer Press, an indie press which publishes tabletop roleplaying games.
All these skills have coalesced in Andrew’s work with the CLGS – and like a D&D character moving through campaigns, he has also gathered a host of additional skills along the way. “Global shipping logistics and tariff management certainly wasn’t part of my Ph.D. program,” he jokes, “but we’re in the thick of it now!” On any day, Andrew might be laying out a design for a game box, consulting international game regulations for product distribution, or navigating the new frontier between academic game programs and commercial game press activities to make sure the CLGS gets what it needs to continue growing and producing remarkable games. He was a formational member in the venturing party that is the CLGS, and is a key player in its future. Thanks, Andrew!