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The New Way: Designer Allen White Q&A
While The New Way by Dr. Allen White may share some bones with The Blue Way, it is a completely different game. Players step into the roles of employees at a fictional biomedical component supplier under new -- and unscrupulous -- management and confront scenarios of...
June Newsletter
We’ve covered a ton of ground in June — we can’t wait to share everything with you! Outreach Events We have had a RECORD number of exciting outreach events since the end of May! First, we ran games for our new partners at Mackinac...
An Artistic Rendering of The Blue Way Map
When players get together to play The Blue Way, one of the first things they do is create the world of their story by drawing a map. No two maps look the same, but each one contains common features of the Sathani village as described in character sheets. As the game...
Plain Text Version of The Blue Way BackerKit Page
The Blue Way: A Game About Lost Stories. The header for each section is liquid blue, darker than the sky but not deep royal blue. Behind the blue layer is a line of three painted portraits of people looking out at the reader. They are only barely visible. Over this...
The Blue Way: A Digital Exhibit
Labels and art created by: Samantha Krayniak Central Michigan University Press asked one of the recent graduates from the Museum Studies minor, Samantha Krayniak, to put together a special project inspired by themes in CMich Press's new game, The Blue Way. Sam created...
The Blue Way Curriculum Guide Q&A: Ray Kimball
Hello, friends of CMich Press and The Blue Way! Today we want to introduce you to Dr. Ray Kimball, one of the authors behind The Blue Way Curriculum Guide, and share a bit of his experience creating this new supplemental guide for educators. (If you have...
Designer Q&A with Jason Morningstar
Hello, all! Today we're rolling out a design Q&A with Jason Morningstar that will take you behind the creation of The Blue Way. Jason is the designer behind big hits like Fiasco, Desperation, and, recently, Zhenya's Wonder Tales. (Is June...
The Blue Way Curriculum Guide Q&A: Jonathan Truitt
Hello, friends of CMich Press and The Blue Way! We are fast approaching the launch date for The Blue Way, and we are so excited! One of the coolest things that we are looking forward to sharing with you is the new Curriculum Guide, authored by Dr. Jonathan Truitt...
May Newsletter
The spring semester may be over at CMU, but the CLGS is as busy as ever! Catch up with our recent news items and learn more about opportunities to join us! 1. 20Sided Gamified Campus Visit At the end of April, we had a blast hanging out with Jared...
The Blue Way Designer Q&A: Samuel Araya
Hello, all! As the June 16 launch date for The Blue Way creeps closer and closer, we wanted to share a design Q&A from the artist: the amazing Samuel Araya! If you've followed CMich Press projects before now, you'll recognize his haunting style from art in Five...