Institute for Manufactured Futures
@ifmf.bsky.social
manufactured-futures.com
A storytelling enterprise. Announcements posted here, all info on the website.
A storytelling enterprise. Announcements posted here, all info on the website.
We learned about and read Everything for Everyone while recording our first series, "235 bloom" in fall '22 - it was a huge validation and inspiration! That content finally released this month: www.rascal.news/235-bloom-la...
235 bloom: Two Childhood Friends Tell the Future of their Hometown through Actual Play. Oh, and there's Mecha.
A new actual play podcast looks at a real Midwest city in the year 2089, showcasing a mix of indie TTRPG darlings and underdogs, with support from local artists and culture workers.
www.rascal.news
May 24, 2026 at 5:03 PM
We learned about and read Everything for Everyone while recording our first series, "235 bloom" in fall '22 - it was a huge validation and inspiration! That content finally released this month: www.rascal.news/235-bloom-la...
Canopy Archive is a collab between IFMF and the Des Moines & Dragons podcast collective, using indie roleplaying games to tell stories of a future other than the one being imagined for us. Visionary Fiction in the ttrpg/actual play/nerdom space.
May 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Canopy Archive is a collab between IFMF and the Des Moines & Dragons podcast collective, using indie roleplaying games to tell stories of a future other than the one being imagined for us. Visionary Fiction in the ttrpg/actual play/nerdom space.
players as game designers are imaginative ones not material ones, but the material world is constantly remade through acts of collective fantasy. To imagine remaking the world is not a revolution, but it is a spark."
- Meghna Jayanth | 2/2
- Meghna Jayanth | 2/2
May 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
players as game designers are imaginative ones not material ones, but the material world is constantly remade through acts of collective fantasy. To imagine remaking the world is not a revolution, but it is a spark."
- Meghna Jayanth | 2/2
- Meghna Jayanth | 2/2
"It is easier to remake the structures of capitalism-colonialism inside the world of a game than it is to remake the real world — and that is exactly why we should do it MORE and OFTEN. The video game worlds we design are worlds of fantasy, the transformations we make and share with our | 1/2
May 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
"It is easier to remake the structures of capitalism-colonialism inside the world of a game than it is to remake the real world — and that is exactly why we should do it MORE and OFTEN. The video game worlds we design are worlds of fantasy, the transformations we make and share with our | 1/2
Collab w/Des Moines & Dragons, featuring work by Des Moines-born or -based artists @maddyfusco.bsky.social, Goatfoam, and LIPING VONG + indie games by @dicekapital.bsky.social, @leylinepress.bsky.social, @everest.bsky.social, Kyle Serafin, and @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social/ @cmichpress.bsky.social!
May 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Collab w/Des Moines & Dragons, featuring work by Des Moines-born or -based artists @maddyfusco.bsky.social, Goatfoam, and LIPING VONG + indie games by @dicekapital.bsky.social, @leylinepress.bsky.social, @everest.bsky.social, Kyle Serafin, and @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social/ @cmichpress.bsky.social!
Through a handful of indie rpgs, '235 bloom' explores the invasion of the Des Moines metro by plutocratic ideologues, following the stories of Emil, an Emergency Services Cooperative worker in over his head in the Civil Resistance, and Baz, a hotshot BE-TLE pilot returning to his childhood home.
May 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Through a handful of indie rpgs, '235 bloom' explores the invasion of the Des Moines metro by plutocratic ideologues, following the stories of Emil, an Emergency Services Cooperative worker in over his head in the Civil Resistance, and Baz, a hotshot BE-TLE pilot returning to his childhood home.