New War birds game: Lumberjills on Kickstarter now!
9 days ago
– Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 08:14:42 AM
Hello you amazing backers!
You all made Rosenstrasse a reality for us and we are forever grateful! It surpassed our expectations, has gone on to do it's good work in the world, and filled us with pride.
So it's with great bubbling joy that I announce that the next game in the War Birds series is going live today on Kickstarter. It is a joyful, blue-skies, sawing dancing and romancing game that looks at the stories of those who served in the Women's Timber Corps in the forests of Scotland during WWII.
Please come check it out and consider backing it to keep the War Birds momentum going! Play Lumberjills to find out how phenomenal you are.
About the game:
Lumberjills is a live action roleplaying game about the women of the WWII Women’s Timber Corps felling giant trees, making lifelong friendships, and finding their dance cards forever full. With techniques built to make you feel physically competent without needing to be, Lumberjills frees you to immerse in a story about being strong, being loved and choosing the life you want to live.
Find your true capacity!
Choose your own destiny!
Be loved.
Launching today at noon EST! Hope to see you there!
Best,
~Moyra
Diana Jones Award Finalist!
10 months ago
– Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 09:39:50 AM
🎉 Exciting Announcement! 🏆
We are absolutely elated to share some incredible news with all of you! Rosenstrasse, has been nominated for the prestigious Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming ! 🌟 It's a momentous achievement that fills us with joy and pride!
Since starting this journey, we've poured our hearts and souls into creating a game with an extremely ambitious goal: a game that provides a profoundly memorable experience of play while also teaching deep history that relevant to our current moment. With this nomination, we have the pure delight of knowing we've achieved that goal.
As Gen Con Award approaches, we eagerly anticipate the announcement of the winner. We share the Finalist List this year is with incredible talent and amazing accomplishments in gaming. We are honored to be in such good company and to have the opportunity to showcase our game to a wider audience.
We couldn't have reached this milestone without the unwavering support of our amazing community of backers. We are truly grateful for every single one of you!
Best,
Mo & Jessica
80th Anniversary of the Rosenstrasse Protest Events
about 1 year ago
– Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 08:34:38 AM
Hello lovely backers!
We like to keep mail to your inbox to a respectful minimum, so it's been a while since we sent out a greeting. I hope that everyone was had a chance to read or play the game and were as happy with the final product as we were. We're grateful that all of you helped us make it a reality. Since we've published, folks have reached out to let us know that study of Rosenstrasse has been integrated into several university History and Game Studies programs, and our donor copies are hard at work in the hands of our partner organizations.
This Monday, February 27, 2023 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Rosenstrasse protest! We have been honoured to be invited to participate in a few events that are happening in commemoration, and I thought I'd let you know in case you would like to attend to learn more, or just wanted to know how the project you have funded continues to take root in the world. Today at 3 p.m. EST The Museum of Jewish Heritage is featuring a virtual panel to commemorate the event. In it Nathan Stoltzfus (the Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University), Ruth Wiseman (daughter of Dr. Rita Jenny Kuhn, who was detained at Rosenstrasse), Mordecai Paldiel (former head of the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem) and I will shine a spotlight on the protest and it's importance to our history, present and future.
From March 8th -16th, 2023, an exhibit depicting the Rosenstrasse womens' civil courage and their family stories will be on display at the Goethe-Institut in Washington DC. This exhibit is a cooperation between the German Embassy, the Rosenstrasse Foundation, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Goethe-Institut Washington. On March 8 - International Women's Day - there is an event to kickoff the grand opening of the exhibit, and I will be on hand with a game exhibit to talk about what we've done and to showcase the importance of the protest to history. If you're in the DC area, come by to view the exhibit!
Continuing thanks to all of you, and hoping you are safe and well,
~Moyra Turkington
ENNIE's Nomination - Please help!
almost 2 years ago
– Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 06:05:04 PM
Hello lovely backers!
We are proud to let you know that Rosenstrasse has been nominated for an ENNIE award for Best Writing! The ENNIE Awards are an annual fan-based celebration of excellence in tabletop roleplaying gaming. The nominations are performed by a panel of judges, but in the end they are a peoples’ choice award, where the final winners are voted upon online by the gaming public.
Would you please consider taking a moment to vote for us? We are extremely happy to see ttrpg awards like the ENNIES consider us, and hope that this recognition can to blaze a trail for other games like Rosenstrasse to be seen, played, and recognized in the future.
However, compared to a lot of the other nominees we are a very small press with a small audience so to win we need all the help we can get! Please vote and share if you'd like to see us succeed.
In love and resistance,
Mo & Jessica
We are fulfilled!
about 2 years ago
– Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 08:39:23 PM
We are delighted to let you know that Rosenstrasse fulfilment is complete.
For everyone but our high-tier backers, who are getting custom packages, this means your game has been sent. We've seen so many of them already arrive - please keep sharing your wonderful photos and reflections!
This news also means that you can buy copies of Rosenstrasse online through Indie Press Revolution, at the following link:
https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Rosenstrasse.html
We'll continue to update you on donation distributions and any other exciting Rosenstrasse news. Thank you, as always, for your generous support!
