Thorny Games

About

Thorny Games is a two-person independent analog game studio run by Kathryn Hymes and Hakan Seyalioglu, which its About page places in Washington, D.C. The studio designs and publishes its own titles focused on language and cryptography, and has won multiple Game of the Year awards with showings at SXSW, the Gen Con Ennies and Indiecade. Its catalog spans a deduction game about how language dies (Dialect), a science-fiction story game about decoding an alien language (Xenolanguage) and a cooperative narrative game inspired by the creation of Nicaraguan Sign Language (Sign).