Ardens: present active participle of ardeo, to burn.
Ardens Ludere is the game imprint of Kiwi writer, game designer and historian Hamish Cameron. Hamish is best known for The Sprawl (2016), a PbtA game of mission-based cyberpunk action now translated into several languages. With his spouse Dana, he wrote Dinosaur Princesses (2019) an ENnie-award-winning game for young roleplayers focused on cooperative problem-solving. He is currently working on Kratophagia (a game for older roleplayers focused on cannibalism and protean body transformation, now available on itch.io), Another Day to Love (a revisionist take on the Bond genre), and Nefas (a game of cosmic horror in the ancient Roman world).
Dana is a human-ish who does things, including having written cyberpunk transfelinism pieces for The Sprawl and The Veil rpgs. They are also known to do freelance copyediting, layout, and art stuff for table-top games when not working at their mundane job in STD education.
In addition to their current work with Ardens Ludere (The Sprawl: Mission Files, The Sprawl: Touched, Dinosaur Princesses, Kratophagia), Dana is currently co-working on a game about A Kitten and The Way It Gets Down to Business, a CYOA text-based digital game. Because cats. You can find Dana’s work at catpurrsand.itch.io.
You can find them tweeting about cats, beer, and games at @DAYtheELF. They really, really, really likes cats. Cats.
