About

The house

The Mud Map publishes fiction that carries an argument, and builds the world the argument happens in so you can go and stand in it.

Stories have always been how difficult ideas travel. A novel can put you inside a decision in a way a briefing cannot — and then a game can hand you the decision and let you get it wrong, which is the part that sticks. Neither does the job alone. Together they do something a textbook has never managed.

What we promise about the models

Every game here simplifies something. That is what a model is for. What we owe you is to say which simplifications we made, so you can tell the difference between a lesson and a claim. Each game ends with a card doing exactly that: what was faithful, what was cut, and what you should not carry out of the room.

A mud map is a rough guide scratched in the dirt for someone who does not know the country. It never claimed to be survey-grade, and neither do we. The map is not the ground.

Contact

Rights, press, school and unit use: hello@themudmap.com