Some thoughts on my LGS ending their weekly casual Lorcana events, why it's bad for the game (duh) and also why/how it happened. Spoiler: I think a lot of this was self inflicted from Ravenburger, and happened because they didn't understand their playerbase.

Kinda want to make a pick-n-pass game.

Quick granite game summit writeup! Read on and learn about my experience with Hot Streak (Loss) and Card City Critters playtests (going pretty well!).

Back from Granite Game Summit! Writeup and some thoughts on our mini Card City Critters playtest later today!

Hey NYC! Want to try tabletop games from the local game dev scene? Come out to The Tiny Cupboard in Brooklyn on Saturday 3/14 ✨ #nyc #gamenight #indiegame #gamedev #boardgames

But over the last couple years it feels like “don’t rip off other people’s ideas” has become a fringe position that most social media users, especially Instagram types, would genuinely struggle to understand. They don’t feel bad about ripping someone off and don’t understand why they even would.

DID YOU KNOW i was at #GAMA this week? AND that i designed a whole "TCG" made just for the event, about a specific sandwich from Louisville? That's a double surprise It was a huge hit! That's a triple surprise lmao !! available for a limited time at the @solisgamestudio.bsky.social webstore !!

Sometimes I hear takes calibrated to annoy only me, but “Pac Man used AI just like Grok and ChatGPT” has reached a new level.

Yo, I'm streaming again for the first time in a million years. Come check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxN0...

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach, is this the right caption? Or am I just deeply stupid?

Folks, a quick heads up, Gametrodon is gonna be down till I finish updating some certs! Hopefully won't be too long.

Heads up: Omeganaut calls are happening. Answer that unknown number. #PAXEast

Re;MATCH is NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro... This game has been in the works for over 7 years now, and I am VERY VERY EXCITED that it's finally live! You can play it RIGHT NOW on tabletop simulator, I promise you're gonna love it ❤️💛💙

Time for an Card City Critters update! @max.resonym.com and I have been plugging away on this thing, and here's what we've been working on! gametrodon.com/card-city-cr...

Re;MATCH is a forthcoming marble-matching fighting game by @brotherminggames.bsky.social, elevated by sharp fighter design and some really great match-making. My preview: spacebiff.com/2026/03/02/r...

Occasionally, I have a terrible, terrible, terrible idea. I think today I have come up with my worst one yet.

Card Critter City prep for tomorrow! 8 starter decks, 40 boosters, shop cards, prize cards, and ????? (shhh it’s a surprise) cards. Only took 7 hours of packing with @gametrodon.bsky.social

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

As a proud transgender Eagle Scout, Pete Hegseth can go fuck himself. Also, he’s wrong about this and he can fuck himself for that too.

HAHAHHAHAHA #Pokemon #Garchomp #Flygon

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

“Hey boss, are you sure Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, and people aren’t just misspelling ‘Flamingo’ on Google?” “Don’t be ridiculous. Of course Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, Mewtwo, Eevee, and Snorlax. Send the email.”

Lukewarm Take: Time travel in stories that aren't about time travel, and resurrection in stories that aren't about bringing back the dead just feel like they cheapen the whole thing.

I love Super Battle Golf, except when my rat bastard friends won't stop shooting me with the dueling pistols. But yeah, this is my favorite multiplayer game of the year so far.

Our two-volume YOKAI series showcases two sides of Mizuki Shigeru; as a folklorist and fine artist. @dandq.bsky.social

Some news - today I’m launching One More Catch, an independent publication covering Pokémon Go and the next generation of Pokémon games: @onemorecatch.site

I went to Level 99 yesterday, it was awesome, and I learned that I am even less athletic then I thought.

The most brilliant thing about Super Battle Golf is how it elevates screwing with your friends in first from King-Making behavior to the intended catch-up/gap closer mechanic if you're behind and need to make up space.

I love how my SEO plugin thinks that linking to the thing that I am talking about, the thing that I AM RECOMMENDING TO PEOPLE BECAUSE I THINK THAT IT IS COOL, is somehow a terrible idea.

New blogpost on some @angelineera.bsky.social game design! Come and learn.. '6 Tips For Making Angeline Era-style Exploration'. buttondown.com/melodicambie...

I have spent all day at Level 99 and I wish I had nice photos but it has been rad and I am so tired.

ONLY 10 MORE DAYS UNTIL RE;MATCH LAUNCHES!!! We've got 4 VERY cool crossovers planned for the campaign, starting with Re;ACT! Get the all in "Super Turbo" edition of Re;MATCH to get an alternate art acrylic standee to use for the DJ in Re;ACT! #ReMATCHPuzzleFighter

I'm so hyped for this, ya'll don't even know. Getting a chance to play this at PAX U was definitely a highlight.

Heartwarming: Everyone in my Super Battle Golf lobby has teamed up to continually beat the shit out of the one guy using racial slurs.

Tried to make a Providence of Night Deck, and... the pool is very limited. In theory you'd want as many Hybrid mana costs as you could shove into it, but there are only about 239 legal cards that have Hybrid Mana. If you knock out Legendary cards, its down to 179. scryfall.com/search?q=f%3...

Ideas aren't this special thing. Execution is the thing. Craft is the thing. Practice is the thing. Development is the thing. Persistence is the thing.

My indie puzzle fighting board game is coming to Kickstarter on March 3rd 2026! Pick your character and step up to the arcade machine. Input your attack commands by pulling connected matching marbles. More marbles = bigger attack! The twist: only the middle lane is shared~

My primary use case for LinkedIn is watching ex-Valve writers call AI evangelists morons for making statements that flat out ignore reality. Also playing the slide puzzle game.

Drag and drop? In this economy?

I've spent far too much of today trying to write something useful about Hytale, and failing, so I'm just gonna put the short version here, and come back to it later. Hytale has the potential to surpass Minecraft, mostly because the people making it understand Minecraft.

I'll be hosting a Compile tournament at Mox Boarding House in Portland, OR on March 21st! This is the first time I'm running a Compile tournament myself and I'm very excited. There'll be lots of Compile and prizes for everyone. Sign-ups are here: events.moxboardinghouse.com/p/n/x7ls7tjR...

A quick review of a paper draft I won. I feel weird about Lorwyn as a set, in that I wish I liked it a bit more then I do mechanically? Hopefully I'll get a chance to try it in 2HG at some point.

Once I am done with my current project, I promise I will go back and definitely finish the 15 drafts I have I have in my folder.

I have done a lot of weird little dudes for Card City Critters, but I think this one is my favorite.

I've been drawing some guys all morning. Here are some "finished" pieces. Some of the strange guys you might encounter in Card City Critters!

What on earth is an "olive tree people". Is this some sort of cryptid I'm not aware of?

Opened 4 Stakes Raisers, so I guess I know what I’m trying to build! #Gemblenders

Is there a word for games that aren't "live-service" games, and not really one off single experiences either? Stuff like what Minecraft was before Mojang bought it?