You know what time it is. (Time for me to catch up on my 11 plays of Sweetlands!) Play #9. Tonight's gal: Solbee Chocolat. She seems to reward doing bunny stuff. Let's see how it plays out!

Today's question of the day. Google autofill had some thoughts (I was actually wondering about the ellipses!) Why do they do that? Why do they love Minions (i didn't know this was a thing) Why do they hate tattoos? and hoard? ... let me know if you know!

Sunday games! I LOVE when we play multiple games in a day. I'm addicted. We played In front of the Elevators. Clever but simple card game. 10/10. Then Ahoy (w/expansion!) then Sea Salt & Paper (w/ expansions!) then Compile! Then RA (fancy version). Great games, great group. Let's do this again.

Weekend design work. Time to unwind and grind. Yesterday morning, I worked on the 3D stock market for Elseware Express v1. There's player aids, but I wanted to fit the rules on the board if possible. Tokens can move in all cardinal directions, who can remember all that? Here's the evolution:

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Alright another late night solo gaming session through the holidays. I have 4 more plays of Sweetlands to hit an H-index of 11. Wish me luck.

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Hello Bluesky. Where are all the new followers from? Did something happen somewhere? Thank you for your time.

Had to bust it out. This will be my 11th play this year of Harvest. It's so good! It's just such a clean look, clean design, simple but very tight and challenging. The solo is fantastic. We all could learn something from it. 10/10.

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Your annual reminder to not let folks know you're traveling for the holidays. Better go ahead and set the flamethrower up and all those glass ornaments on the floor.

had some ideas i wanted to sketch out for the mimic site update at some point. really wanna hit some kind of IDE / pixelated / cyberpunk / brutalist thing with the site at some point. minimally altered pictures really messes with those vibes. (still gotta sell an accurate product) idk

This really does get the brain design juices flowing. Imagine a moving inventory system. When objects hit each other, maybe they become damaged, maybe they get bonuses? Maybe far left has higher speed, maybe they make noise.

www.affinity.studio/blog/fcr Attention older affinity users. That free font collection is now available for you. (You can get it from the welcome screen in v2 apparently)

Pixel art pixel art how do you be. Pixel art pixel art please pick me. Pixel art pixel art what a great start. Pixel art pixel art you have my heart.

I've been thinking about how to organize a silent/solo game meetup for a while. At a library? Somewhere else? I love the idea of playing solo ttrpg games together. The idea is not unlike silentbook.club but the logistics, as with all things, can be complicated. Any experiences to share?

I'm going to try an experiment with commenting on my playthrough of @exeunt.press's Exclusion Zone Botanist solo RPG as I make my way along. exeuntpress.itch.io/exclusion-zo...

CD and MD order coming up. Analog gaming soundtracks. Interesting objects of time. The minidisc, the beautiful ancient future spell book of music and sounds. If you're quick, a device can be found to play them. But a day will come when their secrets will be heard one final time. An analog secret.

nearly 48,000 words in Miru 3. The next games I make are gonna have as few words as possible.

This is too wild not to comment on. The Trump admin has announced the Hunger Games in celebration of the America's 250th. What in the world. May the odds be ever in your favor I guess. seattle.binnews.com/content/2025...

What a journey. The final chapter of MIRU goes to print tomorrow. The cover reflects the player's knowledge of the enemy they face. When you stare at the cover for MIRU 3, the eyes follow you. Should be out next month if the Hex Kits cross the border ok!🤞🚢 May Alora be with you.

Had an idea in a dream last night. What if, as an advanced variant, there was an area majority element in Elseware Express, an 18xx-like game. End of each round, you check which company has the most presence in each region. Winning company's president gets 1 stock manipulation action. Monopoly rules

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I'm happy to share with you the cover image for #StateVector :) there will be adjustments before release of course, but I'm already quite pleased with how it looks! Huge thanks to @lurnoise.bsky.social and @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social for their work on the illustration and logo design!

I wanna spread the word about the Elseware Express and Card & Coin Kickstarter in late Feb. Anybody here have experience with instagram ads? or general advice on getting the word out? I got really lucky with the first MIRU KS and I should probably learn how to advertise a little better.

Really digging the hexagon rings.

How do these make you feel? What is this game about? Right direction? Or am I going down a silly path?

In the 2040s, post y2k2, unrest occurs due to religious terrorists. Their claim of "only 1 heaven" was tested when an AI came along and offered eternity to those who chose it. Thousands of bodies stored in pods in giant buildings. After zealots bombed these buildings, Alora created security guards.

New Yorkers! Weast Coast is popping up at the Art of Play store in Brooklyn today with games, gifts, and merch. We'll be there all day, come through!

Some gods are formed in the sands of the desert. Taking directions you didn't want them to go. This one just wants to stare at the player. Sorry I didn't have much choice there. Save your luck up for this one. Tread ground carefully, this guy makes the land unstable.

How a god is formed. Every god begins as a blob of shapes. Then is draw by someone who doesn't understand perspective or shadows well at all. Reference to previous drawings for some consistency are needed. Then a lot of hope, time, strangling the pen and 40 redraws later and we end up here:

I love these covers! what a dynamic range of art

All hail Alora! MIRU II is at Tabletop Bookshelf. 👀 👀

MIRU II (MIIRU) by @hinokodo.com is a solo-first mapmaking hex-crawler analog horror game where you run from a God through uncharted territory, survive dangerous situations, and deal with the consequences of your actions. Read more at the link below: tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/news/n...

I'm sorry I'm so slow. I need to make moves for glitch.

Remember to shout it loud when making your crowdfunding campaign. 🙅‍♂️ Icon and signs made by @hinokodo.com and @aplante.com

DAY 1, GAME 2: Miru, from @hinokodo.com, a very cool solo+ hexcrawl where you explore a map, manage your gear, and quest to kill a god. hinokodo.itch.io/miru-an-anal...

Film you've seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LotR or Marvel.

New Card & Coin game in the works. Needs a name. Aim was a 'simple' action game. On your turn, you draw 2 cards. You keep 1 for your collection. you play 1 into the 4 central rows. (based on the shape on the card) You score your 2 small suit collections. plays 1-4. details below.

My first finished piece. Circa 1993. Smell n sniff marker on closet wall.

made some updates to elseware express vol1 yesterday. Think I've figured out cards. (They represent the products you're selling/delivering & side hustles you trade to get bonuses or one time benefits) Trying to make the round tracker fit on the board. lots of icon work.

Not my proudest achievement. But I am very active on the Atopia Discord that's for sure! I've read every post made. Also I use ALOT of emojis. (i react to alot, so i don't have to write a response to everything) this tech recap trend thing must end, it's exposing my addictions.

Help me out real quick. If we can figure the math out and get things to line up no matter how a tile is rotated, we were thinking of adding topography lines to track tiles in Elseware Express. 1 pic has em, 1 doesn't. Which do you prefer? (also some tracks have 'glitches' how do U feel about that?)

It's too bad the Nakagin tower was demolished. Beautiful building. It's being replaced with a pretty lackluster replacement. Before, residents could look up and see what the past thought the future would be. and now? they see "PULLMAN" in bright lights on a boring rectangle. Sad. #brutalism

This was a lot of fun to look at. I gave out 13,000 likes the last eleven months. How fun!

You probably picked up some new games on itch over the weekend. Now would be a good time for you to go give them all a nice shiny 5 star rating: itch.io/library/thin...

November's #boardgame plays. Working on my h-index. Missed out on pax but still managed to get a few games in. Not a lot of repeated plays, except at Thanksgiving where I lost a bunch to my wife at spot it. To the point now where I get variety by revisiting the best on my shelf. #bgstats

Some pages of notes I have from a game that is a year+ away from being finished and released. Fermentation Wizards. Really wanna do it justice. What if you ran a fermented beverage company? But not from investors view, but as the labor. Yeast. Farmland. Team management. Small profits. A few awards.

Do you take notes when you play TTRPGs? Do any of you take notes in a journal? If so what kind of notes are you taking? Had some ideas for a game design journal, but curious about what players are thinking about.

A god never shows you the whole picture. It's always cryptic with them.