The Misplay
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A podcast about making a company making a board game. themisplay.com
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If you enjoy our podcast, our Bluesky posts, or simply want to support a new game designer, the best way to help is to follow our Kickstarter and sign up to be notified when it launches. 🎲✂️
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Coming soon: Under One Sky
A race to uncover your constellation in a shifting night sky. Place tiles, shift stars, and discover your hidden pattern.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/themisplay/under-one-sky
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When one person gives you feedback, listen. When a second says the same, reflect. When a third says it, it's time to change. 🎲✂️
#DesignDiary
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If you enjoy our podcast, our Bluesky posts, or simply want to support a new game designer, the best way to help is to follow our Kickstarter and sign up to be notified when it launches. 🎲✂️
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Coming soon: Under One Sky
A race to uncover your constellation in a shifting night sky. Place tiles, shift stars, and discover your hidden pattern.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/themisplay/under-one-sky
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The best feedback you can get is, “Let’s play again.”
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From concept to final design—explore the evolution of our board game box, then listen to our latest episode to meet the talented artist behind it, Zeta.
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Enthusiastic Art with Zeta Gaston
This week, The Misplay welcomed Zeta Gaston to the podcast. Zeta joined Jason and Mark to tell the story of how she became the artist for Under One Sky. They discussed the revisions, tools, and process that lead to submitting the art to the...
https://themisplay.com/podcast/s3e13/
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If you're in the Bay Area, come check out Protospiel Bay Area in Redwood City this weekend! We'll be there playtesting Under One Sky alongside dozens of other designers. 🎲✂️ Playtesters are free—come play unreleased games and make them better!
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Protospiel Bay Area · Luma
SEE HOW BOARD GAMES ARE MADE! PROTOSPIEL BAY AREA is a multi-day family-friendly tabletop board gaming event of playing unpublished board games. Previously…
https://luma.com/n26tm74y
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The goal isn't perfect balance. The goal is making every choice feel interesting. 🎲✂️
#DesignDiary
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On Tuesday’s show, we’ll introduce you to our artist, Zeta, and take you behind the scenes to see how our board game came to life.
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Zee (@zeedoes.art) • Instagram
153 Followers - 101 Posts - "Kickstarter banner for Under One Sky! ✨"
https://www.instagram.com/zeedoes.art/
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Side Quest
Jason and Mark took a pause from all the business and logistics talk surrounding Under One Sky. They sat down together to develop an old game concept. They outline the reason for beginning development of another game and learn about 18-card card...
https://themisplay.com/podcast/s3e12/
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First look at the cover art! 🔭
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reposted by
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Matthew Hocker
28 days ago
You know, when you think about it, a designer had to playtest Jumanji.
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Finally played Hot Streak. My family loves it! 🌭 🐻 🫅 🐠
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If a small indie game company and podcast (like us) wanted demo space at someone else’s booth at Gen Con, where do we even start? Is it usually just reaching out to buy table time or sponsor space—and how do people approach it when they’re looking for visibility primarily? 🎲✂️
#GenCon
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Things they don’t tell you in internet board game design school: half the design process is actually waiting for Kickstarter, Stripe, and your bank to decide you’re a real person. 🎲✂️
about 1 month ago
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Congrats on 10 years! It was nice running into you at KublaCon.
@boardgameblitz.bsky.social
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The Road to GenCon 2026
Jason and Mark go through the logistics and planning leading into Jason's weekend at KublaCon and the 3rd annual Misplay trip to GenCon. They give in depth updates about Under One Sky's, art, manufacturer, logistics, and next steps.Jason gives a...
https://themisplay.com/podcast/s3e11/
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KUBLAAA…
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Congrats to Board Game Hot Takes on winning the Golden Geek Award for Best Podcast. Awards season may be over, but next year’s campaign starts now: reposts, likes, comments, “For Your Consideration” events, and reminding everyone we also have a board game podcast. 🎲✂️
@boardgamehottakes.bsky.social
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Achievement unlocked ✨🔓 We created these events hoping a few people might come and play. Two sold-out events in the first weekend! We’re over the moon—and in the stars. 🎲✂️
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Pivot to Pitching Publishers
Jason and Mark discuss the possibility of pitching Under One Sky to publishers. Mark shares an outline for how to go from concept to submitting to publishers. Jason explains the reasons why The Misplay never considered looking for a publisher. He...
https://themisplay.com/podcast/s3e10/
about 2 months ago
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I’m teaching a board game design class this summer for kids ages 8–10, and I’m looking for recommendations on where to buy component supplies—ideally somewhere other than Amazon. I’d also love suggestions for any organizations that might donate materials for a class like this. 🎲✂️
about 2 months ago
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Milestone. 🎲✂️
about 2 months ago
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As we approach the moment when anyone can freely share their opinions about our game, we speak with Dan Thurot to better understand how game reviews work. 🎲✂️
@danthurot.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Spending way too much time trying to understand the difference between 6mm and 7mm; it’s not as simple as “1mm,” but say it if you want, I’ll leave the joke there.
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Piecing It Together
We took a half step back to review our work on the constellation cards for Under One Sky. The constellation cards have always been challenging to the game's design and we are coming up to the deadline we need to meet to continue moving forward with...
https://themisplay.com/podcast/s3e8/
3 months ago
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On tomorrow’s show, we’re talking about constellation patterns, and what’s this? A sneak peek at some behind-the-scenes unreleased art samples? Yes, it is. 🎲✂️
3 months ago
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If ideas were worth money, I would be so rich—so rich. 🎲✂️
3 months ago
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We had a blast tackling Velgus’ Murder at the Atelier escape room—just the right level of challenge. Highlight: a hilarious misplay when my sister (who lives very close to Canada) spelled “gray” as “grey,” and we ended up with “BROWNIE” as a color. 🤣
@solisgamestudio.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Add “How do you get a barcode?” to the growing pile of questions we know have a simple answer, we just haven’t gotten around to figuring it out yet.
3 months ago
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Brickly Games
3 months ago
One year later, we made it back to PAX East!!! It was incredible seeing you all again and watching you experience how much our game has grown. 🙌 Big things are coming soon. Stay tuned. And seriously—thanks for riding with us. ⚔️
#avaricegame
#BoardGameDesign
#PAXEast
#Playtesting
#TabletopGames
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Happy birthday to Mark! It’s either today or tomorrow—after 10 years of knowing him, I’m still not completely sure. I guess that’s what happens when you’re born around April Fools’ Day… trust issues! 🎂
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Game Market West 2026
We took the podcast and Under One Sky down the road to San Jose for the March edition of Game Market West. Jason manned our table and got to teach the game to another group of playtesters. Mark continued learning about manufacturing by interviewing...
https://themisplay.com/podcast/s3e7/
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Game Market West was an amazing opportunity to connect with more board game designers and players. We even made the local news—well, sort of…you can spot us in the background! 📺
@gamemarketwest.bsky.social
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If you listened last week, this picture is relevant. If you didn’t listen, well, I mean you should. 🎙️
3 months ago
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The window to submit an NCAA tournament bracket after the last play-in game is about 14 minutes.
#misplay
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That’s some sweetly-talented company to be grouped with!
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Manufacturing the Fun
We follow up our components exploration with some in depth discussion of the decisions around our tiles and board for Under One Sky. The questions we grapple with will have implications for our search for a manufacturer and influence the continued...
https://themisplay.com/podcast/s3e6/
3 months ago
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We learn an important distinction between a circle and square on tomorrow’s episode. 🎲✂️
4 months ago
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You can find us in the West Hall — Free Play Area on the third floor.
#GDC
Come try Under One Sky! 🎲✂️
4 months ago
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Board game vendors: what’s the tablecloth meta? 6 ft? 8 ft? Standard throws? Stretch? I don’t want to buy a bunch of different ones. Is there a catch-all that works for most convention tables—even tall rounds?
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Feedback Recaps
We just turned the page on two milestone opportunities in the development of Under One Sky. We found out if we made the cut or not for the Cardboard Edison finals and Jason ran a set of blind playtests at Game Market West. We took turns running...
https://themisplay.com/podcast/s3e5/
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Thursday, March 12—we’re playtesting at GDC, hosted by the dream team: Golden Gate Gamemakers, Gamescape, and Unpub in the open play area. Swing by and try Under One Sky—we promise to take notes.
@unpub.org
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Grateful for the Golden Gate Gamemakers Meetup at Guildhouse in San Jose—our first blind playtest, newly named discoveries, and great rulebook feedback from Jordan. 🎲✂️ Listen to our next episode to hear all about it.
4 months ago
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We have a long-standing math norm in our school district that applies to board game design—and to life: “Errors are gifts that promote discussion.” Go forth and make your misplays! We are all now wiser. 🎲✂️
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We’re wishing all the Cardboard Edison finalists the best of luck! We’re looking forward to watching all of their pitches.
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Cardboard Edison Award — Cardboard Edison
https://cardboardedison.com/award
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🎲✂️: 🀄️✨🔭5️⃣❎5️⃣🙈 🏪🛒🧍🧍♀️🧍♂️😫
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“Oh good God,” one playtester said tonight during our first round of blind playtests. They were reacting to the sheer number of options that opened up once the board started rotating. 💥🔭
4 months ago
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Hands On
On this week's episode, Jason and Mark take a field trip to local game cafe, The Game Parlour to look at, touch and, study the components a variety of games. They break down the look the boards, tiles, counters, and unique pieces in search of the...
https://themisplay.com/podcast/s3e4/
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Mark’s doing all the art and graphic design for Under One Sky, but he’s also got a rotating grid tile-placement game that’s beautiful and fun to play!
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4 months ago
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This is fun—you can grab the The Misplay Microbadge over on BoardGameGeek! 🎲✨ Huge thanks to @wildthayne for making it happen! 🙌
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Microbadge | The Misplay | BoardGameGeek
https://boardgamegeek.com/microbadge/58573
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