Honored to announce that Molly House has been nominated for Best Tabletop Game for Impact at this year's @gamesforchange.bsky.social Games for Change Festival! Huge congrats to all the other finalists and excited to share that Jo will be attending the festival this July in NYC too. 🎉🎉

Our good friends are opening a non-profit, arthouse microcinema in Bloomington,IN after nearly a decade of running pop-up movie screenings in town. We're thrilled they are nearly funded, so you can rest assured there will be a theater chair labeled Wehrlegig Games there.

New Cephalofair CEO Price Johnson, anti-ICE board game retailer Mischief Toy Store and Jo Kelly and Cole Wehrle's Molly House are among nominees for this year Diana Jones Award, tabletop gaming’s most eclectic prize: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

• Rob Wieland, a game designer and journalist • Trench Crusade, a miniatures game by Mike Franchina, James Sherriff, and Tuomas Pirinen, from Factory Fortress

• Mischief Toy Store, a games store St. Paul, MN • Molly House, a board game by Jo Kelly with Cole Wehrle & Ricky Royal, from Wehrlegig Games • Price Johnson, a game company executive with Cephalofair Games

The Diana Jones Award committee is pleased to announce the finalists for its 2026 award. In alphabetical order, they are:

I'm still catching up on all of the post-UKGE work, but I had some time today to crack into a new Arcs fate and played around with some layout concepts for An Infamous Traffic. I'm happy to report that I am fully back on my bullshit. That bullshit: putting Becky Sharp into more games.

One of my favorite things about working in board games is how years of work often collapse into a little pile of paper that you can easily hold in your hand. It's a lot like writing, but then you have to spend a couple hours with scissors and glue to get it into shape.

I had a lovely chat with Pete recently about Buried Giant and playtesting and the nature of the games we make. You can find it here:

I'll be at #UKGE2026! If you're in Birmingham in a couple of weeks and want to play a game of Oath or the new edition of An Infamous Traffic, watch this space. I'll be hosting little pop-up games throughout the convention.

WE CANNOT WAIT!! What an honour to be sharing a space with these folks. They really are such an inspiring group of designers and artists. If you're attending this year, drop by if you're able! There is an absolutely packed calendar of events, playtests and sneak peeks lined up! HERE WE GO!

This year Buried Giant and Eerie Idol will be sharing a booth and room at GenCon. We started working on this collab back when it was just going to be a split with Wehrlegig, and I'm so happy that we'll be able to do something really big. Keep an eye out for the event sign-ups this Sunday!

"Swords Against - Beginner's Box" is in some ways in conversation with some recent video games that take the form of documents, databases, or other bits of archival objects - a narrative mystery. But its analogue format and commitment to verisimilitude posed a couple unique interlocking problems. 🧵

After 11 fantastic years, Bloomsbury Publishing, the owner of Osprey Games, has made the difficult decision to sell the board and card game line. This was not a decision taken lightly and reflects a strategic refocusing on book publishing. (1/7)

🏆🙌🏻📣 We are honoured that The Old King’s Crown has won Best Artwork & Presentation at the Golden Geek Awards this year! So many beautiful games were nominated, so it means a lot. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees across the board! 👏🏻

There is no thrill in gaming like closing a complex deal in Civ (Eastern Empires pictured).

REMINDER!!! The deadline for Night Market submissions for SD HistCon is May 25. This is a great opportunity to get a small run of your bespoke historical design in front of attendees at one of the best cons in our hobby.

🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

The WENDYBUXXX Kickstarter is now live!! I've also posted a designer diary at BGG: boardgamegeek.com/thread/37003...

Absolutely floored that we've raised $2M+ for Arcs Beyond the Reach! 🤯 Come spend a silly final hour of the Kickstarter with us and then we'll flop our exhausted bodies across the finish line.

(WENDYBUXXX goes live on Kickstarter tomorrow!)

I had a really wonderful time chatting with Dan recently about expansions, risk in games, Hunt for Blackbeard, the work of the new studio, and some of the early trials of the game on Reconstruction. You can find it here:

This is one of the most unique and perfectly thematic games i've ever played. if you can, give it a vote!

Molly House was nominated for three Golden Geek Awards! Voting is now officially open, so head on over to BGG if you want to share in the Molly House joy! boardgamegeek.com/thread/36965... @colewehrle.bsky.social @miasmacorp.bsky.social

Had a blast this morning with an Buried Giant all-staff AMA over on Reddit at r/boardgames. Things are winding down, but we might knock out a few more questions this afternoon! www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...

Nominations for BGGs Golden Geek Awards end tomorrow! If you're a user over there, we'd sure appreciate any love for Molly House💃 boardgamegeek.com/thread/36898...

I don’t think I’ve thought about a game as much or often since my first play as Molly House. A sensational experience that communicated its themes (in the literary sense) with a deft hand. Also, one of the few games to deal with sex and desire in a way that is mature and isn’t leering or boorish.

Magical Athlete is an all-timer, especially if you have kids. Every kid I've shown it to, it captures their imagination almost instantly and they get obsessed. I'm also excited to play Molly House, I backed the recent reprint ^_^

As always, play great games! We'll see you around the table and we'll be back with more in 2027.

Last and certainly not least is our 2026 American Tabletop Award for Complex Games! This year's winner is Molly House, from @wehrlegig.games! For more information, see americantabletopawards.com/molly-house

CMYK's Hot Streak and Magical Athlete race to wins in this year’s American Tabletop Awards, Fate of the Fellowship and Molly House also triumph: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... Huge congrats to @cmyk.games @perryjon.bsky.social @mattleacock.bsky.social @miasmacorp.bsky.social @alex.cmyk.games!

Friday night, John Company by @wehrlegig.games with the board game crew. This is my favorite game of all time. The design is pretty close to flawless, and it's a game that I love playing even if I'm getting crushed.

It was nice to get back to work properly on An Infamous Traffic at #CircleDC I had missed working on economic games!

BTW if *you* are a game designer or related nerd and would like to hang — or would like to have your 18th century inspired game playtested by some great subject matter experts — please let me know. @asecsoffice.bsky.social heads next to: - Portland, OR April 2026 - Richmond, VA in 2027

In an alternate universe where I went to UT @colewehrle.bsky.social & I would have been PhD classmates. But I’m so glad to know him & Drew as we are now, & to welcome them & @wehrlegig.games & @jdragsky.bsky.social to @asecsoffice.bsky.social — the first of many schemes to come, I hope. #asecs26

you are never writing a new thing on a blank sheet, you are always simply hammering a next tie in the labyrinthine rail system of culture

Cole's latest essay On Expansions is less about Arcs and more about the history of games, modern tabletop designers, Marxist theory, and the nature of collaboration. Read here: buriedgiant.com/blog/Arcs-be...

Really looking forward to coming out this year!

JUST LAUNCHED on Kickstarter! Arcs is back and weirder than ever! Featuring a suite of strange new expansions, screen printed pieces, and beautiful deluxe add-ons. Go Beyond the Reach! www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

Just a few days awaaaaaay #arcsboardgame #boardgames #illustration www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

We're one week from launch! Here, in our last pre-Kickstarter video diary, you can find out about what's going to be in all three of the new Arcs expansions and hear a little about the early design process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HidN...

My next game, WENDYBUXXX, is coming to Kickstarter on 28 April! Follow the link for the pre-launch page to sign up to be notified when it goes live. WENDYBUXXX is: - a necrocurrency - a tie-in reality TV show - a straight-to-VHS card game for 3 to 5 players - an album soundtrack More info soon!

Reading the rules for Molly House now and I want to plaaaaayyy it

"For a game to occur at all, players must agree to its social contract and see it through to the end. That also puts them in collaboration with the designer, who can impose limitations to create systems and ideas, but can't completely control their interpretation."

This week, I get into the weeds on the final stages of Arcs's development, crunch culture, and how our work on Arcs shaped the projects that followed. You can find the video version here: youtu.be/15LSvDt_DD8

I'm sure you'll see a lot of experimentation on our end over the next few months as we think about new ways of sharing how we approach projects like this. For my part, I'm just excited that we are finally ready to start talking about the next projects.

In a few weeks, we're going to be launching the next Arcs campaign. As usual, we'll be doing a series of design and development diaries as we get the campaign ready. However, this time we wanted to do something a little different. youtu.be/DU3kU7rQnNg

We're getting ready to launch the Arcs: Beyond the Reach crowdfunding campaign, which means it's time to start releasing Design Diaries! This first one sets the stage for some core principles at Buried Giant. Watch here: youtu.be/DU3kU7rQnNg Or Read here: buriedgiantstudios.com/blog/Arcs-be...

This interview was a real pleasure, especially as it gave me an avenue to talk about music as well as games. offshelf.net/2026/03/10/m...

If you're heading to Gama next week, stop by the Buried Giant booth (#1049). And, if you're there early, you can come find me at a few events I'll be helping with during the education summit (little schedule 🧵) @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social