Testing Nekropolis, my Yaga worker placement area control thing. You walk giant city blocks around a city, the buildings on them (dice) rolling by shaking the whole Yaga. Vety toyetic. Testing going very well!

Hey folks. Aside from Iron Man plots ands Sphynx pics I also do a little boardgame design and I'll be at PaxUnplugged in a week! I'll be showing off Trinket Trove by @gameheadgames.bsky.social and a few of my new designs I'm testing at @unpub.org!

Weather getting colder and my co-designer Moxie is bundlin' up.

#freeironmanplots "Brain Broken". There's a been a few storylines where Tony did biomedical hacking. In this one, Tony starts to get panic attacks and attempts to hack himself to fix it but it goes badly. That's it that's the pitch.

#freeironmanplots "Van Life" After getting attacked in his home(s) a few times, including terrible collateral damage to neighbors, Tony decides screw this and just lives out of a van for a while. Thats it thats the idea.

Jamey liked some stuff in Trinket Trove! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WpK...

ok ok sneak peek. here are the covers for the games that will be up for preorder next month. will talk about each of them soon!

#freeironmanplots "Blast From The Past #1". The IRL Meat version of Tony is offline and an AI imposter takes over. So I've read some of the stories where Tony makes an AI out of himself, and each time he builds an AI it seems like a very chaotic process - hold that thought.

#freeironmanplots This one I call "Girlfriend Enemy". This is more of a regular plot, but I have some ideas to make it an iron man plot. Tony starts dating someone new, and falls head over heels. And she's amazing. Awesome hot smashing. Super smart. Knows more data security & encryption than Tony.

Back after 2 weeks in Japan. Very hot. But awesome. It's nice ot be home, mostly because I missed my cats. But oh how expensive the US is in comparison.

Well, I'm finally confirmed going to Gencon. It's my first time in 13 years and I'm a little anxious. OT1H I'm going because I have a game doing very well (Trinket Trove) on the BGG Hotness no less, so I'm going to try and sign some copies. OTOH due to family BS and tragedy I didn't do any planning.

#freeironmanplots "The Rogue Backup". So one day someone, Could be Stark Inc or someone else, sends a new satellite/probe around the side of the sun opposite Earth and discovers an odd sight: a captured asteroid swarmed with robots, building orbital solar collectors. And using Stark tech to do it.

#freeironmanplots This one I call "Tony Makes A Mistake" and it's just that. I can't remember any time (I'm sure there must be?) where Tony was engineering something and made a mistake.

Folks, I need help. I forgot to get #GenCon badges! And didn't know they are non-transferrable. Anybody with a booth who needs help or $ or something, I can do demos or even some game testing and dev/design if you need it. As extra payment, here is Moxie's butthole as she is crazy needy today.

Trinket Trove How To Play! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmjJ...

#freeIronManPlots I call this one "Tinker, Surgeon, Psych, Iron Man." Ok, so we all know Tony has no compunctions with doing a little biohacking, self-hacking, etc. And he has the best doctors/scientists/etc in the business on speed dial. Which to someone like Tony, could be bad.

#freeIronManPlots I like the times when Tony has to build a new suit on the fly (not this horrible current run) but it needs some context, so I'm calling this "IronMad Men". Someplace in the good ol' USA, an experimental town to train spies was built looking like 1950's America.

#freeIronManPlots One plot type that HAS been used but that I don't mind is the "Tony Gets New Job". When I was taking a class in screenwriting reality shows, the teacher described a reality show as "assholes with interesting jobs" and that suits Tony to a T. Secretary of Defense, head of Shield?

Here is my first in a series of ongoing Iron Man plots. I *always* was an Iron Man fanboy, more because of the science & tech and less because I loved the fantasy of a billionaire using money for fighting crime. It seems like most Iron Man arcs stick to the same 3-4 tired ideas. #freeIronManPlots

My designer copies of Trinket Trove arrived! My small shelf of published games is growing!

Trinket Trove boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43... boardgamegeek.com/filepage/295... 小動物たちが巣穴を飾り付けるためにキラキラした小物を集める2‐6人用カードゲーム。手札から小物を出してドラフト順を競り、卓上に並んだ小物を手に入れ、規定ラウンド後の合計点を競う。英文ルール公開中。

Got a nice review for the game I designed being published by @gameheadgames.bsky.social by the folks at @thedicetower.bsky.social ! And they are right, it's incredibly adorbs, with art by @art-of-sandara.bsky.social and design by @vegagamestudio.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAhT...

My game Trinket Trove, published by @gameheadgames.bsky.social, at Geekway, pic by someone who picked it up. It's real! It's a real thing happening!

Morning work with my coworker Moxie.

Moxie the House Goblin, hibernating from winter, cautiously dons a sparkly pink outfit and moves half her body outside of her heated blanket fort to check the living room temperature.

Moxie's got a little greeble energy today.

Moxie's taking a PJ day.

Moxie getting toasty in her little house, wearing her coat. Colder weather outta nowhere!

Moxie is a bit squirmy today.

The thing I don't think you get is that Moxie is a very smol cat. So smol. She never does anything wrong and she needs a lot of cuddles because it's a big world and she's very smol.

Moxie is glad I'm back.

Final playtest of Nekropolis at Unpub25! Per some amazing tester observations and feedback, I had to do a little battlefield surgery but I was able to, and have a test as well, and things indeed were smoother! That's what Unpub is for!

Also testing at unpub: You Walk Dragons, a cozy solo card game where you run a dragon walking business.

I'm at unpub! I'm testing games! Come visit! Here is a 2c played game of Nekropolis, just finished. A combination of stores caused the Civic District (bottom left) to turn into a rager!

My coworker Moxie is not focusing today.

An excellent game design thread by @gil.hova.net !

A lot of prototypes to work on and a day job to work on and a side job to work on but my co-worker Moxie is chipping in.

Working hard on protos for @unpub.bsky.social but as always found time to hang out with Moxie.

I was in another thread about how I wished I didn't have to do sell sheets. I'm a game designer, not a good artist or graphic designer. A few folks say no, but a lot of publishers say yes. I'm wondering here & maybe a publisher can weigh in: What if I just had something with a qr code to a video?

I love getting a chance to playtest boardgames with new people at cons. Going to @g2summit.bsky.social this weekend up in New Hampshire! If you have a game you want to test, either find me or msg me here and I'll try and make it happen. I'm bringing a few light games of my own if time permits!

Moxie is not loving the standing desk. I want to accommodate my co-worker but I can't snuggle her when standing. She is giving me some feedback that mostly involves crying and biting.

Moxie on the hamper in a sunbeam. You get warmth where you can find it.

Whoops - almost forgot today's Moxie. She's in full potato mode and helping me troubleshoot a SAML connection to an enterprise SSO app.

Trinket Trove, my game published by GameHead, is being demoed at GAMA!

Moxie snuggling in her sunny jumper.

A slightly older pic of Moxie but it's priceless. Such a sweet girl!

Your fault Moxie, getting all chill and toasty in her heated house.

Yeah, we've been meeting IRL and going strong for a few years now. Here's a link to the Discord: discord.gg/cMKypexRYs

Today's Moxie

Your daily Moxie. She's doing her job: printout quality control. She's very dedicated to her job.