We’re thrilled to share our Special Presentation; Indie Games Night Market Preview! It was a privilege to be part of this & share these games with you all~ youtu.be/HA_u8oxU0kc?... See the games that will be at the IGNM in exactly 1 week at #PAXunplugged! #boardgames #ignm #cardgames #indiegames

Next weekend at PAXU, when I’m not at the playtesting tables, you can find me with @coinflip.games and @boardgameghee.bsky.social over at booth 3752! Come say hi and fry some dice with me! 🍗🎲✂️🦆🎻

This amount of care and effort is what indie games are all about! Make sure to stop by the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged!

Not sure how we ended up here but by the end of an evening of playtesting games this is what we found ourselves doing.

Today's prototyping aftermath. Sometimes there's beauty in the scraps.

Ashwin & Rob (Urban Professional Games) are bringing Chicken Fried Dice to PAX Unplugged. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend you hit up their booth and let them show you this fun dice chucking game. Throw the dice, choose your ingredients, feed your customers!

ICYMI, I'll be selling Grunt Work & Flip Stack Burger Shack next week at the Indie Games Night Market @ PAXU. Making indie games really is a labor of love. I dyed all the wooden discs myself for the burger game and wrote a blog post about it: fantastic-factories.medium.com/prototyping-...

Friday 11/14 6PM ESTour Indie Games Night Market Special Preview goes up~ I’ll be active on here & on YouTube so feel free to ask any questions; I’d love to engage & chat about it~ Huge thanks to all of the lovely folks who contributed to make this happen~ (tagged below) @officialpax.bsky.social

📣 It’s announcement time! 📣 The pre-launch page for Counterpoint is up on Kickstarter! All the cool kids are saving it! You should too! 🎻🎶 www.kickstarter.com/projects/squ...

Just 24 hours to go and we only need 6 more backers to cross the finish line!

Board game friends: you’ve gotta check out this kickstarter. _That’s the Spirit_ is a truly unique take on a deduction game—nobody knows for sure who’s guilty until the big reveal at the end! I’ve played many versions of the game over the last few months, and it’s been wonderful seeing it evolve.

Last night I ventured out to the Eastside to attend the game designer meetup at Uncle's Games. It was great to see such a lively community over there as well!

Okay everyone, we need to help get this across the finish line. I'm doubling up my pledge. These games deserve to exist, and I'm confident I will have no trouble finding homes for the extra copies.

Just one week left to back Club Spooky and That’s the Spirit! If you back now, you can get both games for $35 (they’ll be $25 each after the campaign). And of course, these games will only exist with your support. Thank you everyone’s who’s backed so far!

Had a surprise and inspiring chat with the WA Secretary of State about the intersection of political and game theory, and how games can be useful for de-radicalisation And how games ultimately center our shared humanity ❤️

I'll be at the Heidelbär booth (6B200) again today from 14:00 to 16:00.

Flatout Games is at SPIEL, demoing Cascadia: Alpine Lakes Stop by BOOTH 5A700 to see it in action! @flatoutgames.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to share we have a special video going through *every* game at the 2025 Indie Games Night Market (at PaxU)! We’re working with @dnlnwmn.bsky.social, some awesome designers, playing some games, all to give you a thorough set of previews & reviews to see the games you won’t want to miss~

Another great night of playtesting at Mox Boarding House! There were 3 tables of games going. Lot of great stuff happening every week. So lucky to be a part of such an active community if game designers. ♥️

Last month I dropped off a few copies of Grunt Work at my LGS but it didn't sell as quickly as I would have liked. So I'm reimagining the game for retail and what the packaging might look like. Cover says what the game is about. Back basically teaches you the game. Let me know what people think!

I have a whole thing about small indie designers/publishers making great games from the heart. I had the chance to play Club Spooky a few weeks ago and was utterly charmed by it. There's tension in the simple auction system that lures club goers to your hall, solid scoring and tableau building...

Just made my final edits to the game, and put in my order for 50 copies of the game—coming well in time for Indie Games Night Market at Pax Unplugged!! Come to IGNM (organized by @dnlnwmn.bsky.social New Mill Industries) and celebrate, buy, and play indie boardgames!!! 🎲✂️ ✨

Hey board game designers I made a list of Pax Unplugged publishers: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... "Would need to ask", means website and maybe contact, but their site doesn't mention submissions. Leave a comment if I need to fix something up.

😭😭😭 I just wanna make games and deliver em to people without a surprise $20k bill. is that too much to ask for?????

Live now!

After last year's Out of Sorts, I've been looking forward to seeing what @connor.alwaysawake.games would come up with next. Turns out, the next thing is two very different board games about the afterlife: Club Spooky and That's the Spirit! My review: spacebiff.com/2025/10/15/c...

Nachdem ich es hier schon öfter bei @sibizkit.bsky.social gesehen habe, habe ich nun auch bei einem guten Angebot mit allen Erweiterungen und Promos von Fantastic Factories zugeschlagen und bin von der ersten Solopartie schon sehr angetan. Ein schöner Enginebuilder mit viel Potential. #Brettspiele

I managed to fit all the games into my luggage but it turns out it's 15 pounds overweight for checkin. 🥵 Will have to come up with some creative solutions...

I already posted about this but imma do it again because these games just aren't getting enough love yet. Two games of this quality for only $40? Plus shipping is only $5?! It doesn't get better than this.

I can attest this is a lot of fun and at $10 it's a steal! Just check out the sketch I got a few years ago.

Its alive! Checkout Club Spooky & That's the Spirit on KS now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

It's launched! The CoLab team I'm a part of have been working hard on this game for a while now. The vertical twist to Cascadia truly makes it play like a brand new game but with familiar concepts. Please check it out!!

Here it is in all its glory. 50 copies of Flip Stack Burger Shack ready for the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged! Let's see if they all fit in the suitcase...

The aftermath.

I’m finally launching my first KS tomorrow! 👻 Not nervous at all 😅 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

Chicken Fried Dice has been simmering for a while and I think we're almost ready for plating! Learn more at get.chickenfrieddice.com

I'll be livestreaming and chatting with anyone interested while I assemble some copies of Flip Stack Burger Shack. Come hang out! www.twitch.tv/fantasticfac...

Almost ready to assemble 50 copies of Flip Stack Burger Shack for the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged!

I'll be on stream with Amanda showing Cascadia: Alpine Lakes on Thursday! This is really MY first chance to show off this game publicly. Streaming with Amanda is always great time. Tune in in Twitch or YouTube. The Kickstarter campaign goes live on Tuesday. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

Playtesting is Bumping tonight in the PNW! If you're a designer or curious about game design, hit me up! Let's be besties! <3

Game Market West was such a great experience. So amazing seeing spicy little indie games represented in such a exciting environment. Big thanks to @gamemarketwest.bsky.social for making this happen. Excited to see it continue to grow! 🦆✂️🎲🦆 🎥: Board Game Casual (www.youtube.com/@BoardGameCa...)

We’re going to SPACE!! (Well, not exactly 😂) Point Galaxy from @flatoutgames.bsky.social hits our table tonight! Watch the stream and hang with us in chat! 6pm Pacific on Twitch twitch.tv/jess_ccg

Don't think I've anticipated a KS more than this one! Connor is a talented designer & artist. Games executed well where the art + design are by the same person are rare but guarantee a seamless & full experience. Both games are amazing. Highly recommend you check these out.

A new preview for Cascadia: Alpine Lakes! Check out Dwayne & Alicia's short rundown. Dwayne breaks down the scoring perfectly. Alicia beautifully summarizes the game's complexity compared to Cascadia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8dY... @blackboardgaming.bsky.social @flatoutgames.bsky.social

All right, who wore it better? Me or this tent at the state fair?

The how-to-play video for Cascadia: Alpine Lakes from @kovray.bsky.social is live! Learn the game in about 10 minutes and see what's similar to Cascadia and what is different. There's just over a week until the Kickstarter campaign starts on October 14. @flatoutgames.bsky.social

Indie Games Night Market is officially on the PAX Unplugged schedule! unplugged.paxsite.com/en-us/schedu...

Presenting the new bag for Flip Stack Burger Shack! This version will be what's available at the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged.

There are two types of players...

🫨 We announced it in our September newsletter: Unpub Festival Badge sales and reserved tables will open on October 1st at 12pm ET!  More info:  https://www.unpub.org/upcoming-events/unpub-festival-2026