We'll be heading to PAX Unplugged soon, and we love to hang out in the Unpub room. Anybody bringing any cool unranked games for us to playtest!?

The Midnight Market has vanished for now . . . For those who visited humble booths resting beneath the moon's luminescent glow, thank you, and know that your games shall appear soon. We'll see you next time, when the night calls for the market to open once again. 🌖

In just a few more hours, we'll be closing the Midnight Market for the evening. It's been fantastic helping the games featured this year find new homes, and we're looking forward to hosting this again next year. The night is, and always will be, for indie games. 🌖 lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket

The Midnight Market ends today, and it's your last chance to head over to get some of these cool indie games. While you're heading over, check out this cool little unboxing video of Tootin' & Hollerin', by Joe Kell. The night is for indie games. 🌖 lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket

Less than 12 hours remain for the Midnight Market! www.lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket I'm going to be hanging out and packaging games for about 5 hours, AMA! You can ask me in voice too if you like, I'm gonna be hanging in discord. discord.gg/8mw58Vk9rt

Zach Morris is a wonderfully inventive designer, and their game Duck, Duck, Choose! is a delightful multi-victor game about reaching consensus and sharing with others (or not). I’ve loved playtesting this one and can’t wait to share it with my game group!

2 days left to shop indie games in Lunarpunk’s pop-up online market! The 2025 lineup: 🫘 Tootin’ & Hollerin’ 🎆 Pyrotechnics 🦆 Duck, Duck, Choose + What Does My Rival Desire? 💌 What if I’m the Devil? Only 50 copies available for each, and they’re going fast! 🎲✂️

We have a little unboxing video for you: Duck, Duck, Choose! / What Does My Rival Desire?, a combo pack of games by Zach Morris. Available at the Midnight Market until the night of the 10th or 50 copies sell out. Available at: lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket The night is for indie games. 🌖

The Midnight Market by @lunarpunk.games is now open and you can buy some awesome indie games! Check the comments for an outline of each game available. #boardgames #indie

The Midnight Market is live. The night is for indie games. 🌖 lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket

A little under 3 hours until the Midnight Market opens. It's a waning gibbous moon tonight, which means the games offered will be especially spectacular.

Hey, everybody! Twelve hours from now marks the launch of @lunarpunk.games's Midnight Market where you can pick up a limited run of five (six?) #boardgames by indie creators! I mention it because Pyrotechnics will be available, alongside some other GREAT games! Check it out! 11:59 p.m EST!

🔴Live now! @coo.games and @xoe.gay join me to talk about Midnight Market from @lunarpunk.games What is is and what games will be sold! Come ask your questions and get ready for the sale! #SupportIndie #boardgames 📺 www.twitch.tv/panda8... 📺 www.youtube.com/@Pan... www.lunarpunk.games/...

Midnight Market is close

What If I'm the Devil? by Jamie Sabriel is a tense, unsettling social deduction game where you and your community must plumb the depths of darkness to eliminate the Devil while it corrupts and forces your community to do its bidding. It's our 4th Midnight Market game, available this weekend.

Pyrotechnics, designed by Michael Sprague and published by @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social, will be available at the Midnight Market! It's a two-player card duel that fits right in your pocket and plays in ten-minute bursts. 🎆🎆🎆 Snag it November 7th at www.lunarpunk.games/midnight-mar...

We had a great chat with Ben Hammer, creator of We All Take From the River, on how to model coexistence and nature in games, as well as using multivictor framework to help capture those themes. You can watch it here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCw_...

Duck, Duck, Choose! and What Does My Rival Desire? by Zach Morris are a 2-for-1 set of hand-assembled games where you distribute and sort trinkets between ducks or divey up trinkets based on your secret identity. Snag it at the Midnight Market this November: www.lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket 🌙

Today at 2pm EST We'll be chatting with Ban Hammer, designer and publisher of We All Take From the River, to discuss modeling coexistence and nature, as well as using multivictor framework to help capture those themes. Find it right on our discord: discord.gg/pxZduDfKNZ Hope to see you there! 🌙

There are so very few games that accurately capture the challenges of self-governance because they take either extreme of total conflict or total cooperation. By contrast, Ben Hammer's "We All Take From the River" gives each player agendas that create conflict and collaboration organically. 1/▶️

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Tonight, we'll be chatting with Joe Kell right in our Dialogues at Dusk stage channel at 10pm EST. Learn how to motivate players through design and drive players with untraditional incentives. Come by, listen in, and ask your awesome questions! Hope to see you there. discord.gg/pxZduDfKNZ

Midnight Market is coming! lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket Joe Kell's game, Tootin' & Hollerin', features beans making silly fart noises. Our gassy gal Xoe drew these fellas. It can't decide if their dulcet tones are more of a bwa bwa bwaaa or bbbrp brp brrrp. What do you think they sound like?

The Midnight Market shall offer games from worlds unknown, starting on November 7th, at 11:59 pm EST. It will feature f̴i̴v̴e̴ four amazing games made by indie creators. After that, who knows if you'll be able to discover these games again . . . Follow along here: www.lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket

If you want to explore design territory that moves away from this focus on colonialist domination or capitalist productivity, start at the end: the game's outcome. What are players trying to accomplish and why? Do they really need to have the most, or is it reasonable to have enough?

Reserved tables for Unpub at PAX Unplugged are now on sale!  unpub.org/paxunplugged

That's now!!

I'm not a metric A consumable number I'm much too alive

The dialogue is now available on YouTube! There was talk of morality and games, made up rules, and Matthew rudely stopped us from brainstorming a paperdoll game where you design fashion for rodents. youtu.be/7A2t2YbUQEg

Join us as we chat with @vickilanger.dev all about designing games that break conventions in ways that help players learn. We'll also dig into what working on unranked games has taught them. Tune in right on our Discord tomorrow (August 12th) at 3pm EST: discord.gg/RUKkAUEQ6g See you there! ✨

ok weird idea but hear me out what if more games were unranked.

Come join Protospiel We'll bring lots of unranked games Impromptu haiku protospiel.online/badges 🎲✂️

Actions speak louder Than words echoed by machines I want to believe

impromptu haiku it is hard when you start with impromptu haiku

We've been working on custom game boxes for our upcoming Midnght Market for holding some cool indie games. Whadaya think? 🌙 (This is a tiny test print) 🎲✂️

Question, how do y'all keep the fey from vandalizing your games? We had been trying true name pacts and let me tell ya, that has not been working out for us.

Matthew and Xoe talk with Zach Morris about games that center curiosity. How can one imbue their design with this sense of discovery and in what ways do unranked games excel at challenging players to better understand one another . . . youtu.be/flWWuzJrxbc 🎲✂️

For the designers out there unranking their games and playtesting them, what have been your favorite moments of play you've seen so far? We wanna hear about 'em!

Have you been enjoying our Dialogues at Dusk series? Any feedback on the format we've been using? Any suggestions of topics you'd like us to cover or dive deeper into? If you have ideas or you're interested in being a guest, consider using this form! forms.gle/DB5ULT6FyVJ1...

Not done being gay yet.

On July 14th at 8:00pm EST, we'll chat with Zach Morris on Discord about their experience designing for player curiosity around games as well as other players. We'll also discuss how unranked games lead players to both ask questions and discover answers. Be sure to join here: discord.gg/DW2U2NXhnZ

Great discussion on exploring and playtesting multivictor games here!

Had a great time chatting with Clint about the lessons board game designers are learning from TTRPGs, victorless and unranked games, my design process, and how I incorporate all of the above into my own work. Thanks again for having me on!

We've selected games and we're preparing to summon our first Midnight Market for November of this year! Follow along using the link below and catch them when the witching hour is upon us! www.lunarpunk.games/midnight-mar...

metrics bad

Whenever I see a game with AI art, I am filled with disappointment. I want to see human made art, especially if it's messy and imperfect. I want to see the artist's personality and perspective shine, not a stolen thoughtless imitation.

If you see a purple cloaked cultist with propaganda at a tabletop convention, it's probably us.

Look at this beautiful graph for Vibes showing the probability that a given player count will have X max number of vibing groups! And with such excellent colors too!

Our interview with @ericdittmore.bsky.social is now on Youtube! We chat about Eric's experience adapting Adulting from a competitive game into an unranked game, and the various techniques used to prepare designs and players for this unique kind of cozy experience! youtu.be/NCCT1E6Aps0 🎲✂️

This Saturday evening at LFG Con in Burbank, we'll be selling Vibes! We don't have a lot of copies left of this printrun, so get em' while they last! www.lfg-con.com/eventschedul...