Kickstarter union has won a 4 day work week, minimum salary and protection against AI replacing workers!! Unions get amazing things done!!

Attention Pittsburgh game folks!

We're going to PAX Unplugged! Stop by to demo Chicken Fried Dice or pick up a copy of Trickadee! Also... check out our pre-launch page and reserve your copy of the Critter Critics mini expansion for Chicken Fried Dice: get.chickenfrieddice.com

This is a feed of designers bringing their games to Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged 2025 next week. Right now, it is chock full of folks cutting, printing, boxing, and otherwise willing their games to life.

WEBINAR: GGJ Next + @gamesforchange Student Challenge🎓✨ 🗓️ November 19, 6pm UTC / 1pm ET Join us as we discuss GGJ Next and the huge range of opportunities open to the next generation of developers. 🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/6FLNsxN #GGJNext #G4C #G4CStudentChallenge #GameJam

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I’ve come around to the opinion that passports actually shouldn’t have markers purporting to indicate the genitalia of individual passengers. What is the relevance of that information to passport purposes?

NEW: A civil rights organization sued the Trump administration Saturday over a new policy barring nonprofits from helping new U.S. citizens register to vote, calling it part of a “broader effort to ensure that new Americans cannot exert their democratic will on the nation.”

“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba

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

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is. Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right? If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS. No one should have that much.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

Come close and let me whisper the most important skill for running tiny game biz … closer… closer… (hushed voice) ş̶̩͕̙̹̣͓̫͗́̑̾͋͜͜͠͝p̵̡̢͇̤͔̼̩̬̄ͅṟ̶̡̨̧̘̈̾̆̀̔͂̕ē̸̙͙͚̍͛a̷͔͊̐d̶̩̱̞͉͔͊͗͂̕ͅs̴͙̓̔̚ͅḩ̴̘̭̟̪̭̦̳̽͂̕ě̵̦̩̯̘̀̓̀̈́͑͐̅̌͝e̴̛͇͕̥̣͑̔͑̏̑̎́t̸̡̬̟͉̲͇͖͈͉̃͋̔̓́ͅs̵̝̞̹̤͊̅̽̈́̋͒̆̋̐̕ͅͅ

WOW! The Bonsai Diary is now in stock at @tabletopbookshelf.com! 💚 If you missed the Kickstarter and want a chill, creative drawing-and-writing game, go check it out! 💚 If you've already played The Bonsai Diary, please consider writing a review: tabletopbookshelf.com/products/the...

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Hahahahahaaaaaahahaha 🤪

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Vibing with the sunrise and lovely skies today.

♥️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🤍 way to turn out PA!

Waking up on Election Day having already voted with plenty of time to research every candidate and already got confirmation from the state that they have my ballot. ☕️ Mail-in voting is so convenient!

It’s #Dinovember at our house again. And of course, the dino’s always manage to find the leftover Halloween candy…

There's no massive marketing campaign behind this. It's pure indie creation. Your support helps bring cool games like this into the world. Let's get this over the finish line!

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Boo! NYT, a little tltl here aren't we?

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

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It’s the last day of the Uh Oh, Dino! Kickstarter but it’s also the day before Halloween. So I’m spending some of my morning preparing this year’s house costume…

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

NEW: Trump's DOJ rewrote a federal sentencing memo — erasing all references to the Jan. 6 attack and Trump’s social media post that shared Barack Obama’s address. The career prosecutors who wrote the original memo have been suspended. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Since the Speaker of the House has seemingly put the house on permanent vacation and refuses to take up Congress’ obligations to control spending, tariffs, and wartime powers, it seems to me that all Americans are operating without proper representation at the moment.

These are not American values and to hear them spouted by the vice-president of the United States is a shameful stain on the country I love 😢

The Kickstarter for Tiny Tome 3 funded before I even had a chance to share! And Ashley will get you your games before the holidays 🕎🎄🎇 -- including my sleeper, "Naptime, Sweet Phone"

It’s been a relatively chill campaign- I can’t believe it’s almost over. Excited to start shipping games for the holidays very soon!

Book exemption isn't saving tabletop RPGs from a tariff-borne collapse of creative possibility. Experimental form factors, even just a box of cards, will be tossed in favor of whatever costs studios the least at the CBP checkpoint.

Expand bulk bus passes beyond universities. What a great idea.

No one makes zine games to get rich. But I want to bring joy to as many people as possible. So I've worked to get Friendly Local Game Stores and Local Book Shops to carry our games. Here's what I've learned so far: 1. 📚 DESIGN FOR RETAIL This is my FLGS's zine section. What do you see? 1/▶️

Love for my city this morning driving across the Highland Park bridge with a beautiful mist rolling over the Allegheny river ✨ For everyone in Pittsburgh who’s been part of the city’s journey to reclaim the river banks from industry to natural splendor, thank you 💜

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

If you are thinking of gifts for Xmas this year, my book about tabletop games, The Game Changers (UK, other territories) / Across the Board (US, Canada), is out in paperback, audiobook & ebook. I think it is good for anyone who loves boardgames old or new, or who likes stuff on culture & history.

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

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Uh Oh, Dino! from TTGDA member @ludoliminal.bsky.social is a cute & chaotic cooperative dinosaur game with a shifting board, adorable dinos, and a drawbag of danger that's currently funding on @kickstarter.com through October 30. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

I playtested episode three of Interstellar Adventures earlier this year and it’s a real good time. If you’ve like narrative games, escape rooms, or campy science fiction you should definitely check it out. www.kickstarter.com/projects/min...

Excited to share that Uh Oh, Dino! will be included in the Pax Rising Showcase at Pax Unplugged! We'll be running game demos all day every day for the show! See all 6 of the games that will be demoing at PAXun25.com/rising #PAXUnplugged #uhohdino

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I LOVE this. Such kind words about the game—including @decassette.bsky.social’s art & Renee's writing—but the highest praise is always seeing the creativity it inspires in others! The idea of storing @hinokodo.com's custom domino cut-outs in an empty box of long matches is also GENIUS.

During GenCon, @jdragsky.bsky.social and I had a chat about building meaning into games, respecting the concept of the child when designing for all ages, and making games with intention. Check out the interview here, and thank you Jay! https://loom.ly/tOJw3i0