This article really hit me. Years ago, my partner and I bought Descent 2e because there was a fully armored woman on the box. Later, when I applied to Fantasy Flight, I used Descent 2e content as my skill test. My road to being a tabletop designer traces directly back to that warrior on the cover.

Another Monday, a new comic! So... what games do you still want to play? Let's hear your "infinite" lists! 😄 ➡️ semicoop.com/comic/some-ideas/

I got my designer copies of Nebular Colors in from Playte!!! 🌌 Nebular Colors will be launching at UKGE 🇬🇧 and TGM Spring 🇯🇵 this year!! It will then be available internationally on Playte’s various webstores! If you’re a FLGS interested in carrying the game—please reach out to Playte directly!

Even if season 3 is only half as good as season 2, it will probably still have some of your favorite card games this year.

This is a bummer. Let's talk about some of my favorite board games Osprey has published over the years.

This is very very sad news, @ospreygames.bsky.social has been making so many wonderful board and card games over the years. I feel an urge to set up a campaign to collectively buy the board and card game line together somehow to preserve all those great games from going out of print. ♥️

friend: sends me a reel about a games cafe in the city with quote "a collection of 180 games" me, realising there are over 270 board games in our house:

New comic! This is fine.🔥 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: semicoop.com/comic/scary-stories/ #boardgames

Weekly Recap! 📼 Some games, visiting an interesting airstructure in meeple socks, and Heinze painting some nasty minis with oil washes. 😁

Warning for board game folks: this site has a list of industry people that uses AI slop for images and bios. I’m trying to figure out how to reach out to them to ask to have the entry on me removed. Wanted to spread awareness on the slop. www.4pillargames.com/about/

Are you an artist? Do you like my work? Are you interested in helping me make an awesome TTRPG? If so please feel free to DM me! I'm looking for artists to help me bring my Darkdrifters TTRPG to life and also help define its visual style. Message me if you're interested or know anyone who might be!

Literally us last year at Spiel when meeting a new publisher: Us: "Don't be fooled by those posts' numbers, our last posts have done exceptionally well" Them: "Do you know why they did so well?" Us: "We were busy so we put in less effort and went with simpler jokes"

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

@shelfstablecast.bsky.social love the new logo!

You know what time it is!

Before this comic we suspected crows were color blind and wanted to add that in but... It turns out crows can see into the UV spectrum! Some birds even have feathers that reflect UV light making them even more colorful than we can see! Source: www.binghamton.edu/news/story/6...

New comic! Always looking over our shoulder if we hear a crow now… should have researched corvid sportsmanship first. 🤓 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: semicoop.com/comic/corvid-clanger/ #boardgames

I really need to make an archive of "people outside the boardgame hobby talking about what it's like to engage with board game rulebooks" because I need a portfolio of evidence to show BGG that it just isn't working.

Weekly Recap! 📼 It's been a busy week full of games and our copy of The Queen's Dilemma arrived! How was your week?! 😁

I love this game, it's like a slapstick simulator in space and then everybody dies. 🧡

Passionate but COMICALLY terrible is such an apt description about so many parts of my life 🧡

We won't be able to get the gaming group together before June but we frickin' hyped about starting the Queen's Dillema!

TIL the Jimmy Space Marines joke (that the Emperor's name is Jimmy Space) is actually based on 40k lore?! Amar Astarte was the leading scientist of the Astarte project (aka the making of the Space Marines). wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Amar_As... Cc @hellenus.bsky.social @ithayla.bsky.social

Our plays for April showed a large number of Dragons and Castles. It's a fun mix of games but it does lack a bit of economic/euro games goodness, so hopefully we'll fix that deficiency in our gaming diet next month #bgstats!

In July last year I was approached by an agency, who had a brand, who had a famous spokesperson, who likes chess. They wanted me to design a game with this spokesperson, a bit like chess but better, faster, kind of Chess 2.0. That's not quite what happened. This is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq_5...

My darling friends, acquaintances & internet strangers: do you have any questions about tabletop games, boardgames, roleplaying games, card games, etc, that @ava.foxfort.net & I might answer on our podcast tomorrow? They could be factual, topical, etiquette based, solving a dilemma, recommendations?

SWORDS AGAINST BEGINNERS That's how I first read it and that how it will be known in this house. 😋

HELLO MODIPHIUS WHY AM I, CO-DESIGNER OF WIDLY SUCCESSFUL MODIPHIUS BOARD GAME MASS EFFECT AND XCOM SUPERFAN, NOT ON THIS TEAM PLZ PUT ME ON THE TEAM KTHX!!!

@ithayla.bsky.social if you're not involved, we'll riot 😉

One of the greatest thing at Blackwork con was when a gang of kids 12-14y from a local youth center came with their pedagogue to give me a copy of the MÖRK BORG adventure they worked on together. Nervous and proud, they each signed my copy and did a short interview. The next generation, man.

This started as a simple idea nearly a year ago and I'm finally pretty happy with it. That being said I bet I have messed up a rule of tincture or something so let me know if something doesn't work! I made some choices about arrangements of charges wilkopaints.art/heraldry/ #heraldry #nerdlings

New comic! Can you think of a more disgusting chip flavor? 😅 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: semicoop.com/comic/five-out-of-five/

Yep, it might officially be the King's birthday but for a lot of people it is national thrifting day. (Guess who is about to see if the FLGS has some cool second-hand games?) 😆

Weekly Recap! 📼 We're really enjoying Gachapon Trick, and lots of other fun games this week! 😁

A friend showed med 1D-chess: rowan441.github.io/1dchess/ches.... Are there more examples of this kind of "down dimensioning" in game design? 🎲✂️

The Ukrainian RPG industry is hosting a three-day online convention at the start of May, ROLEPLAY UKRAINE 2026, and you are invited to come and play with them, and help to fund a relief caravan of medical supplies for those suffering in the ongoing war. Check it out. warhorn.net/events/rolep...

It is the 10 year anniversary of our YouTube channel today and I didn’t have time to do anything super special but I did do a quick News Update Vlog Thing where I look back on the videos from the past 10 years! youtu.be/E3iUdpkBj08?...

Extra comic, thanks to Deep Print Games! 🍷🧀 Sure, we can talk about how Wine & Cheese is a very clever and crunchy euro-experience in a small box, but also: meeples with hats! 🤩 Learn more about the game: www.semicoop.com/comic/wine-c... #boardgames

After all this time, WYRD (carved by RUNE) is now available. Adventure, explore, and fight your way to the centre of the cursed city. Wield the power of the wyrd stones and claim your prize. You can grab a discounted copy with the following link: sasquatchgames.itch.io/wyrd

I'm beyond excited to announce my next game design: Earthborne Trailblazer! I've been working on this design with @feonix.bsky.social, and we've been able to do some very exciting things to bring Evan Simonet's art into the game's design in some innovative ways. We'll be sharing more soon!

I got to take an early look at 2 games @leder.games is working on that I'm super excited for (everything pictured is prototype) The first, Kart, is a downhill racing game where you play teenagers who have cobbled together speed machines. The faster you go, the less control you have of your Kart!

Incredibly proud to announce that @leder.games is publishing Creature Control, a coop dexterity game by me about mechs fighting kaijus! For those wanting more info, check out the Leder Games Studio Chat from earlier today - www.twitch.tv/videos/27537...

This is a really clever and fun game. I really should have a crack at writing my own realm for it.

LAUNCH DAY! The Gal4Xeon campaign goes live in 1 hour! I've taken the afternoon off so I'll been live tweet/skeet/posting it!

board gamers we've been clocked

Love this travel edition of Root somebody om Reddit made www.reddit.com/r/rootgame/c...

New comic! That is not what you want to hear from the Beast's side of the table ...especially when you have no idea where it is. 😬 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: www.semicoop.com/comic/please... #boardgames

These kind of deep dives for video games or bgs are important,they are a part of history.Early videogame history has a lot of stuff now difficult to find out and its getting harder and harder to know them. There are tons of videos about Tetris or Zelda, but the less known ones need more coverage

I'm looking for some extra work and would be very interested in any part-time or contract gigs that could make use of my writing, editing, and project management experience. Creative work, research and reporting, consulting; I am happy to do it all. Email: chasewritesthing [at] gmail DMs open here!

Weekly Recap! 📼 We celebrated Semi Co-op's 11th anniversary this week 🥳, we did some hiking and bouldering and we played quite a lot of games!