nothing, just a hand-drawn Monopoly board from East Germany, where it was illegal

@semicoop.bsky.social been at this a lot longer than we thought

12,000 year-old Indigenous American dice discovered, pushing the origin of dice back thousands of years. They are 2-siders, like the ones in Senet and early Egyptian games. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Who says innovation in board games is dead? Marceline is out here giving the people what they want, good games that toot!

With a larger scale Undaunted and the Second Edition of a Billion Suns from @planetsmashergames.bsky.social, Osprey Games is making me very excitied about me spending a lot of time sci-fi wargaming in 2026.

I make games over at ilananight.itch.io! But more importantly, I'm the organizer of TTRPGs for Trans Rights, which is raising money for trans orgs in Idaho RIGHT NOW! itch.io/b/3525/ttrpg...

March was an unexpected month of new games, we played eight games for the first time! Did you play anything new this month? #bgstats

The best part of working in the board game industry is getting together and coming up with what lie we're going to tell on the side of the box about the average play time. We laugh and laugh, it's a really good time.

Today is the last day of Walkable City's kickstarter campaign! Spread the word of an optimistic urbanist board game so we can imagine a better future on the table, & then on our own streets! Car dependency is a scourge + alt modes of transit are the answer! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

New comic! No kings, please. 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: www.semicoop.com/comic/decrow...

Weekly Recap! 📼 Preparing our living room for a big makeover and we have finally experienced the silly madness of Magical Athlete. 😅

Weekly Recap! 📼 Preparing our living room for a big makeover and we have finally experienced the silly madness of Magical Athlete. 😅

Calling all artists! 🖌️ We are looking for the Lead Artist for Plotweaver. Starting with a $10,000 commission, this artist would help define the look of Plotweaver through concept art and final illustrations. Learn more by applying today: https://forms.gle/CNdzv7iFMnv2W2re9

This pun is so bad that I need to build a deck around it. 💀 #sorcerytcg

No budget? No problem! Free art from dead people for your games: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-dom... #ttrpg #boardgames #gamedesign #publicdomain #freeart #art

I'm reading the Warhammer 40k 11th edition reveal article and realising: 40k players are going to suddenly have feelings about circles. 😆

Adel Blanc-Sec is such a strange wonderful comic, the way Tardi draws/colors blood is somehow stuck in my mind forever. Also the movie is pulpy French fun. youtu.be/d0389lPZdGU?...

New comic! Vantage is a fun game about exploration and discovery… …and, when you think about it a little longer, experiencing a horrible death over and over again. 🥲 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: www.semicoop.com/comic/grim-o... @stonemaiergames.com #boardgames

This game has a clear bias though

Do you design or publish board games? Do you want to protect the planet? Earlier this month, the Green Games Guide team updated the website and the Guide to include more info to help you make more eco-friendly games. Please check it out and share! greengamesguide.com

Weekly Recap! 📼 First time playing Sorcery, we played a very quick game of Captain Sonar (< 14 minutes!), kitties, and dinos! 😁

Dan Thurot played my game. He wrote words about it, and he put all the good ones in. In a beautiful order too. I am beyond grateful

DLSS5 on / DLSS5 off

What if you could collect Wikipedia articles and make them battle? Wikigacha, created by Japanese developer Haruki Sugiyama, turns every Wikipedia article into a collectible trading card.

Not going to lie, a game with a mandatory @amabel.bsky.social video essay to make sure you have the right knowledge sounds incredible 😁

Like that time we joined a board game group for an evening in Manchester. And almost no one knew that the reason we were all there was because there was a board game convention about to start. In Manchester.

New comic! Sometimes it takes a new player at the table to realize which hobby things you’ve completely normalized…🥹😅 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: www.semicoop.com/comic/sleeve...

Almost exactly 3 years ago I started working on a game about public transit & reducing car dependency. And on Wednesday the Kickstarter campaign for the game goes live! Link to our page - www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

Weekly Recap! 📼 Heinze presented his art project at a local Bring Your Own Beamer event and played a solo RPG! We played Vantage, Middara and Wine & Cheese! 🧀🍷

I firmly believe that art is a cooperative game. We all win by honing our skills together. Still, receiving such recognition for my contribution is a great feeling. To paraphrase the Kaiser Chiefs: I know art is not a competition, but I'm winning.

There are now several modern 18xxs that try to capture the ghist of the genre and making it more accesible. Is there a similiar development in regards of crayon games (specifically the Empire Builder family)?

We blame @feonix.bsky.social @afischergames.bsky.social et al.

Honestly, in my opinion, one of the most important tabletop sites on the web. Mike’s dedication to reporting on the industry with journalistic integrity is unmatched. Keep this one bookmarked. boardgamewire.com @boardgamewire.bsky.social

A friend shared a link to this hip hop concept album, and the concept it's a walkthrough of classic indie darling Cave Story... And it slaps! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Slightly too excited how my first Moonstone miniature turned out, I am going to annoy so many people talking about it. 😋

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

The standard Eurogame is kept under a glass dome in Paris

I found this game design course by the Radland designer: daniel.games It’s very good. Even though I create niche solo puzzle games that I self publish (the course seems to be targeting multiplayer game designers that want to get published), almost all of the articles rang true

🎲✂️ I'm working on an idea for a game centered around street-level protesting, focusing on the use of and countering of shady police tactics like kettling, snatch squads, secret agitators, etc etc. I'm looking for book/resource recommendations documenting these tactics around the world. Any recs?

New comic! Have you ever regretted succeeding at a skill check? We did during our last play of Middara. 😅 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: semicoop.com/comic/aced-and-confused/

North American Railways by @peersylvester.bsky.social I like the description of "profound strategic depth" as I have little info on this game, but I've played enough of Mr. Sylvester's work to know that such a statement is accurate! Really stoked for this.

Paralympic curling is fun as heck to watch - this is one of the best shots i've seen. No sweepers, just pure aim!

Weekly Recap! 📼 It's a week of two's! We bought two new games. We played two games that aren't released yet (👀), two games from that are almost fifteen years old and two games that are less than two years old! 😜

You get a pdf and everything! 🤩 @onepagerules.bsky.social would it be allowed if someone took your paper miniatures sets and build a similar function for Army Forge jsons?

Welp, Print & Play is closing... I’ll post more about it soon, but for now, holler if you have any hot, new job gossip! (I’ve worked full-time in the tabletop industry for 6 years and sure do hope to keep it that way 💁‍♂️.)

Flip Pick Towers from @ospreygames.bsky.social has a rule how to celebrate a win, does it count as cheating if I forget to follow this rule? 😅

We are FULLY FUNDED!!! Now it's all about unlocking more playable characters... PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD!!!! #ReMatchPuzzleFighter

Sunday night at GAMA Expo in Louisville, KY, I was announced as one of the winners of a 2025 Inspirations Award, an award given to both members and non-members for their contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion in tabletop gaming. My full statement: cardboardtime.com/news

Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel! The fish doorbell is back for the spring. Look for fishies, ring the doorbell so the worker can let them through. visdeurbel.nl

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