Placeholder Team Quote: Read what @catskillz.bsky.social has to say about the qualities that make our games unique! #accessability #placeholdergames #boardgames

One week until the Game Market West designer application deadline! It's a tabletop game market for indie designers to showcase and sell their games. Chat with special guest @mattleacock.bsky.social about your designs. Application: forms.gle/GzEWu6vbqpi8... RSVP: luma.com/en2wexcp #boardgames

Hello beautiful people, we interpret our normally scheduled BHM programing to announce we are launching our recruitment for Women's History Month! GM and/or panel leads: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Volunteer: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Every time I see someone talk about how AI products are achieved at "no cost," I feel a flinch echo through my body felt by generations of my ancestors. I know where the road goes when a consuming body is given the privilege of ignoring the true cost of labor.

🔴Live now! Join me and Manny Trembley as I learn and play Jump Masters! from Neon Knights Games and Chip Theory Games 📺 www.twitch.tv/panda8... 📺 www.youtube.com/@Pan...

It's valentines day here in Neo-Cityton, the world of Crime Guys. Restaurants have their best wines on the wine list and washed all their table linens. Which Crime Guy is taking you to dinner? Put your vote in the comments below! #valentinesday #placeholdergames #love #nerds

If you read our newsletter, you already know our team members chose Lodge to shoutout this month! You can still back this project right now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cam... If you'd like to join our newsletter, go to placeholder-games.com to sign up today.

Our social media manager is building fires in their house!! Give them some tips on how to do it better. Buy your copy of Campfire at placeholder-games.com!

New Interview! @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social, author of #GirlFrame. We spoke about her life, #PbtA, and why #mechsploitation holds such strong appeal to trans women. valerialoves.com/tools-crave-...

If you would like 34 TTRPGs for a very reasonable price, that's what we provide here at the 34 TTRPGs For A Very Reasonable Price Emporium. Hearts Of Wulin, Alken, Begin Transmission and more! Almost 90% off! itch.io/b/3490/welco...

Check out this month's #indietabletopnewsletter with wonderful content from: Absolute Ascendancy @atikingames @jacksonpope.bsky.social Mistzone Games @benny275.bsky.social atikingames.com/newsletter/f...

Seattle is representing on the field today! Seahawks don't disappoint. And tell Sam Darnold, if he needs a little extra help, the Crime Guys are just a phone call away. You have to admit our Hippo would make a great Offensive Tackle. #football #placeholdergames #boardgames #seattle

Our designers workin hard on designing our games. Gotta love the old school, tactile game design. #gamedesign #placeholdergames #arts #crafts #boardgames

ANNOUCEMENT: PLACEHOLDER NEWSLETTER! So you're late the party? You missed our inaugural newsletter? No worries. Here's a copy just for you, and if you want the next one hot off the press, sign-up at placeholder-games.com. mailchi.mp/placeholder-...

Iello is seeking dice games

“We released nine games in 2025 and only one was a flop”: French publisher Super Meeple says keeping a tight rein on the number of complex titles it releases each year is paying off in an industry rife with overproduction: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

In order to aid the folks struggling in Minnesota in the fight against our fascist government, we'll be adding a stretch goal to our Kickstarter campaign that launches on 2/10. We'll be sending aid through one of the charities at Stand With Minnesota. www.standwithminnesota.com

We do love a campfire in this house.

So if @dairykillsme.bsky.social's game (How I Heard It) gets funded - I will go camping (FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER) and record an in person AP. You will see me in the wild (my friend's backyard) all cold and shit. Like do you want to see me camp because this is how you get me to go camping.

New Soft Circuit add-ons are live! Pin banners, transparent stickers, and most delightful of all: Byte keychains featuring adorable guest art by @mcmadmissile.bsky.social and @jekky.farm!! Get 'em all here >> www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... 🐺💚

January is nobody's favorite month, which is why I selected these stylish sauropods as the first entry in my 2026 calendar. Initially created as a commissioned painting for a local client the previous holiday season, this piece quickly became a favorite addition to my growing library of Paleoart.

A little lunchtime Logic and Lore ( @weirdgiraffegames.com ) with the Variance expansion is a big-brain move...and one you can do too! Loving this expansion so much!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wei...

6 more weeks of winter! And here is a little bit of history on Punxsutawney Phil www.weather.gov/phi/GroundHo...

Placeholder staff have been talking with our social media manager about how they got started with board games. What was your first board game and who taught you? #boardgames #family #friends

🎥 VOD || "Are the corrupted the only ones we have to fear?" Check out our one-shot of #TheCorrupted, created by @navaarsnp.bsky.social, who got the chance to be in a player's seat this go around and game with us! #ttrpg #actualplay Watch via High Shelf Adventures #YouTube: youtu.be/NqCqs3xfC5U?...

It's the FINAL DAY FOR CARDBOARD EDISON AWARD SUBMISSIONS! We'll have a final count tomorrow, but let's just say we and our judges will be quite busy in the coming weeks! cardboardedison.com/award

I've made another *artisanal, hand-coded* website for my playthrough of Carved by the Garden (by @cassi.mothwin.com) For people who like solo journaling TTRPGs or freaky stories. The final pages of this playthrough is some of my favourite horror writing I've ever done 😬 forestwinding.neocities.org

We're delighted to announce that our Unpub Festival 2026 Guest of Honor is Connie Vogelmann!  Learn more about Connie and preview her keynote topic in our latest newsletter:  https://www.unpub.org/news/announcing-the-unpub-festival-2026-guest-of-honor

What's the last board game that forced you to buy a bigger game shelf? #boardgames #cardgames #shelves #construction #placeholdergames

It's the fourth Monday of January already. Here at Placeholder we have our weekly meetings on Monday nights. It sets our week AND is something to look forward to after the day job is done. You playin any board games tonight to chase away the Monday blues? #placeholdergames #boardgames #Monday

Our January Unpub Newsletter just went out and has some exciting news! Check it out! 🎲✂️

Announcing!!!! 🦖 DINO RACER 🦕🍌 Dino Racer is a fast-paced card game where you’ll draft cards of five wacky dinos competing in a prehistoric race to the finish. Expect this one to *saur* at Gen Con 2026!!!! 🎲✂️ boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/46...

Ants, dogs, trains, plants, boxes, AND knaves?! OFPG dropped a new video 5 hours ago. Check out 6 board game crowdfunding campaigns you can back right now! Good watch and recommending some solid games. #kickstarter #gamefound #money #boardgames

What are you doing with your art today? What mechanics are you making or refining? What ideas are you jotting down in your notebook? #Sunday #games #design #placeholdergames

Yall its too cold outside. Laughter keeps us warm, gets the blood flowing. So does groaning at bad jokes. So its a win-win really. Stay safe out there. #placeholdergames #winter #cards #games

Craig Swallow (he/him) is at Placeholder Games, slowly figuring out how to help do the things that need done. Outside of work he is an avid windsurfer and skier, with a library of only cooperative games. #Team #Highlight #Producer #Boardgames

HELLO FRIENDS!!! this week i'm going to be streaming and raising funds to alleviate the financial stress of my current living situation! THURSDAY we're going to be playing THE QUIET YEAR LIVE with an actual artist (@naladraws.com!!!) and some friends @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social and more!!

The first Plotweaver newsletter has gone out! mailchi.mp/brotherwiseg... In this month's newsleetter, we show off the roadmap for Plotweaver, an internal playtesting update, results from the Plotweaver survey, and some cool art!

Hey folks! Did you know that it's really easy to find games made by poc on itch.io? Just use the "poc made" tag! There you'll find your next fav TTRPG & support some great designers, new and old! If you're a designer, tag your games poc-made so they show up on the feed! itch.io/physical-gam...

Today's 15s Board Game Design 🎲 Tip for the Day continues our prototyping discussion with when to make a fancy early prototype: youtube.com/shorts/kK6_l... #boardgame #boardgamedesign #tabletopgames #gamedesign #tabletopgames #lgbtq #gamepublisher

Big fan of @drfinnsgames.bsky.social and this book is a blast! All you need are some standard six-sided dice and a pencil to play. In this video I teach and play 2 of the 8 games in the book: a push-your-luck dice game and a roll-and-write word game! #boardgames Watch: youtu.be/U1EkJzqQGZM

Other Cat decrees from his board game throne, "Give me a look at your collections so I might see your board game shelves are wanting!" Always love a good shelfie. Bonus points if there's another cat lol pic by @thejaybell.bsky.social #placeholdergames #cats #boardgames

Sipping coffee, eating a bagel, watching the snow come down, thinking about chilly Spring mornings, snug in a sleeping bag, surrounded by the smell of pine. Any year round campers out there with good tents in the snow pictures? #winter #camping #placeholdergames

Since two of our team members were volunteering at Adam Con this weekend, what new board games are bringing you joy? #boardgames #gameconventions #placeholdergames

Harvey Pratt did so many cool things in his life, including forensic drawings of Bigfoot encounters.

🔴Live now! Joe #bIm @ Home joins me to talk about OrcaCon and then play Draconis 8 on steam from @wisewizardgames.bsky.social. I am also giving away 2 Magic Months. (30 free packs one pack each day you login)! 📺 www.twitch.tv/panda8... 📺 www.youtube.com/@Pan...

Shout-out to Matthew Morris (@squingus_squench), who we worked with to design the original cover art for issue #33 of 52 Pickup. It's our first time working with this New Zealand artist, and looking forward to working with new artists and game designers in 2026! #art #artist #boardgame #indiegame

@playscholar.bsky.social just got their copy of Campfire in the mail and they've been comparing Rummy rules with their friends. So what are your favorite house rules for Rummy? #rummy #placeholdergames #cards #family #houserules

Glad its lunch time! Games that make you hungry... what are some others? 🤔 (Featured: Charcuterie: The Board Game by 3WS Games)

It's the first Indie Tabletop Newsletter of the year! atikingames.com/newsletter/j...