Issue 23 is out now! Featuring a waltz through the theme of music in board games. By @dustytulip.bsky.social, with the help of @jackiefox.bsky.social (Rock Hard: 1977), Abe Burson (Luthier) and Robb Smigielski (The Gig). Go to senetmagazine.com to order or subscribe. #boardgamesarebeautiful‬‬

Who's gonna be at UKGE at the end of the month? We'll be there as usual – at stand 3-625 – so come find us to pick up any back issues you're missing, or some lovely merch (including MUGS!), or to just say hi. Oh, and we'll be selling the Summer '26 edition, too, hot off the proverbial presses...

For work today I had to google ‘helipad size’, which was a reminder that my job is sometimes a little bonkers.

ICYMI: Issue 22 is out now! Including our new regular feature: The Classic, where a Senet writer revisits a masterpiece board game. This issue: @dustytulip.bsky.social on Splendor. (Illustration by Julian Osbaldstone.) Go to senetmagazine.com to order your copy or subscribe. #boardgamesarebeautiful

I think everyone has board game loves that, not matter how many times we’ve played them, always feel exciting and fun to play. Splendor is one of my board game loves. And what a joy it was to write about it!

@danjolin.bsky.social joins us this week to talk how @senetmagazine.bsky.social is made. Episode 81 is up! shelfstablecast.com/81-ft-dan-jo...

Our debut game, Eternal Strands is on sale again for the Steam Winter Sale. Explore a ruined magical city full of constructs, climb everything, including huge creatures, and combine magical abilities in physics-based combat. Fully voiced, light romances. Enjoy store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...

Some cool games and names in this one 👀 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Issue 21 is out now! In which we journey through the fantastical art of Mindclash Games with art director Villo Farkas. Go to senetmagazine.com to order your copy or subscribe. #boardgamesarebeautiful

Merch alert! Senet T-shirts are now available on our store, along with enamel pin badges of our mascot Nubie. You'll find ’em at senetmagazine.com, along with back issues (still on sale!), the current issue, subscriptions and pre-orders of issue 20 (out at the end of the month).

Summer Sale Flashback! With our summer sale going (see pinned post for details), here's a flashback to what was in Issue 1, originally published in Spring 2020... Vikings! Worker placement games! Elizabeth Hargrave!

Our debut game, Eternal Strands is sitting pretty at 50% off for the Steam Summer Sale. Use magical powers, fight colossus-sized beasts, uncover the mystery of the Enclave, maybe even do some smoochin’! People seem to like it! We sure loved building it.

Thanks so much to @senetmagazine.bsky.social making their magazine even bigger and better, and for the amazing review. Y’all rock!

Today is ‘I check one item off my to-do list and add five more’ kinda day. Halp.

Issue 19 is out now and it’s our biggest-ever! Including Jamey Stegmaier of @stonemaiergames.com and a little game known as Catan! (Cover art by Julian Osbaldstone.) Go to senetmagazine.com to order your copy, or if you’re at UKGE, come say hi to us on stand 3-751. #boardgamesarebeautiful

Everyone heading to #UKGE today, hope you have a blast! 🎲 First time in a long time, I won’t be able to attend all three days but hoping I will be able to make in on Sunday🤞

Just two days until @ukge.bsky.social! We’ll be there at stand 3-751 with the brand-new issue, plus all our back issues & merch. But, that aside, what are you most looking forward to there?

When Veilguard came out I was looking forward to drip feeding all the storyboard work I did on that here on Bluesky. But I lost my appetite for that pretty quickly due to DISCOURSE (TM). Still, for anyone interested it’s all on my website. www.nickthornborrowart.com

he could save us

the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net

Happy to report that Senet’s Summer ‘25 issue has just gone off to press. And it’s our biggest issue yet… Watch this space for more details!

Did a thing. Now head straight for the sofa and vegetable while playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

The Wheel of Time Season 3 👌

My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.

Senet PSA! We've extended our 5th birthday sale to midnight this Sunday, 6 April (BST)! Until then, you can still get £5 off any five back issues using the discount code "5THBIRTHDAY"!

#AssassinsCreedShadows 😍

Trump's national security advisor accidentally added a magazine editor to a group chat and leaked military secrets. Here's why that's bad news for Biden.

That’s credit rolled on #EternalStrands. Thank you @yellowbrickgames.bsky.social. This has been an absolute JOY! 💚

ICYMI: Issue 18 is out now! Including an interview with independent British designer Ellie Dix @thedarkimp.bsky.social. (Portrait by Romy Blümel). Go to senetmagazine.com to order your copy or subscribe. #boardgamesarebeautiful

This week: Three 4.30 am wake ups and one 5.30am (yay lie in! 😅), three different cities, project of 4 years finally going on site and lots of writing on trains. Thank poopers it’s Friday!

Week 11 of my gym programme. Back to 70kg squat! 💪

ETERNAL STRANDS ROADMAP 🛣️ Take a peek at what we've got in the pipeline 👀 🔸For dev notes on the next patch 🔗https://bit.ly/ESRoadmap0226 🔸Got questions? We'll answer them tomorrow in our Reddit AMA! 🔗https://bit.ly/ESAMAReddit

Anyway, if you're looking for a single player game with characters with their own stories, and a chance to battle fantastic creatures in a physics playground and maybe I dunno, there's even smooching, who can say?!? Might I recommend Eternal Strands now on Gamepass, Xbox S/X, PS5, Epic and Steam!

Honestly, this game 😍 #DragonAgeTheVeilguard

Happy Dragon Age Day! ☺️

Currently in the 7th hell of delayed trains. Exactly where you want to be on a Tuesday night following a long meeting.

Just a reminder, but please don't @ writers about their work being terrible. Obviously people are entitled to opinions but they're not entitled to a conversation with content creators.

First day back in the gym. Crazy how much strength I lost during my lazy/ running phase. Got up to 70kg squat at one point and now 40kgs are a struggle. 😬

I feel the urge to post my favorite Dragon Age art again because I added some essential details that I felt were lacking (Assan and Manfred 🥺) Best 60 hours spent no regrets #dragonage

Happy Friyay!

Issue 17 is out now, featuring interviews with @tedalspach and The Mico, plus articles on pick-up-and-deliver games and immigration as a tabletop theme. (Cover art from Emberleaf, by @CityofGamesHQ.) Go to senetmagazine.com to order your copy. #boardgamesarebeautiful

CHARACTERS - Day Nine: Cassandra This is the last of the (major) characters I wrote during my time on Dragon Age. I could go into others, and considered moving onto Stray Gods... but I feel like fewer would be interested, and I honestly can't keep up the pace. So let's make this the last, for now.

Today is the writing day, today is the writing day. *She says in hopes that this post will make her accountable.

CHARACTERS - Day Eight: Dorian Now this is a fun one. It's no big secret I have a lot of feelings about Dorian, not least of which because he was my first (and only) gay male companion. There's a lot more to him than that, of course (as there should be), and it was quite a trip. So let's go!

CHARACTERS - DAY SIX: Fenris Now, DA2 is a story all on its own but I'm not going to go there other than to sum it up as "we had just over a year and a half to make this". It's why I only wrote one follower, Fenris, and although it'll make his fans mad: I probably shouldn't have. Let me explain.

CHARACTERS - DAY FOUR: Alistair Ah, Alistair. Depending on who you ask, he's the adorable woobie with the biggest heart or the irritating, over-used man-child. Yes, he is indeed all of those things. Good characters have flaws to go with their virtues. Ugly spots. That is literally their humanity.

CHARACTERS - DAY THREE: Flemeth I have a type. I admit it. There are certain wells I can return to repeatedly and always find something new to explore. One of them is older female characters. Mike used to rib me about it. Consider Wynne. Meredith. Genevieve. And, of course, the biggie: Flemeth.

So many of the more unhinged item, weapon, and outfit descriptions I wrote for Veilguard somehow slipped past quality control and now you all have to deal with them.

Happy birthday to my favourite video game of all time! Ten years later and it still gives me all the FEELS. Ar lath ma, vhenan #DAI