Adam Blinkinsop (he/they)
@blinks.itch.io
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Game designer, musician, software engineer.
https://blinks.github.io/
pinned post!
Had a great time talking with
@beyondsolitaire.bsky.social
about design, development, and science fiction:
beyondsolitaire.buzzsprout.com/1091807/epis...
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Episode 220 - Adam Blinkinsop on Echo from the Dark - Beyond Solitaire
For the Season 11 finale, designer and developer Adam Blinkinsop (@blinks.itch.io) talks about development for GMT, his approach to game design, and his current project: Echo from the Dark. P500: http...
https://beyondsolitaire.buzzsprout.com/1091807/episodes/18310968-episode-220-adam-blinkinsop-on-echo-from-the-dark
6 months ago
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Fred Serval
19 days ago
PunchedCon 2026 was a delight. We debrief the games we played there with bean farmer
@candidrum.bsky.social
, solo mom
@joedewhurst.bsky.social
, babyface
@pierrevj.bsky.social
, radicalised
@ericvulgaris.bsky.social
and ASMR voice
@blinks.itch.io
youtu.be/8177PhxrJCE?...
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PunchedCon 26 - Wargame Convention Debrief
YouTube video by Homo Ludens
https://youtu.be/8177PhxrJCE?si=yoHjX5E3_PI0EJIf
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Fred Serval
19 days ago
Big PunchedCon debrief coming soon featuring
@candidrum.bsky.social
@blinks.itch.io
@ericvulgaris.bsky.social
@pierrevj.bsky.social
and
@joedewhurst.bsky.social
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Fred Serval
25 days ago
First night at PunchedCon 👀👀👀👀👀
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Loved playing this in San Diego, excited to be able to get my hands on a copy. 🎉🎉
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Bitch.io: Don't Play WIth Me
3 months ago
2026.02.25 Found a new vocal stem and coping mechanism today!
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Love the moment pretty early in here where Jeremy goes to talk and is interrupted by the module's slow feedback gain -- this thing is a creepy monster.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiir...
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Exploding the Forge Tim Vicks Vaporub X
YouTube video by Red Means Recording Modular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiirspZ4aTI
4 months ago
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Taking a look at Marengo.
4 months ago
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Stephen Granade
4 months ago
“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding.
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
https://archiveofourown.org/works/73396436?_bhlid=0aeeb97b3de0e25bd8a0b1b53f5d398d1567984b&utm_campaign=we-re-all-just-content-for-ice&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=www.garbageday.email&view_adult=true
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Gallerist suffers in comparison to Kanban (same day), even though I've played Gallerist and had a gallery full of masterworks by the end -- something about the flow... Or maybe 10 hours of gaming is too much for a valid critique?
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The classics.
5 months ago
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My Modular Nights set with Greymadr on Dec 14 finally hit YouTube! (Link is timestamped to our set, the third of the night @ 43:36.)
youtu.be/KQomwQKNsRg?...
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Modular Nights - Dec. 14, 2025
YouTube video by Modular Seattle
https://youtu.be/KQomwQKNsRg?si=DvaajQV7ttV0tWkO&t=2616
5 months ago
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A few games played this year; plays is such a weird stat for wargames, but I'm terrible at tracking playtime so it'll have to do.
5 months ago
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Scott Nicholson
5 months ago
I recently released a 20th anniversary episode of Board Games with Scott. In this show, I talk about what I've been up to and Critical Games. You can watch this episode here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Xg...
#boardgames
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Board Games with Scott - 20th Anniversary Special - Critical Games
YouTube video by Scott Nicholson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2XgIK1V100&list=PLhyRBdPvcWK7pNLTWKytoDDcA5fAa8__W&index=78
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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium
5 months ago
🚨 ALERT: New Copyright Laws Going Into Effect January 1st, 2026 🚨 Starting in the new year, if you play a
#ttrpg
on a streaming service or write about folks streaming
#ttrpgs
and you fail provide links to those games for your audience, you will be legally considered an absolute poopy-butt.
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Amabel Holland
5 months ago
I work in board games, and what makes my work in the form good is my genuine interest in books, in film, in music, in dance, in cooking, in woodworking. Cultivating curiosity & a voracious appetite for different works in different forms is so incredibly important.
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Chris M. - AKA YMC
5 months ago
What’s a traditional card game you know you’ve got at least 100 hours playing? Anything you can play with a standard pack of 52. Preferably something you still enjoy. Easily Cribbage for me, but Spades was also big in our family growing up. I usually preferred to play without sandbags if allowed.
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Derek Yu
5 months ago
Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
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Our set started around 1h30 at Substation's "Modular Seattle" night (I played with my friend "Greymadr"):
www.twitch.tv/videos/26441...
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Twitch
Twitch is the world
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2644178058?t=01h30m30s
5 months ago
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Loading up to head to the show!
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5 months ago
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Prep for Sunday concert: got to build my instrument.
5 months ago
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Excited for
@candidrum.bsky.social
's new chapter!
youtu.be/Ny1JDfcHHSc?...
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New Channel + My Con "CRAWL" Gaming Highlights
YouTube video by Kickin' It Creative with Candice
https://youtu.be/Ny1JDfcHHSc?si=sFcRtdYzR1c4LwSN
5 months ago
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 11th 2025 (Tricky), in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩
cluesbysam.com
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
https://cluesbysam.com
6 months ago
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lumpley
6 months ago
One time we were out to dinner with the team who'd translated Apocalypse World into Italian. The project lead signalled for quiet and they all raised their glases. "Vincent," he said, and then they all as one: "fuuuuuck yoooouuu."
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BoardGameWire
6 months ago
“There’s more to historical board games than just hex-and-counter WWII”: Candice Harris on turning her video talents to making historical wargaming more accessible after her surprise BoardGameGeek exit:
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
@candidrum.bsky.social
@gmtgames.bsky.social
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Had a great time talking with
@beyondsolitaire.bsky.social
about design, development, and science fiction:
beyondsolitaire.buzzsprout.com/1091807/epis...
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Episode 220 - Adam Blinkinsop on Echo from the Dark - Beyond Solitaire
For the Season 11 finale, designer and developer Adam Blinkinsop (@blinks.itch.io) talks about development for GMT, his approach to game design, and his current project: Echo from the Dark. P500: http...
https://beyondsolitaire.buzzsprout.com/1091807/episodes/18310968-episode-220-adam-blinkinsop-on-echo-from-the-dark
6 months ago
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Peer Sylvester
6 months ago
Comparing two games just bc they both score majorities is akin to compare Pictionary and Empire Builder because both use "drawing" as a mechanism
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Opposite a Christmas tree farm.
6 months ago
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Non-Breaking Space
6 months ago
for many who have come to my work from
#crossbronxexpressway
this may seem a bit jarring, but december is for
#ortona
@gmtgames.bsky.social
www.gmtgames.com/p-1072.aspx?...
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Eize Basa
6 months ago
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Beyond Solitaire
6 months ago
Queen of Spies is live! Go back my first game with
@djackthompson.bsky.social
to make it to print. We are so proud!
@saltandpeppergames.bsky.social
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
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Queen of Spies by SaltandPepper - Gamefound
Queen of Spies is a solo, story-driven board game of espionage and daring missions set in occupied Belgium during the First World War.
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/saltandpepper/queen-of-spies
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www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/lecki...
Thanks for the link,
@srabbelier.bsky.social
! Great interview of two great authors.
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Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine: in conversation — Speculative Insight
Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine have both written novels that focus on empires, imperialism, and colonialism, and how people react to and work within those structures. I asked them to chat with me, a...
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
6 months ago
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Dan Thurot
6 months ago
For this latest Space-Cast!, I sat down to chat with Paolo Mori and Alessandro Zucchini about their collaborative project, Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars, and why they decided the world needed another (and better) hex-and-counter wargame.
spacebiff.com/2025/12/03/s...
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Space-Cast! #51. Mori, Zucchini, Napoleon
Ah, Napoleon. Old Boney. Roll’n’Bones. The Bone Zone. The guy’s got a lot of nicknames, and even more board games! The latest, and one of the most intriguing, is Battlefields of t…
https://spacebiff.com/2025/12/03/sbsc-51/
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
6 months ago
Autolabelling service that tells you if a poster needs a wellness check or if they are watching sport
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Dan Thurot
6 months ago
I don't know how to introduce this one. After three titles about opium peddling, I figured the rest of SDHistCon would be breezy by comparison. I was wrong. The next day, I experienced one of the toughest board games I've ever played. Perhaps *the* toughest.
spacebiff.com/2025/11/24/u...
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Unnameable
After the first day of SDHistCon, where I played three games about opium peddling, I figured the second would be easier on my stomach. I could not have been more wrong. It has no name. Its designer…
https://spacebiff.com/2025/11/24/unnameable/
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the Mountain Goats
6 months ago
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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Dr. Emily Friedman
6 months ago
I think a lot about “default” expectations in our time — how often they are of very recent construction. (We have dates for when umpires were introduced to kriegsspiel) If I do my job right, my students don’t assume roleplaying games have a “master” — any more than that games have a win condition.
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Shannon Appelcline
6 months ago
And we've now hit 1,000 backers! Thanks all for the interest in roleplaying history! (The first character I ever made was an elf, written out on the green character sheets for Basic D&D.)
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Cross Bronx Expressway -- my public sector was too quick to build housing and it left us in a rough budgeting spot. Community and I survived through the 40s, 50s, and 60s to get to the end with Private sector's win. Lots learned for next time though.
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In no particular order: - Here I Stand - Cockroach Poker - Spades - Combat Commander - The Gang - Crokinole - Leaving Earth - Innovation - Can't Stop - Slay the Spire: TBG
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6 months ago
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Dan Thurot
6 months ago
This past weekend, I was delighted to attend
@sdhistcon.bsky.social
, where on Saturday I played not one, not two, but three games about selling opium. It was quite the day. Read about it here:
spacebiff.com/2025/11/13/s...
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SDHist 2025: Day of Copium
This past weekend, I attended SDHistCon in San Diego, the most interesting board gaming convention currently running. Here are the official snapshots: the Summit Award went to War Story: Occupied F…
https://spacebiff.com/2025/11/13/sdhistcon-2025/
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Matt Thrower
7 months ago
That thing where you've got a Big Task to complete, but you're not feeling it and you can't find a way into it, but you can't settle to do anything else because the Big Task is looming over you? That.
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony
7 months ago
Apocalypse World has had a bigger impact on my life than any other roleplaying game. It's just a phenomenal game, designed by phenomenal people. You should pick up a copy of the new edition!
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A productive demo of Echo from the Dark yesterday at
#SDHistCon
7 months ago
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Leek & potato soup (leeks, butter, potatoes, water) is pretty excellent if you have time. You use pretty much everything -- the greens make a great broth even by themselves -- and it's filling like crazy.
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7 months ago
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MegueyB
7 months ago
Did ether of us say T minus 1? Today was T minus 1. Launch in under 24 hours. Probably under 12. See you there, dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Coming soon: Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lumpleygames/apocalypse-world-burned-over
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Good gaming in October.
7 months ago
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7 months ago
🚨 Programming alert: Concordia, Formula D, and Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age are now all in beta on Board Game Arena 🚨
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 30th 2025) in 03:53 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
https://cluesbysam.com
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