Happy Yuletide everyone! May you all get lots of good food, good gifts, and good company!

Sometimes even just testing an idea by yourself can proud valuable. Like learning that what you thought was a cool mechanism in fact just made the game rote and void of interesting decisions. Fail fast!

Currently live AI art game about cats raise $135,000 on @kickstarter.com without disclosure Their "process" video shows the creator doing a referenced pencil sketch that then INSTANTLY transforms into the fully rendered art piece. They advertise original art and does not disclose it's usage of AI.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Great to see Roller Disco in action 🛼🪩

I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks

Here is the colour draft.

Check out Stracciatella, a Battle-Line inspired domino game that's free to print and play! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

@saibep.bsky.social's Doppelkopf deck just arrived in the mail. The artwork in this is simply phenomenal!

AND IT'S FREE!!!! All you need is a six sided die, some paper and a pencil per player. #onepagerpg #boardgame

Consider that LLMs *by design* accomplish two evils: 1. Erode our collective sense of veritable truth over time, exhausting us into complicity 2. Repeatedly trigger collective hypervigilance to overwhelm and exhaust us into complicity

oops it's her again

WIP box cover art for "Trifle", for a TGM Spring 2026 release. Designed by me. Art by @saibep.bsky.social. This will be a limited release, available in Japan via BOOTH (more details when they become available).

Played Big Apple by @dx.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy yesterday. Highly recommended if you are looking to play a PnP game with preschoolers. Rules & PnP files can be found here : boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

"In other news, Robber says it's impossible to live as a robber without stealing things." Glad to see the Germans on the right side here.

One thing you can guarantee is for me to never use that shit in my game designs. Everything, even card layouts are done entirely by hand

Fantastic set to start designing games. I got one or two out with a basis in pyramids. Highly recommended!

So it happened anyway. Despite officially pulling away.

That was quick! Find Microfishing on BGG here: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

Dear rulebook writers: When altering setup for specific player counts put this info UP FRONT in the normal setup instructions. Too many times have I set up a game wrong for 2 players only to have to change it all because the altered rules only show up when I'm done reading

Harry Potter is a mediocre, and honestly pretty poorly-written, series of young adult novels that enriches one of the most openly evil and transphobic people on the planet, who then uses that money to harms trans people. Stop supporting it and her. Go read better books. Have some standards.

I did not expect Marceline to be this close 🤔 But I'm also not complaining

You can follow our Kickstarter prelaunch page for Roller Disco now! It’s Mike’s birthday today, it would make his day if you follow along 🥳 www.kickstarter.com/projects/huf...

My plays for October 2025

Two plays of Arthur Lacerda's 18 card microgame Pipoca yesterday. A tense duel that does not need a table. Struggle between improving your hand (flipping and turning your cards) and stopping your opponent. Brought home from #essenspiel. We found it fun and engaging.

Rules, player aid, and playingcards.io mod are posted here : boardgamegeek.com/thread/35989...

Heading back from Essen now. Thanks for a great event!

Someone take away my wallet. Spiel is too expensive 😅

Essen Spiel day 2

Day one #Essen #Spiel haul

And we're here!

Made it to Dortmund. Almost at the hotel, then tomorrow: Essen

Made it to Hamburg!

Using my time in the train productively: Testing Crow's Nest

Stopping for coffee. Next stop: Hamburg, and then Essen!

Up at 5:30 just to have enough time to have an unstressful breakfast before our 8 am train to Essen.... I am decidedly NOT a morning person 😭

Bit of an odd week, but good! Played a lot of @marcelineleiman.bsky.social’s new Heavenly Bodies, one round of @cityhare.studio’s Crow’s Nest, and my first loss of All is Bomb from @letibus.bsky.social. I also have been playing the same Innovation game on BGA lol.

again please set a light on @heidelbaer.de for promoting the transgenocidal witch lady at essen. The hate caused by her is not just isolated in the US & UK its an intergal part to the rise of fascism globally. promoting her is like waving a swastika around essen. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

Been trying out a new pub style dice game. It's called Crow's Nest. It’s a mix of Poker Dice, Yahtzee, ladder climbing, and some good deal of push your luck. Special thanks to @odddicegames.bsky.social for coming up with the name!

My September 2025 plays. Big breadth of variety I’d say, but mostly in the form of card games

Sometimes when you’re working non stop the universe gives you four baby bunnies in our garden.

It's #InternationalRabbitDay so of course we're thinking about the Woodland Alliance! Do you have a favorite rabbit-forward card from Root?

My prototypes have arrived! Ready for Essen

AAAAAAAA SAI IS LITERALLY THE BESTTTTTT🤩😍👏🎉🤩😍🤩😭😭😭😭🔥❤️👏💞❤️

Mail day! Lots of goodies from @travelgames.bsky.social!

Prototype copies for my latest game Quaternion Trick have been ordered from The Game Crafter. If they arrive in time I'll be bringing some to Essen this year. I only ordered six, and three of them have been earmarked! If you're lucky you might be able to get one if you bump into me!

A part of me dies every time I see a Kickstarter boardgame project openly admit to using AI… Then still get funded. Their answer to “do you have consent of the owners of these works” is laughable. There is no way to use LLMs without theft. It’s never valid to ship a game with this stolen work.

People love it

Game 2: 2 Die For by @cityhare.studio I’m a little sad I didn’t have my thermal printer to crank out a few of these. Also, I play with the optional harder variant of also limiting the middle four squares. I forgot how quick and enjoyable this one is. The Rabbit makes ‘em good!

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.