Let's talk about Tiberpunk and how it got made. A thread 🧵 🎲 ✂️

The state of Netrunner is so cool right now - I don't know how we got so lucky. The best game that has you taking down corporations is really run by fans and given away for free.

We’re delighted to reveal the Irish Games art-piece we commissioned from acclaimed Irish artist and game developer @denmanrooke.com, showcasing some of the incredible games and characters from across Irish games, alongside touchpoints of Irish culture. www.imirt.ie/news/2026/3/...

Friends, chumps, wizards-of-ill-repute: today we launched our DEMO for Sparrow Warfare! If you are into deckbuilders and somehow not already 110% consumed with Slay The Spire 2, give us a whirl over the weekend! store.steampowered.com/app/4396770/... #indiedev #indiegamedev #deckbuilder #demo

My buddy Galen is the publisher…I’m a big Verdant Arizona evangelist. It’s a prickly take and make, I think you’d love it! Robin did fantastic work on the design

@robindavid.bsky.social wut is this?!?!

a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...

This guy gets it.

People, we have to get better at naming games!

Read @chrisbacke.bsky.social design diary for the game that became Tiberpunk. This one was really fun to make together! entrogames.substack.com/p/designer-d...

Awesome, well done Robin!

This has got to merit a look on the strength of the titular pun alone

Tiberpunk - a game I designed with @chrisbacke.bsky.social - is on Kickstarter and kicking ass. Be a hacker in ancient Rome - bio-augment yourself and run from the fuzz! It's the biggest game I've ever designed. Go have a look! www.kickstarter.com/projects/idv...

Yo, this is my game! (and @chrisbacke.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6swB...

"If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down" - Toni Morrison. Flying Machine, 2010 by artist Laurie Lipton #womensart

Board Game Beat is officially launched & loaded with content...with more to come as I report on Spielwarenmesse! If you're into independent board game journalism—articles, videos, interviews, news, reviews & more—please check it out and share. www.wericmartin.com #boardgame #spielwarenmesse

Look at this cute little doggy drone! Bet he has nothing sinister planned!

Mother-in-law did a little European road trip, so we got to directly compare Belgian and Swiss chocolates. Verdict is in and unanimous: Belgium should stick to waffles!

My kid just tried hummus. "It tastes like your smell." I'm devastated.

Making games is a LOT easier than getting eyeballs on them, lemme tell ya! Speaking of... our weird bird deckbuilder has a great new free playtest build out: 🦜 Daily flights! 🦩 Tutorial! 🦚 2 playstyles! 🦆 So… many… birds!!! Join us! Or tell a friend! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

We played Beyond the Sun, which is a favourite of mine. This was a really weird session, with loads of automation and no blue technologies. By the end of the game, which took a fair bit longer than normal, all players had maxed out their automation tracks.

Alexandros is a fantastic old-school game. All players decide how Alexander moves around the region, dividing it into regions as he moves. And then we fight for control of those regions. One of the players asked to buy my copy when we finished!

I taught The King is Dead to two new players yesterday. Fun all around - the French invaded! I've so much respect for how much this game does with so few rules.

C'mon - just one more rating to get ranked on BGG!

My TTRPG chat group does not appreciate how much time I, a busy professional grownup, spend finding the perfect reaction gifs for their bullshit.

TIBERPUNK

A preview of one of my upcoming games (codesigned with @chrisbacke.bsky.social and published by idVenture). In Tiberpunk, be a hacker, or a bounty hunter, or a revolutionary; stay hidden from the law, or burn bright! All in about an hour!

I've taught a good number of game design workshops, and one of the activities I often set is for students to take a game they didn't like and fix it. (This is how I designed Letterpress) Well, I recently saw an upcoming game which I think does this, but based on one of my own games. Ouch - karma!

An oldie but a goodie - had a blast playing the imaginatively named Trains.

If you want to make your own copy of the fast and nasty buy-and-sell game of Invaluable, here are the PNP files. robindavid.itch.io/invaluable

This was a problem for future Robin, but now I am future Robin.

Saw an amazing little exhibition at the new Petri archaeology museum in Berlin - "degenerate" art confiscated by the Nazis and excavated in 2010 during construction of a metro station.

Galen's mint tin games, including Verdant Arizona, are only $12 for the next few days! www.galensgames.com/store

Just look at this!!

Ho ho! It's a new game from me! This time co-designed with @chrisbacke.bsky.social. Cyberpunk in ancient Rome! idventure.de/games/tiberp...

Daina Taimina, a Cornell University mathematician uses crochet to demonstrate Hyperbolic Geometry #womensart

Lovely review of @galens-games.bsky.social mint tin games, including Verdant Arizona! www.tiktok.com/@tabletoptik...

My little collection of moments when designers break the fourth-wall to tell specific players to stop being annoying.

These beautiful fanart pieces, including Fianna Vs War Wolf, were created by Brocó Ó Diolúin, or @badgerkingtattoo on Instagram! Many thanks to him for allowing us to share his work 🙂 #trenchcrusade #fanart

technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive

I spent my night cutting, folding, and packing my first 20 sets of Heavenly Bodies!! 🪐✨ the card game I’ll have for sale at Indie Games Night Market during Pax Unplugged this year! After this, I’ll only have 30 more sets to go!! Here’s a thread of my process! 🎲✂️

A lovely review of Verdant Arizona! boardgamegeek.com/thread/36063...

Had an interesting conversation today about "fiddly" games. A valid point that A Feast for Odin, despite being a huge game with hundreds of pieces, isn't fiddly. Pieces are placed and stay where they are - that significantly reduces cognitive load and fiddliness.

Reach out to creators and tell them you like their stuff! Sometimes it can feel like you spend time making something and it just vanishes into the void...

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My designer’s diary for Travelers: Tokyo is live! This game was seven years in the making, and I was proud that it debuted at Essen Spiel 2025. Read about the behind-the-scenes journey here: open.substack.com/pub/entrogam...

"The Séance of Blake Manor is an autumnal treat filled with spooky scenes but it is also that most joyous of discoveries: a game that challenges, delights, thrills and educates in equal measure." - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Guardian www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Essen is over. Here are some of the games I played. Altay, twice at 2 and 3 players. There is so much that I like about this - deck-building, 4x, civ-building, rules light. But it feels like it's missing "something". It's super swingy.

Yeah! I've been following this game for ages. Going to be fun on Halloween!

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