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

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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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Luzon Rails (Japan map) Excellent introductory game for someone like me trying Cube Rails for the first time. Although I’m not good at auction games, I enjoy the player interaction that the mechanism brings. Sai is a much better investor than I am🐻💦

#ScreenshotSaturday. Launching on Oct 27th. Wishlist Now! Can you solve the supernatural mystery of Blake Manor? Check out our Steam Next Fest demo if you haven't already: bit.ly/47Pm8XA #Indiegames

Yeah I really like this game

We are blessed to have cool publishers in Syracuse! My shipment of @galens-games.bsky.social mint tins arrived. Yes that is six copies of Verdant Arizona by @robindavid.bsky.social Keep your eye out for his next KS. The next batch is 💯

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One of the best compliments I've received is that my games are "idiosyncratic". That's what matters to me. 🎲✂️

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So when you’re planning for your pitch, think not just in terms of your fun, mechanical hooks—make sure everything is working towards fulfilling the appeal of your game’s promised experience.

Less time in the rulebook serves everyone. 🎲✂️

Who wants to do some treasure hunting?

Ever wondered how publishers think about #gamedesign? Obviously every publisher is different, but a few have talked about their design thought process publicly. How Do Publishers Think About Game Design? open.substack.com/pub/entrogam...

One of my best gaming experiences in recent years was diving really deep into Go.