When Dan heard that two of his favorite things were getting smashed together in Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons, he had to find out more. Luckily, @lysapenrose.bsky.social and Mark Mulvihill were happy to chat. Check out the interview now! www.thefandomentals.com/horrified-du...

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️

#KPopDemonHunters really proves that every time this industry underestimates teenage girls, it leaves a billion dollars on the table.

10 days until Protospiel Online August 2025! 🎲✂️ Get your badge and add your prototype to the listing to get featured in the Prototype Showcase livestream Aug 21 @ 8:30pm EDT! Online convention doors open Friday Aug 22 at noon US Eastern for 60 solid hours of playtesting on the virtual tabletop.

これは貸しです。 Introducing Kashi 貸し, a guide to why "Ghibli-inspired" media without Japanese creatives is harmful. It includes links to learn more about Orientalism, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, and Japanese culture. Learn. Share. Change. kashi-info.carrd.co

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware. Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

Badge sales for Protospiel Online August 22-24 2025 are open! 3 days of digital playtesting with 24 hour moderator support. Early bird pricing is available through Mon Aug 11, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT. 🎲✂️ protospiel.online/badges/

Today is International Owl Awareness Day and I had a hoot putting together this thread of international owl phrases, starting with this one… A colloquial way of telling someone to mind their own business in Punjabi is apna ooloo sidha rukh. It means “keep your own owl straight.”

“i bet a solo play of this TIME TO PANIC game would be a nice cozy way to wind down” 😖

[Today 3:19PM] You can share this link as long as you remind them not to click it until 12:01am PDT: mcdm.gg/rpg

i luv my gloomiemie so much labubu who is she? smize game stronger than tyra yes this is a gen con gwp special

Hey all. We have never, ever done this ever (it makes Matt (yes I’m speaking in 3rd person) super uncomfortable and we are not judging if you have needed to) but we have an ask/favor of folks, as it seems our recent outspokenness has caught the attention of some legit trolls.

takin the red eye. flyin around while ur asleep. makin toys. basically santa.

What games are peeps super duper excited to check out at Gen Con? 🤓📝

It's almost here folks!

Not to be dramatic but I passed 500 signs announcing bubble tea next to my gate and I got here and it is closed and I am lying I am VERY DRAMATIC ABOUT IT. Tender baby weeping all the first way to Indy.

BFF is back and better with age, Follow us on Kickstarter! 💅 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

There are only 4 tickets left to my producer panel at #GenCon. Get in on it. www.gencon.com/events/288278

I am headed to Gen Con - mostly in meetings with publishers - and def playing new games! 🎲 If you’re a pub, I still have time Sunday if you wanna chat possible local or global partnerships with Ravensburger 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🍔 or even just meet n greet or lie prone on the exhibit hall floor together.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

an act of rebellion

“Famous chefs” love GAMES

Alt text. This is pretty awful, but probably what has to be done to preserve the service at all. IMLS still has a chance- please make sure to show support.

hey I am posting this because I didn't know it, and so others might not either: but the BBB has NOT PASSED YET-- it's passed the senate & now it must pass the house. It's time to call reps RIGHT NOW. Johnson is going to push the vote ASAP before backlash can form so the calls need to start NOW.

Happy Disability Pride Month! This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act being signed into law 🎉 While the ADA protects rights around mandatory interactions with society, there is still much needed for disability support in everyday life. The work isn't finished yet!

Your pronouns are fae/faer and you'd like to know mine? NICE TRY I know a fae trap when I see one, you ain't getting nothing outta me 😤

A lot of folks have talked about the general good feeling looking at this race, going "Oh, good things are possible." Importantly though, Mamdani's campaign (and career before that) is one of the better examples of *how* good things are possible; the same area of focus that let the right take over.

Gloomies triumphs in Austrian game of the year prize, two years after catching Ravensburger’s eye in unpublished game contest: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Can’t believe Posh and Sporty Spice are joining KATSEYE?!

painting practice!

ive been trying really hard to make “guten meowgen” happen - for years - and exactly zero of my colleagues will acknowledge. are you in germany? are you my champion?

Feeling proud! Turned my kitchen curtains into Chef Boyardee cosplay in one day… including waking at 5:30am to check if the canvas was dry... It wasn’t. Cue me groggily blowdrying a giant ravioli can painting so I could finish assembly in time. 🥲🤣🍝

Yaaaaaaaayyyyy! Pretty jazzed we get to bring the trophy back home. Big thanks to everyone who donated to Gamers Engaged!!

This is tomorrow, and Im spending my Saturday turning a graduation cap into a ravioli. Please donate to our team fundraiser! tiltify.com/+the-blue-tr... This funds grants for game-based nonprofits around the US. Many are neighborhood and community orgs. The power of play!

Plz girlies why is there no love for CHEF BOYARDEE FAN pls help it’s funny it’s a whole can tiltify.com/+the-blue-tr...

So the theme of the tournament is FEAST, so now you can vote whether @gregtito.com dresses up as Guy Fieri or a Chef Boyardee Can. Use your power wisely. Go vote with your donation on our team page! tiltify.com/+the-blue-tr...

So the theme of the tournament is FEAST, so now you can vote whether @gregtito.com dresses up as Guy Fieri or a Chef Boyardee Can. Use your power wisely. Go vote with your donation on our team page! tiltify.com/+the-blue-tr...

And here's a first-timer $5 off referral link if ya need it ;) protospiel.online/my-account/?...

Even though we're past the early bird deadline, $5 referral codes for first-time attendees still work, and 100% free Designer badges are always available through our quick and easy scholarship application. protospiel.online/badge-schola...

Exciting news for all you designers with digital prototypes locked and loaded 🎲✂️ Protospiel Online May 16-18 2025 has the highest percentage of Playtester badge holders at this stage in badge signups as we've ever seen--a whopping 23%!

BABES BUBS AND BUNS! I'm joining a bunch of gamers around the Seattle area to raise money for Gamers Engaged! For $5 you can enter to win a Ravensburger game bundle and for $20 you'll get a silly card that can be added to the party game Oh My Pigeons Plz share! donate.tiltify.com/d0b27fc0-705...

I'm playing in a board game tournament this weekend to fundraise for Gamers Engaged! tiltify.com/+the-blue-tr... Check out my team's dono page: you can enter a raffle to win a box o games or claim your very own DOODLED PIGEON to add to our Oh My Pigeons! game.

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with new Unbreakable bundles on @drivethrurpg.com! Now you can have our entire collection featuring our 5e anthology and our two sibling indie RPG anthologies from our contributors and artists. (See comments for links to specific bundles)

Our colleagues in the Vox Media Union have put together a Go Fund Me. Please, if you've enjoyed what we do... If I've ever helped you in some way... If you've ever loved something more because of what we've written... Please give what you can. The next few weeks and months are going to be hard.

It's flipping hard work, but I love to do it, and I think the board game hobby needs and deserves professional journalism coverage. Losing sites like Polygon and Dicebreaker are huge blows for board games. If you can, please support BoardGameWire to help fill the gap! buy.stripe.com/14k9B54Iv1qq...

I think some readers come across BoardGameWire and think it must be a relatively big operation, backed by a larger company. For clarity - it's not! It's just me, Mike, fitting in interviewing, researching and writing hundreds of articles each year around a day job and taking care of my two kids! 1/2

Howdy, gamers! Ravensburger's annual Game Inventor Days are coming up soon: May 15-16! Pitch your board and card game concepts directly to our game developers in Germany, France, and US via video call. Learn more and register: www.ravensburger.de/de-DE/entdec...