How dare you say that about my favorite genre, Pagan Vaporpop Punkhop

🎲✂️ We're starting work on iconography and cards, in the hopes of having something to show off at Essen Spiel.

*after this is all said and done and people are looting the Oval Office. Hey, this shit is all just spray-painted plastic.

Idle 🎲✂️ thought: a tabletop game utilizing a "sailing with the wind" where wind direction is inherently coded into the base of every miniature.

Goddamn softplay places are anxiety inducing as a parent. My son loves slides, and when he entered he locked onto the big two story tall spiral slide. With an a minute he was gone, lost in a maze of climbing structures I couldn't easily follow him into.

Oh gee wow the rich people paper thinks that eliminating capital gains (the one tax they still have to pay) will help the middle class When we sold our house in CO, almost every hour for we got was contingent on the buyer selling their house.

Here's a tip to class up your breakfast routine. Mix equal parts Monster White and orange juice in a champagne glass for the ultimate morning get up and go! It's called a monstrosa.

WE'RE TYPING AWAY, TYPING AWAY! CODE THAT WE WANT TO REFACTOR TODAY! TEST ON YOUR SCREEN AND FIRE IN YOUR HEART TYPE AWAY BOYS WE'LL CODE A NEW START CLEAN UP THE CODE AFORE THE MAN COMES MANAGER AND SALES WITH A REQUEST NEEDS DONE TYPING AWAY, TYPING AWAY! CODE THAT WE WANT TO REFACTOR TODAY! ...

🎲✂️ I've updated my classic dwarven "Backgammon Meets Stone Stacking" game CHAK, with now punchier and simpler rules that encourage tenser end games. Try it out! screentop.gg/@zhoekstra/c...

I can't wait to donate money so that the Dems can wear slightly nicer suits as they spinelessly cave to fascists

Just got a D trip fundraising email “from” Hakeem Jeffries asking for money to stand up to Trump. Hard to believe he’ll stand up to Trump when he won’t even stand up to AIPAC and support a candidate NYC Dems have overwhelmingly said is their chosen nominee.

Had a great dress rehearsal for PACT at a local game convention. I will say I have the first of three rounds of this game DOWN. Now I just have to make sure the last two rounds are as widely enjoyed.

We've set out to change the world, how would YOU like to pay $300 a year to play d&d with the worlds worst DM???!?!

I swear to god I've been working on this thing for YEARS already, and we were slated for a early next year Kickstarter before we knew Silksong was releasing this year. I'm going to have to have a little Q&A card on my con table that I can point to whenever someone asks me about this aren't I?

Had a pair of songs cross my feed on the morning walk that left me crying tears of catharsis First off, a song that's got me feeling very angry at my place in a system that hurts everyone around me, but promised me safety if all I do is be compliant youtu.be/57Yp0xfHW9w?...

Okay, Widow is kicking my ass, but in a way that feels fair and challenging.

I think my favorite recent piece of feedback was a player who said something to the effect of "Oh man all these little bugs are so cute. Also why does my character have an execution token?"

Man am I rusty at platformers, this agile but fragile moveset is really difficult for me ATM.

🎲✂️ For our graphic design in PACT, we're experimenting with a organic feeling woven lines pattern for borders, reminiscent of a mixture of art deco and art nouveau.

🎲✂️ Crafting up a storm

Happy labor day, Solidarity Forever, yes I am still thinking about this.

I have a terrible idea for a cafe AU Pact

So this is a joke but also one of the most effective ways civilians disrupted nazi occupation was by being indispensable in their jobs and also being selectively extremely incompetent or nitpicky

🎲✂️ Doing some iterations on cover/banner designs for Pact. We're going to be iterating a lot on this one with various images pulled from the internet, because we want to make sure we have the right feeling nailed down before we get Coen to draw it up proper

Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places

as a strategy, the problem with "kill em with kindness" is they tend to survive

Hey uhhh just going to put this out there for any U.S. trans creators on here with a business of some kind they could justify expatlaw.nl/dutch-americ...

🎲✂️ One of the reasons that the 🦋 of Branchborne are resorting to political manipulation rather than descending into full out civil war is the constant threat of the Centipedes, huge and hungry beasts that infest the roots of the tree. Careful now, you don't want to be devoured...

🎲✂️ Anyone here have some good entry points or know people invested into VASSAL? I have a game that I'd like to get public playtesting on, and I've been advised that Vassal players would go absolutely nuts for it, but have no idea how to even start

you’re so close

That's what abstract 🎲✂️ need, right? An extensive in-game D&D style backstory? screentop.gg/@zhoekstra/c... This game just kind of fell out of a few other ideas I was tinkering with, and has been a welcome brain-break from the heavier game design PACT has required

🎲✂️ Updated screentop implementation and updated Rules Of Play. I tried to make the rules cleaner and easier to understand - the removal of several special rules and if/thens also helps this immensely. screentop.gg/@zhoekstra/p... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🎲✂️ screentop implementation done, but WOW are my rules out of date. Looks like a re-write is in order! screentop.gg/@zhoekstra/p...

🎲✂️ Our graphic designer doesn't have availability until next month, but I really want *something* with the new art for @protospielo.bsky.social, so time to whip up some basic boards with Inkscape!

It turns out the primary audience for Harry Potter right now is "people who don't know JK Rowling is a truly awful person"

This is such a supreme disappointment. 🎲✂️ Ultimate Guard, known for their popular game sleeves and deck boxes, are making a new line of Harry Potter themed products. Only through collective, direct action can we start to see change. Let them know of your discontent: [email protected]

Sometimes you need to answer the *really important* worldbuilding questions

🎲✂️ And I think we've finalized the color pallet for PACT as well! We didn't want the world of Branchbourne to be dull grays and greens, but vibrant and colorful.

🎲✂️ Sketches incoming! Our artist Coen Balkenstein has been busy as a 🐝 sketching up bugs for Pact, and I want to start showing them to you all! We're still in the early stages, but Coen's been doing a great job creating a visually striking theme out of my mad ramblings

Could not have imagined my simple little house-drafter being fun enough to have a exclusive version based off a town in France somewhere

This is my 'is it reasoning or simply squawking the empty words of previous reasoning people' test, and of course it failed it spectacularly.

I'm honestly not surprised arc nova is more than a third of total play time, it's both easier to play online than in person, and somehow live games still take hours.

🎲✂️ #pact 🎶 Do you hear the beetles sing, singing a song of angry bugs, this is the music of the beetles who will not be slaves again! 🎶 🎶 When the beating of your wings echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes! 🎶

🎲✂️ As my artist starts working on bug sketches for Pact, I'm doing some iteration of component design. During play, four of these are available in a row at the head of a big board, so I'm trying to make the text larger and more visible.

Part of the joy in my life these days comes from setting aside all the chaos of the world, and making sure my son can enjoy a gentle moment.

So in my grand political 🎲✂️, I have 12 characters (🐞) on the board that form the area control system that lets players control how money gets moved around the kingdom (which is the primary goal of the game) But I need to figure out a good name for them

First 🎲✂️ sync meeting about #PACT, and I'm so excited, but also this was my first time planning a visual design with a bunch of graphic designers, and it was overwhelming. Hoping I did my best.