What's on your "must see" list at PAXU this weekend? Here are my recommendations for indie vendors, Unpub playtesting, creator meetups, and other things to check out: omnes.exeunt.press/p/paxu-guide... #boardgames #ttrpg #PAXU #PAXUnplugged

DVC makes one of the strangest games I've played this year: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/induction-...

Current #PAXU weather forecast.... not bad!

Packing orders! 📦 💀

I'm running a poll based on my recent talks at Dickinson College. Would love to get some more votes to see what people think. Designing meaningful choices has an early lead (N=16). Post and poll here: omnes.exeunt.press/p/dickinson-... #boardgames #gamedesign 🎲✂️

Packing orders to ship before I leave for #PAXU. Any orders placed at shop.exeunt.press will ship after I return next week! If you are ordering gifts for the holidays, you'll want to get those in those soon! 🎁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYPa...

Just kidding, it's going out tomorrow morning (Thursday) instead! Link below. ⬇️📧

Your daily reminder.

In case you missed it...

Writing up #PAXU "guide" of sorts on how to find Exeunt Press games, some other cool indies, and other things to see while there. Watch for it Friday morning at omnes.exeunt.press. PS. I hope the scary clown mouth book stand is back at the @worldchamp.bsky.social booth this year. 🤡

Spot me wearing this at #PAXU and ask for a sticker! I have new holo ones that are quite nice.

Have you seen this skeleton? 💀 #PAXU #PAXUnplugged #skeleton

If you are going to #PAXU, stop by the Unpub area and try some of these games. @gregisonthego.bsky.social has some extremely talented students!

Making my list of Booths I Must Visit for #PAXU. Here's your chance for self-promotion! Reply with your booth number and why we should stop by to visit! #PAXUnplugged #PAX25

Get a copy of this at #PAXU if you can!

Do games belong in libraries? From my recent “How to run a tabletop game design workshop at your library” webinar, explaining why game design workshops benefit the individual, the library, and the community: omnes.exeunt.press/p/workshop-b... #publiclibraries #libraries #gamedesign #boardgames

New summoning rituals just dropped…

As highlighted in #TuesdayNewsday, this column from the brain behind @exeunt.press is a great intro read for folks just jumping into game design, and maybe gets included in future syllabi from @sebastianbae.bsky.social and @akochowi.bsky.social omnes.exeunt.press/p...

Hey, that's Necromancer Heretic! The game I recently wrote about at Skeleton Code Machine: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/necro-here...

Do we follow each other on here and want to meet up at PAXU? No promises, but we can try! I made a Google Form to try to form order from chaos (i.e. clicking available times). DM me for the link. #PAXU #PAXUnplugged

What can we learn from the board game adaptation of the 1981 dark fantasy film Dragonslayer? Quite a bit, both from what it does well and how it might be adapted to a more modern design style: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/dragonslayer #boardgames #ttrpg #gamedesign 🎲✂️

Curious what's up with Exclusion Zone Botanist: Epsilon? I'm posting monthly updates at omnes.exeunt.press and a new one goes up the third Friday of each month. That's this Friday!

This week's Skeleton Code Machine has more Peter MacNicol than any previous article. Subscribe to get it in your inbox Tuesday: www.skeletoncodemachine.com #boardgames #ttrpg #gamedesign #dragonslayer

If you want to play Mörk Sol at PAX Unplugged, you can express interest here! #PAXU #PAXUnplugged

This week at Skeleton Code Machine we have a dragon situation! Subscribe to see which one of the 6 it might be: www.skeletoncodemachine.com #boardgames #ttrpg #dragons #dragonslayer #rawr

Player elimination in an "easy-to-learn adventure for two to four players" that takes "two to three hours" to play is wild. Not sure you'd find that in modern board games. See also: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/outdated-g...

Peter MacNicol as illustrated by SPI.

"Yours is the final and greatest quest. You face the ultimate danger, the mythic struggle. You are the..."

Less than a week away!

One does not simply make a Top 10 Board Games list. Updating BG Stats, adding ratings for BGG, double checking what I played on BGA. Pondering how much "ease of getting it to the table" factors in to decisions. Adjusting for recency effects. Considering setup time and teach time.

It's Saturday night. Take the Skirmish Week survey!

And it’s free! 🐁

If you are going to #ThoughtBubble, be sure to say hi to this crew!

Compile spotted! I wrote about how Compile's multi-use cards create strategic depth with just a few simple game components at Skeleton Code Machine: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/compile-main

Packing orders! 📦 💀

Oh this is going to be good For my tactics game…

One thing I've mentioned in recent classes is ending your game. There are countless ways to accomplish this, but it helps to have a figurative "clock" or "timer" built in that forces the end in a timely manner. I wrote about it at SCM last year: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/the-final-... 🎲✂️

Your daily reminder, that if you want to see my skeleton covered in meat... I'll be here during PAX Unplugged. #PAXU #PAXUnplugged #ttrpg #skeleton #meat

Did you know @mallenhall.com has a live crowdfunding campaign for a Mausritter setting? I've seen bits of it, and it's really good. Also, fantastic art. 🐭⚔️

If you like Skeleton Code Machine, you should subscribe to Tumulus. Four, quarterly issues packed with design inspiration: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/scm-t... #ttrpg #boardgames #gamedesign

Not to scale.

This game design activity is silly, but fun and teaches some lessons about theme vs. mechanism. Rolling up JUNGLE VIKINGS, SKELETON DETECTIVES, and FROG RACING will never not be funny to me. Another hands-on I covered during yesterday's webinar!

SKIRMISH WEEK is coming soon to Skeleton Code Machine. What even is a skirmish game? Which ones do I need to check out and not miss? Take the survey and let me know! 1️⃣ Learn more: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/skirmish-s... 2️⃣ Take the survey: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/survey/5045197 #skirmish

For MECH WEEK last year, I teamed up with @shoutingcrow.bsky.social to release a Plato's Mech free paper doll coloring page. That's going to be hard to beat for SKIRMISH WEEK this year. Suggestions welcome. Wrong answers appreciated. exeuntpress.itch.io/platos-mech #skirmish #wargames

You should make a weird game.

The sad truth at the end of my webinar talk yesterday.

Missed the webinar I did yesterday on "How to run a tabletop game design workshop at your library" for the Indiana State Library? No problem! It was recorded and will be up on YouTube in about a week. I gave 5 things you can do to make your workshop a success. #ttrpg #boardgames #libraries

Skirmish Week is coming at Skeleton Code Machine! Watch for a reader survey coming out soon asking for your opinions! What even is a skirmish game? Which ones do I need to check out and not miss? #skirmish #wargames #miniskirmish #minis #boardgames

Sounds like a good time to grab some Hollandspiele games! I've written about two (so far) at SCM because they are fascinating designs... Wars of Marcus Aurelius: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/crisis-man... The Field of the Cloth of Gold: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/painful-ch...

What’s one more new project? Why shouldn’t I….