How the art is created for 52 Duels. Follow the game now on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

I will moderate a panel discussion with fellow Game designer friends. The topic for the discussion is "How to approach publishers". Live session on Tuesday if this sounds interesting! If you can't attend: the discussion and the following Q&A will be made available afterwards. fb.me/e/386Ikv0wm

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Gamedesigners (and also editors/publishers)! Please show off your prototype workshops and tools. I am especially interested in solutions for precise cutting a ton of cards, for cutting/punching round tokens and storing components. Currently looking at rollcutters as my current solution is ... 🎲✂️

I'm helping out at the SAZ booth today at #SPIEL25. The perfect first first point of contact for new and upcoming designers. Always wanted to make a game? Come by and talk to me about it! #boardgames

Imagine what it was like to have the latest innovation be “whipped cream that sprays out of a can” instead of “what if you subscribed to a car” or “computer that lies to you”

I've been talking to Matthew Dunstan about building and maintaining relationships with publishers. We discuss: 📬 Making first contact 🔁 Balancing persistence & pressure 💬 Positive publisher experiences 🧩 When publisher ties still matter in self-publishing thegamedesignroundtable.com/episode/btc-...

Heute auf der Road to Essen: 1 More Time Games @1moretimegames.bsky.social Frederik @boardcast.bsky.social spricht mit Julian Steindorfer über die kommende Neuheit „Abroad“ – ein Titel, der auf der #Spiel2025 erstmals präsentiert wird. #brettspiele

Last week I played a prototype with a designer, who designed it with another designer, with whom I played a prototype today & who designed a game with a designer whom I will meet on Thursday & who is working on a design with the designer mentioned at the start. All 3 never worked together before. 🎲✂️

Chicken Fried Dice has been simmering for a while and I think we're almost ready for plating! Learn more at get.chickenfrieddice.com

One of the best FLGS in the world, owned by a troll, enjoys our game ABROAD. Please make sure you have the fee for crossing the bridge with you.

Does someone know if there are board game designer in residence programs? I hope I can someday offer a small nice flat for aspiring game designers to be able to visit and work a few weeks in Vienna and profit from all this city has to offer. ✂️ 🎲

Some of his books are translated into German by the awesome Elfriede Jelinek. There is a short story about planned obsolescence in one of his books that is so strange. Yet, it makes complete sense. Thomas Pynchon is so demanding, but also a reminder that ideas know no limits.

As Bernd das Brot was recently brought to your attention of as a top export of Germany. I would recommend DEICHKIND and their videos if you want more of this special flavour. youtu.be/1coEIN7safI?...

I just noticed this list is up to 988 games. Who wants to find the missing 12 that will get us to 1000? boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/297...

it's @1moretimegames.bsky.social so it's gonna be good for sure

#Abroad von @1moretimegames.bsky.social macht solo schon Laune. Diesmal hab ich mich u.a. lang genug durch Europa gefuttert, um meinem Gaumen echten Beluga-Kaviar gönnen zu dürfen. Seltsamerweise war dazu auch mein Trip nach Cork relevant, wahrscheinlich als Negativbeispiel.

We are currently working on a word association game and I was wondering if there are words you could include to show that you are an ally, care for minority rights and inclusion? For example would be including the word Wheelchair be a positive signal or could it just lead to stereotypical clues?

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) 🎲✂️

I'd love to have a bit of a discussion about making Youtube videos, especially when you are making videos that are intended to be educational, with no expectation or desire to become a full time content creator.

This is what we call "swimming" in Austria :D If you ever come to Vienna visit Aehrnst. Best Croissants and sweet stuff in town. ;) @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social

Is there a geeklist or another ressource that has a overview over board game designers which are NOT from Europe, North America, Australia or Japan? The same would be interesting for publishers from that parts of the worlds. Feel free to tag yourself or friends. No need to be published. 🎲✂️

For what it's worth, a tabletop writer who talks about game components or mechanics or strategy is engaging just as deeply with the game as someone who writes about theme or history or uses a game as a jumping off point for a personal essay. Tactility *is* the game. Colour is the game. Sound. Smell.

Recommendation to aspiring game designers. Don't send a generic pitch email to 115 publishers at the same time with CC instead of BCC. In general try to show that you researched the portfolio of the publisher. Especially if it's not one of the big few that have a vast & diverse portfolio. 🎲✂️

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Please suggest great mobile games (Android or iOS) that are turn based, abstract, puzzly, unique. I tried to look for interesting stuff but I have no idea where to start and I don't want to play board game apps or games from desktop ported to mobile (no matter who good those two categories are!)

Looking for anybody from Ireland/Northern Ireland or someone with historical/socialogical expertise about the "Northern Ireland Conflict"? Need to understand if a mistake that happenend in file assembly (a missing border on a map) is hurtful/offensive to anyone affected by this brutal conflict.

Danilo Valente & Rodrigo Rego wrote this great designer diary at @boardgamegeek.com - Please check out their story how our 3rd release came to be. "It must mean this game has something truly special." This perfectly summarizes why we chose to publish ABROAD. boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

What you may have to do if you are the editor of a game about fine dining? Look a pictures of snails and think what is the least disgusting way you can show them RAW on a card? (while being a vegetarian) And if you never heard people eat snails/escargot. It´s famous in French & Viennese cuisine...

This is the way.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

If you could only choose exactly one book or movie or video to understand why we need intersectional feminism and how to be an ally. Which one would you recommend?

What is your favorite coin-like token/meeple/component in a board game in terms of feeling when you play around with it? Clays for Brass and the tiles from Azul are excluded!!! #boardgames #deluxe #meeple

Is there a person/organisation in the industry with enough contacts to organize a co-design/ghost-design structure/system, that matches game designers with games in the top 200 of BGG with aspiring game designers from underrepresented identities/backgrounds/communities? ✂️ 🎲

If you support a more diverse and inclusive board game industry/hobby, you should follow and support @flintastisch.bsky.social - they are doing great and super important work. If you didn't knew it was time for change, the current situation in regards to transphobia should be your wake up call.

I think the best way to do it is to pick a sample of games and actually look the designers up. @tpobuda.bsky.social did this ~5 years ago and made this chart. Numbers would be different now (for ex @connievdc.bsky.social has had 2 games enter the top 400) but probably close.

Can someone search the @boardgamegeek.com database and look for the ratio of certain male names to female names in the game design ✂️ 🎲 credits? Like it was done here: "In 2023, women CEOs finally outnumbered CEOs named John" share.google/Mr2tj11DBh1J...

Our 3rd game ABROAD, an interactive tableau builder with 240 unique cards, is now listed in the SPIEL25 Preview on @boardgamegeek.com - Please check it out and maybe leave a thumb! As a small publisher we are really benefiting from initial buzz. Thanks in advance. boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/...

How can I get the cryptobros out of my Aceto Balsamico? Is this what they ment with post-apocalyptic?

One of the benefits of being editor & owner of a company at the same time? I can sign prototypes whenever I feel that they are outstanding. Just got the signed contract for a game that I played for the 1st time last Tuesday night. 3 playtests over the following days were enough. #boardgames

Gestern haben wir in Frankfurt am Main die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Spielwissenschaft e. V. gegründet!

Playtesting with people not used to games is amazing. You see people with a PHD in organic chemistry and job as a product owner at a pharma company struggling to remember the most basic rules of a what we would consider a "light" game. Playing games well and rules literacy is an acquired skill!

A few years ago we were struggling to find prototypes that met our expectations & now I have 4 awesome games from 5 Spiel nominated/winning designers on my table. Soon the 5th from another two should arrive. They compete with designs from super talented new designers. Such a privilege to test them.

When will the BGG crowd and most of the BG media finally admit that replayability and variability is something very nice, but that it would be actually way more important to have great experiences in your first 1-5 games. Because that's the generous maximum most people will play any game.

Panda manufacturing offers $25k in manufacturing for 25 folk with 2 or fewer published titles. I haven't looked deeply into this, but I can imagine it being helpful for some of my friends here. may be helpful or not pandagm.com/25-in-25/ 🎲✂️

Playtesting one of our 2026 releases means going through a LOT of cards for each new iteration. And this is only the stack in Austria. In Australia @matthewdunstan.bsky.social is piling up cards too. But I can tell you. Every new version is worth it. We are cooking something really delicious. ✂️ 🎲

Yesterday I went to the annual Austrian Game Designer Meeting. I was 1 of 10+ editors from multiple publishers from Germany and Austria. Less than 15 Game Designers attended. I you ever want maximum time with editors come to Vienna in the summer :D Honestly it's super sad. ✂️ 🎲

If you ever come to Vienna I would absolutely recommend doing this Black Mirror Episode instead of looking at the actual architecture of one of the historical most interesting cities in the world...

One of the incredible benefits of testing board games in Vienna: We playtest our games together with Alexander Pfister, Wolfgang Warsch, Peter Prinz and Markus Slawitscheck. A decent amount of big brain energy sprinkled with quite some Spiel des Jahres nominations/wins.