gamefound.com/en/projects/... A game about dance, friends! This looks great <3 Thanks @senfoonglim.bsky.social for the recommendation!

Heading to Metatopia tomorrow. Looking to connect with people who are writing games on oppression and resistance in any form for a new podcast project with @senfoonglim.bsky.social releasing in 2026. Send me a message or find me at the Lobbycon at the hotel on Saturday night! #metatopia2025

Howdy meeps! No show tonight as @senfoonglim.bsky.social recovers from midterms and @drayerink.bsky.social packs for the Big Move! Sen will be back next week after a trip to Montreal for LudiCon!

🎲✂️ *New Episode!* @senfoonglim.bsky.social speaks with the team at Zed9 Mystery Jubensha Club (zed9jubensha.com) about Chinese murder script games and their effort to bring them to English-speaking gamers in British Columbia, Canada. ludology.libsyn.com/ludology-348...

🎲✂️ Tonight at 9PM EDT (UTC-4), @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @drayerink.bsky.social talk to @spenserstarke.bsky.social about Alice is Missing as we continue to explore how people game when not together IRL. Join them in the chat at youtube.com/MeepleSyrup or facebook.com/MeepleSyrup

🎲✂️ Tonight at 9PM EDT (UTC-4), @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @drayerink.bsky.social talk to @singlestepgaming.bsky.social and @silvermedaltavern.bsky.social about streaming as we explore how people game together apart. Join them in the chat at youtube.com/MeepleSyrup or facebook.com/MeepleSyrup

Here's the new cover for the next Astra Fauna book. It's solo ttrpg - Choose you own adventure book with some cards and dice rolling. The story is written and about to be handed off for editing. Most of the mechanics are worked out too! A bunch of art is made. 🙂 Hoping to KS it in 2026. Please share

Some closeups for the cover I just posted

Rally and the Grub will be recruitable. ...because we're here for that. See the full book cover in the posts from earlier.

🎲✂️ Howdy! @czamboni.bsky.social and I are looking to connect with TTRPG / LARP creators from outside of North America creating games that address oppression and resistance from a cultural perspective. We're putting together a list for potential guests for our podcast-in-progress! #TTRPG #LARP

🎲✂️ *New Episode!* @ericabouyouris.bsky.social and @senfoonglim.bsky.social welcome @qarl.bsky.social, Jarratt Gray, @burntislandgames.bsky.social and @grandgamersguild.bsky.social to discuss the past, present, and future of SdJ Winner, Endeavor: Deep Sea. ludology.libsyn.com/ludology-347...

🎲✂️ *New Episode!* @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @ericabouyouris.bsky.social welcome Sarah Shipp. In this episode of Thinking Beyond Mechanisms, she discusses how games give permission for players to break social conventions within the so-called "Magic Circle". ludology.libsyn.com/thinking-bey...

This sounds amazing. I’ll need to reach out.

🎲✂️ Tonight at 9PM EDT (UTC-4), @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @drayerink.bsky.social talk to @tozieer.bsky.social about his work (adventurebymail.itch.io) as we continue to explore how people game when not together IRL. Join them in the chat at youtube.com/MeepleSyrup or facebook.com/MeepleSyrup

@beardedrogue.bsky.social did you see this yet? www.instagram.com/victoryrollc...

@romanmars.bsky.social - loving the video game series you’re currently doing with Ben Brock Johnson! Can you share this with him? The anime series Hi-Score Girl might really hit home for him with his core memories being of Japanese arcades in the early years!

🎲✂️ Weds Oct 8 at 9PM EDT (UTC-5) @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @drayerink.bsky.social talk with Heather Newton of @protospielo.bsky.social about playing and testing games in different ways without face-to-face connections. Join us live at facebook.com/MeepleSyrup or youtube.com/MeepleSyrup

🎲✂️ I talk with Eric Dewey about some of the things Boardgames can learn from TTRPGs and vice versa! onboardgames.libsyn.com/obg-573-rpg-...

🎲✂️ @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @drayerink.bsky.social discuss player psychographics and how they pertain to making good design decisions this Weds at 9 PM EDT (UTC-5). Join us live at facebook.com/MeepleSyrup or youtube.com/MeepleSyrup

If you like deduction games, check out Corps of Discovery. It looks like a survival game, but it's really about using logic and deduction to maximize your chances of succeeding. Played 4 games this weekend, big hit with my wife. Great design by @senfoonglim.bsky.social and Jay Cormier. 😍

🎲✂️ @offthepagegames.bsky.social is in Spain for a con and he got to see the new version of one of our long out-of-print games - Junk Art Revolution published by LudoNova Games!

“Incense and Grandpas” is the name for my next ska band.

🎲✂️ @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @drayerink.bsky.social talk with Dave Olsen, designer of Flip 7 to discuss finding the fun in seemingly simple games where most designers crave complexity - this Weds at 9 PM EDT (UTC-5). Join us live at www.facebook.com/MeepleSyrup or www.youtube.com/MeepleSyrup

@senfoonglim.bsky.social helped me distill the whole thesis of my documentary into a 35 second sound bite. So, thanks, Sen! And thank you, @ludologypod.bsky.social for this wonderful chat!

🎲✂️ *New Episode!* @senfoonglim.bsky.social talks with Kristin Vermilya about her forthcoming audio documentary series, Out of the Dungeon, that takes a look at the history of roleplaying games - from before D&D to the modern era of Actual Plays and beyond! ludology.libsyn.com/ludology-345...

🎲✂️ @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @drayerink.bsky.social talk with Dave Beck from @paverson.bsky.social about expansions, release strategies, and more on this week's show - Weds night at 9 PM EDT (UTC-5). Join us live at www.facebook.com/MeepleSyrup or www.youtube.com/MeepleSyrup

🎲✂️ Weds Sep 10 at 9PM EDT (UTC -5), @drayerink.bsky.social and @senfoonglim.bsky.social chat with TK and Dennis from @kinsonkeygames.bsky.social about all the work that goes into making big games, like Galactic Cruise, successful. Join us live at facebook.com/MeepleSyrup or youtube.com/MeepleSyrup

please help us spread the word about this mentorship opportunity for writers of color & share it with anyone you think might be interested!

🎲✂️ *New Episode!* @senfoonglim.bsky.social talks with Josh Derksen of @lynnvander.bsky.social at @originsgamefair.bsky.social 2024 about making campaign modes for X-Wing, Star Trek: Dominion, and Battletech: Alpha Strike in this episode of Pros and Cons. ludology.libsyn.com/pros-and-con...

I am honoured to have had the opportunity to work in the Cosmere with an amazing team!

For the last few months, I've been selling tabletop games at general - not geek or gaming - markets through Cardboard Monster. Here's what I've learned about selling games to people who don't think they like games:

Another day, another silly thumbnail for a silly little video. This week: Brazil!! Stick around to the end for a special guest interview in this one ;) #ttrpg #vtm

🎲✂️ *New Episode!* This Pros and Cons, @senfoonglim.bsky.social talks with @nathanrlong.bsky.social (Warhammer novelist, Guyver screenplay writer, and script writer for Wastelands/Bard's Tale) at @originsgamefair.bsky.social 2024 about his game Shanghai Noir. ludology.libsyn.com/pros-and-con...

4 amazing creatives on the same project? YES, PLEASE!

*New Episode* 🎲✂️ @senfoonglim.bsky.social speaks to David Gordon at Origins 2024 before all of his games hit shelves in 2025. From LEGO Monkey Palace from to Floristry, we chat about his entry into game design and what the future holds. ludology.libsyn.com/pros-and-con...

🎲✂️ Back in the saddle after Gen Con @drayerink.bsky.social and @senfoonglim.bsky.social talk to Alex Radcliffe re: the con, his work at @boardgameco.bsky.social, and what's happening over at @gamefound.bsky.social! Join us live at facebook.com/MeepleSyrup or youtube.com/MeepleSyrup. Come chat!

🎲✂️ Was chatting on BGDL's FB Forum (because I'm old like that) and another designer was asking about decisions and their relation to complexity which lead me to start thinking about complexity in terms of decision space.

The leadership of the Tabletop Game Designers Association was disappointed to see the publisher CGE touting Codenames: Back to Hogwarts, a new Harry Potter-themed version of Codenames.

Hey all! If you’re a fan of @fondalee.bsky.social ‘s Green Bone Saga and TTRPGs, please check this out. Streets of Jade uses the Paragon system from @evilhat.bsky.social and takes it to a new level, incorporating factions vying for control of Jade and the awesome power it brings into the mix.

Sharp blades. Sharp suits. A sacred stone granting mythic martial prowess. @fondalee.bsky.social, @evilhat.bsky.social, and I offer you a clean blade. Wǔxiá action meets gangster warfare in STREETS OF JADE: the Green Bone Saga RPG. Swear fealty to the clan & join the playtest! evilh.at/soj-playtest

Guess where I am…

Hey Canadian TTRPG creators! Feeling like a lone moose in the indie RPG wilderness? You’re not alone. We are the CCU. Your new support crew. 1/6

🎲✂️ I’m also in love with these walk around game teachers at FLIM. Much better than cigars, cigarettes, cigarillos…

🎲✂️ *New Episode* For Pros and Cons Ep 12, @senfoonglim.bsky.social talks to @danielhkwan.itch.io at @animenorthcompass.bsky.social back in 2024 about anime, wuxia, martial arts, and his TTRPG, Wandering Blades that *JUST* funded on @kickstarter.com ludology.libsyn.com/pros-and-con...

🎲✂️ Quick 360 (without my Insta360 cam) of what’s happening at FLIM in Montreal on Day 3 of 3 for this outdoor festival celebrating games.

🎲✂️ J’adore absolutement ca. The outdoor vibe is immaculate. There’s a main stage with shows and songs, games all around, families with kids, no pressure sales. Tons of people just walking by, getting to see modern games. FLIM est incroyable!

🎲✂️ Playing an cool little zombie co-op “Survive Until Dawn” (en Français) by Thomas Filippi and Gary Paitre from Flyos.

🎲✂️ When you make a game as big as the entire planet, people want your signature ;) - Earth by Maxime Tardif

🎲✂️ Utterly besotted with everything about this 2p game - Balconia designed by Paul Schulz with art from Natalya Efrelova. Again, the giant version captured my heart lol.