World Ocean Day, marked globally on 8 June, is a reminder that the ocean is a living system, full of movement, beauty, danger and delicate balance. It’s also, rather wonderfully, the setting for one of the most elegant nature-inspired boardgames on the table right now: Finspan. Finspan casts…

Counterpoint is live on Kickstarter! 2 years ago I had a silly idea to mix two of my favorite things (classical music and games) and here we are after countless hours of prototyping, testing, simplifying, and reworking. Excited to hear your music! 💛🎻🎶 www.kickstarter.com/projects/squ...

Here are some photos about how to organize Euphoria Essential and the Finspan expansion. Please note that the Finspan expansion tray fits in the game box next to the original tray—keep both so the box can hold the maximum number of cards! There's extra space in the Euphoria box for sleeved cards.

Ordered the Finspan: Sharks & Reefs expansion on Wednesday and it arrived today 😍 Already played it three times. Great job @stonemaiergames.com and @anarchytabletop.bsky.social! Loving the new sharks and coral mechanics.

Launch day is here for Finspan: Sharks & Reefs and Euphoria Essential Edition! Our fulfillment centers are ready to start shipping these products early next week. store.stonemaiergames.com

🌊🐟 A new adventure is making waves in Color-A-Cube! To celebrate the arrival of Finspan: Sharks & Reefs, we’re bringing 4 FREE Finspan-inspired models to Color-A-Cube, a relaxing voxel coloring game available on Meta Quest (VR), PICO (VR), and Steam (PC). @stonemaiergames.com

The sound of this is amazing.

this is fucking nuts:

I talk with Jamey Stegmaier about the first Finspansion: www.youtube.com/live/esxYCwM...

So glad this is becoming available.

@anarchytabletop.bsky.social We're discussing Finspan on the Outside is Overrated podcast tomorrow! The episode will drop May 1.

Imagine experiencing an underwater world of exploration, research and collection through a board game. Finspan, the latest title from Stonemaier Games, is now available in South Africa and it does exactly that. It immerses players in the rich ecosystems of the ocean where they get to discover fish…

Demoing Finspan with the first expansion in the Geek Dad area of GameStorm last weekend. #gamestorm

It's live!! The game I designed, Honeypot, just launched on Kickstarter! Two years of loving work. Would be grateful if you checked it out & considered backing! It's an "I stack, you choose" game where you play as secret agent bears setting and avoding traps! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

youtu.be/m0iYCOToMfc?... This person really delves into the decisions that we made to make onboarding much easier with Finspan (compared to Wingspan). It was cool to see.

Suck it JK Rowling

This has made working on expansions for Finspan so difficult. #finspan

204. 🎲 #Finspan was cool, got me 😵‍💫 at the start with its apparent high complexity but got the (or enough of a) hang of it quickly enough. Beautiful & lovingly researched, loved the facts on each fish species. cc @biblosfera.bsky.social, @vanthulla.bsky.social (who won the game!)

The Rebels’ desperate gambit to destroy the under construction Death Star failed (in Star Wars Rebellion).

@kristenmott.bsky.social, my co-designer on an upcoming game, was featured on Jamey’s “My Favorite Mechanism” for her game, Stable Times. So excited for her! youtu.be/Jr9fheVoX9c

I somehow missed this… www.gamesradar.com/games/board-...

I've definitely dealt with publishers who would listen to literally anyone else other than the designer. One playtester in one playtest out of thirty? We'd better get on that. Reddit? Absolutely. Someone who wandered in off the street? Tell us more, oh wise one! Game designer? Pft, what do you know?

Yeah, this sort of groupthink is common in boardgaming too. Players often hear an opinion voiced at the gaming table, and that becomes the truth for that table. They'll ignore or miss built-in tools to handle a situation, they'll experience a weird statistical anomaly, and then that's it.

Finspan made the list!

Some close friends to be get a little frustrated in my tendency to priortise luck in my own career, as they know how I work. I try to explain that work just is buying a lottery ticket. It's necessary, but certainly not sufficient. I know many folks who've worked as hard but the dice have been cruel.

Man at PAX Unplugged going on and on about board games and fish!

A shot from the Stonemaier area at Essen (with the Finspan banner).

Good morning to all appreciators of passionate about graphic design xoxo Here’s my pax unplugged schedule, leave a comment if you have any critiques on my layout skills!!!! x

Just a few more days and this will be happening!! Don’t miss the preview so you know what games to look out for~

One month away and it feels more real now! #paxunplugged #paxu

Heyyo! If you're going to be at #PAXUnplugged, come find me on the exhibition floor at the Origami Whale Games booth where I'll be demonstrating my game, Match Hatchery! #boardgames 🎲✂️ #paxu

Printing, cutting, and assembly is complete on all three prototypes for #PAXU! Ready to go! I'll be bringing... - The first physical iteration of the brand new board layout for #CampCharmwood - #OarDeal, a trick taker/shedder about a canoe trip - #Saros, an 18 card game about the sun and moon

Look at this line up! Amazing! 👀 😍 #PAXU

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

Rulebooks are printed and stapled, game sheets are laminated, gonna spend the weekend filling tubes with dice, dry-erase markers, rulebooks, and game sheets for the Resilience deluxe kit! #🎲✂️ Get it (and/or the PNP version) at Indie Games Night Market #IGNM at #PAXU!

Let’s go to #paxu

Gotta bring the agitprop to the #IGNM! 🏴 🔥I’ll have copies of my zine about making games, plus three different stickers with critical, political messages for our time. #PAXU HUGE thanks to @marcelineleiman.bsky.social for encouraging me to get stickers and to oliviasy.design for doing the designs.

The greatest photo I've ever taken popped up on my phone. #Kauai. I need to get back out there.

I’ll be demoing Finspan at the Stonemaier booth and annex area all day each day at PAXU if you want to stop by. #PAXU

We played Too Many Bones yesterday. It has great, um...bones, but I think it is hampered, at times, by extra stuff that didn't need to be in there. And there are too many scenarios that seem bent on keeping players from just playing the game. For a day-long campaign, there are few better though.

So close! We played a quick game of Finspan tonight after dinner. I got my favorite fish! It's my favorite exhibit at the @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social ! @stonemaiergames.com @anarchytabletop.bsky.social

After a long break, we finally got Arydia back to the table. Skellies had a bone to pick. The painted minis in this game are lights out.

This is just to say I have looked on the works that were in the desert and which you were probably thinking would still stand Forgive me they were trunkless so vast and so old

Whose land this is I do not know The statue fell down long ago; No one will mind me stopping here    To watch the sand o’er ruins blow. My camel friend must think it queer    To rest with no oasis near    And precious little shade these days    Gives Ozymandias, I fear. (1/2)

I am not at Essen, but Flossenschlag (Finspan) is apparently being well received.

Got a specific game design problem you're trying to crack? We'd love to give our input in Missing Pieces, a board game design advice column in @ttgda.bsky.social's newsletter! You can submit questions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1hc3...

I’m at a new company. At the virtual all hands, they introduced me, and my interesting fact (these days) is that I design board game with my sons. It's funny how unknown the whole industry is to the average person.

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/