These resources aren't just for TTRPG designers -- board game 🎲✂️ creators, you can class up your games without a drop of AI "art."

Excited to announce the games for the PNW Tabletop Game Market at PaxWest! There’s a lot of really exciting stuff this year. The market opens at 7pm on 9/5. Hope to see you there! www.alwaysawake.games/pnw-tabletop...

If you want to get in on this, you can follow the KS here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

I’m finally going to have a game at an indie night market. My son, Jason, and I designed Red Spiral, and we’re printing a few dozen copies of it to sell at PAX West. www.alwaysawake.games/pnw-tabletop...

seven part pact launches in 2 days, here's some sketches by @badbucket.bsky.social showing the process for designing different boards — each of the seven wizards has their own board game with completely different rules (and inspiration from different styles of medieval art)

EXTENDED: Submissions are due by Friday, July 17 at 11:59PM ET #gencon #tabletop #gamedesign 🎲✂️

A fun surprise to come back to after 4 days of camping, my prototype for Train of Thought came in. Excited to get this to the physical table for testing both in PDX and at Pax West

Just bought my flights to PAX West! Super excited to attend this one for the first time and meet a bunch of the Seattle folks I only know from the internet!

Seven-Part Pact will launch on Kickstarter July 14th, an auspicious day for powerful magic !! the game includes multiple decks of cards, including a deck of destinies wielded by the sage for determining the narrative future of the pact

Proofs of the Rex Regnat 2nd printing just came in! Looks great, and if all goes well, should be ready in late August.

Another Hawk & Dove update went out today via our newsletter! Progress on Painkillers and announcing our attendance at several conventions across the EU this fall. As always, if you're interested in what we're up to, please share and subscribe! www.hawkanddovegames.com

📣 Calling Tabletop Game Designers 📣 Are you heading to Gen Con later this month? We have three (3!) speed pitch opportunities for underrepresented groups to get their games in front of publishers! More info at https://f.mtr.cool/dgjijlevjs #gencon #gamedesign 🎲✂️

We've put a ton of effort into this project and would love to see more responses. Absolutely looking for both more designers to apply and for publishers to participate. www.unpub.org/upcoming-eve...

shoutout to trains

🎲✂️ After close to a month of design, the pre-production files for Pact have been sent! I'm so excited to see what we made You can see a little sneak peek of what everything looks like put together in the screentop implementation. Check it out! screentop.gg/@zhoekstra/p...

Oh oops it’s me. I thought that link preview would show up differently. I’m gonna have my first booth at PaxWest!

You've got one month left to submit your application to be a vendor at the Indie Games Night Market! Submissions close on August 1! Get to it! www.newmillindustries.com/ignm-app

Make your next work of art in Color Jam, a cozy, print-and-puzzle coloring game launching on Kickstarter later this year. Grab your favorite crayons and play solo or with friends. Follow along here for when the project goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun... The night is for creativity. 🖍️

Breaking news! I heard Zach (and maybe Putnam???), co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, will be at PAX West this year, ready to give autographs, sign merch, and give dwarfy high-fives to all and sundry. What will YOU get signed?

✂️🎲 I use Affinity for all my rulebooks and components, and I really like it. It's especially nice using free software to work on a co-design, since I wasn't forcing my co-designer to buy anything. I wrote an article specific to board games if others want to try it out. rossongames.com/affinity

Come join Game Makers Guild Philadelphia for playtesting this Sunday 6/28 5-10pm at The Philly Game Shop 🎲✂️ fb.me/e/21jbdOGIwf

This year’s Ciutat de Granollers Contest is accepting submissions through July 31. Prizes include cash and gift vouchers. ascensio.cat/concurs-ciut...

Hench box testing while I wait for the final art and prototypes to come in! I'd say it looks pretty good

I’m doing an AMA in an hour. If you like acronyms over your lunch break, check it out

Want to read a big old stonking essay about how Biblical criticism informs board game reviews? No? Eh, get outta here then. For the cool kids, I've got the goods right here: spacebiff.com/2026/06/10/t...

Hey you! Yeah, you! Have you been waiting for the application to be a vendor at the 2026 Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged? Well, it's been up for over a week! It'll be up until August 1. Go submit your game, maybe you'll get picked? www.newmillindustries.com/ignm-app

Tabletop enthusiasts, we need your help putting an event together for PAX Unplugged. Which of these event names would catch your interest? Assume no context; all you see is the title. Please share / repost -- we don't have any other way to poll people! ("We" = @tonytran.bsky.social & me & others)

Had a lovely test of Hench! Things are overall feeling really dialed in, just need some small numbers tweaks on some cards

The application portal to submit your game & participate in the Indie Games Night Market at PAX in Philly this December is now live! I had a great experience as a designer there last year. #gamedesign #PAX #boardgames #boardgamedesign www.newmillindustries.com/ignm

Prototype orders are in for Hench for the Pax West Indie Night Market. Gotta say, Launch Tabletop was a lot more straightforward than I initially feared!

Pacts is a total banger. Here's the review in question: spacebiff.com/2025/12/08/p...

I love that IGNM offers an alternate "capstone" for a tabletop game project instead of signing with an existing publisher. There are many games that want to live in the world that simply don't fit existing commercial or audience niches, even if they're great games! Personally, ...

Got to see playtestPDX own superstar Sasha's new game (published by The Op) looks like a hoot and it'll be available in stores soon!

Yes! It genuinely has never been easier to playtest your game if you're willing to engage in this space on Discord. You can build your own network too, but this is always available and has more peer-to-peer playtesting than any space on the internet.

It’s go time #StarWarsUnlimited #AMCTheaters #StarWars #MandalorianAndGrogu

「Shinjuku」sighting at the Yellow Submarine in Ikebukuro.

After 10 years of game design, I have a box with my name on it on my game shelf. It's a first draft box that needs significant improvement, and I had to pay for it myself, and you can't buy it yet, but still. Mailing list at necessarydiversiongames.com to know when we launch!

Had a lovely playtest of Train of Thought at @protospielo.bsky.social . Lots of good feedback, and small edges to sand down

I just sent out our first newsletter to subscribers! The biggest piece of news is announcing our first game - Painkillers, one of my designs. I am immensely proud of this game and how far it has come since its inception. Here's a mini thread on the game as it is now.

Counterpoint is coming to Kickstarter ✨✨MAY 26TH✨✨ Hit the notify me button to be alerted when the campaign goes live! 🎻🎶🎲✂️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/squ... #tricktakers

There's exactly TWO tickets left for designers at June's @breakmygame.com playtest at @labyrinthdc.bsky.social. One from 11-2, one from 2-5. I've gotten some of my best feedback at this event. Anne told me she'll be there! www.eventbrite.com/e/break-my-g...

For folks who have done Print and Play kits for games with larger boards (11 x 17 inches or 20 x 20 inches) and who want to be kind to the metric world, is best practice to have a single larger file or to slice the board image up into letter and A4 slices?

Learn about my newest game design: open.substack.com/pub/mandasha...

Rolled credits on Titanium Court (bus stop). What a wonderful, unique experience. If you like meta-narrative and are willing to read, a strong recommend. Go into it with as little information as you possibly can!

New episode of Multiple Win Conditions! This time I’m chatting about how often you get told to “just stick to game design” if you ever mention self-publishing and how I don’t think the distinction is quite so clear. youtu.be/Tdzmkc4qQ7w?...

It's a bonus episode from the Patreon! Jen, Levi, and special guest Ned talk about the Final Fantasy TCG! They talk dome cards, how it plays, and an insight into some battles. #PodReturn #FFTCG #CardSharks youtu.be/EbKfSNN7lr8

Counterpoint is coming to Kickstarter ✨✨MAY 26TH✨✨ Hit the notify me button to be alerted when the campaign goes live! 🎻🎶🎲✂️ #tricktakers