In a continuing series of Event Card spoilers covering the recently released Chicago ‘68 from The Dietz Foundation with designer Yoni Goldstein in this 9th post we look at Antiwar Sympathy. theplayersaid.com/2025/09/18/c...

An interesting approach to thoughtful game design that I chime with in this article (paywall for the full thing; I just paid $1 to read). Bear with me while I take a minute to talk about violence in some games and in the one I'm working on just now. 🎲✂️

In a continuing series of Event Card spoilers covering the recently released Chicago ‘68 from The Dietz Foundation in this 8th post we look at Mob Chaos Cards. theplayersaid.com/2025/09/10/c...

Fitting. Chicago will be his Vietnam.

I get how Department of Defense is an Orwellian name and Department of War is more honest but the renaming is really PR for aggressive violence.

CHICAGO! Join us at Haymarket House for a radical board game night featuring CHICAGO '68 game designer, @yoyoni.bsky.social Wednesday, September 10th at 6:30pm CT RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

The Chicago Police Department’s criminal homicide tally for June, July and August is the lowest in 60 years. And overall violent crime remains near its lowest point in more than four decades. trib.al/f4O8yRs

it's official, september is for Cross Bronx Expressway. pre-orders close soon before the game starts shipping this month. www.gmtgames.com/p-953-cross-... check out the official trailer below. @gmtgames.bsky.social

Just finished up a 15-minute unboxing video for Chicago ‘68 from The Dietz Foundation. Can’t wait to get this to the table!

@thedietzfoundation.bsky.social's timing couldn't be more uncanny. First copies of CHICAGO '68 delivered the day of the first turn in the game: August 26, 1968.

Oh my gosh, this made me laugh so hard: www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...

Very exciting! A year ago @senfoonglim.bsky.social interviewed me for the Ludology Podcast about my unpublished game, Shanghai Noir, and narrative in games, and the episode is out! Here's the sell sheet for Shanghai Noir. If you're interested in playing/playtesting it, I have it on TTS. Let me know!

Shanghai Noir has been living in my mind rent free ever since I had the good fortune to check out @nathanrlong.bsky.social’s prototype. Looking forward to this interview!

Update: GMT's CROSS BRONX EXPRESSWAY game is shipping September 2025 👀 The designer (Non-Breaking Space) shared a photo of their game in front of the abandoned building (no longer there) & South Bronx street corner depicted on the box which was visited by Presidents Carter and Reagan 40+ years ago

A dozen Chicago-area game designers are bringing great new or in-development tabletop games to our Demo Expo on September 13th for you to try. Open to the public from 12pm–5pm. Bring your curiosity and your imagination. We'll see you there! demoexpo.games

“My value and my stock is wholly decided by the people.” I can hardly imagine a more depressing example of internalized capitalism…

Found the perfect first player pawn for that new version of Brass: a tiny coal truck hand carved out of coal

Looking forward to taking part in this year’s Demo Expo! Come join us if you’re in Chicago this September #boardgames

Coal mining cinematography in Portal 31, Lynch Kentucky

Now here’s a sci fi wargame worth watching. @drwictz.bsky.social is the daring duo that brought us “Robotech: Reconstruction”

A sneak peek at FRUIT, Akar Bharadvaj’s brilliant CHALICE OF POISON, and a picture of the Muffaletta sandwich that changed our lives.

Board game design in a nutshell 痴人の愛 (A Fool's Love ) / 2024 / Kishū Izuchi

AI and its cultural alignment with Protestant European values. References: - shav.dev/blog/cultura... - www.linkedin.com/posts/teyban... - arxiv.org/abs/2410.10489 - www.researchgate.net/publication/... Via Alexander Kruel (fb)

Grognards and wargamers, any conflict games you can think of that models / incorporates drug use in warfare?

Raising the battle flag of psychedelia NOW at the @chicagomuseum.bsky.social

Hot take!

Una giornata particolare (A Special Day) / 1977 / Ettore Scola

We played “Days of Ire “” last night (the conflict variant ofc) with the state commander calling in the snipers on the last round to take the win. Overall the game felt tense and meaningful, with a novel system for event distribution. A couple more thoughts on our first impressions:

Not every board game treats its setting as a condiment. Some are designed to engage on historical, social, or polemical grounds. To evaluate such a game principally as a jumble of mechanisms would fail to engage with it as created, presented, intended, and, yes, as it plays.

it's #gencon week. @colewehrle.bsky.social @wehrlegig.games and i will be at it again. this time we're doing the mega game version of the john company rpg the company archives. if you're around Friday evening come check it out. www.gencon.com/events/277585

Played a blinged out six player matchup of @galeforcenine.bsky.social’s Dune yesterday. An Emperor with a Lazgun and the Voice seemed unstoppable … until the Bene Gesserit revealed their prediction and won. Incredibly fun for such an “unfair” game from the 70’s.

At Gen Con this year, Devious Weasel Games will be protesting bullshit tariffs and helping out consumers by discounting all our games. It’s “Anti-Tariff Time” at booth 836! www.deviousweasel.com

@charlietheel.bsky.social composed this thoughtful review of Chicago '68. Link in the comments ✊ #boardgames

Final play of Chicago '68 prior to my review. Also, still trying to sort out the finer details of The Old King's Crown.

🧵creating this thread for an ongoing full campaign play through of "Solitaire TacOps: Ortona" @gmtgames.bsky.social note: playtest graphics, not final art. 1/x

Thoughts on this series? Haven’t played either but I’ve always been intrigued by the co-designers….

Sometimes you’re a fat cat French capitalist building a god-dam empire. #boardgames

Look, I’m not saying it’s ok what they did, if someone caught me in a public display of heteronormativity at a Coldplay concert, I’d dive for the shadows too

I’ve played 30 or so games of Arcs already… yet this is the first time I get to inhabit this cloudy boi. Who’s got strategy tips on how to weaponize peace and empathy? I’m facing a founder and a hegemon in a flagship. #boardgames

Zephyr Teachout: [Crypto] uses about 2.3 percent of all U.S. electricity…more than the total electricity used for all residential lighting in America. One Bitcoin transaction…generate[s] greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to driving a mid-sized car 1,000 mi.

Estoy emocionado de haber conseguido por fin mi copia de Tierra y Libertad! ¡No pasarán! #MasQueOca #JuegosdeMesa

When I rule America w my council of proletarianized English majors, our first executive order will be to ban sports metaphors

We just demo'd Chicago '68 for new players last night. Really interesting game state emerged when the Demonstrators super charged their improvised barricades on round 1. They rerouted the police away from the Convention and led rapid marches through multiple interconnected rally points. #boardgames

New York Based Game Designers: You have a week left to apply for a $60,000 artist grant with the NYS artist fellowship. At least one of these grants would be great for a TTRPG

I put down some thoughts about game design, what it’s good for, and what it isn’t good for in this zine! Plus, a short guide to help get you started making a game if you’ve never done that before: gregisonthego.itch.io/rulebooks-fo... ✂️ 🎲 ✊ 🔥

I’m seeing a tactical war game