Here is the link for the crowdfunding we will launch soon on 3 card games: www.kickstarter.com/projects/125...

something I find really unusual about games is the complaint that there are too many of them coming out & the audience can't keep up. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see people saying there's too much music coming out, too many movies, too many books or comics. 1/3

Taylor just posted his video about the Game Market Vegas games, including Tricked Out! If you don't know anything about Tricked Out, this is probably the best way to learn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1OE...

I do so much graphic design, rules writing, and video editing just to pitch that it has made me go "why am I not just self-publishing at this point?". The night markets have also definitely made me realize self-publishing is not as hard as it might seem at first glance.

My new series is out! Come watch great comedians play fun games in It’s All Funny & Games. Here is our debut episode! #boardgames #tabletopgames #boardgamegeek #comedian #standupcomedy youtu.be/iaqmf8NSTy0?...

At Wizards, we learned from painful experience that the game designers in R&D could look at sketches and diagrams and evaluate a game proposal without it looking nice. Everyone from other departments needed the game proposal to look nice or else they'd get caught up critiquing the visuals.

Now on Kickstarter: Pack of Penguins! Place your penguins in the perfect position to score points by laying eggs and catching fish! #boardgames #kickstarter Watch: youtu.be/MWqStIvt4J4

TTRPG about me First game: D&D 3.0 orange box Last game: Pathfinder 2e Longest game: D&D 4e, I think? Favourite game: Blades in the Dark Favourite mechanics: No Dice No Masters Favourite art: Tales from the Loop

Fun thought experiment. Tough choice for a few categories. grids.fun/t/about-me-v...

A friend just made this cute little daily polyomino game! It's browser based and doesn't take long to beat, so I highly recommend checking it out: pieceful.place

Tricked Out cameo in Shut Up & Sit Down's latest video!

And I can finally announce my followup project with Tim Fowers - Driveable City! In this 60 minute solo game you get to pave through local communities, meddle with local transit, and play with millions in grants from your government like funny money. Just how Robert Moses would have wanted it!

I went by WonderCon yesterday to check it out. They had a pretty big board game section (several, in fact) which was cool to see. I'm happy the hobby has been reaching out to more and more people.

Game designers with games that are out: Where do you keep them? Do you put them on the shelf with other published games? Do you have a place just for games you've designed? I've been trying to sort my collection and was wondering what other people do.

A tier's now been added just for the print-and-plays! My game Cat Paper Scissors is on the Kickstarter for just $1, and if enough copies are bought we'll make physical copies too. The game is rock-paper-scissors the engine builder, and is very easy to pick up. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tat...

Clowder Token Collection is LIVE on on Kickstarter. Now, any game with cats :) Back your Clowder today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tat...

🎲✂️ 2. Multivictor pinata game. Codesign with @chris.eternalstudios.com. Players vote for A or B each round and receive various payouts depending on the vote's outcome. We just came up with the idea a few days ago so the game is still rough but I think it'll shape up to be a solid negotiation game.

I'm not surprised, Walkable City is a great game. I really like how much discussion happens during it, it feels more social than a lot of co-ops. And building the network is very satisfying. So yeah check it out if you haven't already.

I had a great time at Dice Tower West! I was able to hang out with a lot of people, and it was great playing games and chatting with old and new friends. Game Market Vegas went well too. Sold most of my copies of Tricked Out and a bunch of my copies of Coupon Clipper.

I know my game goes live tomorrow, but my friends @coinflip.games @boardgameghee.bsky.social launched their awesome game today - Chicken Fried Dice! They've clearly put a ton of love into this one and I am happy to see its already funded 🎉🎲🥘🐔🎉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/urb...

I'm not at Dice Tower West this year, but if you're there and want to support indie game publishers like @darylbegamin.bsky.social, go to the Game Market Vegas event happening at 5pm! #boardgames boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/46...

Game Market Vegas is tonight! If you're at Dice Tower West come by the room next to the welcome area at 5pm and check it out. I'll be selling Tricked Out and Coupon Clipper and I know they'll be a bunch of other great stuff too. There's a second session Saturday at 6pm too.

Got a chance to play Fú a couple times this week. I like how it has positive player interaction, something that I think is disappointingly rare in board games.

My copies of Tricked Out just arrived!

My top 9 games. Organized mostly by genre.

Playtesting/demoing at Geeky Tea's last night! Some close games of Cat Paper Scissors. It can get very "I guessed you'd guess that I'd guess..." by the end. I also finally got to play it's other sister game Cat Tree by @nathanrlong.bsky.social, which I quite enjoyed. It was mean but in a good way.

Old(ish) prototype of Cat Paper Scissors. I've been redoing the art and layout to replace the generic filler clipart, but mechanically I'm really happy where the game is. And @tatewu.bsky.social's cat tokens look great, of course.

Your games deserve more cats 😺🐾 Clowder Token Collection - cat-shaped tokens for ANY tabletop game. ✨ Any game, now with cats ✨ Launching soon on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tat...

Exciting news! I'm going to be releasing a *second* game next month, this one as part of @tatewu.bsky.social's upcoming Clowder Token Collection Kickstarter. Cat Paper Scissors is a little 18-card PnP that makes use of Ta-Te's cat tokens, where players engine build as they play rock paper scissors.

I knew even as a kid stuff would be forgotten as time passed, but I was not prepared for how *random* it would all feel. Like I would not have guessed Columbo would be more in the public consciousness than Futurama.

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Announcing Walkable City - a 2-4 player coop game published by Fowers Games and designed by me! Build out public infrastructure as different modes of transit - Waling, Biking, Bus & Light Rail - get denizens where they want to go. Follow the project below! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

I have mixed feelings on Slay the Spire 2. Since the first one came out I've played a ton of cool indie deck builders, that have introduced had some amazing ideas and fixed a lot of problems that Slay the Spire had. And it's a little sad how effortlessly StS2 is going to crush them in sales.

Today I want to share that Ryan Dancey and AEG have parted ways. This is not an easy post to write. Ryan has been a significant part of AEG’s story, and I am personally grateful for the years of work, passion, and intensity he brought to the company. We have built a lot together.

Some of the cards from my upcoming game, Tricked Out! I'm not the best graphic designer, but I at least wanted the game to be colorful.

i don't have all the answers for how to look out for kids in the digital age but I strongly suspect completely isolating them entirely is not the solution. we're entering this bizarre as shit world where kids aren't allowed to be anywhere online, but there are no truly adult spaces either.

Eric Martin put up a preview for some of the games that'll be selling at Game Market Vegas, including my own Coupon Clipper and Tricked Out!

I'm happy to announce my next game, Tricked Out! Tricked Out is a card game you play simultaneously alongside an existing trick-taker, with tricks scoring you points in Tricked Out and giving you special abilities. I'll be selling it at Game Market Vegas at Dice Tower West, so come check it out!

As an interesting aside, I think alpha gaming tends to crop up when players are bored. If you've played a lot of games it's relatively easy to figure out the "perfect" move for everyone in Pandemic. So when players make a different move or take time to make a decision, it's frustrating.

Hey Game Designers! A major board game publisher is looking for new dice games! Contact Iello at [email protected]

I 100% agree with this. I think another part of the issue is in an RPG there's (generally) a GM who ultimately rules on everything. So people are okay thinking outside the box more. In a board game people expect rules to be thorough and unambiguous, so potential creativity gets stifled early on.

It is done. I've officially moved from Windows to Linux.

To new & aspiring designers - the best way to approach a new design is almost always whatever gets it to the table the fastest. Not sussing out every detail or balancing any of it ahead of time. Actually making & playing the game.

Got a chance to play @matthewdunstan.bsky.social's Happy Home last night! It's a sort of combination of a set collection game and a polyomino game, as you try to fill your house with the right pieces of furniture. It was fun, and felt very thematic. (Ignore the fact my bathroom has 2 toilets.)

New project coming.

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”

The D.I.C.E. awards just announced their finalists. I hesitate to rag on video game awards too much but it is nuts to me how many of the nomination categories pull from the same 6-7 games, and just list them in a slightly different order.

I remember when Putin invaded Ukraine being blown away how a world leader would just treat geopolitics like a game of fucking Civilization, like a thing you "win". And boy it sucks to be thinking that for a second time.

Took some time to unpack a few thoughts on Expedition 33. Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening. So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability... transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...