With our 35+ tabletop games you can play with stuff you already own, it can be a bit daunting to find which one to play first! Luckily our new website comes with a game browser, filter by game mechanics and components. www.52pickupstudios.com/games #boardgame #ttrpg #cardgame

🚩 HUGE RED FLAG 🚩 … literally. Our brand new 52 Pickup logo, designed by the talented @josietattoos.bsky.social, is a giant banner celebrating 52 Pickup. We’re really proud of 52 Pickup, so much so that we’re rebranding to 52 Pickup Studios. patreon.com/posts/deal-march-2026-153068824

I wonder if it's easy to tell what posts are written by one of us, and what posts are written by the other

Physical mini-zines sent in the mail every month. Imagine receiving an original tabletop game rulebook in the mail every four weeks! Our amazing Stakeholder-tier members get this, and other perks. This month we've sent out the amazing Echo City. patreon.com/posts/february-mini-152718745

One of the deadly sins of the game designer... #gamedev #indiedev 🎲✂️

In this month's designer notes @sgt-shivers.bsky.social talks about the process of designing a solo dungeon crawler. And we talk about the process of working and publishing someone else for the first time! patreon.com/posts/152429412 🎲✂️ #indiedev #gamedev #sologame

We're doing a giveaway! Answer the question at the bottom of the post before for a chance to get free ✨happy mail✨ from us. www.patreon.com/posts/152225...

The board games, card games, and TTRPGs we design all use stuff you already own. This means we don't need to ship anything to you! You just bring playing cards, dice, chess sets and/or friends! We make our most recent game free for a month on Patreon. patreon.com/c/CitySquareStudios #indiegames

One of my favourite things is editing the bio to increase the number whenever we publish a new tabletop game

Has anyone made a spiritual successor to their own TTRPG? Like not a direct sequel or anything, but it has a direct link building on the themes and ideas. Looking to do one of these soon, trying to hit the sweet spot between different but not so different it's unrecognisable. #ttrpg #ttrpgdesign

Working on this project was a blast! Check it out along with all the other fantastic 52 Pickup games!

Issue 35 out! Free this month! Echo City: solo pen & paper dungeon crawl. Phantom skyscraper, floors generate as you go, psy-creatures, something worse at the top. First 52 Pickup game not by us. @sgt-shivers.bsky.social nailed it. patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-151354903 #sologame #indiegame

You sense a strange power emanating from above. Find it. It’s your only way back to reality! The next issue of 52 Pickup, a monthly series of original tabletop games, is coming very soon… 🃏🎲♟️

It's an endless cycle... #gamedev #indiedev 🎲✂️

Get in quick! Our latest original tabletop game, Nickname, is FREE for less than a week! At the end of the month, Nickname will then join the 33 other issues in the 52 Pickup: Complete Collection. patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-149542022 #partygame #boardgame #tabletop

It's been a while since I put together a game dev bingo! Have you scored a bingo this month? #indiedev #gamedev #ttrpg 🎲✂️

the player who breaks your game is doing you a favour

Your game will mean something to someone, even if it's just you. Make it anyway. #indiedev #gamedev

Thinking about the "elusive shift" and when it's recognised it happened and when it didn't. To put it another way, when a new type of game was born as opposed to a variant of an existing type. Board Wargames vs Miniature Wargaming - Neither, I *think*. Seems to be parallel development.

Why can't everything just work out? #gamedev #indiedev #boardgamedesign 🎲✂️

I love dice because they let me blame physics for my design decisions. #gamedev #indiedev

THEY'RE AVAILABLE! Go get them while they're hot at travel-games.co.uk

Going on a bit of a learning sprint for user experience and interface, bit of a break from the usual game design reading

Phew, just finished folding the latest batch of physical mini-zines! We send physical zines to our top-tier Patreon members every 4 weeks. Y’all are the best ❤️

Thinking a lot about hexagons lately... #boardgame #meme #catan

Would you rather have a two player TCG style standard playing card game, or a two player chess variant game #boardgame #cardgame #tabletop

Chaosium coming back to NZ! Saw them when they came last year, we were tabling at the same convention (@waikatorpg.co.nz's Convergence)! #ttrpg #nz

I'm really excited to announce that Dollhouse has launch date! The Kickstarter will be live on the 16th (in two weeks), and I'll be sharing more of the details for it in the time between! If you're interested in my work, please give the page a follow! www.kickstarter.com/projects/125...

Heyyyyy just so you know its my birthday as of 15 minutes ago and I am the most specialist boy in the whole wide world. If you wanna make me happy on my birthday check out my games fluffytheterrible6.itch.io/tides (more Below)

#indiedev #gamedev #boardgamedev #ttrpgdesign

Tiny Library 2: d8 Modern Slimes

Our Bluesky followers and Patreon members are neck and neck at the moment!

Our Kickstarter for Briscola Chiamata is fully funded! :) This is a game that was reviewed by Shut Up and Sit Down some years ago. Check out the link below to find out more about our campaign, which makes the game easier to learn www.kickstarter.com/projects/adr... www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0an...

Monthly Physical Zines Set 📮 This week we sent out the latest batches of physical 52 Pickup mini-zine rulebooks containing original tabletop games like ‘Tavern Ship’ and ‘Nickname’.

Appreciate everyone who gives us feedback on our games, it helps us improve in the future, and because of how we release them we may be able to update and publish new stuff for them quickly!

Strategy thinking after the first game: - steel helms: hold objectives or enemies, not much else - cavaliers: throw at the big threat - cannon: maybe does something - marshal: support, pick off unsupported targets early, be more aggressive late game #aos #ageofsigmar #tabletop

Let's talk about there's a '+' in our "34+ original games...". We publish games monthly as part of the 52 Pickup zine series, the 34 number is the (current as of Jan 2026) number of mainline issues there are. Hey that's easy, 34 means 34 game zines! Well not quite... 🧵1/5 #boardgame #indiegame

Trying something new. It's annoying when you see a cool game jam and there's only 3 days to finish it! So I'm working on a monthly Game Jam Alert to make it easier to keep up to date #ttrpg #rpgdesign #gamejams #ttrpgradar

A very lovely collab with the amazing Fe! Go check out our little game of being swept up 💙💙💙

Calling all TTRPG actual play shows!

I don't mean to be that person, but big things coming soon, watch this space...

Our latest tabletop game just dropped! ‘Nickname’ is a pen and paper social deduction game about giving your friends whacky nicknames and skilfully splitting the room. The game is available now, FREE for the first month! patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-149542022 #boardgame #indiegame #tabletop

First game done! Only lost by 1 point after being tied going into the last round, I'm assured this is a close game #tabletop #aos #miniatures

Pleased to meet you... Hope you guessed my name. The next issue of the 52 Pickup tabletop game series is coming very soon! patreon.com/posts/sneak-peek-52-34-149229054 #indiegame #boardgame

All assembled! In time for the first game I have penciled in tomorrow #tabletop #aos #miniatures

Doing our planning for our next months of releases! Hope you'll enjoy all the great board games, TTRPGs, and solo games we're lining up (some with new collaborations which we're very excited about). #boardgame #ttrpg

I'm torn by the fact that: 1. I want to design games where you roll massive amounts of dice 2. I want to design games that don't alienate players that don't own massive amounts of dice #gamedev 🎲✂️

Issue #33 of 52 Pickup, “Tavern Ship”, is FREE for just ONE MORE WEEK! Free-tier members can access the rules. Paid members get bonus rules plus full access to 33+ (and counting) original tabletop games designed to be played with stuff you’ll have around the house! #indiegame #sologame #boardgame

If I weren’t designing games, I’d be playing games. 🎲✂️ #boardgames

Hey you 🫵 yeah you 🫵 You can make that game! You can start to make that game! You can! #gamedev #indiedev #ttrpgdev #boardgamedesign