Soooo I made silly mission for Sunderfolk about helping a very hungry beetle collect their snacks 🪲

Previous winners have received more than 100 nominations and three dozen awards at festivals on four continents. Now it's your turn! The Tabletop Arts Fund is proud to announce our 2026 Actual Play Grants. 📅 Submissions close October 31, 2025. 👉 Apply now: apply.tabletoparts.fund/ActualPlay2026

Unionized workers with @kickstarterunited.org are poised to strike if the crowdfunding platform's management doesn't approve their new contract. The union has demanded a four-day workweek, minimum living wage salaries, and protections against generative AI encroachment.

For today's article, I'm just griping about why "fun" is a bad word for critics. spacebiff.com/2025/09/30/a...

The golden rule: do unto others as you’d have them do unto you, but if the rule on a card conflicts with this rule, follow the rules on the card

The preview/signup page for my upcoming bluffing game Phantasmic 🃏🔮 is up on the @buttonshy.bsky.social website! If you want to be updated when the game goes live—go sign up to be notified!! ✨

It looks like Osmosis (2025) by Agnès Largeaud is the 1,000th game added to this list on @boardgamegeek.com! 🎉 Thanks to @mcfluffy.bsky.social for that one, and to several others who contributed yesterday, including @bartgamedesign.bsky.social and @sblendito.bsky.social! Keep 'em coming!

The Ministry of Lost Things from @postcurious.bsky.social is back for Case 2: Finders Keypers! More puns, more beautiful artwork and even more puzzles to solve?! You won’t want to miss this one, which launches tomorrow on Kickstarter. A full, spoiler-free review of the game is available now!

Another awesome review of our upcoming Kickstarter. I'm so thrilled with how this one turned out - the pair at PostCurious is amazing and an absolute delight to work with! Link to the Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

French competition which has celebrated unpublished board game designs for almost 50 years unveils 2025 winners: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

“There’s no shortage of creativity in Vietnam. What we lack are bridges”: Vietnam’s blossoming board game design scene goes global via first Road to Essen competition: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... @rf-seattle.bsky.social @spielessen.bsky.social

The Plot Die can initially feel like another thing to worry about, but once you start using it, it can make your life as a GM so much easier. I've loved to see how systematizing player participation in storytelling can pull them into the game even in a more "traditional" system.

New comic! Never let your characters know that you have a backup ready... 🤫 You can read this week's blog post at www.semicoop.com/comic/mommy-... #mothership

I had a lovely time interviewing @nopunincluded.com for this week's podcast! youtu.be/wMI5YpJQu9U

Fourteenish hours of playing Distant Skies made for a very good weekend 🛩️

Daybreak continues to be an incredible game. A holistic view of solving climate change (as is right and proper) which includes social movements as well. You can scan every card that takes you to the Daybreak site for further info

I have another puzzle game Kickstarting next week, working again with the amazing duo at PostCurious! Check out this stellar review of the first game in the series.

the translated editions are arriving and there's a fresh wave of people saying how much they're enjoying the game and understanding what we were trying to do with it and taht's so satisfying omg

Pretty much anything anyone ever cites as "always bad in game design" I will fight them on. The longer I've designed games, the more I've come to believe that context is ALWAYS King. ALWAYS. There is a situation in which EVERY "Never do X" rule for game design should be broken.

In July Igromag’s (Ukrainian board game publisher) warehouse was hit by Russian drone strike. They’ve got a fundraiser for children affected by the war. Please check it out. desktopgames.com.ua/ua/article/s...

From the archives of #Sunderfolk arrives some character concepts! 🍄 We were lucky enough to work with amazing people who helped on these designs, such as Tyler Jacobson (Ogre sketch) and April Prime (Fungi Folk)! 🌠 #SunderfolkArtWeek

Ep57 is up featuring Paula Deming of @thingsgetdicey.bsky.social and @watchitplayed.tv No farts in this episode. We actually get a bit serious and discuss women in gaming. shelfstablecast.com/57-ft-paula-...

Today's first dev highlight is Lindsey Crabtree, a 3D artist for #Sunderfolk! ✨ Her focuses are 3D Environments and retexturing models. You may recognize a few, including our determined Bug Brigade! 🐛 You can check out her work here: sflk.gg/lindseycrabtree #SunderfolkArtWeek

Next up is the 3D Art Lead, Scott Knapp! ✨ If you've seen a model or environment in #Sunderfolk, chances are he added in the final textures and lighting! 💡 View his work here: sflk.gg/scott-knapp #SunderfolkArtWeek

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

woa it me! we put a lot of love into the innovative controls of sunderfolk it's really a cool new way to play games! i love watching people experience it for the first time you can trial the game for free to see for yourself! :)

I’ll be at PAX West starting tomorrow! Come say hi if you’re going! Now that all copies of Darkness at the Brink of Ohio have been shipped out to backers and contributors, we’ll also be selling copies of the game at the booth too 🎶

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

One of the inspirations for #Sunderfolk is... a remote control? Lead UX Designer Hasiba takes us through a mini Sunder-history session!

Possible covid exposure means games night was online so finally got back to @sunderfolk.com. It continues to *just work* in delightful ways. Most ability cards having multiple actions and broadly working on enemies and allies alike make for some wildly creative tactical tricks.

[briefly emerges in the summer like a cicada that only screams about games I work on] I'll be answering questions about Sunderfolk during this reddit AMA in just a bit here, if anyone has any 😈

Our r/NintendoSwitch AMA is now live! Join us and ask us your burning questions! ❤️‍🔥 ✨sflk.gg/nsw-ama

Write-up of a college course where the final project involved making a Wingspan card!

I'm also importing my twilight imperium x rupaul's drag race meme. This is "me holding mecatol rex at 13 points"

new twilight imperium meme

demoed the mass effect board game at the all aboard event in the city and it was another hit. everyone liked it. some choice quotes finally, a science fiction dungeon crawler really easy to pick up all the little details that refer back to the original game you really thought of everything

[briefly emerges in the summer like a cicada that only screams about games I work on] I'll be answering questions about Sunderfolk during this reddit AMA in just a bit here, if anyone has any 😈

Want to help design a mission in #Sunderfolk? 🧩 Join our Discord and get ready to help leave your own mark in Arden! Join us: discord.gg/sunderfolk Full details: sflk.gg/design-mission See you soon!

I love that Daggerheart did this. I'm also honored to have our work on Genesys cited right at the top of the special appreciations! @samgregorstewart.bsky.social @lindevi.bsky.social @danlovatclark.bsky.social @maxcbrooke.bsky.social

Equally important card-based activities at hand in this household

this game looks so good omg. @chyphend.bsky.social is the lead level designer on it, and she should be so proud!

Our colleagues in the Vox Media Union have put together a Go Fund Me. Please, if you've enjoyed what we do... If I've ever helped you in some way... If you've ever loved something more because of what we've written... Please give what you can. The next few weeks and months are going to be hard.

here's that Starter Pack of Polygon people you were looking for bsky.app/starter-pack...

For context, I wrote for this book.

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