May 2026 be better, safer, and fairer. May all that was good in 2025 be better in 2026. May all that was bad in 2025 be things we put our efforts towards improving.

Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.

Goodbye 2025. There was a lot of bad stuff but also some good stuff too. Happy to be looking forward to 2026:

Avengers: Doomsday… all the Avengers are parents now and get advice from Ant Man. It’s a lot of cardboard forts and card tricks.

My final video for 2025 compiles the lessons I learnt about games design this year, from rethinking how I work, what I want to design, and the people who I couldn't have done without. Thank you everyone who has supported the channel this year, and have a wonderful 2026! youtu.be/62zLZONQc4Q 🎲✂️

That's another year wrapped! Whew. It was a rough one. Good games, though. Anyway, here's the index for Best Week 2025, complete with all five lists and thirty amazing titles. Feel free to share. Or don't. I'm not your mom. spacebiff.com/2025/12/31/b...

🔥*internal screaming*🔥 sticker available! mcapriglione.art

It’s so awesome that the folks @cardboardherald.bsky.social are covering indie and self-published games now!! Go support them and show them you want more of this content by watching their thing, liking the thing, subscribing to the thing—do the thing!! ✨

Some great learning here from an excellent and thoughtful designer: 🎲✂️

At long last, we have arrived at the final day of Best Week 2025. To the surprise of myself-minus-a-few-years, today I'm celebrating the best games that let me spend a few quality minutes with my daughters. Read the list here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/30/b...

Today is the fifth day of Best Week! Did you know that 2025 contained an unusually high number of games about human relationships? An unusually high number of *good* games about human relationships? Now you do! Read about them here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/29/b...

For this, the third day of Best Week 2025, we're doing something peculiar by celebrating the best titles from a single publisher / design collective. That's right, it's DVC Games and Jasper Beatrix! Read the full list here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/28/b...

Hey folks! I'm a concept artist & illustrator with over 10 years of experience. I've worked at 343, Ubisoft, Bungie, Adidas and more. Looking for fulltime work but always open to freelance! www.artstation.com/belgianboolean You can always help me pay bills through my Ko-fi ko-fi.com/belgianboolean

Best Week continues! On this our hallowed second day, we're celebrating the best board games of 2025 that stare into the abyss. Read the full list here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/27/b...

Morel coming to say good morning to you all:

I'm Kim, a fantasy illustrator looking for work/commissions. So if you want a banger mage come to me~! Portfolio: www.kstramat.com Email: [email protected] Bi-Monthly Newsletter: www.kstramat.com/newsletter Support me: patreon.com/kstramat or ko-fi.com/kstramat

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

My first video looking back at 2025 - this one focussed on the state of the board game industry and what it means for designers. A very happy holiday season to everyone! youtu.be/XH4o2alaNoA 🎲✂️

It has begun. Best Week. The only year-end list that matters. And for the first day of Best Week 2025, we're celebrating the board games that transported us to new places, showed us wondrous sights, or used their visuals to illuminate a topic. Read here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/26/b...

Something that’s been giving me so much peace is the idea that we all have limited tokens of attention, so when we give strangers and trolls our attention, we’re giving them our limited tokens, depriving our actual friends. Being good to our real friends means cutting out the people pleading.

I didn't even know this was on Itch. The original if not first "the game is the rules" game; go get it!

I’d say this advice can be transposed to any creative practice, not just writing. And it’s great advice. 🧡

2025 Retrospective! Gonna do a quick thread looking back on the Junk Food Games 2025 journey. It was a busy year! Check it out below ⬇️🧵

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

If anything could use a Streisand effect, it's this

www.affinity.studio/blog/fcr Attention older affinity users. That free font collection is now available for you. (You can get it from the welcome screen in v2 apparently)

Are you looking for a last minute gift for a game designer in your life? We asked TTGDA members for their favorite tools they would recommend as gifts. They've been collected into our first ever TTGDA Gift Guide! tinyurl.com/3z3u9umh

adopt express (sketchbook drawing & digital color)

Tabletop gamers, this Ransom Note is for you (regardless of pronoun) you're beautiful

Willow was at first pretty uncertain why we brought this creature into our lives, but I’m happy to inform you that she and Morel are now good buddies. #FarmLife

My retrospective for 2025. I do one of these each year and find it a helpful way to look back and see all that I've accomplished. This year's was less "full"... and more difficult to write, but that's ok. It's part of this journey we all share. 🎲✂️

Quantic Foundry does legit trustworthy analysis of gamer behaviour, and these survey results are shockingly negative toward genAI, to the point where I’m more hopeful that data driven mobile and AAA backpedals on their uses.

Game designers who "can't draw" but want art for prototypes... beyond the wealth of public domain stuff available (there's lots) there are artists who make stuff that's VERY affordable and Itch has a ton on sale right now. #NoGenAI itch.io/game-assets/...

I've got a bundle going on at itch! $3 for all my games and stuff! itch.io/s/175176/win... Also, grab yourself the totally free micro-choose-your-own-adventure! ajstichter.itch.io/a-brochure-i...

DRINK TRAVEL BUY .. .. fall

As a game designer who has worked with artists on literally hundreds of pieces, virtually every single one of them was a reference photo or some horrible, HORRIBLE sketch followed by about three sentences at most and I got exactly what I wanted like 95% of the time or maybe more.

Hi all - got some bad news a few days ago. I'm going to be laid off from my board game designer role at the Uzzle at the end of the year. I'm really proud of what the team and I accomplished over the last year. It was a great year of professional growth for me as a game designer...

For no reason whatsoever, gonna remind that you can support your local trans girl by buying my games directly from my lovely publishers! High Tide www.underdoggames.com/products/hig... Phantasmic buttonshygames.com/products/pha...

The Raccoons remains a beloved Canadian television show 40 years after it debuted. But the story of The Evergreen Forest and its inhabitants all began with a Christmas Special that aired in 1980. This is the story of The Christmas Raccoons. 🧵 1/12

My first iteration of a new #boardgames design. 🎲✂️

A4 prints of the Welsh landscape jonathanestore.bigcartel.com

Tannhauser Gate

Unknowable

I've seen lots of acceleration due to the use of AI: acceleration of inequality, acceleration of climate catastrophe, acceleration of slop, acceleration of trust collapse, acceleration of scams, acceleration of model collapsed acceleration of misinformation, acceleration of drought

No, there isn’t a way. There just isn’t. GenAI is poisoning the water supply of Oregon. It’s boiling inland seas.This tech, at scale, is an anti life equation, and all to spit out stolen collages of other people’s work to plug into a pipeline that has to be fixed by an underpaid real human later.

Big Puppy Energy #FarmLife

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Agree completely - great video. If you're remotely on the fence about AI in board games, please take a few minutes to watch Pam's video!

I made a We Heart Games t-shirt! I don't know how many people would want one, but now both of you can order one. 😅 cottonbureau.com/p/D6RRMG/shi...