This whole thread is worth reading. “Be cheap and build your audience slowly“ is where I knew I had to be and Im fine with that for now. And I’m still in the “hundreds of copies” range, not the “thousands of copies” range. 🎲✂️

Got to play this a few times today and amended these rules: - start with # of face up cards on table equal to # of players - NO wraparound - No looking at your hand before The game starts With those, it’s pretty fun!

Today is the last day of this sale: get 'em while they're hot, etc

I’m sleepy but also like to lick things

I've been working on a free, open source (FOSS) virtual tabletop program aimed at designers (using Godot). Over the last few months I've been focusing on component creation. I'm looking for feedback and collaborators - please consider joining the team! youtu.be/f3gy7jlzHdk?...

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

We have launched PNP Hero at The Game Crafter. With the closing of PNP Arcade, we wanted to make sure people were aware of another place they can go to get Print & Plays. Visit http://www.pnphero.com to view what we have available so far, with more to come!

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

Sinbad once fistbumped me at Macworld Expo in SF...

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I’m excited to announce that Heavenly Bodies, my self-published release from Indie Games Night Market 2025, has been signed to a publisher! ✨ There will finally be more than 50 copies in the world!! Stay tuned for more details to come! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

Hey game designer chums, don’t care how big the check is. If I see your name on a table top or board game related to this we’re not cool any more.

Hey y'all. A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews. Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂

A reminder: this is an Irishman with valid papers speaking about how he's being held in US concentration camps. If you don't have to go to the US, do not go to the US. "GDC" is not "have to go". One denial at the border is going to mark you for life, and that's the best of the bad outcomes.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

This is one hell of a public service announcement from Mr Wild that I can very much get behind...

“Please enjoy the museum”: Relooted is OUT NOW! Please share!

No one should be creating partnerships with HP at this point given the ways JK Rowling is spending her money to actively harm our trans friends. Hopefully Avalon Hill, a game studio within Hasbro, will steer free of this nonsense. I'll reach out to them and put in my 2 cents.

The article on @blockcollectives.bsky.social and Upper Deck has dropped on Rascal!! Go check it out, and spread the word to others who may not know about these issues!!

Found this in my screenshots folder and completely forgot about this "Jettison" game idea. Came out of my "word of the day" ongoing design challenge method. I still haven't tried it:

These are stunning. Be sure to click through and see the rest of the images in the thread:

🥳 The sale at The Game Crafter is now live! Most of my games are discounted. If you missed out on the #Crownfell crowd sale, or had your eye on any of these other games, now is a great time: www.thegamecrafter.com/designers/we...

A good exercise! Underline/highlight ALL the terms in your rulebook that are specific to your game... could be very eye-opening. 🎲✂️

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game. Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era. The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

Today I delve into the topic of balance in games, and discuss why there might be some much more important things to do than optimising for a perfectly balanced game. I also look at feelings that players might ascribe to imbalance, but that are actually caused elsewhere. youtu.be/7fpbTsZI3EI 🎲✂️

ExoShip, my solo game about overthrowing an authoritarian government on a generation ship, is on sale now!

This is a huge bundle of physical games, RPGs, and game assets; definitely check it out. Plus it's a great cause:

🥳 The sale at The Game Crafter is now live! Most of my games are discounted. If you missed out on the #Crownfell crowd sale, or had your eye on any of these other games, now is a great time: www.thegamecrafter.com/designers/we...

Be careful how you pay for advertising out there, folks. 🤨

This! Finishing games takes different skills than starting games. It requires prioritization and making hard choices. It teaches you to let go.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

HOWDY Y'ALL!! You may know me from my art on Monument Valley 2, Assemble with Care and Alba - and soon to be Monument Valley 3!!! Lovely to make your acquaintance here in the skylands 👋

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Is it bad if your stock is down almost 40% over a year despite quadrupling down on AI during a stock market bubble?

Today's 🎲✂️ observation after judging 10 @cardboardedison.com entries: Strive for high coherence across your components, mechanics, and theme. When all 3 align, the mechanics are easier to learn, it's satisfying to use the components, and players feel immersed in the world.

Take control of your mind. Start thinking for free! See and read the full comic on penny-arcade.com ! #AISlop #WriteForFree #ThinkForYourself #AIisAGrift #comedy #foryou

Thinking about starting up a weekly solo #Crownfell challenge, playable online, with ranked difficulty. Any interest in that kind of thing?

a tiny tiny loveletter to locks and keys, thank you for safekeeping and safecracking <3 3x4" watercolor, colored pencil and graphite

Do I know any South Asian game writers/narrative designers looking for a full-time contract?

Oh hey! New games are up for preorder at www.newmillindustries.com! The Fluffy Rite is an oddball trick taker in which there are no ranks on the cards - you play two suited cards together to form teddy bears (illustrated by my 16 year old son) and you're aiming to win the second-most tricks.

11 days since Upper Deck made their ~nothing~ response taking ZERO accountability for their actions against the trans community. We’re watching @upperdeckent.bsky.social Your refusal to respond to us, blocking and deleting all discourse around you, doesn’t absolve you of the problems you created.

Reminder here’s some adobe alternatives, Because FUCK ADOBE….

Adobe making a great example that using proprietary software anywhere in your development is a massive liability, even if you fork over buckets of money. Why should people invest time and money learning your software if you just do this with no recourse.

They should be forced to open source it, it shouldn't be legal to just turn off software thousands of people rely on.

back in the day, companies could get by with legacy programs and one dedicated IT specialist that knew the program in and out. But if it's on the cloud, it can just... disappear! That's it! Your entire company's infrastructure gone in an instant! This and the forced win11 update is disastrous.

A how-to-play video for my upcoming game Hard Drive, highlighting how easy to learn yet deep this race game is. Simple: "Roll 3 dice, assign them to move down the course," but Hacks, Mods, Drifts, and more elevate that simple gameplay into a challenging and exciting race! youtu.be/0zoh0XZO3Bk?...

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I am regularly grateful that “iheartgames.com” was taken when I first signed up for a hosting plan in the early 2000s and I was trying to think of a domain name I might possibly want to use in the future.

Turns out I'm not the only one who thinks "make ten games" is a good idea 😅👌