SO excited!! Wyrmspan is coming to digital. Check out the incredible trailer below! Easter egg in the comments 🙂

Ok, I was trying to read an article about the upcoming DC mayoral primary. TF are these demographic groups, and why has AI been allowed to ruin everything

I had a great time chatting with Mollie, and the her article is fantastic! Definitely worth a read & some soul searching.

I think about this a lot with regards to my own situation. I work (very!) hard, but I'm acutely that in a lot of ways, my life has been a series of lucky breaks that got me to where I am.

Thank you @stickydoodler.bsky.social! I tried to consolidate everything I've learned about soft skills into an hour long presentation. Hope folks find it helpful :-)

One of my JoCo cruise highlights was snagging an advanced copy of Shades of Forever by @chriswarcraft.bsky.social. I thoroughly enjoyed it & highly recommend that sci-fi/humor/video game fans check it out when it's released later this year. Review below! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Love this April Fool's tradition. A real bright spot in a "holiday" that otherwise falls incredibly flat for me. I just wish it hadn't sold out in <1 hour!

i bet it all on "will the strait of hormuz open by april" on polymarket. desperate, i launch a solo mission to open the strait. piloting a boat down the persian gulf, i immediately get blown up by a mine and die. "first person to get blown up by a mine in the strait of hormuz" pays out on march 31st

This is true, though I'm pretty sure my pendulum swings back and forth every few hours. I was feeling like an idiot all day and now I feel brilliant! (Likely back to idiot tomorrow. So the cycle goes)

Big thanks to Gene for this thread! A lot of my game design advice (particularly around soft skills!) is boiled down & summarized here!!

I'm about to flip the table. I'm reviewing a PDF of game graphics & am trying to add and review comments. Every time I hover over one of my own goddam comments, Adobe *replaces it with an incorrect AI summary of the underlying graphic.* Every AI setting I can find in Adobe is TURNED OFF. Jesus

There is so much moral rot in mainstream media. I shouldn't still be surprised by it, and yet...

This is so charming.

The success of Wyrmspan is absolutely incredible and humbling! I'm so grateful to Jamey, Elizabeth, and the whole Stonemaier team for the opportunity to be a part of it :-)

More than I expected, honestly. At least only like 80% of them are trash

Becoming a billionaire requires an extreme amount of selfishness and callousness. No surprise that once you're a billionaire, those traits remain.

Ok ngl, kind of obsessed with this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpHi...

Can't wait!

I'm finding Mamdani so inspiring. This PSA below is informative, upbeat, and clearly sets expectations. 10/10

Incredible, inspiring, and sobering.

This is hilarious. Colorado is just on a whole different planet

Just saw that Apiary was nominated for a BGA award! Very cool! boardgamearena.com/awards

I had a lot of angst in leaving government. I WANTED to make a principled stand & go out in a blaze of glory. But there was never any stand to take - everything they did was malicious & haphazard illegality that changed every hour. There was never a plan to disrupt, & it was comply or be fired.

Absolutely lovely review of Apiary from @werenotwizards.com : www.werenotwizards.co.uk/apiary-board... so amazing to see the game still getting love 2 years later!

The closest thing I have to a New Year's resolution is this: Every day, I am going to write down one board game idea. No matter how garbage or nonsense or terrible I think it is, I will write it down in a cute little notebook I got for the purpose. 1/3

Fun/frivolous question! I finally got a nice tea kettle that can steep tea at (just about) any temperature. Now I should probably get some tea to match. What brands or types do you recommend? My favorite teas are generally white teas (or rooibos!), though good ol' black tea is great too!

Hello and welcome new followers!! If you aren’t aware, Bluesky has a feature called “starter packs” that help jumpstart your account by following some of the best posters on a particular topic, curated by the creator of the pack! Here is one I created in the past, with a lot of great people in it!

Hype time: there's a game coming from Connie Vogelmann (@connievdc.bsky.social) in the a couple years that is pure excite. No details - it's not my place, and please don't bug her. But I'm excited, because she's a designer I knew was gonna be a superstar within minutes of meeting

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!

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Last night we had @connievdc.bsky.social's Wyrmspan out again. It's such a great take on the original and worthy in any collection alongside the original. #boardgames

It’s Number 3 now in my Top 40 at 40 and it’s a worker placement classic - APIARY @stonemaiergames.com #boardgames #play

Check out this article! It talks about my feelings on the Trump administration (I don't hold back), and why I decided to take the plunge to full-time design & dev work, even in light of tariffs & the current economy.

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Look I'm not particularly sentimental about history but this gives me (bad) chills. I get the sense that half the country doesn't even know this is happening.

Lovely write up of the Apiary Expansion! Spot on! [And ahem, it's possible that we tried to decrease seed cards just a wee bit :-)]

Poppy agrees. Put that phone down and give her some pats!

This was a fun chat with Jamey! I recommend checking it out! Though I apologize for speaking approximately 5,000 words a minute. If anyone has recs on how to slow down, I'd love to hear them!

First Wyrmspan expansion is coming out next week! I'm super excited about this expansion - it introduces a bunch of awesome new dragons (including teenaged dragons!) plus introduces a very cool pass-on-draft mechanism.

Good, but sobering thread. Huge thanks to Elizabeth for continuing to raise awareness about JUST how male dominated game design is.

Each day feels harder to focus. To break down just one issue: the Trump takeover of DC is disquieting, from a lot of different perspectives. 1/

Everything this administration is doing in DC is trying to provoke military-on-civilian violence in DC.

[Note to future Connie.] [On Repeat.] If the cards are too complicated to prototype, the cards are too complicated to play. If the cards are too complicated to prototype, the cards are too complicated to play. If the cards are too complicated to prototype...🎲✂️

Player interaction: a deep conversation about different ways players can interact, and how designers can use those types of interactions in their game designs, via @meeplesyrupshow.bsky.social @connievdc.bsky.social

Just walked out of my office for the last time. Bittersweet. I'll post more next week (once I'm formally off the Federal government payroll). Full time board games, here I come!

Vantage is live on the Stonemaier Games webstores! We're ready to ship this cooperative, open-world, non-campaign game to you over the next few weeks. stonemaiergames.com/games/vantage/

Sunday night Space Bees with #Apiary from @stonemaiergames.com and @connievdc.bsky.social #boardgames #tabletopgames

Highly recommend Kpop Demon Hunters. Very well done, full of heart, and the music is 🔥

If you're free tonight at 9 pm EST, tune into Meeple Syrup & ask your most burning questions about player interaction! www.youtube.com/live/ouJNxXm...

In the alternative, read Project Hail Mary first! Just don't watch the trailer. Such a great book!