In Uh Oh, Dino!, you are playing cooperatively as a herd of dinos trying to rescue your baby dino eggs. We really wanted your dino pawns to be tactilely fun and visually endearing. For a long time during the game's development, the dinos had unique butt "cutie marks" similar to (1/3)

Every game makes you an offer: Step into the magic circle and become... something...someone. In #DiatomsTheGame we wanted to offer you the chance to follow in the footsteps of Victorian naturalists who practiced an obscure artform- creating microscopic mosaics out of single-cell algae.

The evolution of Uh Oh, Dino!- our cute and chaotic dinosaur co-op! The photos obviously show how the art has evolved. More subtly reflected in these images is how much gameplay iteration happened during development.

Our upcoming Uh Oh, Dino! project is officially a Kickstarter’s Projects We Love 💕 So excited to bring this new expansion to life and share Dino with more folks! Signup to follow along at next.ludoliminal.com or on Kickstarter #kickstarter #coming #boardgames #dinosaurs

4 days until Protospiel Online August 2025! 🎲✂️ Get your badge and join Discord attendee only areas to get support from your team captain! Doors open Friday Aug 22 at noon US Eastern for 60 solid hours of online playtesting.

Get ready! We are returning to Kickstarter this fall with an expansion for Uh Oh, Dino! that adds raptors and falling space rocks to the gameplay. We are beyond excited to share Dino with more people. Follow along! next.ludoliminal.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

Want to play some upcoming-but-as-yet-unpublished games from Pittsburgh game designers? You're invited to Pittsburgh Playtest, this Sunday, 1-3:30pm. Learn more and RSVP at PittsburghPlaytest.com. We have a few slots open this Sunday for designers wanting to bring their games (digital or physical).

Sabrina talks boothing with Emily from @pinkhawkgames.bsky.social and JC from @howtoteach.bsky.social. Booth layout, banners, scheduling, merch, and other boothy things appear in this convo with Jason from the Building the Game podcast. buildingthegamepodcast.com/episode-688-...

Working on something that I’m not quite ready to share yet but, lo, these are the best prototype cards 🎲✂️🎲 #finalart #shipit

It's GenCon week in the board game world. We aren't there, but since it's a month past Origins, I've been reflecting on how that first booth experience went. We're sharing a few reflection posts on Origins 2025, starting with one of the juiciest ones- the financials!

Want to turn pressure into progress? Learn how the fast-paced chaos of #GameJams can supercharge your team's creativity & output. 👉 Join @Autodesk and GGJ on August 5 & 7 for a live roundtable! buff.ly/EAjiAV0 buff.ly/CQ39aaj

This isn't mine.. but it does exist and yes I'm jealous.

Come play new games being created by Pittsburgh game makers! This is part of a larger event with game-playing 1-7. Playtesting games will be split across two sessions, 1-3pm and 3-5pm. pittsburghplaytest.com

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“Supporting GGJ means investing in future creators. Some of the best ideas come from jam weekends.” — GGJ Sponsor #WorldsLargestGameJam

Excited to announce our next Kickstarter coming later this summer.....new versions of two Knizia classics, both with art from Ian O'Toole: RA the Dice Game and Rheinlander! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

Hedge Mage ( @floodgategames.bsky.social ) is a wild upcoming game in which you're placing tiles on your garden to block your opponent from stealing gnomes off your board, while simultaneously generating movement so that you can steal gnomes off of your neighbor's board.

"GGJ 2025 was my 40th game jam & my 9th time participating in GGJ. I don't ever want to miss a Global Game Jam. Year-to-year, it gets my blood pumping and makes my heartbeat. GGJ reminds me that making games is hard, but, gosh, is it satisfying and worth giving it your all." - GGJ Jammer #GameJam

Wooo! This correlates with the steady stream of folks to our booth and @25thcentury.games to buy the game! We are happy so many folks got to enjoy it during the show!

#originsgamefair couldn’t have gone better. We sold every game we brought! Special thanks to my great boothmates, @emilykeepskitties.bsky.social from Pink Hawk Games and JC from youtube.com/@howtoteacht... I have to plug them both because you should definitely give both a follow! 🌈

Heyyyyyo Origins! Been having a wonderful time with @ludoliminal.bsky.social! I'll be here EVERY day from 1-4, so be sure to swing by and say hi!

Heading to Origins Game Fair this week? Stop by Booth #1935 to say hello in person!

Mythworks is sponsoring a scavenger hunt at Origins for visiting all of this year's publisher fellows' booths. Come say hello! I will of course be at the Ludoliminal booth, #1935. I was actually clued into the existence of this program AT Origins 2 years ago from one of the fellows that year. ❤

Diatoms will be available at Origins Game Fair at the Ludoliminal booth and at 25th Century Game's booth this week! We also have limited inventory of the beautiful, shiny, wooden tiles upgrade for the game!

"I love that the local gaming community has emerged from the “darkness of bedrooms” thanks to the organization of the local GGJ in 2014." - GGJ Jammer #GameJam #IndieDev #GameDev

Great to see Diatoms getting a review in Paste from @keithlaw.bsky.social. Copies are getting scare out there at the moment while a reprint is in the works. For folks at Origins they will be available at both @ludoliminal.bsky.social and our booths. www.pastemagazine.com/games/board-...

Uh Oh, Dino! is coming to Columbus! We’ll have limited copies of this new cooperative family game available at our booth next week- Stomp on by for a special secret gift 🎁

Origins Game Fair is coming up! 😃 Visit us at booth 1935 for Diatoms & Uh Oh, Dino! games and goodies. And look who is right next door! It’s our friends at @witchesquarrel.bsky.social, the fast 2-player legacy game! They’ll be launching on Kickstarter LIVE during the fair on Friday June 20th! 🎉

"The production of the game is truly superb, and you can tell that everything has been thought through up to the last detail." - Comments on Diatoms from BoardGameGeek.com user

For the first time ever Ludoliminal will have a full booth at a board game convention! Through the GAMA Horizons Fellowship program I have a 10x10 booth at Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio, June 18-22. Stop by booth #1935 and say hello 👋

Diatoms is a beautiful game of tile-laying and pattern matching that, if anything, I wanted to play longer. My review for @pastemagazine.bsky.social: bit.ly/4jj55PF

Just a little silly fun, zooming in and out of the proofs for the wooden dinomeeples in Uh Oh, Dino!

Diatoms turns a weird Victorian art craze into a solid competitive board game that also has a solo campaign. Read Keith Law's review. www.pastemagazine.com/games/board-...

"Gameplay is simple but still has crunchy decisions to make. Production is stellar and I loved the real-life science theme that it has." - quote from Diatoms review on BGG

We appreciate the shops who carry Diatoms! We love to hear that they like the game, and we especially love to hear when a game sells well for them! Support your friendly local game store! If you're in the Providence area, check out The Crypt!

We've just recently added Uh Oh, Dino! to BoardGameGeek.com. I discovered while doing so that there is a whole BGG Family of board games that have "dinomeeples" for components❗ Do you recognize any of these dino games?

throwback clip in my phone photo roll from February when we got our first factory sample of Uh Oh, Dino! I used our new light box to record an unboxing. I was looking down at the game through my iPhone screen and I kept trying to elegantly open the box… and just missing it completely 🤦‍♀️

Wow these photos of Diatoms! 😍 www.instagram.com/boardgamecolors

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Here are a few of the games that will be playtesting at this Sunday's #PlaytestPittsburgh event If you're in #pittsburgh, stop by and #playtest some games by local #gamedesigners pittsburghplaytest.com

The next Pittsburgh Playtest is Sunday May 18th, 1pm at Carnegie Mellon University. Come check out games by Pittsburgh-are designers and publishers. Free to attend and open to all ages. RSVP encouraged but not required to come play games. RSVP by Friday May 16th to bring a game to playtest.

"Gorgeous design and a fresh, unusual theme. My family has loved the several playthroughs so far. " - Diatoms comment from BoardGameGeek.com user #bgg #boardgamegeek #diatomsthegame #diatoms #comments #playerreview #boardgames #gorgeousdesign #freshtheme #thanksforthekindwords

We are excited to share another accolade for #Diatoms! The Spiel Foundation (@thespiel.bsky.social) has awarded Diatoms the Major Fun award for 2025. They review hundreds of games each year and select 10 to recognize as Major Fun!

The latest winner of the Major Fun Award is... Diatoms! Collect and arrange algae samples into colorful microscopic mosaics. Congratulations to designer Sabrina Culyba, @ludoliminal.bsky.social & @25thcentury.games www.majorfun.com/diatoms-is-m...

It's #ThrowbackThursday and today we're reflecting on the journey so far for Diatoms.

Diatoms has been awarded the Mensa Select seal! 🏅 "The Mensa Select seal indicates that a game is original in concept, challenging, and well-designed. Additionally, these games are a good value for the price, easy to comprehend and play, and, above all, fun!"

This Saturday & Sunday Sabrina will be at Buckeye Game Fest in Columbus for some game-playing fun. Diatoms will be there available to play in the game library. One copy of Diatoms will also be available for the Play to Win event!

Diatoms are beautiful, microscopic creatures that live throughout the ocean. Take the role of a Victorian scientist studying these stunning organisms under a microscope in this puzzley game from new publisher @ludoliminal.bsky.social! Stop in at Games by James for your copy today!

In case you missed it... The fun folks over @BluePegPinkPeg discussed Diatoms on their April 13th episode. Check it out at bluepegpinkpeg.com/2025/04/epis...

"Lovely game that gives feels of Calico, Sagrada, and Honey Buzz" - quote from BGG user review of Diatoms It's nice to be mentioned in such good company! 🐈 🎲 🍯 #bgg #boardgamegeek #diatomsthegame #diatoms #comments #playerreview #boardgames #goodcompany #goodfeels