Community Newsletter Issue 52 Read the full issue hello.protospiel.online/posts/lunarp... 🎲✂️ Want the next issue as soon as it drops? Join the newsletter and get your Digital Prototyping Tools Comparison Guide as a sign up gift! 🎁🤓🎁 hello.protospiel.online

A question from a fellow designer from Brazil that doesn't know much about European board game design market 🎲✂️ Around Essen time, is there any good time to send publishers your online pitches? When is better to pitch from now to the end of the year? (Is there a answer for this? haha)

Here's this week's Minigame Monday puzzle featuring titles in our website's prototype listing for May 2025 protospiel.online/jigsaw-may-2... Can you spot a game you know? #jigsawpuzzle #minigamemondaystream 🎲✂️

Here's this week's Minigame Monday puzzle featuring prototype titles playtested during our May 2025 convention weekend protospiel.online/wordsearch-m... Can you spot a game you know? #wordsearch #minigamemondaystream 🎲✂️

New design challenge from @buttonshy.bsky.social …! Make an 18-card cozy game! Join us, all you 🎲✂️ folks:

From first prototype to production ✂️🎲✂️

The Hippodice Competition has gone live for 2026! I had a game come second place in 2018 and it was immediately signed with a publisher, so it's worth checking out! 🎲✂️ hippodice-competition.net/en/info-part...

2 days until Protospiel Online August 2025! 🎲✂️ Rapid iteration and digital playtesting starts Friday Aug 22 at noon US Eastern. Join us for for 60 solid hours of online playtesting with live moderator support.

Hey y’all! Reminder that we will be hosting in person playtesting at Redcap’s Corner tonight at 6:30 pm with @breakmygame.com 🎲✂️ Designers - Sign up using this link www.eventbrite.com/e/break-my-g...

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.

Do you love being in Unpub spaces?  Can you be in Seattle over Labor Day weekend?  Would you like to volunteer 4 to 20 hours with us?  Fill out this form!  https://www.unpub.org/get-involved#volunteer #gamedesign #tabletop 🎲✂️

Recording my first ever pitch videos today! 🎲✂️ I was really nervous (specially for doing it in English) but I think they turned out ok? Gonna do a light editing and put it on the web soon Exciting to talk more about Trojan Horse, Trainwreck and Pocket Piñata in the next days 💜

Badge sales for Protospiel Online August 22-24 2025 are open! 3 days of digital playtesting with 24 hour moderator support. Early bird pricing is available through Mon Aug 11, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT. 🎲✂️ protospiel.online/badges/

Excited to share the BGG page for my upcoming indie release, Okay, Duckies, Now Let’s Get In Formation. This game has been so much silly fun to produce! Check it out! 🎲✂️ boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

Our is starting in 45 min! Digital Prototypes Show and Tell is our first Roundtable of Panelspiel Online. It starts in our Discord Backstage at 12pm EDT today (in 15 min)! 🎲✂️ Sign up for your FREE Backstage Pass at protospiel.online/panelspiel

Registration for Panelspiel Online Jul 18-19 is now open! protospiel.online/panelspiel

Here's this week's Minigame Monday puzzle featuring prototype titles playtested during our Jan 2025 convention weekend protospiel.online/wordsearch-j... Can you spot a game you know? #wordsearch #minigamemondaystream 🎲✂️

The Horizons Fellowship is a pretty great accelerator program for new tabletop industry folks, and they are still accepting applicants for their next cohort! Go learn more about it if you think you would be a good fit to get access to some amazing additional resources: www.gama.org/Horizons

The 2025 ELL deck game is Bankabell. A 1-2 player word game about using the trickier letters, buying cards, banking cards, and trying to make sets of numbers. It'll be publicly available on 1st August. Image of page 1 but not necessarily final graphic design. Input welcome.

Had a great playtest of Londonium on Sunday .. Really happy with everything about this game, just need to test at. some other player counts 🎲✂️

Community Newsletter Issue 48 Read the full issue hello.protospiel.online/posts/witche... 🎲✂️ Want the next issue as soon as it drops? Join the newsletter and get your Digital Prototyping Tools Comparison Guide as a sign up gift! 🎁🤓🎁 hello.protospiel.online

Here's this week's Minigame Monday puzzle featuring prototype titles submitted for sell sheet feedback during our Jan 2025 convention session protospiel.online/krisskross-j... Can you spot a game you know? #krisskrosspuzzle #minigamemondaystream 🎲✂️

Community Newsletter Issue 46 Read the full issue hello.protospiel.online/posts/cravin... 🎲✂️ Want the next issue as soon as it drops? Join the newsletter and get your Digital Prototyping Tools Comparison Guide as a sign up gift! 🎁🤓🎁 hello.protospiel.online

Some Unpub PAX West reserved tables are still available! www.unpub.org/upcoming-eve... 🎲✂️

This is where I plug the Horizon Fellowship program: if you're a newly established retailer or publisher in the BG industry, check out the program and see if it might make sense to apply. Applications open until July 31st! www.gama.org/Horizons

Here's this week's Minigame Monday puzzle featuring titles in our website's prototype listing for Jan 2025 protospiel.online/jigsaw-jan-2... Can you spot a game you know? #jigsawpuzzle #minigamemondaystream 🎲✂️

It's Money Monday for my board game studio biz!🎲✂️👛 Today I'm working on final review of receipts and data from Origins Game Fair for @ludoliminal.bsky.social - how did we do vs our projections for our first show booth experience? So it's a Spreadsheets!Charts!Analysis! kindof day.

Hey #Origins Creators, wanna hang?  Tonight: GAMA Creators Meetup  Tonight: Unpub Mentorship Meetup Tomorrow: Publisher/Creator Mixer  (if you're reading this, "creator" probably applies to you! incl authors, artists, graphics, game designers & developers, 🎲✂️ & more!)

I'm working on a new mobile game called **Worderfall**. It is basically Boggle meets Tetris meets Roguelite. I'm looking for a few more beta testers. If you have an iPhone or iPad (Android in the future) and would like to test it, send me a DM. 🎲✂️

Been watching and enjoying Matthew Dunston's YouTube channel lately - he's got great game design advise & insight. Mostly targeted toward newer designers, but a great resource for everyone! 🎲✂️ youtube.com/@matthewduns...

We're looking forward to seeing you at Origins Game Fair this week!  More details can be found at https://www.unpub.org/origins  🎲✂️ #tabletop

Here's this week's Minigame Monday puzzle featuring Bingo-browsable titles in our website's prototype listing for Jan 2025 protospiel.online/crossword-ja... Can you spot a game you know? #crosswordpuzzle #minigamemondaystream 🎲✂️

Our interview with @ericdittmore.bsky.social is now on Youtube! We chat about Eric's experience adapting Adulting from a competitive game into an unranked game, and the various techniques used to prepare designs and players for this unique kind of cozy experience! youtu.be/NCCT1E6Aps0 🎲✂️

Had a great time chatting with Clint about the lessons board game designers are learning from TTRPGs, victorless and unranked games, my design process, and how I incorporate all of the above into my own work. Thanks again for having me on!

Got some new designs tested last night .. KY Blackjack, which is a bidding and bluffing game; went great just need to figure out the end game condition .. Londonium, which is kinda a speed version of Puerto Rico (apparently); didn’t have enough tension but I have some ideas to iterate on 🎲✂️

Here's this week's Minigame Monday puzzle featuring prototype titles playtested during our Jan 2025 convention weekend protospiel.online/wordsearch-j... Can you spot a game you know? #wordsearch #minigamemondaystream 🎲✂️

Pride Month is around the corner. Do you want to be on this list of LGBTQ+ creators with me? Please only add yourself but help spread the word so we can collect a great list!

Community Newsletter Issue 45 Read the full issue hello.protospiel.online/posts/long-t... 🎲✂️ Want the next issue as soon as it drops? Join the newsletter and get your Digital Prototyping Tools Comparison Guide as a sign up gift! 🎁🤓🎁 hello.protospiel.online

Our most unhinged episode is coming soon because we’re talking about Sadako vs. Kayako vs. Freddy vs. Jason

6 members to go on our patreon to hit 50!! Can we do it before the end of the month? If so @bananachangames.bsky.social will flip over the tidepooling rocks and release the guest list for season 1! Patreon.com/c/spookyasianclub

Happy Monday morning!!! 🎲✂️ Wanna know what would be a good idea today? Playing a cozy game outdoors with someone you love. But wait—what games can be safely played outside?? Check out my game High Tide 🌊🐚 now available for pre-order!!!! www.underdoggames.com/pages/highti...

Here's this week's Minigame Monday puzzle featuring titles in our website's prototype listing for Aug 2024 protospiel.online/jigsaw-aug-2... Can you spot a game you know? #jigsawpuzzle #minigamemondaystream 🎲✂️

Here's this week's Minigame Monday puzzle featuring prototype titles playtested during our Aug 2024 convention weekend protospiel.online/wordsearch-a... Can you spot a game you know? #wordsearch #minigamemondaystream 🎲✂️

Our Prototype Showcase livestream for May 2025 starts at 9:30pm US Eastern tonight! 🎲✂️ Come say hello and look through the prototypes designers are bringing to playtest this weekend! twitch.tv/protospielo Playtesting channels in Discord open tomorrow at noon EDT protospiel.online/bages

Our interview with @rollplusfun.bsky.social is now on Youtube! We chat about Brook's experience designing unranked games in the historical space, and how games dance with reality. youtu.be/2_F_fxCEffA Make sure to check out his unranked game Sykes-Picot! hollandspiele.com/products/syk... 🎲✂️

Exciting news for all you designers with digital prototypes locked and loaded 🎲✂️ Protospiel Online May 16-18 2025 has the highest percentage of Playtester badge holders at this stage in badge signups as we've ever seen--a whopping 23%!

Here's this week's Minigame Monday puzzle featuring titles in our website's prototype listing for Aug 2024 protospiel.online/jigsaw-aug-2... Can you spot a game you know? #jigsawpuzzle #minigamemondaystream 🎲✂️

Convention sponsorships still available for May 16-18! Sponsorship sales close next Monday May 12 @ 10pm EDT. protospiel.online/product/conv... 🎲✂️ #boardgamedesign #tabletopdesign #playtesting

Join designers from around the world for 60 straight hours of playtesting May 16-18! Buy your badge or attend through a need-based scholarship. Early bird pricing available through May 5 @ 11:59pm EDT. protospiel.online/badges 🎲✂️ #boardgamedesign #tabletopdesign #playtesting

Playtesting & community on Discord and virtual tabletop May 16-18! Buy your badge or attend through a need-based scholarship. Early bird pricing available through May 5 @ 11:59pm EDT. protospiel.online/badges 🎲✂️ #boardgamedesign #tabletopdesign #playtesting