I got to sit down with @panda8ngel.bsky.social to talk UI/UX and small box hidden gems! boardgamegeek.com/blog/12153/b...

DT reviews the expansion for A Message From the Stars: "I will always want to play with this expansion" "I think this is a perfect expansion for this game" "Extinction Protocol - where the person who's trying to kill everyone is the designer" 🤣🤣🤣 youtu.be/aNKwhMLBBS8

The game: VNTYPL8S by @25thcentury.games

#BoardGame fans need to check out VNTYPL8S by @stoichamster.bsky.social! Kids home from college didn't want to quit! We had an awesome family game night.

Got to catch the inaugural show of Grant Lyon's (@grantsgamerecs.bsky.social) Board Game Comedy Tour in my hometown! After a great comedy set, he led the crowd through a game of Blob Party that we narrowly won. It was lots of fun! Check him out if he's coming to your town!

One piece of advice I would give to all non-self publishing designers: Reach out to other designers your potential publisher has worked with in the past. Hearing about how smoothly the process went, how well they communicated, and things they wished they'd had in their contracts can go a long way!

Check out @stoichamster.bsky.social's design diary about VNTYPL8S that proves that sometimes you just need an Unpub table without a game idea to make a great game: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

My game about creating and deciphering vanity license plates, VNTYPL8S, is now available online and at your local game store. And it has a commercial! youtu.be/kETkQ-2B49c

Occasionally, you run across a game theme so wildly specific and unique that you feel certain nobody has ever done it, or even thought of it, before. 👕🧦🕷️

24 hours left to go on Chicken Fried Dice! We are beyond floored at the reception we've received throughout, but none more astonishing than 40+ of our friends swinging by to show love and their support for our game & campaign. Couldn't do this without y'all <3 www.kickstarter.com/projects/urb...

More Alpha Team Mechanized Battle Force Go art. Volcanic and Oceanus. #kaiju #atmbfg #boardgameart www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

Did a marathon day of final balance testing of all the player mechs against all the bosses! Years of dev have shaped this game into a really solid and unique co-op experience. Alpha Team is live now on Kickstarter!

Designing the GRWLs for Alpha Team was SO much fun.🤖 They are all my favorite but these two are my most favorite. Back it on Kickstarter NOW!⤵️ 🎉🎉 buff.ly/7jDcDLX Or scroll

I guess this is official now! A Message From the Stars: Extinction Protocol should be available to order from Allplay very very soon! boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexp...

I was skeptical, but I am definitely into these

I've gotten to playtest this over the years and it's finally live! It's a co-op pick-and-pass game with a great hook where you can only draft from the ends of each hand. Plus it's got killer art from a top tier illustrator. Go check it out!

The next arrival in the finalists for this year’s Cardboard Edison Award is Hybrid Hijinks by Jena Kreese, where we’ll be creating crazy animal hybrids that double as configurable player powers! cardboardedison.com/award

In a world being overtaken by AI, your greatest strength as a human is in being unpredictable - something that AI was never designed to be www.youtube.com/shorts/QnGXD...

GAMA members: You should have an email from GAMA offering the opportunity to comment on GAMA's dues structure. Please consider taking time to comment on the fact that individual creators should NOT pay the same membership fee as a large publisher. (That's the current structure. $300 each.)

Hypergeometric distributions are your friend! It sounds complicated but it's just a way to answer game design questions like "Given a 52-card deck with 4 Aces in it, what are my odds of drawing a hand of 10 cards with 1 or more Aces in it". (answer = 58.656%) stattrek.com/online-calcu...

Applications just opened for the @unpub.org Tabletop Mentorship Program. I cannot recommend this program enough! If you are interested in learning about any aspects of tabletop game design, publishing, marketing, etc., sign up! And if you can offer any level of mentoring on the same, sign up!

@coinflip.games & I had the absolute honor of joining @panda8ngel.bsky.social on Boardgamegeeks Podcast, episode 91! We talk about ourselves, Chicken Fried Dice,and how we got started mostly before jumping in to our favorite blank n write games! Thank you so much! boardgamegeek.com/blog/12153/b...

Chicken Fried Dice is the sort of roll-and-write I would introduce to my sister's family, a mid-weight, mid-complexity, mid-math game about building the most successful food truck. My preview: spacebiff.com/2026/03/27/c...

Beasts is now available in open beta on BGA! boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga...

It's almost 2 years to the day since a group of us spent hours after Unpub playing a prototype of A Familiar Find by @ianzang.bsky.social over and over and over again. Thrilled to have the real thing in my hands now!

Here be pirates!

Pubs are sharing some very interesting stats on their pitch pipeline in this thread

Insta-backed! This real-time roll & write doesn't sound like it should work, but it 100% does, and is a one-of-a-kind experience b/c of it. Ashwin is also one of the most passionate designers I know and dedicated to making the design community better for everyone. www.kickstarter.com/projects/urb...

First ever playtest of Celestial Cupcakes, a brand new cozy co-op game, co-designed with @emilykeepskitties.bsky.social. Really excited to see where this one goes!

I'll be doing a panel on pitching your game designs to publishers this Thursday. Come check it out if you're going to Unpub!

Convention Organizers: If you have invite a guest from a minority demographic 👏Invite👏them👏to👏participate👏in👏more👏than👏just👏the👏diversity👏panel👏 PLEASE AND THANK YOU

Time for my fave con of the year! #gamaexpo

5 tips for pitching your board game to publishers—and step-by-step instructions for 10 of them

If you asked to be emailed about the 2026 UTMP Session, you're about to get an email! https://f.mtr.cool/xuagntkcev

Prototyping hex tiles is still the Worst Thing Ever. But on the bright side, I accidentally made dozens of triangle tokens?

I just stickered 216 stickers for a prototype! 😵‍💫

The nomination period for the Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program is open! See our website for details. You can nominate yourself or any worthy tabletop game designers in their first three years of publishing. Nominations close March 16. Spread the word! Thanks! www.dianajonesaward.org

Shopping for small square sticker labels in a variety of colors, and I run across this sheet of labels designed by a serial killer, apparently

I hope Unpub will be ready for my highly chaotic, frenetic, role-switching cooperative game :)

If you're like me, and tortilla chips are primarily a salsa delivery mechanism, what is your favorite thing to do with the useless fractional shards at the bottom of the bag?

Just saw that Alan R Moon will be executive producer on the Ticket to Ride movie that Netflix is working on. Good to know they're serious about being accurate to the source material.

New comic! Be honest… are you the one who rotates just the box lid or also makes sure the rulebook is rotated correctly? 👀 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: www.semicoop.com/comic/best-orientation/ #boardgames

In today's video I go over what I earnt as a full time game designer in 2025, comparing my income over the past few years and how it varies from game to game. My aim has always been to increase transparency in the industry and help newer designers with what to expect. youtu.be/avLL2siSmyc 🎲✂️

The latest additions to the GDofNC library are Bullseye by Grace Kendall and Mike Belsole, and VNTYPL8S by @stoichamster.bsky.social! Both published by @25thcentury.games.

Chipotle Cashier (pointing at my GDofNC hoodie): Oh! You're a software engineer? Me: No, I design board games. Cashier: Oh. Well.. You'll get there! Everybody's gotta start somewhere.

Tantrum Con gets better every year and continues to punch well above its weight class in bringing in publishers and industry notables. Had an amazingly fun and inspiring time!

First day of TantrumCon is in the books!

Cooking up something brand new with @boardgameghee.bsky.social, currently codenamed A Season for Paws 🐾

It was below freezing, and there's an ice storm headed for us later today, but Raleigh still showed up for the Walk for Peace!

Latest additions to the GDofNC library! Squirrel Away, designed by group member @stoichamster.bsky.social and published by @floodgategames.bsky.social, and Off With Their Heads, designed by group member @mihealsick.bsky.social and published by @druidcitygames.bsky.social.