M. Ward 🔜 PaxU

@aveknots.bsky.social

Making games if able. https://linktr.ee/aveknots

I was really inspired by seeing all the experimental, short run games at the PAX Unplugged Indie Games Night Market. So now I’m working on my own (probably unviable) concept: So… Who wants to talk about 🤖✨ ROBOTS ✨🦾 ?

🎲📐Marcus Ross ⚡️🚗@marcusross.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Here’s my invite to play some new stuff. (I may have overdone it at the indie night games market.) www.newmillindustries.com/ignm #paxhaul

Just an absurd number of board games Ava card games. One of them is tied to a hand mirror.

If you told me a year ago my weird little abstract I fully expected to be one-and-done at Indie Game Night Market would have had this much success, I wouldn’t believe you!! I hope everyone sees this as a proof for indie game releases as a legitimate pipeline for both Hobby and Mass publishers!!!!!!

Marceline is Racing Dinos@marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

HUGE news update for me!!!!!! High Tide, the game I handmade for Indie Games Night Market 2024 and licensed to Underdog Games in 2025… ✨ Will be releasing at BARNES & NOBLE around March 2026!!! ✨ This marks my first design to reach big box retail stores!!!!! More details as they become available!

The cover image to High Tide

I’m looking forward to playing the line up of games by @gameheadgames.bsky.social at #paxu. I’ll be helping them fri and sat from 1 to 4pm at booth 2363 near the merch booth. Come meet me and try out some great games.

Yggy Stardust@yggystardust.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Happy #PAXUnplugged Eve! Get your game bag emptied out and ready to go, and throw your favorite meeple pun shirt in the wash! Spend all day re-watching YouTube preview and anticipation videos! What are you most excited to see and play? #boardgames

Pax Unplugged is right around the corner!! Looking back at all the IGNM coverage—I’m so proud and impressed at how much our community came together to promote these awesome indie works! There’s a game for everyone in this lot! Here’s a thread of all the incredible coverage of IGNM 2025: 🧵 🎲✂️

Honored and tickled by Dan Thurot’s review of Rowin, to be sold at IGNM at Pax Unplugged. “There’s no small measure of hate-drafting...” “There’s the pleasant whiff of press-your-luck…” “It has that classic feel, like something you’d dredge out of an old monastery’s archives.” “I dig it.”

Rowin components
Dan Thurot@danthurot.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Rowin by @aveknots.bsky.social merges abstract determinism with chancy roll-a-thons, producing a lovely little game that's more than the sum of its parts. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/11/03/r...

had our first new game release in months, and it's my crossword dice game cross4! I made it because I love the crossword dice games of the twentieth century, and wanted to make one with a little more arc and meat to it. 🧵

Promotional image for cross4, featuring two crossword grids partially filled out in red and black marker, with seven letter dice in the background.