Welp, that's a wrap. Buried Giant Studios has just finished its #GenCon2026 debut. What a wild ride it was. I hardly had time to post during the show, but I wanted to jot something down now. 🧵
Buried Giant Studios
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Beautiful, interactive board games with expressive systems, emergent gameplay, and player-centered storytelling. 🎲 Oath: New Foundations 📜 Arcs: Beyond the Reach 🚀
AND NOW WE REST. The whole team is packing up Gen Con and heading home shortly. The full studio will be taking the rest of the week to recoup and recharge. We'll be back in the office soon, but now it's time to catch up on much neglected sleep 💤💤💤
COME THROUGH! Having a little party and showing off all of our wild prototypes and spinning some records. 6-9pm. Room 126. If you don't have a ticket, don't worry! We won't turn anyone away. Feel free to swing by!! The full crew at Buried Giant and Eerie Idol will be here AND WE HAVE SURPRISES!
Join us tonight for a lively conversation about art, design, and community, moderated by the lovely Aja Essex. SEE YOU AT THE MOUTH!
We are pumped!! We are all set up for Gen Con with @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social so find us at the giant mouth! Room 126. Booth 1555.
Next week we are heading to Gen Con. We've spent months preparing the for the big show in one capacity or another. This is a ton of work with often low returns, but Gen Con isn't just about sales. It's about community and the work of making games together.🧵https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErRzMS2YmAs
GenCon is for Playtesting
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What a surreal and heartwarming thing it was to see the unrivalled @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social draw some of MY WEIRDOS from The Old King's Crown. Made my year.
Cole Wehrle@colewehrle.bsky.social · 2w agoFriday night we're hosting panels with tons of folks from the company and from Eerie Idol Games. Come for the conversation and bring your questions!
In prep for @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social sending john company i have been watching @heavycardboard.bsky.social and @colewehrle.bsky.social 's teach and play through. Great details and explanation... and now im 3/4 through there is drama and jeopardy aplenty www.youtube.com/live/mdLx3yn...
John Company 2nd Edition - 4p Teaching & Play-through by Heavy Cardboard
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Today we’re posting the prelaunch page for our next game: the second edition of An Infamous Traffic. There is so much to say about this game, and we’ll be talking about it quite a bit in the coming months, but I wanted to provide a little background here. 🧵 www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
Coming soon: An Infamous Traffic: Second Edition
A new edition of the acclaimed game of cutthroat capitalism in the nineteenth century opium trade.
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Look for the giant mouth at Gen Con! 😮 We have some surprises for folks attending so you'll want to visit our two homes while in Indy. Come by to say hi to the full team and our traveling friends @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social 👋👋 #gencon2026 #gencon
It's the game you've heard so much about! Winner of the 2025 Artwork & Presentation Golden Geek, The Old King's Crown is making its US convention debut at GenCon and the only place to find it is at Buried Giant Studios! Room 126. Booth 1555.
On Oath: New Foundations, we spent a lot of time with the game's core systems and making some structural adjustments both for the sake of the expansion and because we had a unique opportunity to make Oath better. You can learn more about what we did and why in today's video: youtu.be/EZZZi6Y1qM0
Why we changed the Actions in Oath: New Foundations
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It's here! If you've ever found yourself irritated or delighted by expansions or thought about how games grow and change over time, let Amabel guide you with this excellent video.
Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 4w agoExpansions are kinda weird, right? I spoke with ten game designers and a historian about one of the most unusual elements of modern board games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v08K...
Today, @colewehrle.bsky.social is sitting with the original Oath: New Foundations Kickstarter page to show you how the design elements we pitched 2 years ago morphed, moved, and coalesced over time into the final product you all will be receiving in just a few short months! youtu.be/sOl2_EfLoWo?...
Oath: New Foundations Kickstarter Retrospective
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“Kyle we need an ARCS guild card called ‘Agitator’ and…” “SAY NO MORE” #arcs #arcsboardgame #illustration #buriedgiant #buriedgiantstudios
I'm preparing to head off to Australia for #PLAYCon by moving our Oath kit to a slightly more travel-friendly box. I'll have New Foundations and Infamous Traffic with me. If you're going to be in Sydney next week, I hope I see you there!
I am so honored to share this nomination for Molly House with Jo, Ray, and Ricky whose exceptional work on the game is so deserving of recognition. And, I'm beyond humbled to be in the company of the other nominees (including one of my favorite places in the Twin Cites, Mischief Toys!)
The Diana Jones Award@dianajonesaward.org · 2mo agoThe Diana Jones Award committee is pleased to announce the finalists for its 2026 award. In alphabetical order, they are:
Being a space anarchist has brought plenty of hardships and conflicts, but despite our crushing defeat, we’ve left our mark and had an absolute blast, just like real anarchists #boardgames #juegosdemesa #arcs @colewehrle.bsky.social @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social
Late Pledges are finally open for Arcs: Beyond the Reach📡 If you missed our Kickstarter campaign you can now grab a late pledge on our BackerKit pre-order store. arcs-beyond-the-reach.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
The Wehrles are on the road! Drew is showing off our games at ACD Expo and Cole is off to UKGE this weekend showing off the new Oath expansions too. Say hey if you're at either!
Today I played Oath for the first time in 4 years. We used pnp stuff for New Foundations. The owner of this box had players keep a chronicle for their player color so I started the game by reading my family lore dump. I made sure my descendants know to never accept the shame of citizenship as I did.
Going to GenCon? Come join us and our friends, @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social! That's right, we're sharing our booth and room with The Old King's Crown crew for their US debut! Stop by for gameplay demos or to finally buy your copy of TOKC! Find all of our events: www.gencon.com/event_finder...
This past Friday and Saturday, I played a set of six back-to-back sessions of Oath with a pool of 5 players. I lost every game, and I cannot wait to do it again someday.
When you can finally see factory proofs of 3 of your creations together and you realize how moody they all are. @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social @djackthompson.bsky.social @fortcircle.bsky.social @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social
Arcs named game of the year by Italian tabletop gaming magazine ioGioco, Paolo Mori crowned designer of the year: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
annoying the people I'm playing Oath with by pointing out "oh that's Fflewddur Fflam's harp! that's the black cauldron!" and accidentally kingmaking because my priority is getting the card for hen wen
Thank you thank you thank you! From the bottom of my heart!
Buried Giant Studios@buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social · 3mo agoWE DID IT!! A massive thank you is owed to everyone who helped launch this new company with such a wild project. We're so grateful we get to work on games like Arcs with just the best community in tabletop and it's deeply humbling 17,111 folks came out to help. THANK YOU!
WE DID IT!! A massive thank you is owed to everyone who helped launch this new company with such a wild project. We're so grateful we get to work on games like Arcs with just the best community in tabletop and it's deeply humbling 17,111 folks came out to help. THANK YOU!
Absolutely floored that we've raised $2M+ for Arcs Beyond the Reach! 🤯 Come spend a silly final hour of the Kickstarter with us and then we'll flop our exhausted bodies across the finish line.
Arcs: Beyond the Reach - Kickstarter Final Countdown
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Today Josh has a wonderful diary about the design of some of the new fates for Arcs, including the Senator. You can find it here: boardgamegeek.com/thread/36978...
