Catherine Stippell

@catstip.bsky.social

Super awkward board game designer. Nyctophobia! It’s All Connected? Back to the Present? I like hats. Earthbender. (playnyctophobia on Twitter) (she/her)

Recently whenever I get the "I want to watch something but there's nothing to watch" urge, instead of mindlessly scrolling , I've been trying to take that as a sign to work on something creative. I think it's helped a lot.

These Games Are Not For Sale celebrates artful games made for the sake of it. This one-day festival inside PAX Unplugged will spotlight games that money can’t buy. Come experience games, not buy them: 🚫🪙🚫🪙🚫 🎲✂️ 🪙🚫🪙🚫🪙 🗺️ Pennsylvania Convention Center 📍 Terrace Ballroom 🗓️ Saturday, Dec 5 🕙 10am-10pm

These Games are not for $ale
A celebration of artful games that money can't buy
At PAX Unplugged Terrace Ballroom (2nd floor)
Saturday, December 5th
10am-10pm

It seems that publishers can ask for their game to rightfully be taken down. “Aviary” / Wingspan has already been taken down. Please contact the proper publishers to request their games to be taken down. We’ll also need help identifying all of the games so the correct people can be informed.

Screenshot from the TV Top Games website:

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Palace Gardens
2-4 players • 4 rounds • Tile drafting

Tidewick
1-4 players • Worker placement • Town building

Cavefolk
1-7 players • 48 rooms

Shapes Tiles
2-6 players • Tile laying

Builder
Any number of players • 25 min • Deck building

Farmers
1-5 players • Worker placement
Marceline is Racing Dinos@marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s absolutely maddening that someone would take this much advantage of so many creative people against their consent and dare to charge money for it… I’m not a lawyer but this should be outright illegal.

A screenshot from TV Top Games website featuring such games as “Espionage” (clearly based on Codenames) and “MapMakers” (Cartographers)

I don’t drink alcohol. And when I tell people, at most I'll get 1 follow-up question. I don’t use genAI. And when I tell people, it's just never ending questions and reasons why I should use it.

"These Games Are Not For Sale" is a little project @tonytran.bsky.social and I have been cooking up. It's a festival celebrating game design for the sake of it; games that can't or won't be commercialized. Please give this account a follow if you're with us:

These Games Are Not For Sale@notforsalegames.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Games are art Make games for the sake of art Celebrate artful games this December at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia Follow for more details coming soon

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NOT EVERYTHING IS AI SOME THINGS ARE JUST BAD LET THINGS JUST BE BAD I legit would like more poorly written, poorly drawn, poorly whatever pierce of art and less AI. At least they tried.

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