campfire vampire

Sure, you've heard of The Game of the Goose, but have you heard of The Majestic Game of the Asiatic Ostrich??

almost done with my book, what should I read next?

HERE LIES Z (19??-2026) WHO MET HER UNTIMELY END BECAUSE HER DUMBASS DOG ALWAYS STEPPED IN FRONT OF HER WHEN SHE WAS WALKING

Hey there #portfolioday I'm Pam Wishbow, an illustrator who works in a limited color printerly manner. I love working in publishing and am over the moon when working with games find more on my website pamwishbow.com, represented by How Do You Do

“oh nooo all my dumbass thoughts” like im never gonna have a dumbass thought again

I don’t need to tell folks I don’t use AI in my games, because it is aggressively obvious that I do not. I bring an amateurish enthusiasm that I hope will become increasingly charming as we grow bored with regurgitated AI art.

Was on the fence about buying something so I decided to see what else they had in the shop… A bunch of terf boy wizard designs. This is an indie artist, so they’re not funding that odious woman, but it made the decision not to give them my money very, very easy.

back to work on the manticore embroidery

I showed my kids that old “bring on the trumpets!!” ad and now the preschooler keeps going “hahahaha, trumpets!” which so far is 80/20 adorable vs annoying.

True story: I assumed Biddy BLAS was a new linear algebra library because of the name and the fact that everyone excited about it on my timeline were video game developers. For anyone else similarly confused: it’s not, it’s a character in a video game.

Puzzmo's Jubilee celebration starts today with two new games and a free week of Puzzmo+ for everyone 🥳 Come play! www.puzzmo.com/jubilee

I am a casual collector of foreign pattern playing cards. So far, I’ve got French, Czech William Tell, Russian, French Tarot, Italian Toscane, Italian Triestine, Spanish Castilian, hanafuda, and hwatu. And standard/international decks of course. About half of them I chanced upon in thrift stores.

If, like me, you’ve ever thought: “I bet you could make an English version of Karuta using Shakespeare quotes.” Well, behold: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10...

Shakespeare CARDUTA

Shakespeare CARDUTA is a simple card game based on the traditional Japanese card game Hyakunin Isshu (100 Poems by 100 Poets), which uses one hundred ancient Japanese short poems. "CARDUTA&q...

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Hello Bluesky. Today is the day Pondus launches on Kickstarter! Come see what domino magic and adventure is all about. May Alora be with you.

PONDUS: An Analog Wizard Game

You're a wandering wizard on the hunt for the orbs of power in this domino magic battle royale adventure game.

kickstarter.com

something something when we adopt a metric we abandon our nuanced values

Kit Bashir@unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d ago

Another successful week, by at least one measure.

Wait, THAT Art of Play? All-our-fanciest-playing-cards Art of Play? Yes, friends, the very same

amy brown 👻@amybrown.xyz · 2d ago

millionaire kelly clarkson going to war with a small business in brooklyn over a $15,000 animatronic bird is exactly the news story i needed today thank you

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

I set a goal to develop & web-publish one game every month in 2026. I have 2 games finished for the remaining two months, so: yay! I counted tonight how many designs I playtested but then did NOT publish this year: 18. 18 other games I worked on besides the 12 I put out there.

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

Z@dxdydz.northsky.social · 2d ago

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

Two staples of Playfest are our guest speaker and the games raffle. This year we were treated to a fantastic talk from @jameswallis.bsky.social about designing SE!ZE with Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc and attending its glamorous launch in Milan, setting the standard for board game releases 😂 🎲✂️

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

Jacob Bysshe Landrum@byssh3.bsky.social · 2d ago

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

This seems as good a spot as any to share the results of my Pub Meeple ranking of the Knizia games I own. Here are my top 9 (of 36). Orongo was # 10. Did my husband & I spend hours earlier comparing our respective results to see which games we were most/least aligned on!? Why yes, of course we did.

7 yo seeing a historical photo on a plaque: “look! It’s Grey World!”

Thanksgiving 2: Leftover Boogaloo

player aide as the back art of cards would be kinda smart. I understand why it isn’t done, but it would be great functionally

I designed Big Apple because my then-2yo wanted to join in when her big sister and I would play Golden Pig (itself a simplification of Scopa). Still gets requested from time to time.

I played 3 handed solo again, with a new board and some new rules. The endgame scoring is better, it is balanced with in-game scoring. Finishing the game is better, it needs actual testing, it might be too swingy, it’s hard to tell. Maybe there are times when someone can just get bad draws.

stamp pads in different colours, one for each player. Frequently, throughout the game, players coat their fingers in fresh ink. Play a game of cards. After the game is finished, lay the cards to dry, and then display them sandwiched between acrylic. I think that would be neat. 🤷‍♀️

Traddish card game idea: Draw your hand one by one, in the Chinese style, first player to announce that they’re the declarer is the declarer. Payouts are increased (both ways) the earlier on in the process you announce.