Someone wrote this about L'Oaf over on BGG. Pretty accurate for a game about minimum wage workers who hate their job.

I wasn't sure if I could attend Spiel due to boring medical stuff, so I didn't make any appointments. Now that I'm going to be there Saturday and Sunday, I'd love to meet some people. Let me know if you've got time, or just say hi if you see me zooming around in the fancy wheelchair I rented

Now THIS is how you get me interested in a board game crowdfunding campaign

Sam Francis (Samphire Games)@tzartzam.bsky.social · last wk.

It even had a strike token!

This number 1 on our Spiel to demo list!

Zach Hoekstra@zhoekstra.bsky.social · last wk.

Day 1 done, and we've managed to get 60% of the way there! gamefound.com/en/projects/... We're still very much small fry in the world of gamefound kickstarting, so thank you so much everyone who reposted and cast Pact out to the world. Every boost matters!

PACT is live on Gamefound! I've watched @zhoekstra.bsky.social work on this game over the last few years and I can tell you it's a grand design full of passion and craftsmanship. A truly unique game that deserves your attention! gamefound.com/en/projects/wulfhorngames/pact

PACT by Wulfhorn Games - Gamefound

A sudden death, a kingdom on the brink. You have a rare chance to make pacts with key groups and make the future of Branchbourne yours

gamefound.com

Even when I was just reading the rules for Pact, I was starting to get excited like I did for Arcs and The Old King’s Crown; Asymmetrical powers, shifting allegiances, and COIN style card selection. It’s a bunch of very cool mechanics, and a high level of player interaction.

This whole thread is my way of saying that you should totally hire me to write, revise, or translate your rules

Bart de Jong@bartgamedesign.bsky.social · 2w ago

I recently started doing freelance work revising and editing rulebooks for games by other designers. As a primary school teacher I'm good at finding the absolute simplest way to explain complex things. What I didn't expect is that writing rules for someone else's game is WAY easier than for my own.

I recently started doing freelance work revising and editing rulebooks for games by other designers. As a primary school teacher I'm good at finding the absolute simplest way to explain complex things. What I didn't expect is that writing rules for someone else's game is WAY easier than for my own.

Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.

For all the Dutch people my age it's this guy:

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 2w ago

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

Random 🎲✂️ thought: a puzzle is a conversation between the player and the designer. A game is a conversation between the player(s) and the system.

Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...

What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming

Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...

epiloguegaming.com

I wrote something I think is important. gametek.substack.com/p/changing-t...

Changing the World

A Modest Proposal

gametek.substack.com

Hey, I heard you like L'Oaf. So if you get this awesome promo card at the Wulfhorn Games booth in Essen (3H225), you can play L'Oaf with these oafs who are loafing by playing L'Oaf instead of baking loafs

At some point in the future I want to publish a line of blatant rip-offs of @garphillgames.bsky.social releases, under the pseudonym Sham Phillips

I can confirm that @wulfhorngames.bsky.social definitely said he would do this. I was there when this conversation happened. He promised. Even did a pinky swear. Let's do this!

Zach Hoekstra@zhoekstra.bsky.social · last mo.

🎲✂️ If the Pact gamefound campaign makes at least $2 million, @wulfhorngames.bsky.social has promised to dress up in a Jenna mascot costume for the entirety of next Spiel. This is definitely something I have discussed with him beforehand. Help me make this happen, folks.

🎲✂️ If the Pact gamefound campaign makes at least $2 million, @wulfhorngames.bsky.social has promised to dress up in a Jenna mascot costume for the entirety of next Spiel. This is definitely something I have discussed with him beforehand. Help me make this happen, folks.

Video game discourse has an issue with players who want every game to be "for them". There are thousands of games being released every year, it's totally fine to bounce off one every once in a while. It doesn't mean the game needs to change; it just means it's not for you.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · last mo.

Kill the creature in your head that hates friction https://kotaku.com/the-blood-of-dawnwalker-sequel-time-mechanic-rebel-wolves-2000735592

Intrigued is me

Dan Thurot@danthurot.bsky.social · last mo.

Baba! Is! You! And Baba Is You Is Very Good, Too. My preview: spacebiff.com/2026/09/14/b...

I'm going down the rabbit hole of designing a video game again. Please send help.

To continue this analogy, it depends what you're making. I find the secret to bread is careful measuring, but cakes are much more about flair and style. 🎲✂️

Bart de Jong@bartgamedesign.bsky.social · last mo.

Using math to balance your game is like measuring your ingredients for cooking. It provides a useable baseline, but it's no substitute for good old tasting

Using math to balance your game is like measuring your ingredients for cooking. It provides a useable baseline, but it's no substitute for good old tasting

🎲✂️ tonight was that magical moment where I finished a playtest without wanting to immediately change anything. The vibe was right, and all the parts were doing what they're supposed to do. Doesn't mean the game is finished, but it's getting close.

New comic! Possession might be nine-tenths of the law, or possession might be theft... We only know that possession of a game doesn't guarantee you'll ever play it! 😇 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: semicoop.com/comic/purchasing-games-2026/ #boardgames

Our Spiel plans right now are to demo Pact the first thing on Thursday morning, we're super curious about it!

Bart de Jong@bartgamedesign.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We had an amazing session of @zhoekstra.bsky.social's upcoming game Pact this evening. There was lots of scheming, there were plots being foiled and some poor bug got guillotined. Y'all should be looking out for this one: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

We had an amazing session of @zhoekstra.bsky.social's upcoming game Pact this evening. There was lots of scheming, there were plots being foiled and some poor bug got guillotined. Y'all should be looking out for this one: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

PACT by Wulfhorn Games - Gamefound

A sudden death, a kingdom on the brink. You have a rare chance to make pacts with key groups and make the future of Branchbourne yours

gamefound.com

Our daughter turned 2 the other day, so naturally she got her first HABA game as a present. I showed her how to punch the cardboard pieces, and then she spent half an hour repeatedly putting them back in the mold and punching them out again. She already knows where to find the true pleasures in life

Encouraging children to read is to encourage curiosity, imagination, compassion, and wonder. On a fundamental level, reading gives a massive boost to a child's vocabulary, which helps them in pretty much every other aspect of life. It is so very essential. Dolly Parton was nothing less than a hero.

🎲✂️ I told my wife about a design I'm working on and she responded with "That really doesn't sound like my kind of game." Of course I secretly hoped for a more enthusiastic reply, but I was still happy she said that. For a game to have a distinct audience, it needs to have a distinct not-audience.

🎲✂️ Inspired by video games, my next game will come with half the content locked in a special box. For €20,- you get a Season Pass code that opens it for a month (30 days).