That moment when you're sick enough that your body says "take a nap!" but your mind says "hey remember that you were gonna write down all the things to do with that interesting new game idea??"
Adam Stichter 🔜 PaxU
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(He/him) Hey, I'm Adam, a worship tech director, escape room designer & board game designer. bicycler 🚴🏻 & gardener 🍓 Trans rights = human rights Puzzle creations and games for sale: https://ko-fi.com/ajstichter 🧩✂️ Puzzle & Escape Game Design
Finally have my lectures sorted for the rest of the semester so it's time to start prepping for PaxU and the Board Game Design class in earnest. Hoping the overnight bus ride to PAX gives me a good amount of time to prep for class! Anyone have advice on overnight bus rides? This'll be my first.
Open call for a games anthology being published by Carnegie Mellon University that looks interesting. I doubt that I would have something that would fit before nov 30thbut I'm sure I have friends who could submit things, especially @travisdhill.bsky.social & others! promptuary.lps.library.cmu.edu
Hey there, if you are really enjoying Fivefold... *gestures with head and eyes toward the link*
Thinky Games@thinkygames.com · 2w agoPublic nominations for the Thinky Awards are open for the next two days! thinkygames.com/even...
The last panel is Me when I'm telling stories to my kids at bedtime.
Dinosaur Comics!@qwantz.com · 2w ago"deduce" truly is the perfect verb, capable of doing anything. i've deduced this just now qwantz.com/index.php?co...
Regarding yesterday's @itch.io post; Tim Sweeney seems to find it humorous that they're being drowned in slop while simultaneously also choosing to host his own vibecoding jam on their platform instead of his own.
Tickets bought - I'm going to PaxU in December! Anything I should make sure that I do while there?
I finally did it! Got through all of lok digital without looking up solutions online. (I will admit i used the hints for some of the harder ones). Can thoroughly recommend! @draknek.bsky.social @letibus.bsky.social @raindrinker.bsky.social thanks, y'all!
I'm giving myself the weekend to look over options then I'll need to make a decision.
Adam Stichter 🔜 PaxU@puzzlekindcreative.com · last mo.I'm looking for a textbook for the Board Game Design class I'll be teaching this spring. The class will be a combo of both game design majors and students who presumably have no experience in game dev. The contenders are Building Blocks of Game Design & Game Design Workshop. Am I missing an option?
I'm looking for a textbook for the Board Game Design class I'll be teaching this spring. The class will be a combo of both game design majors and students who presumably have no experience in game dev. The contenders are Building Blocks of Game Design & Game Design Workshop. Am I missing an option?
Puzzle People! This has to already exist. Let me know. 🎲✂️ ✏️🧩
Zack Strebeck of Legal Moves Law Firm is putting on a free workshop: 🗓️ Thu Oct 15 🕗 8pm ET "I'm putting a full game publishing agreement on screen and marking it up live. For each problem clause, I'll explain what it does to you and what I'd ask the publisher to change." speedrun.legal/teardown/
The Publishing Deal Teardown
A game publishing agreement, redlined live by a game lawyer. Thursday October 15, 5pm PT / 8pm ET. Free.
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I always loved the idea of a gritty cyberpunk monocity setting, but if anyone ever ventured out and got over the horizon… they’d find a cosy little farming game homesteading as nature reclaims the wasteland.. and let the players just… find it.
You know what's satisfying? The Base 3 alphabet. ✂️🧩
Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate
Can someone remind me that I need to find my copy of Atari's ET to show my class tomorrow? it's buried somewhere in a box of decorations because of course I can't (won't) play it.
I don't offer a pnp for one of my games, because the physicality of the game needs the cards to be like standard playing cards, not sleeved or homemade. I could have gotten a bit more money by offering pnp but it wouldn't have been the same game.
Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 2mo agoAll that is setting aside that there are games that *can't* be pnp'd - like Six Moons, which has more than one rulebook. How would I even pnp the unsent letter in Swords Against? The board for Eyelet?
This is the project I've been working on for ages now! A two player engine building card and dice game inspired by real life robotics!
Soucy Games@soucy.games · 2mo agoToday feels like a good day to announce it! I'm preparing for my first crowd funding campaign! Bot Builders is an engine building game about robots and the people who make them, inspired by real life robotics competitions.
Board game designers: Our 2026 reports on publishing contracts are out! Industry standards to know before signing: 💵 Part 1: advances, credit, creative control 🎲 Part 2: royalties, designer copies, promotion 🌏 Part 3: co-publishing, extra royalties, rights reversion cardboardedison.com/reports
I think that I'm going to have to start telling more boring bedtime stories. 🙄
Really fun stream from my favorite podcast @neverpo.st - doing band camp roulette! (Come listen!) Twitch.tv/theneverpost
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@neverpo.st I would love more of an explainer on this whole ecosystem and if there's a chance that it could actually be the way of social media in the future. Seems like the kind of thing you might already be working on, tbh.
Debbie Ridpath Ohi@debbieohi.com · 3mo agoBummer that Bluesky had problems for a bit BUT I *love* that with my Atmosphere account, I could keep working on my @leaflet.pub & @pckt.blog posts, that I'm NOT locked into a single platform. For a great non-techie Atmosphere explainer, see: lab.leaflet.pub/3mrq6ma5dgs2x (art by @cozylittle.house)