Daniel Fremgen
@drdobey.bsky.social
Scientist and board game designer (He/Him) (Not a real doctor)
First game of Gen Con was Drillers by @czechgames.com We ripped the shrink off the library copy Thursday morning and really enjoyed this one. A mix feel of Clank and Arnak, and left me thinking future plays would reveal deeper deck building strategy.
Went straight from a bonkers Gen Con into an even crazier work schedule at my IRL job, but finally getting some time to reflect and appreciate how much fun I had. Plotting next steps for my prototypes and looking forward to the next convention!
The Slugblaster Megagame was a BLAST. Incredible GMs and hilarious players; absolutely one of the top highlights of Gen Con for me!
Mythworks is making the Myth Work@mythworks.bsky.social · 4d agoFinal Day of Gen Con! Stop by Booth 2945 on your way. HUGE thanks to our players and GMs of our Slugblaster MEGAGAME yesterday! What an absolute riot!! 🎉🙌😱🤩❤️🔥
Playtesting games at FEPH at GenCon and having a blast! Excited to test the time travel game to see if it is really as good as I remember 🤣
Had a great time playing the first game most of us play for Gen Con: how many people on this flight are going to Gen Con?
Was up late last night nervously checking every prototype to make sure no components were missing or out of revision 😬 at least now I can move on to actually packing for GenCon
Years ago I found the BGG microbadge for “I love sandcastles” and I felt seen as a SoCal native. Here’s an example of one of my recent creations:
So thankful Matt shared this because now I have much better language ("Shared Incentives Common Spaces") to describe the competitive / cooperative core of the worker placement game I am working on.
Matt Thrower@mattthr.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is interesting: a self-curated list of euro-style games with relatively high interaction on a shared board and boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/375...
Count The Rice was one of the best Game Changer episodes ever, holy goodness gracious what a show
Game Changer@gamechanger.dropout.tv · 3w ago🃏 TONIGHT! A new episode of Game Changer launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT! Featuring host Sam Reich, and players: 🍚 Demi Adejuyigbe 🍚 Anna Garcia 🍚 Catherine McCafferty 🍚 Ify Nwadiwe 🍚 Hannah Pilkes 🍚 Zach Reino 🍚 Jiavani
Getting graphics ready for my prototypes I’m bringing to GenCon and absolutely loving the little robot guys my friend Mike sketched for Robots Make A Home ❤️
Proud dad moment of my oldest kid running Quacks with the cousins and I barely have to intervene. There is a lot of chaotic yelling but at least I can moderate from a distance and I don’t have to police rules anymore
Knizia has the last word: "In the end it does not matter who wins, as we all carry the message of the good games out to the people... Do not forget the other games, buy them, play them... the authors have contributed as much as the winners."
Staring down my GenCon to do list and thinking, “yeah, this if fine, I’m not going to regret attempting all this”
Top gaming innovation of the summer is the floating Mahjong table for pool gaming, all my thanks to whoever invented this
My real job was crazy busy this week but the family got a ton of good board games in during our trip. Grateful for friends and family that game!
Yeah, Ahoy is very good, now that we know how to play I got a feeling this will be a regular for BGA nights @leder.games
Played Deep Sea Adventure and who would have guessed the five year old would get too greedy
“An aesthetic striving game is successful, not when the game itself is aesthetically good, but when it inspires and shapes aesthetically valuable striving in the player.” C Thi Nguyen, Games: Agency As Art. Wish I’d read this book years ago 10/10
This editorial in the ADA journal should be required reading for all scientists and healthcare providers in the country.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe editorial: diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
I am confident when I say the bottleneck for scientific discovery is not hypothesis generation, it’s time and funding. Accelerating breakthroughs isn’t going to come from LLM agents it will come from restoring funding to researchers. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Teams of AI agents boost speed of research
Systems can generate hypotheses, interpret data and suggest ways to develop medicines.
nature.com
I doubt I'm going to hit the majority of the audience that really needs to hear this on this page, but you should read it anyways. Great points from great minds in the industry. www.wargamer.com/board-games/...
Tabletop sexism, hidden women, and the myth of the 'wife board game'
Board games are bigger and more welcoming than ever, but women still face an uphill battle for the right kind of representation.
wargamer.com
Self promoting great work works! I signed up to be a supporter last month because Hyperfixed is a great podcast and I want more of it and the promotional campaign got to me
Alex Goldman@agoldman.bsky.social · 3mo agoLast month I decided to go all out on promoting my show, @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social — because it’s totally independent and a labor of love made by people I genuinely care. And it worked! We got about 200 signups. But this month, having eased up on the self promotion a bit - our net signups are -7
Not much more than a couple of megagames on my GenCon event wishlist but still getting nervous about getting into my top choice
Having a great, nostalgic morning watching The Foo Fighters Tiny Desk, realizing that The Foo Fighters are the millennial Eagles and maybe that’s ok
Bringing a few prototypes to GenCon to play test and show around and realized I probably should re-establish some social media presence if I am back to making board games again.
