Can't wait to see the lineup of indie games this year. Get your submission in by Saturday if you want to join the party!

Daniel Newman // New Mill Industries@dnlnwmn.bsky.social · last mo.

You've got one month left to submit your application to be a vendor at the Indie Games Night Market! Submissions close on August 1! Get to it! www.newmillindustries.com/ignm-app

Can’t wait to be a part of this next week. This book has sparked many thoughts about the power (and dangers) of game design as an art form. I am so eager to speak with others on it and deepen my understanding. Come join us next Tuesday in the Lunarpunk Discord server!

Lunarpunk Games@lunarpunk.games · 2w ago

Excited for our first book club on July 28th at 8pm EST! We'll discuss C. Thi Nguyen's "Games: Agency as Art", an excellent text about how games convey agential experiences, and the risk of losing our values to scoring systems. Hosted by @ericdittmore.bsky.social ! discord.gg/NrqwRTm4?eve...

Make your next work of art in Color Jam, a cozy, print-and-puzzle coloring game launching on Kickstarter later this year. Grab your favorite crayons and play solo or with friends. Follow along here for when the project goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun... The night is for creativity. 🖍️

Coming soon: Color Jam: A Print-and-Puzzle Coloring Game

Enjoy cozy and clever coloring at your next game night. Craft the story of each hand-illustrated picture with creative color choices!

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Oh hey, I was on a board game podcast talking about my one of my games about community resilience and collective action. Incredibly exciting to talk about two of my favorite things!

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

In my humble opinion, the indie market scene is the most exciting thing happening in the board game space right now. Come join the movement to make small batch games that can be as weird and special as you can imagine!

Daniel Newman // New Mill Industries@dnlnwmn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The application to be a vendor at the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged in December is now live! www.newmillindustries.com/ignm-app

I quickly put together this pitch video for Hermit Hustle to submit to a few indie markets. Maybe I should have explained the game better, but I got excited by the idea of narrating it like a nature documentary.

Hermit Hustle Pitch Video

YouTube video by Eric Dittmore

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I have the pleasure of joining some other indie game designers at the Brooklyn Library today. Come check out some hot new games!

Counterpoint is live on Kickstarter! 2 years ago I had a silly idea to mix two of my favorite things (classical music and games) and here we are after countless hours of prototyping, testing, simplifying, and reworking. Excited to hear your music! 💛🎻🎶 www.kickstarter.com/projects/squ...

Counterpoint: a Co-op Classical Music Trick-Taking Game

Counterpoint is a cooperative trick-taking game for 3-5 players where the challenges are based on different pieces of classical music.

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Incredible insights into color systems in boardgames! 🎲✂️ youtu.be/luZ-exQkxVs?...

How boardgames fail colorblind players

YouTube video by Chromaphobe

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Very excited for this series. Connor was a huge inspiration to me when I decided to take Adulting the the indie market last year. Not all games need to have huge print runs, or even be published at all! I can play music for the sake of the art, why not game design too?!

Always Awake Games (Connor) 🔜 Pax West@connor.alwaysawake.games · 5mo ago

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how so much game design advice that’s available is really just business/product advice. It’s got a lot of survivorship bias and as a result, it’s homogenising and dissuading a lot of what’s possible. So…I’m making a little vlog series about it!

Two weeks ago, we announced our existence to the world. People have been super supportive, and I genuinely appreciate everyone who has shown us kindness. For targeted updates about H&D's work, subscribe to our newsletter: www.hawkanddovegames.com Or, join us on Discord: discord.gg/MUpWNqJcks

Hawk and Dove

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Excited about the selection for game night tonight!

I cancelled my trip to Unpub this year because the basketball team I coach made it to the Queens Championship! We lost by just 6 points. It was a great experience. Feeling lots of FOMO about Unpub, but grateful to have so many great things going on! Maybe next year I’ll make Unpub happen.

In what ways can board games improve society? Xoe talks with @gregisonthego.bsky.social about the social lessons games can teach us and how they can start important conversations, often through the lens of his design Keep the Faith, and his codesign Bloc by Bloc! youtu.be/xDzYgaBJ11Y

Social Shifting - Dialogues at Dusk

YouTube video by Lunarpunk Games

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We do this work because it’s meaningful to play in a world that shouts at us to stop and settle down, be adults. We do this work because of the joy it brings to people. Play is a tradition older than the concept of time itself. If this work lets us survive, that’s something to be proud of.

Got my submission in just under the wire! Love this contest. I’m looking forward to some feedback on my game Secrets, Secrets.

Secrets, Secrets Pitch Video - CE

YouTube video by Eric Dittmore

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Cardboard Edison@cardboardedison.com · 6mo ago

It's the FINAL DAY FOR CARDBOARD EDISON AWARD SUBMISSIONS! We'll have a final count tomorrow, but let's just say we and our judges will be quite busy in the coming weeks! cardboardedison.com/award

We are calling for an immediate stop to all purchases from Upper Deck. Their total lack of communication is distressing—so we call upon everyone to help us escalate. No purchases from Upper Deck. No media coverage or posts of their games. Upper Deck will only respond when it hurts their wallets.

Marceline Leiman@marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

YIKES. Upper Deck (Marvel Legendary) just announced a CCG using the Harry Potter license. Fans of UD are rallying against this decision. Like the CGE situation last year, I’m asking for your help. Join us. Share your disgust and frustration, and help us push UD to retract their awful decision. 🎲✂️

Got some exciting games to the table. Tax the Rich by @kostby.bsky.social - thematic trick-taking with dynamic teams, plenty of gotcha moments too. Adulting by @ericdittmore.bsky.social - multi-victor semi-coop deck building, which was a really collaborative experience in our first game #boardgames

YIKES. Upper Deck (Marvel Legendary) just announced a CCG using the Harry Potter license. Fans of UD are rallying against this decision. Like the CGE situation last year, I’m asking for your help. Join us. Share your disgust and frustration, and help us push UD to retract their awful decision. 🎲✂️

Great game night tonight! Got Pacts and Persuasion to the table. I was blown away by both designs. So fresh and fluid. What a time to be a gamer! @xoe.gay @hollandspiele.bsky.social @enzyshade.bsky.social @dvcgames.bsky.social

In honor of the @cardboardedison.com 🎲✂️ contest, here are my 2-min. pitch video tips: 🪝 Push the hook(s) from the beginning 🧀 Be cheesily excited about your game 🫴 Show and tell, but mostly show 😲 Highlight the emotional highs 🪝 Keep everything connected to the hook(s) Script template below...

Love to see Adulting paired with some self-care drinks! These folks get it.

Back Again Board Game Cafe@backagaincafe.bsky.social · 7mo ago

January Drink Specials Cappucci-Know Your Worth: chocolate tiramisu cappuccino (oat or dairy) Tea-Center Yourself: amaretto earl grey tea topped with tiramisu oat foam (iced possible) New Year New You Tiramisu: vanilla tiramisu steamed milk with cinnamon (oat or dairy) TBC

🎆 Pyrotechnics is officially available for sale! Start 2026 with a bang! Pyrotechnics is a two-player head-to-head card game that's quick and easy with just the right spark of strategy. #boardgames

Pyrotechnics - The Seahorse and The Hummingbird

Pyrotechnics is a fast, two-player card duel packed with strategy and sparks—easy to learn, quick to play, and endlessly replayable.

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I highly recommend submitting a game to this contest. It was a great motivator to tighten up my rulebook for Adulting last year and resulted in some great feedback that helped me make the game what it is today. And if you subscribe to their patreon, you get 1 free game submission each year!

Cardboard Edison@cardboardedison.com · 7mo ago

It’s time! SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2026 CARDBOARD EDISON AWARD ARE OPEN! Board game designers, show us what you’ve been working on! Deadline is January 31: cardboardedison.com/award

It’s so awesome that the folks @cardboardherald.bsky.social are covering indie and self-published games now!! Go support them and show them you want more of this content by watching their thing, liking the thing, subscribing to the thing—do the thing!! ✨

The Cardboard Herald@cardboardherald.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This review I posted today is probably my favorite vid I’ve done in ages, exploring the world of indie small print run games through Imps, a game by Nick Brachmann. #boardgames youtu.be/fd-JvOoB_ME

What an amazing list of games! I’ve had the pleasure of playing most of these titles and am honored to see Adulting amongst such esteemed company.

Dan Thurot@danthurot.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Today is the fifth day of Best Week! Did you know that 2025 contained an unusually high number of games about human relationships? An unusually high number of *good* games about human relationships? Now you do! Read about them here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/29/b...

Hey board game designers! Just SIX DAYS left until submissions for next year's Cardboard Edison Award open! Get your pitches and prototypes ready! cardboardedison.com/award

So cool to see Adulting being played by the DVC Games crew! And side-by-side with a Taylor Shuss game no less. Someone pinch me!

DVC Games 🔜 Gen Con@dvcgames.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Playing IGNM games today by @drawnonward.bsky.social and @ericdittmore.bsky.social ! Adulting + Fold and Fly!

Adulting and Chasing Shadows, both great games by fellow IGNM alums @ericdittmore.bsky.social and @vawcer.bsky.social. So much fun!