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Hawk and Dove Games

@hawkanddovegames.bsky.social

Tabletop design, development, and publishing. Focused on historical and wargames. https://www.hawkanddovegames.com/

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Marceline Leiman@marcelineleiman.bsky.social · last wk.

📣 I’m excited to announce!! 📣 I’m partnering with Unstable Games to start a sister studio to them named… ✨ Ordinary Magic!! ✨ I’m so excited to bring 3 BRAND NEW GAMES under this new studio to you this Fall!!! 🍁

Ordinary Magic by Unstable Games - Gamefound

3 New Games, 1 Extraordinary World. Explore this visionary studio partnership between award-winning game designer Marceline Leiman and Unstable Games.

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Hawk and Dove Games@hawkanddovegames.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As we've been settling into our new lives here in Utrecht, I've had more time to devote to thinking about Hawk & Dove, its origin story, and how my experiences in gaming shape its DNA. Here are some thoughts. Please take a look if you're interested: www.hawkanddovegames.com/blog/origin-... Thanks!

How we think about play and board games — Hawk and Dove

The introductory post from Hawk & Dove Games about our origins and the approach we take to making boardgames.

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Hawk and Dove Games@hawkanddovegames.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When I show people Painkillers, there are often nervous jokes about how bad the game feels to play. Not as a game, but as a player inhabiting the seat of a pharmaceutical executive. This is intentional, of course, and I'm always glad to hear it.

Hawk and Dove Games@hawkanddovegames.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a very affecting piece of writing about games, growing up, community, responsibility, struggle, and how they can all intersect. One of the best things I've read about boardgames or gaming in a while.

Tim Clare@timclare.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote a piece about attending the UK Games Expo last weekend, about feeling bad, stupid & worthless, about taking my 9 year old daughter for the first time, about the values of the market, & about pointless games. It's called 'Stupid Games, Stupid Prizes': www.timclarepoet.co.uk/stupid-games...

Hawk and Dove Games@hawkanddovegames.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Relocation complete. Eight days into resettling in the Netherlands and the home office is mostly functional. After weeks of limbo and movement, it feels good to take a concrete step toward stability and rootedness. Gonna make some incredible games in this space.

A home office set up. Desk with computer, mouse, and a bottle of water on it. A window with view of treetops and other buildings. The top of a leather chair pokes into view in the foreground.
Hawk and Dove Games@hawkanddovegames.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I just sent out our first newsletter to subscribers! The biggest piece of news is announcing our first game - Painkillers, one of my designs. I am immensely proud of this game and how far it has come since its inception. Here's a mini thread on the game as it is now.

Image of the United States in gray, with a teal background. Along the Eastern seaboard runs a collection of pharmaceuticals that roughly make up the shape of the Appalachian Mountains. In large, white letters, it says the name of the game - Painkillers - with a syringe forming both Is in the name, and the final S as a dollar sign. Across the top is the name of the designer - Brooks Barber.
Hawk and Dove Games@hawkanddovegames.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is a great video by Matthew. Check it out. Most of what Big Pasti mentions is publisher choice. The design process should be rooted in each individual game and what it needs to express itself best. That may include eliminating players, roll and move, or any other supposedly "bad" choices.

Matthew Dunstan@matthewdunstan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Big Pasti's latest video, entitled "The 7 Deadly Sins of Board Game Design", had a real effect on me, and today's video is a response to his. I think there is a better way we can talk about game design. youtu.be/BY7TeikZcBw 🎲✂️

Hawk and Dove Games@hawkanddovegames.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Unpub was a great experience! I’m never more creatively invigorated than after a convention full of games, especially one with lots of playtesting new, cool ideas. Unfortunately, I’m also never more exhausted snd unable to think. Here’s a short thread about some of the cool stuff I got to see!

Brooks Barber@rollplusfun.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Here's a preview of the other five games I'm bringing to Unpub this year. Check 'em out if you want! Spindletop is the most developed. It's an economic hand management game based on Texas Hold 'Em poker mechanisms and the Texas oil boom of the early 20th century. Plus, it has Texagons!

A game prototype on a table. A large Texas made of smaller Texases tessellated (Texalated?) together to form the map. The game is called Spindletop.
Brooks Barber@rollplusfun.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is one of six of my games that’ll be at @unpub.org this year. That’s a ridiculous number of games, I know. Whatcha gonna do?