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@hollandspiele.bsky.social

Dinosaurs everybody. Posts by Mary, who along with @amabel.bsky.social runs Hollandspiele, a publisher of weird games for weird people. https://hollandspiele.com https://youtube.com/@hollandspiele

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Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · last mo.

thanks to @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social @colewehrle.bsky.social @marcelineleiman.bsky.social @mattleacock.bsky.social @millenomi.name @annlee14.bsky.social @kennaalexander.bsky.social @elizhargrave.bsky.social @garphillgames.bsky.social @tomlehmann.bsky.social and Al Steg for their time & insights

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Expansions are kinda weird, right? I spoke with ten game designers and a historian about one of the most unusual elements of modern board games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v08K...

Amaranth M@jazzelves.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am, as expected of me, EXTREMELY normal about this already. Totally normal. Absolutely, in every way, normal. ...it's going to live next to You Will Die In This Place I'm vibrating with excitement

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ANNOUNCING: Swords Against Beginner's Box Replica Edition Coming in June, this is a reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of this 1979 game found at an estate sale in 2016, including replicas of personal effects of the former owner.

Box cover is a field of blue with yellow text: SWORDS AGAINST. Beneath that in black text: COMPLETE BEGINNER'S BOX WITH INTRODUCTORY MODULE "THE VANISHING OF SERLO'S KEEP" BY W.T. SCHAUSS. In yellow frame, there is a fairly poor reproduction of J.R. Skelton's painting of Beowulf and the dragon. Underneath that, in a yellow border, I have added REPLICA EDITION OF 1979 RELEASE - NOT A PLAYABLE GAME, and a faded Hollandspiele logo which I hope is a tasteful addition.
Part Bear, part Fish, all Pie@bearfishpie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There is something delicious about the space City of Six Moons occupies in my head - constantly shifting forms between puzzle, game and fictional cultural artefact. Will I be able to fathom out a playable rule set? Maybe. Does that matter? Hell no. This looks to be every bit as fascinating

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ANNOUNCING: Swords Against Beginner's Box Replica Edition Coming in June, this is a reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of this 1979 game found at an estate sale in 2016, including replicas of personal effects of the former owner.

Box cover is a field of blue with yellow text: SWORDS AGAINST. Beneath that in black text: COMPLETE BEGINNER'S BOX WITH INTRODUCTORY MODULE "THE VANISHING OF SERLO'S KEEP" BY W.T. SCHAUSS. In yellow frame, there is a fairly poor reproduction of J.R. Skelton's painting of Beowulf and the dragon. Underneath that, in a yellow border, I have added REPLICA EDITION OF 1979 RELEASE - NOT A PLAYABLE GAME, and a faded Hollandspiele logo which I hope is a tasteful addition.
Lizstar@lizstar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you haven't been paying attention, this is happening because Hasbro decided that MTGA's team had to go back into the office. Its NEVER been in the office, and the team lives nowhere near any offices. They're all over the US. It was basically form a union, move, or be soft fired.

much like your posting@mlyp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hasbro have apparently hired a notorious union-busting firm in response to the Magic the Gathering Arena teams attempt at unionisation - Reddit mods have deleted the post If you haven't please sign the unions petition actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

A Reddit Post Hasbro just hired a notorious union-busting firm News I've been tracking the NLRB filing for the new Arena Union (UWOTC-CWA) since they announced on Monday. The devs gave Hasbro until this Friday (International workers day) to voluntarily recognize them. In response, Hasbro hired a well known union busting firm Fisher Phillips, to oversee this debacle. WoTC also responded to the news with this statement which is riddled with anti union wording (in my opinion) such as the "we are a family" vibe and also "direct relationship with our employees" Hopefully, Hasbro/WoTC is just using this firm as a "how to not screw everything up" instead of actually attempting to fight the imminent union. Anyways, please support your devs in their efforts to unionize.
Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ANNOUNCING: Swords Against Beginner's Box Replica Edition Coming in June, this is a reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of this 1979 game found at an estate sale in 2016, including replicas of personal effects of the former owner.

Box cover is a field of blue with yellow text: SWORDS AGAINST. Beneath that in black text: COMPLETE BEGINNER'S BOX WITH INTRODUCTORY MODULE "THE VANISHING OF SERLO'S KEEP" BY W.T. SCHAUSS. In yellow frame, there is a fairly poor reproduction of J.R. Skelton's painting of Beowulf and the dragon. Underneath that, in a yellow border, I have added REPLICA EDITION OF 1979 RELEASE - NOT A PLAYABLE GAME, and a faded Hollandspiele logo which I hope is a tasteful addition.The reverse of the original box was blank, so I hope you don't mind me filling up the space with some context. In 2016, a few days after we had started Hollandspiele, Mary and I went to an estate sale and came across this box. I had never heard of it before, but I assumed based on the title it might have something to do with the Lankhmar books, or that, based on the repurposed J.R. Skelton illustration, it might have something to do with Beowulf. Both of these were things I was fairly obsessed with at this time, and the box felt fairly heavy, so I gave ten dollars to the daughter of the deceased. The box had been sealed with heavy strapping tape. When I cut it open, I found most of the box's heft came from the previous owner's personal effects. The core rulebook was missing, as was the "Dictionary of Devils". The only piece of the original game left in the box was the adventure module – but not its dungeon map, or the answer key for its many obtuse puzzles. The game was unplayable. I went online to try to find PDFs of the missing material, but there were none. No downloads on DriveThruRPG, no entries in databases, no forums, no remembrances on groggy blogs. It was almost like it never existed at all. But the box was proof it did. And in those personal effects there were a few clues that enabled me to piece together the story of an RPG publisher that existed for a few months in 1979, and the novelist who wrote an adventure module that in all likelihood was played by maybe a dozen people. More than that, I learned about the person who had owned my copy, and had annotated the module book with a puzzle of their own. The box was proof they existed, too. It occurred to me that all of this was worth preserving, and a few years ago I set about securing the necessary permissions to publish this replica edition. The original publisher, Michael Lord, was still alive – he passed only very recently – and even sent me a copy of the missing materials. I went back and forth on whet…
Robert DeLeskie@rdeleskie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Having my first game published by @hollandspiele.bsky.social and getting to know and work with @amabel.bsky.social and Mary has been a true highlight of my creative journey. It’s a bittersweet moment to announce the game will shortly no longer be available through the Hollandspiele store 1/2

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our license is up for @rdeleskie.bsky.social 's WARS OF MARCUS AURELIUS. We're selling off our last few copies at $10 off. If you want a Hollandspiele edition of this popular solitaire game, now's your last chance.

Going Out Of Print Our license for Robert DeLeskie’s Wars of Marcus Aurelius is expiring. So we’re putting the game on sale - $10 off! - to liquidate our remaining stock - we have the cards for less than two dozen copies. If you want to get your hands on the Hollandspiele printing of this popular solitaire game, now’s your last chance. One of the joys of this business model is getting to take a chance on a new or emerging voice, and then watch them move on to bigger things. It was really gratifying to walk into a game store in 2022 and see Robert’s Fire & Stone on the shelf. And it is equally gratifying to know that at some point in the next few years, I’m likely to see a retooled second edition of WOMA on that same shelf, bringing it to an even wider audience. We’re excited to see what he does with it.
Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It was deeply gratifying to have my work mentioned in this. I stumbled into board games via a handful of things discovered at the same time, in a Baader-Meinhof way; one of those was BGwS, a series that was incredibly important to me. I don't think I would be here without Board Games with Scott.

Scott Nicholson@scottnicholson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

On Christmas morning at 10am EST, I'll be launching a live YouTube premiere of a special 20th anniversary special of Board Games with Scott! I'll be alone Christmas morning, so if you are in a similar situation (or just want a break), join me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Xg...

DentedRazor@dentedrazor.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Amabel's latest video is a fantastic watch, with great personality and cadence, leaving me wishing there was more, as with her other videos. For transparency, I've been a patron of Amabel's and customer of Hollandspiele a long time, and been enjoying the great products of both.

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...

Dan Thurot@danthurot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I like this video for a lot of reasons — the shade over the new Meltwater edition is *perfect* — but foremost among them is the fact that I once wrote an article about "The Board Game Box Review." It was a surprising breakout moment for my goofball site. And this is so much better than that.

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...