James Barnhart ➡️ UnPub 26

@jakekbarnhart.bsky.social

Game Designer, Artist, Educator, and all around goof. Let’s talk making great games and great communities! Designer of Engage! Senior Game Designer l Null Signal Games

This is so fucked - today the Trump admin removed a memorial honoring people enslaved by George Washington in Philadelphia. Last week ICE pulled a gun on someone near my school. You’ve seen people speculate on what they would have done in Weimar Germany, well now we all know…It’s what you do now.

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Said goodbye yesterday to an amazing LGS that has been my 3rd place for 16 years. Redcap’s Corner feels like an old tree that I counted on to offer me shade, a constant good in an ever changing world. Thanks to Benn, Adam, & everyone who made it the nerdy, punk, queer space that I’ll miss so much.

Aaah PAXU Tomorrow! I can’t wait to see all of you & what you’re working on! Where will you be and what are you doing? I’ll be testing & pitching our new time travel lane control game “Once and For All” at UnPub 10am-1pm on Friday Throughout Saturday at the PGMG table 1:30 - 4:30pm Sunday! 🎲✂️

Tip #2 of “Elevating Your Card Design” ELEGANCE = DEPTH>COMPLEXITY: If I could give 1 bit of advice to a new designer it would probably be to set word count limits on their cards to increase their depth to complexity ratio. Compare “Birdcage” vs “Split Up”, which is better & why? 1/3 #Netrunner 🎲✂️

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Okay so with one NSG Netrunner expansion under my belt and two more on the way, I’d love to share some of the best practices and first principles I have adopted and applied in designing Elevation. Would folks be interested in this “Elevating Your Card Design” series/thread🧵? Lemme know below! ✂️🎲

Philly Game Designers! Tonight we will be hosting our monthly in person playtest w/ @breakmygame.com at Redcap’s Corner, 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Designers sign up with the link below! Testers can just walk in and support their local design community! 🎲✂️ www.eventbrite.com/e/break-my-g...

Break My Game Playtesting - Philadelphia, PA - Redcap's Corner

Come playtest board games designed by local independent game designers!

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AHHHH! The first Netrunner expansion I got to work on is out now! Everyone at NSG did an amazing job with this set and it’s release marks the first of my published design work to reach the hands of players around the world - pretty special feeling. Check it out! 🎲✂️ nullsignal.games/blog/elevati...

Elevation is Out Now! - Null Signal Games

Elevation is out now! See every card in the set below, check out the product page for details on how to get it, and build decks using the new cards on

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Punk is definitely not dead as Phoenix rises from the ashes in Elevation. As many of you know, Anarch was a big focus of mine when designing the set. I literally screamed in excitement when I saw this ID spoiled. 🎲✂️ nullsignal.games/blog/out-of-...

Out of the Ashes: Anarch in Elevation - Null Signal Games

Playtester James joins us to debut a new Anarch identity and provide some insight into the new ways to play the faction that it enables.

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