We are Sold Out of Six-Sided Seas and Treat Please at #Gencon! Thank you for the overwhelming support! If you missed your copy you can still get one at our website solisgamestudio.com!

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Sit down and let's explore tabletop games for competitors, families, and storytellers.

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Paid Opportunity. Looking for Tabletop Game Designers or Developers who are Catholic or have a theological or seminary education for a board game project about Catholic relics / reliquaries.

My mother: “It was one of those mystical books - not the kind of thing I usually read.” Me: “A fantasy novel?” Mother: “Yeah — it was good! You would like it.”

Looking for a cultural consultant who has lived a significant amount of time in Tokyo for an upcoming board game set in Tokyo with a silly take on Kaiju. DMs open or reply here.

Pretty wild week — forgot to post but Dungeon Crawler Carl Unstoppable is live and I am so proud of our team's development on this game. As a HUGE nerd about this series it was very fulfilling creatively to get to play in this world. And the game is a banger. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable

Get ready to enter your very own World Dungeon! Play as a familiar face, such as 🧨 Carl, 👑🐈 Donut, 🐊 Florin, 🐐 Prepotente, or build your own unique crawler, complete with a customizable class and race...

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We're celebrating Radiant Black Friday with 40% of the Massive-Verse Bundle! Plus, older Pocket Paragons sets are only $5 each, and you can take advantage of free US shipping on orders over $59! Shop now at store.solisgamestudio.com

Finally sharing my sizzle reel! If you're in need of video production work (or pretty much anything creative), hit me up, esp. at #PAXU! I don't ask for this much, but if you're in the #boardgames industry and like what I do, consider sharing this! I'm looking to book up 2026! linktr.ee/jcw.gay

Dungeon Crawler Carl - Unstoppable is coming! It's a rad 1-2p deckbuilder designed by John D. Clair and we're doing the development. Can follow along here: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

I want an animation this good for everyone one of the board games I work on from here on out. Can't wait to show everyone what we've been cooking with Quality Beast and Allplay on Towers of the Sun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5-2...

Towers of the Sun - Release Announcement

YouTube video by Quality Beast

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Returned from Germany last night exhausted but reinvigorated. It is nice to be reminded that there is joy and enthusiasm in games.

Come say hi at Essen (and/or do business)!

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We're at Spiel Essen this week, meeting with international partners. We're also giving away some Massive-Verse Starter Packs and showing off upcoming titles Treat Please and Six-Sided Seas. Stop by at 5L115 if you are here!

I'm doing some dev work on Flintlock!, the new game in the Blitzkrieg series of 20-minute 2-player wargames. I'm coordinating some digital playtesting that's happening over the next few weeks. Any mutuals interested in helping out for the promise of a free copy of the game when it's released?

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Hey indie publisher friends: this is your reminder that GAMA fellowship applications close JULY 31 for the 2026 Horizons fellowship www.gama.org/page/Horizons It comes with travel & lodging for GAMA trade show, $1000 grant, and more!

GAMA: THE GAME MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

The Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) is the non-profit trade organization dedicated to serving the hobby games industry.

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🎲✂️ Tonight at 9PM EDT (UTC -5), @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @drayerink.bsky.social talk to @gamesbymondo.bsky.social and @johnbrieger.bsky.social in a Developer Round Table, looking at freelance and in house roles! Join us live in the chat at facebook.com/MeepleSyrup or youtube.com/MeepleSyrup!

New York Based Game Designers: You have a week left to apply for a $60,000 artist grant with the NYS artist fellowship. At least one of these grants would be great for a TTRPG

Board Game Media friends – @solisgamestudio.bsky.social is getting ready to send out some copies of our summer release: a complete 2 player game in a booster pack! Super-powered duels in just 5 minutes. If you're interested, fill this out: forms.gle/eDoJ9L9nJc8g...

If you're looking to get into a new RPG show, can't recommend Chaos Protocol enough. Tonight is a great time to jump into it!

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🌸 RERUN TONIGHT 🌸 The day the Chosen One dies a world made of leaves erupts into flame, and the fire climbs so high it scorches the stars black. ❌ Join the cast TONIGHT (6/18) at 8pm ET for a RERUN of Arc 1, Episode 1 of The Chaos Protocol! It’s time to return to the start of our Journey.

I’m at KublaCon this weekend, splitting time between the @solisgamestudio.bsky.social booth and the Protospiel room. Come say hi!

Just saw @fertessa.bsky.social and @rf-seattle.bsky.social were nominated for a KinderSpiel des Jahres! Congratulations! www.spiel-des-jahres.de/aktuelle-pre...

Aktuelle Preisträger 2025

Nominiert für die Wahl zum Spiel des Jahres 2025 Bomb Busters von Hisashi Hayashi Pegasus Spiele Illustration: Dominique Ferland Kooperatives Bombenentschärfen mit Köpfchen für 2 bis 5 Personen ab 10 ...

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Deep in the con preparation hole this week but feeling really productive! Trying to clear my backlog, export some fresh prototypes, and go into KublaCon with a fresh slate of things to try

it's time for another reminder that if you're working on a game, want to talk about the process of game dev, or teaching game design, I'm always looking for guests for my podcast series, as we can spend hours talking about design forms.gle/59Ji39m9Md8u... #indiegamedev

Perceptive Podcast Sign up Form

For anyone in game dev who is interested in coming on my podcast series on youtube.com/c/game-wisdom to talk about their works or game design in general. These casts can be done live or recorded. I wi...

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Tariffs on China are temporarily lowered to 30% for 90 days, which is still a huge increase from our previous costs, though not an existential threat in the same way. It's still a devastating blow to the board game industry. I worry about the effect this pause in supply chains will have on shipping.

Please meet “Bong Sedlus”, our new road trip mascot, most known for his catchphrase “outside bad”

Today at 10am pacific, I’ll be joining @kqedforum.bsky.social to discuss the impact of tariffs on hobbies in America. My board game publishing business @solisgamestudio.bsky.social has 8500 games on the water, due to the port of LA May 15th. We’re expecting a devastating 145% tariff bill.

FRI at 10AM: @theatlantic.com staff writer Tyler Austin Harper, KQED's Jasmine Garnett and board game developer @johnbrieger.bsky.social join to talk about what we lose when we can no longer afford our hobbies. ❓ Is there a hobby that you’ve struggled to maintain due to rising costs?

What We Lose When We’re Priced Out of Our Hobbies

For a lot of people, it’s getting too expensive to knit or fish.

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High Tide walk midday. Getting a lot done on moving projects forward.

Days since a new boardgame publisher decides to publish the world's most asinine take on world history: 0. Like "Colonize: the New World" is so ridiculous of a title that part of me wonders if it's intentional trolling effort.

Nothing like running a blind test of a game's rules and seeing that the "really clean" text you thought you had has holes you could drive a truck through. This is why you test though!

Trying my best to be proactive about things I can control. Still going to be making games this year. Still even going to be releasing a few where margins work under tariffs. But there’s definitely just an overwhelming sense of dread.