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or Joy if you're fancy maker of music and games morris dancer they/them

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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.

gamefound.com

Cole Wehrle@colewehrle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today we’re posting the prelaunch page for our next game: the second edition of An Infamous Traffic. There is so much to say about this game, and we’ll be talking about it quite a bit in the coming months, but I wanted to provide a little background here. 🧵 www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

Coming soon: An Infamous Traffic: Second Edition

A new edition of the acclaimed game of cutthroat capitalism in the nineteenth century opium trade.

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Cole Wehrle@colewehrle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am so honored to share this nomination for Molly House with Jo, Ray, and Ricky whose exceptional work on the game is so deserving of recognition. And, I'm beyond humbled to be in the company of the other nominees (including one of my favorite places in the Twin Cites, Mischief Toys!)

The Diana Jones Award@dianajonesaward.org · 2mo ago

The Diana Jones Award committee is pleased to announce the finalists for its 2026 award. In alphabetical order, they are:

The Diana Jones Award trophy in a blue light.
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...

STUPID GAMES, STUPID PRIZES - Tim Clare - Author, Poet and Creative Writing Advice Podcaster

STUPID GAMES, STUPID PRIZES A week ago, in 34°C heat, I went with my wife and daughters camping. We deliberately chose a site only fifteen minutes’ drive from our house, near a familiar spot we’ve oft...

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jo kelly@miasmacorp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This year's UK Games Expo was an all-timer. Many games played and prototypes tried. Many friends met and made. A really lovely and promising pitch meeting. A gratifying response from people who played and talked to me about WENDYBUXXX. Sage advice from generous mentors and wonderful peers.

jo kelly@miasmacorp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've only played for a couple of hours, but really loving this so far! I love how you're forced to deal with the ecological impact of expanding your city. Excited to delve further!

nic tringali@nictringali.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

jo kelly@miasmacorp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm hoping the incredible board games line at Osprey finds a good new home, but more than that, I'm hoping the team that works on those games lands on their feet. They're a talented, dedicated bunch of people, and I'm wishing them all the best.

Osprey Games 🎲@ospreygames.bsky.social · 3mo ago

After 11 fantastic years, Bloomsbury Publishing, the owner of Osprey Games, has made the difficult decision to sell the board and card game line. This was not a decision taken lightly and reflects a strategic refocusing on book publishing. (1/7)

Wargamer@wargamer.com · 3mo ago

After co-designing one of last year’s most impressive board games, we’re keen to learn more about Jo Kelly’s new, ultra-satirical 'content' card game. www.wargamer.com/wendybuxxx/b... #BoardGames #Tabletop #TabletopGaming

One of 2025's hottest debut board game designers brings a strange new title to Kickstarter

After co-designing one of last year's most impressive board games, we're keen to learn more about Jo Kelly's new, ultra-satirical card game.

wargamer.com

Seraphina Garcia Ramirez@seraphimseraphina.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"I have remade my image into that of the divine tradwife, perpetually pregnant and clad in fetish sundresses, walking barefoot through campylobacter-ridden chicken dung as I grin toothily through my denim prison bars." The game was already thrilling me but this line. this is what critique should be

Dan Thurot@danthurot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wendybuxxx is a... well, it's a few things. A sharp satire about self-satirizing lifestyle influencers. Board game content with unusual cardplay. A dim reflection of a dim culture. In all cases, it's quite the thing to behold. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/04/27/w...

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 3mo 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…