Hey game people! Can you recommend some content/resources that would help get a 12-year-old into board game design?
Mike Mihealsick
@mihealsick.bsky.social
Work in progress; aspiring human. Tabletop game developer at Druid City Games.
One of the best part of making a #WheelofTime game is that it led to the generation of a ton of great art that the whole WoT fandom. War of the Dragon is live on Kickstarter NOW! 😍
“No, it’s okay if they fight. Hatsune Miku and Gudetama don’t NEED to get along!” - Things that have been said aloud in my home by @prettiestweed.bsky.social since the release of Tomodachi Life 🥵
War of the Dragon: The Wheel of Time® is coming to Kickstarter on Wednesday, 5/27, with two ways to play: Hero Mode and Epic Mode! Get a first look at gameplay for War of the Dragon with a preview of Hero Mode! 🔗 news.direwolfdigital.com/war-of-the-d... #WoTskies
War of the Dragon – Hero Mode
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Oh hey I can finally talk about this! Wheel of Time board game coming SOON 🥹
Dire Wolf 🔜 GEN CON (Booth 2402)@direwolfdigital.com · 3mo agoWar of the Dragon: The Wheel of Time® launches on Kickstarter on May 27th! Join us for a Q&A on how the beloved epic translates to your board game table! boardgamegeek.com/thread/37085...
LIVE NOW: Let's play Off With Their Heads! This "and Write" game was an insta-hit with me and I can't wait to teach and play it! #boardgames @druidcitygames.bsky.social Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola
ALERT: Mattel has been pushing game designers to submit pitches using their My Mattel Ideas portal, even if designers are in discussions with Mattel people directly. The portal forces you to commit to a royalty cap of 1.5% plus a 10% deduction to net sales - effectively 1.35%.
I’m always a little disappointed when the clerk checks my receipt on my way out of Costco. All I really want is for them to check every item and then praise me for being a good honest boy when they see I haven’t tried to steal anything. Is that too much to ask? 🥺
Re;MATCH is a forthcoming marble-matching fighting game by @brotherminggames.bsky.social, elevated by sharp fighter design and some really great match-making. My preview: spacebiff.com/2026/03/02/r...
Re;MATCH One, Two, or Four
It hasn’t been all that long since we took a look at Re;ACT: The Arts of War, an intriguing but imperfect game about various artists manifesting their crafts into the physical world in order …
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The single most clear economic indicator of a recession is when the Money Tree is on sale for more than 50% off. (But seriously though y’all hold on to your butts).
I caught the early live streaming of #TheWheelofTime S3E1 and loved it. The editing and storytelling feel like they've leveled up, and the performances and visuals are as stunning as always. Can't wait to see more on Thursday! #WotSkies
These boycotts are coming along at a good time because I sure don’t need to be buyin anything 👀
I’ve talked to a lot of people this week that really need to hear this game-making advice: If you don’t understand how a certain game has sold so well, it means that game (or product) has a lesson to teach you. You won’t be able to learn that lesson unless you’re willing to reinvent what you know.
Biblically accurate Chess. Black to move, mate in 2.
@mihealsick.bsky.social and I make bibimbap for valentines every year since our first valentines day in 2016, and this is our first as a married couple 🥰 ... we may be married but I am not sharing my grape soju
me: [playing the sims legacy] our sims had a party and now my sim is depressed mike: wow so realistic
A big part of why I want to see more diversity in game design—and really in any creative field—is because different people create differently. The more new ideas exist in a space, the more I can absorb and evolve my own craft. Games were worse when almost all the people making them looked like me.
A Place For All My Books was definitely the smoothest project I've ever worked on. It went from concept to contract in 5 months, then from contract to launch in less than a year. If you're curious about what that journey was like, check it out in this new designer diary!
"A Place For All My Books" Designer Diary! | A Place for All My Books
url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smirkanddagger/a-place-for-all-my-books]A Place for All my Books[/url] launched this week on Kickstarter, marking my very first project with Smirk & Dagger Gam...
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Hey, come join Alex Cutler and I as we talk to Curt Covert at Smirk & Dagger Games to talk about our new game, A Place For All My Books! www.twitch.tv/smirkanddagger
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