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Game designer, community organizer, front end developer, kitty roommate, increasingly shirtless on social media...
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Hey boardgame bluesky! It looks like protoATL 2025 and unpub 2025 are on back to back weekends at the end of march this year... which one should i go to? Or is there another event i ought to be targeting instead? Halp!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Wednesdays are less hype than mondays BUT, we get to play cool prototype games like David Marron's Wizard Community College (coming to kickstarter later this year!). Here's my perfectly normal, only likes eating regular human food (why do you ask?),WCC student:

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Casual monday game night w/ 50+ gamers! We're out here playin: Camel Up, Horrified, 2 seperate games of Bonhanza, The Crew, Silver Amulet, Codenames, Cheese Thief, Terra Mystica, LOTR trick taking game, And many others i missed! Love my local Durham, NC. gaming group!

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Finally at Magfest and got Touch Hands Arcade set up!! Inspired in part by the work of @doougle.net in B.U.T.T.O.N and Johan Sebastian Joust. not an improvment on the 'make your own rules' genre but another entry in it. Thx to @toomuchtomato.bsky.social and @socksmagocs.bsky.social for the support!!

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

If i pay for a service, or app, or expierence of any kind, it better not have even one single ad. You already made your money. More is greedy.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Dev: We're making a Ghibli-esque game Me: What, like Grave of the Fireflies? Dev: N-no... Me: Hm... strong themes around the struggle of humanity and nature coexisting? Dev: -visibly sweating- Me: Ah. It's just the pastel anime aesthetic isn't it? Dev: Please... stop... the SEO will hear you!

submitted 43 days ago • 19 comments

Jk, I figured it out! Coming to a magfest near you: Touch Hands Arcade!!

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Anybody know how to build an arcade cabinet? @socksmagocs.bsky.social ?? @toomuchtomato.bsky.social ? @magfest-unofficial.bsky.social ?

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Just your daily reminder that @mossmouth.bsky.social's UFO 50 is an absolute masterpiece of game design and creation. Just beat mortol II, and im about to beat Pilot Quest. Great concept, great design, great execution. Just all around great.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

WIP of game #2 of 4 for Touch Hands Arcade debuting at Magfest indie arcade at the end of jan! A day or two more work on this thing and itll be 'done'. Then: 1. Get a build running on a rasp pi 2. Build collapsable arcade cab 3. Make 2 more games. 🥲😬 np. Piece of cake.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Im lovin bluesky for boardgame content, but i need more leftist content for when tiktok goes away. Also, it would be rad if i could find some indie video game devs who post progress vids.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning to everyone who likes seeing Peter Thiel so so so scared ONLY

submitted 75 days ago • 679 comments

Proof i went to orange theory today and worked out for the first time in ... LITTERAL years. I hated it. I'll probably go back. Bonus pic of jam. Because we made raspberry jalepeno jam last night and we have SO much.

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MAN! UFO 50 is brilliant! What a stylishly packaged little tour de force of game design, sticking an aesthetic, and world building. Ive just scratched the surface on this collection of delightful little games but im coming back for more! Favs so far: Bushido Ball, Campenella 2, and pilot quest.

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Oh, i forgot! I also briefly saw @socksmagocs.bsky.social at pax U when he flagged me down outside the convention center. I was caught witless and prattled on about drugs the whole time. Ha. Awesome to run into you man! My b for being so awkward. See ya in 6 weeks! #gottagofest #magfest

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Pax U follow up! 1/3 Spent saturday morning in the unpub hall playtesting Dance Shuffle. I got some good feedback from many including @adammichaud.bsky.social and now know the direction i need to take it, but its gonna take a rebuild (for the better)

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Rest of pax U 24, day 1 went like: 1. Played some of david marron's Wizard Community College 2. Got con food for lunch/dinner 3. Participated in the game jam pro am with Jeff Gum 4. Watched @toitle.bsky.social attempt to build ikea furniture in front of 100 people Cont...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks for the shout out!

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Woof. Check out these dope playtests! So far, I got an average of 4.0 out of 5 from most the players. Ill take a B all day! Also, a pic of me just in case you need to know what i look like today...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Pj played twice!

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Pax U update: spent the morning snagging earthborne rangers and compile, and playing an unpublished superhero card game in the unpub area. It was cool! Now: coffee break Next: playtesting dance shuffle in unpub area at 1:30! Come get your groove on!!!

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment