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🎲 Game Designer - #SpellWeek #TiersOfJoy 🎨 Art/Graphic Design - #Turncoats #PaxPenning 💛 I try my best - He/Him
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Good evening . . . We're conjuring some unranked games—games uninterested in ranking the players and their performance. For example: • Multivictor games where players pursue their own goals in a messy social space. • Victorless games that defy the concept of winning with narrative outcomes. 1/🧵

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Flipping the script on How to Play videos: How To Teach’s creator on the trials and tribulations of launching a new board game YouTube channel: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Woah. Hi, new followers! I'm guessing I'm in a recent starter pack? Fair warning: I don't exclusively post about my game designs and art. I like a lot of things! Also: 🤖 Generative AI is unethical slop 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights forever and always 🚫 The A in ACAB means ALL 🍉 Palestine will be free

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I'm supposed to be enjoying a mini hiatus from game design while I take care of some personal life things, but apparently I can't help myself. I think I just made my first numbers on cards game. 😬

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Generative AI and LLM tech is NOT inevitable and we collectively have the power to punt it all the way back into hell.

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I'm being entirely serious when I say there were multiple moments of this where I audibly gasped. youtu.be/gNty2y0DQN8?...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

2025 has been pretty garbage so far. If you're looking for things to enjoy, two excellent experimental pop albums have dropped in the last two weeks. Ela Minus - DÍA FKA Twigs - Eusexua Highly recommended for fans of Björk, Fever Ray, and Kelela.

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If you're looking for ways to make tangible contributions towards ensuring the safety and rights of trans people, try seeking out mutual aid and volunteer opportunities on a local level. Specifically look for groups that are divested from the police. translifeline.org can be a good starting point.

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My sister got me this T-shirt from a pizza place we go to when I visit her and I just realized it pulls double duty as unofficial @hollandspiele.bsky.social merch.

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Looking for some recommendations! Does anyone own a puzzle mat they enjoy using? Ideally looking for something that can be rolled up and doesn't take up too much space.

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I have an Instagram account that I only keep for opening Instagram links. Occasionally I log in just to check in on what old friends are up to. Sometimes I see the most normcore but pleasant family photo or vacation pic and go "Aww! Thats nice! Who is that?" And it's Carly Rae Jepsen. Every time.

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I’ll be demoing @popcatsfighter.bsky.social at @orcacon.bsky.social this weekend on Saturday and Friday in the Demo Tables area! I will also be there Friday in a more casual way. Can’t wait to see many friends there!!

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Personal observation from this article: I won this award 2 years ago with a game about making meals for your friends. No one wanted the game because of the theme. Did the game need a little dev work too? Sure! It wasn't perfect. Still isn't! But it got one bite that fell through. That's it.

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I’m running a Make 100 campaign on KS for my sold-out game at the Indie Game Night Market at PaxU! If you missed it, here is your 2nd chance to pick it up. Please follow the campaign or share it with a friend. The campaign launches next week! www.kickstarter.com/projects/chi...

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

I spent a good chunk of 2024 wondering if I should even bother designing games anymore. I stopped feeling that way when I embraced what Travis is talking about here. This is possibly the most I've ever related to a game design thread.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

I'm sorry but, "I need to see a net neutral to positive ROI on all art I engage with" is an unrealistic and miserable way to engage with creative work.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Reunited and it feels seaux good.

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

I've been having a ton of fun exploring unexpected and unconventional solutions to great feedback I received on #SpellWeek during PAXU. I'm often asked "Is this game competitive or is it co-op?" I don't want to share too much yet, but I'm continuing to push the answer ever further towards "Yes."

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

It's not a competition, but there's a good chance your favorite game of 2025 just got announced.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

And if ANY member of the Unpub team asks you to please stop doing something that isn't the one (1) thing on this list, just be cool about it and stop.

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

It was a wild and chaotic #PAXU and I'm still processing it all. But an easy highlight I'm certain of was playing #PaxPenning with these wonderful people! Thank you so much @gregisonthego.bsky.social, @boardgamefeast.bsky.social, and @marcelineleiman.bsky.social for a truly special time! 💛

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

If you're the guy walking around PAXU with the M*GA hat and you're reading this, I hope with my whole heart that you have a terrible time.

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PAX UNPLUGGED attendeeeeeees!! Chicken Fried Dice is in full swing!!! Come check it out in action at booth 2833 as part of the PAX Rising Showcase!!

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PAX Unplugged is less than 12 hours away! There will be tons of local Philly designers all over the con. Be sure to visit Game Makers Guild Philadelphia in the Unpub room on the 4th floor - look for the red tablecloth

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