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muse-and-mettle.bsky.social

Designer of Twisted Trumpets, coming 2025 from Play to Z Games! Making games with a musical twist. I interview game designers and publishers on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@musemettlegames

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It's starting to feel real!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Tied for first place in the ProtoTank event at #tantrumcon! Got some great feedback on Djembe and I look forward to heading that advice to take the game to the next level!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Prepping Djembe to pitch at the ProtoTank event at #tantrumcon. Wish me luck!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Kicked off #tantrumcon with "Jesus Take the Wheel" and "Casino Fromage", both great unpublished games looking for a good home.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

A work conflict came up and now I'm not able to go to Unpub this year. Does anyone want my ticket and tables? The tables I have are: - Friday at 5-9pm ($60) - Saturday 10-12pm ($35) - Sunday 10-2pm ($60) Let me know if you're interested!

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Holiday games with the family included Only Murders in the Building, Middle Ages, and Wyrmspan. All were fun, though Wrysmpan was a little too complex for my parents to wrap their heads around, they were good sports about it as we helped them through their turns.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Artie and I are excited to dig into this new book!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Finalizing the rulebook for Twisted Trumpets, and trying my hardest to vanquish the "I'll get to that later" demons that keep telling me to skip the hard stuff (like creating diagrams and detailed examples for actions).

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Yes!

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Quite enjoyed my first play of HiFi. It's a puzzly game with a unique shared tableau and great table presence! #boardgames

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

In this episode I revisit Fritz Paull's "Prestige", a game that was previously dropped by it's publisher and almost didn't see the light of day. Learn about how it eventually got published and some of the pros and cons of the experience from the publisher who picked it up. youtu.be/rR6k5BIxZbU

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Jerry. Hopefully kitty heaven is full of nothing but board games you can sprawl across!

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks @amanpossessed.bsky.social for the great candid shot of folks playtesting Time Jam! It was great to see players so in love with the theme and invested in the mechanisms. If publishers can get over the connection to real-world music stars, I think this one has a good shot at going somewhere!

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Unexpectedly was gifted a block at Unpub from 1:30 - 4:30 today. Stop by and help me test "Time Jam", a gateway+ card drafting game about travelling back in time to assemble a super group of real-life famous musicians! #paxu #unpub

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Finished up some quick and dirty sell sheets for my two closest-to-finished games and now to finish packing for my bright-and-early 7:30 AM train to Philly. #paxubound

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

I use it to research board game themes and it's where our local playtesting group meets!

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

My first time going to Pax Unplugged this year. I have a couple prototypes, but missed out on Unpub blocks. What tips do you havr for me, both as a designer and just a fan of board games?

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

Was literally crying laughing playtesting Red String Theory by @backwardscapgames.bsky.social, a cooperative word-association party game where the end result is a conspiracy-theory-esque cork board. So fun.

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

Say hello to Arturo "Artie" Rodela, aka Scruffy Muffin.

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments