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Mark Radical 8 Games

@markr8games.bsky.social

Indie boardgame publisher from York, UK. Also Maths.

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Spokes: A Colourful Cycling Boardgame A fast paced kaleidoscopic velodrome cycling game for 1-6 players.

Spokes is live on #Kickstarter ! And a massive thank you to everyone who has already backed us, or spread the word!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rad...

In short: Spokes is quick colourful cycling, ingeniously simple yet deep and original. Backers get freebies and discounts!
#boardgames #boardgame

20.02.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The brilliant bike racing game Spokes is now live on Kickstarter.

I was fortunate enough to be involved in play testing this. So few rules with so much depth in decision making.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rad...

Designed by Bert Hardeman
Published by @markr8games.bsky.social

#boardgames

18.02.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spokes: A Colourful Cycling Boardgame A fast paced kaleidoscopic velodrome cycling game for 1-6 players.

The Kickstarter for Spokes from @markr8games.bsky.social is now live. I played this at Airecon 2024 and really enjoyed it. I admitted it's simple rules and tactical depth. I'll be backing.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rad...

18.02.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spokes: A Colourful Cycling Boardgame A fast paced kaleidoscopic velodrome cycling game for 1-6 players.

I just backed Spokes by @markr8games.bsky.social!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rad...

18.02.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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In honour of the fact we launch TOMORROW I played Spokes with the prototype track change expansion creating an interesting choice up to the single spoke path on the outside. Loads of fun as always, and hilarious messing up of routes, or proper piggybacking, around that tight corner! #boardgames

17.02.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spokes is a wheely good #boardgame that looks gorgeous on the table! But that wasn't everything we had to say about Spokes by Radical 8 Games @markr8games.bsky.social

check out our review on our blog:
https://buff.ly/3WOJcPA

06.02.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Coming soon: Spokes A fast paced kaleidoscopic velodrome cycling game for 1-6 players.

Great idea! We’re really looking forward to the launch of Spokes from @markr8games.bsky.social which is due to launch very soon!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rad...

12.02.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And Worms, a boardgame which somehow captures the chaos of Worms and futility of having a welll made plan involving accuracy.

02.02.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stationfall, in which the colonel escaped to earth taking the deadly nanobot swarm with them in the same escape capsule, the Stranger jetpacked to earth, and Security bot started shooting everyone left on the ship and planting wrenches on them.

02.02.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Funner Factory, haven't played this one for a while so busted it out, a great little spacial reasoning game.

02.02.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Played some more great games yesterday at Beyond Monopoly!
Gaia Project with the new expansion. Cemented as my pick of the Terra Mystica systems, the new expansion adds 4 new races, 2 new planets, derelict spaceships with new abilities and general balancing. Superb game.

02.02.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming soon: Spokes A fast paced kaleidoscopic velodrome cycling game for 1-6 players.

I don't do Kickstarter previews anymore. However, I played this game at last year's Airecon and really enjoyed it. Will be backing this myself. You might want to check it out. Spokes from @markr8games.bsky.social

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rad...

28.01.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Cheers!

02.01.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Played some decent games today - Bus by Splitter, San Juan, Hansa Teutonica and Lord of the Rings Duel. Somehow managed to win all of them, Christmas luck I'm sure

21.12.2024 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the resource victory easy. However Paul had a card which allowed him to choose a victory point condition without being start player, which seemed relatively op and he won.

Now that I know how it's meant to be played, I'd play it again, but the card (and dice) luck might just be too much for me

18.11.2024 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot more dependent upon hand-draw than I assumed. To the extent the board was more an afterthought. My first hadn was a bunch of low value war cards, which led to a dreadful first round. My second hand was a lot better, and led to me claiming a bunch of cards, one of which made winning...

18.11.2024 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I played more quality #boardgames yesterday then ever at a convention (BMYork games club)
Deep breath: Quarto, Tiny Towns, Agricola, Camel Up (Supercup), Spokes (my own prototype, just for fun not playtesting anything), Skull, Arcs, Worms (suprisingly enjoyable for ip minis), Harvest & Phantom Ink.

17.11.2024 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It definitely prompted me to hedge my bets between this place and threads.

10.12.2023 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0