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A Sardegna like Playte production for Concordia would've rocked! 😲

YouTube video by Board Game Blitz Sometimes you get extreme analysis paralysis... #boardgames

I made a (hopefully funny) short about analysis paralysis! I came up with this idea after recording our podcast episode 254 and hearing Crystal's blurb in the intro for "less time than it takes to..."
Not our usual video content, but it was fun to make!
#boardgames

Celestial Bodies by Charlotte Laskowski, Binary Star Games Mecha TTRPG - Titan Edition

It also has interesting systems to create missions, build your homeship and track faction standings, all without needing a GM.

Time to convince some friends to try this.

selkie.itch.io/celestial-bo...

Cool OMF 2097 type robot in an Apple 2 pixel style.

Attacking and Hit Rolls When a character makes an Attack or when a missile reaches its target, they typically make a Hit Roll. This determines both whether it hits its intended target and, if it does hit its target, where it hits. When you make a Hit Roll, pick two different six-sided dice, decide which is for column (the “tens”) and which is for row (the “ones”), and roll them. The intersection of the two is where the attack hits. (The top left of your mech’s grid is always 11.) /// Example: Adebayo’s LN-VIGIL is being attacked by a scavenger’s twin pistols. The scavenger makes one Location roll for each attack: they get a 46 (4 for column and 6 for row) and a 23. The first one completely misses, but the second one would hit his EW Processor. Any part hit

Reading Celestial Bodies, a mech rpg, by @binarystar.games and Charlotte Laskowski and it's 🤯

For example, you place your mech components in a grid that also forms its hit table using 2d6. It makes small mechs automatically harder to hit and accurate weapons allow you to +/-1 on your die roll.

What lesser known free or nearly free methods are there to market a board game? 🎲✂️

So far I have: Reddit give away, Reddit crowdfunding games launching this week, BGG crowdfunding countdown, Kickstarter projects we love, TTGDA post (for members), BMG post (for users), post about it in general.

In August of 2021, I decided to try my hand at #boardgames 🎲✂️ design. I know I'm the givey-uppey type, so I told myself that if I didn't have a game published in 5 years, I could go find something else to do. Evenglow is set to hit GenCon 4 years and 11 months after I made that deal with myself.

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Left: "What I think I'll do when I have an evening off by myself" Rachel sits at a table playing Ofrenda. She holds a game piece and smiles excitedly. Starbuck sits nearby watching her. Apollo peeks at the game. Rachel: "Finally, a moment to explore solo modes of some games!" Right: "What I end up doing..." Rachel sits on a blue couch, looking blissfully dazed. Apollo is asleep in her lap, and Starbuck is napping on the back of the couch. A bowl of popcorn sits beside her. TV speaker: "It's Mister Darcy!".

New comic! Hands up if your evening plans have ever been hijacked by the allure of a screen... 😅📺

📜 You can read this week's blog post at:
semicoop.com/comic/pieces-and-probability/ #boardgames

a cartoon character is sitting at a table with a fork in his mouth . Alt: a cartoon character is sitting at a table with a fork in his mouth flashing back to his childhood after having a bite.

Are they imaging this is you when playing a new edition of a classic Knizia game?

YouTube video by Semi Co-op Weekly Recap! 📼 Selfcare, TimTams, games and made sock puppets in preperation for next week's rpg!😁

Weekly Recap! 📼 A little bit of selfcare, some games, made sock puppets in preparation for next week's rpg and we started and finished a box of TimTams. 😄

🎲 Games in this video:
- Cubitos (by @alderaceg.bsky.social)
- Ofrenda (by @ospreygames.bsky.social)

YouTube video by Semi Co-op Weekly Recap! 📼 Selfcare, TimTams, games and made sock puppets in preperation for next week's rpg!😁

Weekly Recap! 📼 A little bit of selfcare, some games, made sock puppets in preparation for next week's rpg and we started and finished a box of TimTams. 😄

Nice, have fun!

Coming soon: Walkable City - the Urban Planning Boardgame Asymmetric Cooperative boardgame about building a city without cars.

Announcing Walkable City - a 2-4 player coop game published by Fowers Games and designed by me!

Build out public infrastructure as different modes of transit - Waling, Biking, Bus & Light Rail - get denizens where they want to go. Follow the project below!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

Thanks, it sounds like we'll keep the old one then but suggest others the new one. 😁

We love the classic one, we heard the new one has some streamlining but luckily the same art. 🙂

Is this the new AllPlay version or the classic one?

DO 👏 NOT 👏 TRIGGER 👏 ENDGAME 👏 WHILE 👏 I’M 👏 STILL 👏 BUILDING 👏 MY 👏 ENGINE

I’m so sick of the toxic players in this hobby. I only needed like eight more turns.

Today I want to share that Ryan Dancey and AEG have parted ways.
This is not an easy post to write. Ryan has been a significant part of AEG’s story, and I am personally grateful for the years of work, passion, and intensity he brought to the company. We have built a lot together.

AEG would not exist without the creativity and hard work of designers.

Board Game Icons Tips on designing board game icons.

I studied a bunch of icons from various published board games while preparing a rule book for Cardboard Edison, with a particular focus on Ian O'Toole.

For those who come after, this article captures what I learned 🎲✂️

rossongames.com/icons

#BoardGameDesign

Tiberpunk: Streets of Rome A strategy board game for 1–4 players, set in cyberpunk Rome. Plan your moves and take risks through missions and intense encounters.

Tiberpunk - a game I designed with @chrisbacke.bsky.social - is on Kickstarter and kicking ass. Be a hacker in ancient Rome - bio-augment yourself and run from the fuzz! It's the biggest game I've ever designed. Go have a look! www.kickstarter.com/projects/idv...

They're making a Ticket to Ride movie, the famous train game about *checks rulebook*

Wait...

There is an actual plot about a million dollar wager?

How do you play four rounds in once night? 😲

Gaslands always take several hours when we play, so we're love some tips how to speed it up.

Forage + Honeypot A pair of fast and fun games for everyone, from the team that brought you the smash hits Point Salad, Calico, and Cascadia!

It's live!! The game I designed, Honeypot, just launched on Kickstarter!

Two years of loving work. Would be grateful if you checked it out & considered backing!

It's an "I stack, you choose" game where you play as secret agent bears setting and avoding traps!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

Rachel is looking at the back of the “The Wolves” game box and notices that the lid is oriented opposite from the bottom of the box. Smiling with satisfaction, she lifts the lid and rotates it so it aligns perfectly with the bottom half. Somebody says "Oh, excuse me." and a hand grasps the box. A lady opens up the box and rotates the rulebook so it faces the same direction as the bottom of the box and the lid. She presses everything down neatly. She looks very pleased and Rachel stares in awe at this surpassing behaviour of making sure the lid and bottom are correctly aligned.

New comic! Be honest… are you the one who rotates just the box lid or also makes sure the rulebook is rotated correctly? 👀

📜 You can read this week's blog post at:
www.semicoop.com/comic/best-orientation/ #boardgames

🎲 Games in this video:
- Middara
- Pensterdam
- Let's Go! To Japan (by @alderaceg.bsky.social)
- Agricola (by @lookoutgames.bsky.social)
- Kutná Hora (by @czechgames.com)

YouTube video by Semi Co-op Weekly Recap! 📼 Visited Middara and Japan, did some farming and were busy in the City of Silver. 😋

Weekly Recap! 📼 A week during which we visited Middara, shoved around Amsterdam's houses, went to Japan, did some farming and were busy in the City of Silver. 😋

That sounds more plausible indewd, or maybe they'll revisited their Hellboy Dungeon Crawler which we heard was excellent.