Qarl de Visser

And yes, I have rated a 10 myself, and I feel no shame doing so, I enjoy it greatly. :-)

Chart showing entries 98, 99 and 100 being Fields of Arle. El Grande and Endeavor: Deep Sea.

Endeavor: Deep Sea hit the Board Game Geek top 100!

In the sacred groves, the Fungalblade Clan raises architecture to mirror unseen ideals, their structures precise echoes of a higher, unknowable order. #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming

It will be in The New Buildings section of the base rules, if they have that

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

Puerto Rico is a great game, although I did not get that super fancy edition. I think I might even get a credit in there somewhere (for the first fan-submitted expansion).

This gate marks the boundary of the real and a sacred mushroom grove. The mushroom people believe the world is an illusion and an echo of a greater truth. #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming

Guardian Maia: A Māori Sci-Fi Saga Guardian Maia is an action adventure novel that weaves historical sci-fi with the depth and richness of Māori culture.

I just backed Guardian Maia: A Māori Sci-Fi Saga on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gua...

Gribbles have a diverse ancestry, while some are small they come in many types and sizes. There is talk of a gigantic, bloated Gribble champion - protecting their treasure from marauding pirate clans. #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming

Three stacks of boardgames, a full collection of the COIN games.

One of my favourite game series, Volko Ruhnke's COIN games:

Me when a driver is buggy: "computer's haunted"

Me when we take the crystalized thoughts of every dead person who has ever been recorded and compress them into a singular artifact we imbue with false life:

"It's just linear algebra"

Burt Meyer, 99, Dies; Made Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots

The designer of Mouse Trap, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Lite Brite, and many other toys has passed away.

What a legacy of joy!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...

YouTube video by Digital Confectioners Triarchy - Meet Lucian #gaming #pcgaming

Revenants are optional aspirational bosses you start finding, even pretty early in the game. Lucian will be in the upcoming playtest for example (although is a little work to find/summon).
www.youtube.com/shorts/dsZW8...

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

The board game Space Empires 4x and its three expansions in a stack.

Completed my Space Empires set, the full game with all rules seems pretty nuts, but when I have played with Expansion 1, I have been pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to play even while tracking teach per fleet and crew experience. Not sure how I feel about adding logistics to tht however.

Triarchy on Steam Sail your ship, explore islands, fight monsters, choose your abilities, and craft legendary gear to hunt for deadly bosses. Play Triarchy your way! Activate Boss Challenge Modes or enable Assists to s...

What I have been working on the last little while at Digital Confectioners (pls wishlist):
store.steampowered.com/app/2708040/...

Ludology: Ludology 347 Sail Away Erica and Sen welcome designers of the award-winning Endeavor: Deep Sea, Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray, along with their publishers, Helaina and Josh Cappel (Burnt Island) and Marc Specter (Grand Ga...

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@ericabouyouris.bsky.social and @senfoonglim.bsky.social welcome @qarl.bsky.social, Jarratt Gray, @burntislandgames.bsky.social and @grandgamersguild.bsky.social to discuss the past, present, and future of SdJ Winner, Endeavor: Deep Sea.

ludology.libsyn.com/ludology-347...

I am genuinely surprised Hudson Hawk has not become a sleeper cult film of interest. When I was in university, a group of friends and I watched it multiple times in the theatre. I need to rewatch it, and work if I was just had terrible taste when young.

After a great NZGDC, I get to spend the day visiting award winning game designer Jarratt Gray.

Gosh, you really should play that one!

edited panel from the Watchmen comic. On a pink, barren mars, a blue cow stands behind a small rock formation with a table on it. The table contains 4 crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with a handle, a stick with two hooked prongs at the end, and a hand saw with irregular teeth. On the cows forehead is a symbol resembling the lump-with-handle, with a dot in the middle. A blue text box reads, "I'm tired of this pasture. These farmers. I'm tired of being caught in the sophistication of their tools."

always appreciated Dr. Moonhattan's arc

Packmates on Steam Gear up your animal hero in this 1–3 player co-op survivor roguelite forged on tactical inventory mastery. Arrange loot for devastating combos, obliterate enemies, and battle to dominate the darkness ...

New game coming from Digital Confectioners (where I work). The designer is Bryce Haywood, which is totally a name you will see again over the next few decades. It is a great co-op back pack survivors game I have enjoyed playing the hell out of.

store.steampowered.com/app/3171540/...

Back from Berlin, with this! The Kennerspiel des Jahres:

Thank you!

Das Kennerspiel des Jahres ist: "Endeavor: Die Tiefsee" von Carl de Visser und Jarratt Gray erschienen bei @frostedgames.bsky.social und @boardgamecircus.bsky.social

Atmosphärisches Unterwasserabenteuer mit viel Varianz und Tiefe

Herzlichen Glückwunsch🎊🥳

#KeSdJ25 # SdJ25 #Brettspiel

Prototype components for Endeavor Deep Sea, Uncharted Waters. Some tiles have blank ink markings on them.

In Berlin for the Spiel de Jahres, but also a rare moment where the Endeavor: Deep Sea team is mostly in the same place. So obviously testing time.

Forever at war with the Ampersandborn.

You know a game is coming together nicely when the internal tests end up with people making up shit-post memes about it.

Ahh, that reminds me, I need to book a 31 hour flight.