Marceline Leiman

Let’s spookin goooooo! 👻

Got my crowdfunded games by @connor.alwaysawake.games

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft "We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand."

all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging @nogamesforgenocide.com — it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Until then, look forward to me sharing some process photos of Wednesday!

It’s gone through a lot of iterations, but once the core loop was found it *stuck* like gum on a shoe!

Kind of itching to have another go at making a social deduction game…

…and my first one isn’t even out yet haha!

I’m so excited for Wednesday: Friend or Woe to come out 🕷️

Maybe imagining some kind of pseudo-sequel or expansion will help the time pass between now and July! ✨

I’ll ask her permission and let you know!

When it’s published I imagine it will be!

There’s something so beautiful about the way my own design and strategic intuitions about the game are able to be expressed mathematically.

Reading this may be the first time I have seen and felt math being genuinely beautiful. Coming from someone who “hated math” in high school, that means a lot.

So in December I was emailed by a @gwenethgray.bsky.social a PhD candidate in the field of medical physics

She’s been fascinated by High Tide 🌊 and call asking questions about its design

Tonight I read her 21 page manuscript on High Tide optimal play

Yall this paper makes my game look so smart…!!

Maybe each of the sets need a clearly defined border? The chain link set is really clear for example

I can see it really only needing some kind of true north-point on the back of the cards (look at Fallout the boardgame and how it uses tiles to keep direction) so players are directed which direction to place/draw the card in

Other than that I think the left-middle-right is decently readable!

Hey—that just means you’re about a week away from a eureka moment!

I’m so lucky that @spacecatspod.bsky.social was at mine recording video!

Record-keeping of talks and our ability to both get credit *and* spread knowledge to those who couldn’t be in attendance is so important

Lord knows I’ve listened and relistened to so many GDC talks

I like the visual change you made to help orient the cards *and* distinguish it as a left or right

You can probably find a better solution as you keep refining, but this is so much more readable from before!

My suspicion is that

you’re not designing anything worth making unless every other week of testing you think you’re either a genius or an idiot

I’m on a genius week! 😄

BREAKING: A judge refused to block a Kansas law that invalidates the driver’s licenses of transgender people and allows trans people to be sued for using public restrooms.

This isn't the final say, and we will keep fighting in court to stop this discriminatory law.

Hawk and Dove

Hello world! We are pleased to announce the founding of Hawk and Dove, a new historical game studio. We're just getting started on this journey, and we invite you all to follow along as we navigate the incredible world of board game publishing!

Check us out here: www.hawkanddovegames.com

Re;MATCH has broken 200k!!!

This was an important milestone, because behind the scenes, 200k my "real" funding requirement.

Publishing games is expensive, and I'm only able to chase such an ambitious project with the funds from previous games and all of my fans.

Thank you all so much <3

Just what the doctor ordered: Fascism in a different font.

this means he does NOT support Trans Equality. Which means... say it with me...

YESSS Plotters is a top 10 tricktaker for me—everyone should go check this one out!

HELLOOOOOO NERDS!
It is Playte's tenth year in business and they are going to be publishing some wild stuff all year long, so let's not hesitate, and follow this thread for all the upcoming titles in the first wave of Playte games for 2026!

Also dw @shelfstablecast.bsky.social your favorite monopoly variant is here!

In honor of international women’s day,

a FLGS in France let me know that they put my game High Tide alongside other excellent games made by women in the front of their shop!

Women are amazing 💕

How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.

I'm serious, read it all please

Every day is a great day to celebrate the women and femmes in your life, but if you want to do something special for TTRPG-adjacent folks this IWD:

📢 Shout out some of your fave creators!
🎲 Buy their games!
🎬 Watch their APs!
💬 Leave them a nice comment or 5-star review!
☕ Buy 'em a cuppa!

I learned a lot about that person today alone lmao

Wild how every single day a man figures out new ways to show his whole butthole to the world

LOL if you think an old white man tone policing a gen AI discussion is annoying - you should see how he tone policed discussions about race and gender in the industry awhile back. Again, I beseech the tabletop community to be better about seeing patterns in people's behavior not just in their games.

Tress and the Emerald Sea!

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