Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025

Oh no! What is that? :D

The logo for Spiel

I start to have a full schedule at Spiel! I look forward to seeing friends, demoing games, and pitching other games.

This will be fun!

Will I see you there?

See you there! I look forward to it.

Just wanted to say that I really appreciate our quick chat at Spiel last year — it stuck with me. Hopefully, I’ll get to see you again at the “Rita dinner”!

As a hobby designer with some good industry connections, I’m starting to see exactly what you are talking about in your video. Balancing a full-time job and spending most of my free time on game design is definitely starting to take its toll.

YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan The reality of being a full time game designer

Today's video was a hard one for me to make - I wanted to talk about my experiences going through burnout in the last year or so as a game designer, and aspects of the wider tabletop industry that contribute to that.

youtu.be/D2rC_8F10R8

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YouTube video by La zone de jeu de Gaëllou Simply et Chico { Règles Et Partie } ON JOUE AUX GLORIEUSES GUILDES DE BUTTONVILLE | Jeu De Société | Ravensburger

A preview of Buttonville!

youtu.be/CBrRNIln4dk?...

YouTube video by LudiKev Les glorieuses guildes de Buttonville avis jeu

A French review of Buttonville! 🇫🇷

youtu.be/nBTTu7wNMFI?...

There's a point where a board game prototype becomes "fun enough" that play testing it is not a burden or a favor; it's just playing a fun but incomplete game.

I think getting to that point should probably be the initial goal of #BoardGameDesign, well before content, balance, or aesthetics.

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Lovely thread! We are not at all at a saturation point! ❤️

Spread the love!

Det är lurigt. Jag känner ofta samma sak. :)

Känner inte ens till. Jag kommer inte i år, men kanske ett annat år.

DEBATT: Marknadsskolan finns bara kvar för att politikerna och skolägarna är kompisar När både opinion och forskning säger en sak, men politiker beslutar tvärtom, beror det ofta på välorganiserade särintressen, skriver Marcus Larsson.

"Vem ska bestämma över skolan – väljarna eller skolägarna? För de flesta är svaret väljarna. Men i dagens Sverige, där banden mellan politik och skolkoncerner är täta, är detta inte längre självklart."

Jag skriver om lobbyismen för undervisning på engelska.

www.gp.se/debatt/markn...

BG Stats sep. 2025 Omgångar: 21 H-index: 3 Spel: 12 Nya: 2 Spelare: 17 Platser: 2 Timmar: 12 Dagar: 10 Jenga: 3 Quarto: 3 Duel for Cardia: 3 Gobblet Gobblers: 3 Golden Cup: 2 Ark Nova: 1 Agricola: 1 Rats of Wistar: 1 The Castles of Burgundy: 1 17 skapare: Simone Luciani: 16% Blaise Muller: 8% Danilo Sabia: 8% Denis Blanchot: 8% Faouzi Boughida: 8%.

BG Stats sep. 2025

Omgångar: 21
H-index: 3
Spel: 12
Nya: 2
Spelare: 17
Platser: 2
Timmar: 12
Dagar: 10

Jenga: 3
Quarto: 3
Duel for Cardia: 3
Gobblet Gobblers: 3
Golden Cup: 2
Ark Nova: 1
Agricola: 1
Rats of Wistar: 1
The Castles of Burgundy: 1

From Paris with love 🎨✨ Bohemians will be available in French, thanks to our fantastic partner IELLO! Immerse yourself in the bohemian spirit of Paris—in the French language, of course!

PublishersMarketplace Deal Report, from January 9, 2023, in the Non-Fiction: Science/Technology category: "Theoretical astrophysicist and author of THE END OF EVERYTHING Dr. Katie Mack's HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE, an exploration of the quantum realm that explains what the universe is really made of and how physicists have arrived at those discoveries, illuminating the weirdly beautiful workings of the universe and how contemporary scientists are approaching deeply unsettling truths about how it is built, to Christopher Richards at Scribner, by Mollie Glick at CAA (NA)."

🎉 Update from me: I've just sent my editor the first draft of my second book, "How to Build a Universe"! ⚛️ ➡️ 🌌

It's probably still about a year from publication, but even just getting this draft together has been a journey. Really looking forward to sharing more with you! #HowToBuildAUniverse
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It looks like Osmosis (2025) by Agnès Largeaud is the 1,000th game added to this list on @boardgamegeek.com! 🎉

Thanks to @mcfluffy.bsky.social for that one, and to several others who contributed yesterday, including @bartgamedesign.bsky.social and @sblendito.bsky.social! Keep 'em coming!

IDK if publishers following me that are looking for some tipps for games to bring to Europe/US, but National Economy is a sleeper hit. There will be a new version in Essen,but TMK its again sold only in Asia.

(I have no affiliation with publsiher or designer, just think that game is worth pushing)

How important is the negotiation for your vision of the game?

It is really a gem with the right people around the table.

We love it! 🥰

Lots of @hollandspiele.bsky.social stuff, esp. City of Six Moons (but I could name half a dozen others).

Signal Experts deduce how to communicate with an alien using limited resources.

I want to promote the best deduction game I’ve played in a looooong time: Signal by @dvcgames.bsky.social

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...

Hey #boardgamesky!

I'm looking for examples of /weird/ board games. Games that do something you don't expect games to do, whether theme, mechanic, player experience/emotion, or other surprises.

Bonus points for being cheap, recent and/or quick to play, but none of these are essential.

Had a solid playtest of Hench, but folks tend to not do very much negotiation, even as I've been cranking the dial on that. Might experiment with cutting that whole system (maybe except for the liar)

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Join Me! I'm speaking at Women Innovators of Play October 9, 2025. Learn more & register: spark.hasbro.com/womeninnovators

I’m part of Hasbro’s #WomenInnovatorsOfPlay event again. Learn more and register here:
spark.hasbro.com/womeninnovat...

Also launching that day is their WIP Design Challenge. Winners get $10,000, mentorship, and a trip to Hasbro HQ. (but this year they're esp looking for mass-market toy ideas.)

I've just published a guest blog post from Chris Backe on The Dark Imp Blog. In this post, Chris talks about TabletopPublishers.com and how it can support designers with the pitching process.

www.thedarkimp.com/blog/2025/09...

I have a lot, but think about this one often

Yay!

I have a dinner arrangement on Thursday already. But let’s meet anyway!