Erik AS - Game Designer

2025's Best Board Game Gifts! - Shut Up & Sit Down ‘Tis the season! We’re back with a bumper stack of great board games to recommend you buy for your best pals, your arch enemies, or perhaps even… yourself? That’s right! It’s the Annual Shut Up & Sit ...

IT’S THE ANNUAL SHUT UP & SIT DOWN BOARD GAME GIFT GUIDE! Your one-stop shop for all manner of gift material for literally any person you could think of… so long as they have at least a passing interest in board games. That’s probably important. Enjoy!

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Pro tip: while drinking coffee, don't drop the mug and spill it over your laptop.

Geometrical shapes scribbled with a red pen.

Nobody knows if this stays in #DystopAI. But I sure enjoy thinking about them. @danielolai.bsky.social will be my judge! #fastaval2026 🎲✂️

A screenshot of a bullet point from the linked page: Glorious Guilds of Buttonville – my current pick for Kennerspiel. A tableau game where you draw cards into your hand and then try to play sets; when you play, you then get the action on the cards. Use 9 different villager types in each game, I have 25 or 26 different options in the box, so there’s a bit of Dominion-ness to it, both in the setup as well as the Turn 0 strategizing.

Oh boy, those are very kind words about The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville!

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A screenshot of a bullet point from the linked page: Glorious Guilds of Buttonville – my current pick for Kennerspiel. A tableau game where you draw cards into your hand and then try to play sets; when you play, you then get the action on the cards. Use 9 different villager types in each game, I have 25 or 26 different options in the box, so there’s a bit of Dominion-ness to it, both in the setup as well as the Turn 0 strategizing.

Oh boy, those are very kind words about The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville!

opinionatedgamers.com/2025/11/27/o...

It's quick and easy. It has some take-that but not too much.

I would say it is like Terrible Monster, by the same designers, but it can facilitate more players!

I like it, but I have a thing for these compact know-your-18-cards games.

BG Stats 3 x 3. The Mind Extreme; Ark Nova; 1ers Contacts; Die glorreichen Gilden von Buttonville; Troublebot; Distilled; Harmonies; Where is That: Europe; Signal.

BG Stats 3 x 3, November 2025.

#bgstats

Designer Diary: The Emergence of the Queen of Spies | Queen of Spies Queen of Spies began as a burst of frenzied Facebook messages between David and me. I received a copy of Helen Fry’s Women in Intelligence for Christmas and got so excited about what I read that I imm...

Check out this nice design diary for Queen of Spies, posted by my design partner @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social

@saltandpeppergames.bsky.social

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Agreed, I'm super curious about whatever he comes up with next !

Designer Diary: The Plank | BoardGameGeek News

Happy to see The Plank on the front page of BGG! It’s a family-friendly push-your-luck game designed by @magnusuptime.bsky.social .

I recommend it wholeheartedly and am happy that more than a selected few now can get their hands on this great game.

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This is also a great way to offload remembering what games you’ve played and how much you liked them. There’s no need to rate everything, but the benefits for giving ratings to indie games and pubs is vast

I created a list with all games I’ve played and haven’t rated yet. Makes it easier to do this.

I have some distance to pass before I reach that zen like state. Thanks for sharing! ❤️

Maybe I will be wise like you in a few years. :) Are there other places you go to to find out about the reception of your games?

I feel you. This should be fun. Be kind to yourself. ;-*

Start with what you play now. No need to go back, necessarily. :)

Another advantage of this as a game designer is that your reviews can serve as a record of the games you've played so you don't have to rely on your memory.
My list has nearly 650!

This goes for TTRPGs, journaling games, and story games, too! Please review us on Itch.io, DriveThruRPG, Tabletop Bookshelf, and wherever you find our stuff!

(Actually, on Itch, it's better to leave a comment than write a review because only the creator can see reviews)

This is a reminder! Rate your new games on BGG. Especially if they are from small publishers! Make sure to give the games from small publishers some love (and slack if they should be avoided).

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I will still get notifications of the new videos and if he is mentioned in blogs. I mean, I still want to follow this success machine. ;)

Congrats my friend! You are amazing!

For the past months the number of posts seems to be growing exponentially.

Today I caved in: I cannot handle all the Cristian related notifications on BGG. I had to remove the subscription on all images loaded up to his games. (MindBug and Agent Avenue have so many languages now!)

Some time during this process I hearted his BGG design profile. To me it’s a way of showing appreciation. This also makes me subscribed to all things posted about Christian on BGG.

After a while we agreed to make a game together. We discarded numerous ideas but ended up liking the idea of what eventually became the glorious guilds of Buttonville.

Summary: Christian Kudahl is hot!

For the past 3-5 years I’ve gotten to know Christian. We hade common friends in the danish design sphere and we ended up chatting.

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You can play The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville (on German) online here: www.brettspielwelt.de/Spiele/Butto...

Auslage mit Karten der Gilden von Buttonville

Erstpartie Die glorreichen Gilden von Buttonville. Auf YouTube von Spieletastisch gewonnen. Danke sehr dafür. #Brettspiel ist für schnelle Runden ok. Gefiel besser als erwartet.

I played this game with Dan and I'm not sure I've ever played a game that was so immediately and successfully impactful.

It's been almost a month and I am still thinking about it.

Deep down it made Stonewall feel like a weak attempt compared to how elegantly its message was communicated via play.

Ha ha!

Bought railroad dice and saw all of @flatoutgames.bsky.social new games coming soon!

My friend and I drove from Dayton to Philadelphia on Friday, planning to hit will-call before 7pm Friday night to avoid the long badge line on Saturday. Traffic and blah blah, our ETA kept creeping later. Arrived at 6:55, but 0 line. Got our badges at 6:58. Whew!