Ted Mann Schaller 🔜 ECCC, TCTC, Gamestorm

Close up of player board in Overgrown with element and landscape tiles, as well as wildlife pieces placed on it.

Contents of Overgrown laid out on a table, include wildlife pieces, player boards, landscape tiles, element tiles, wildlife cards, and drafting board.

Super excited for the Future of Games expo in Olympia next weekend! Can't wait to meet more folks in the WA tabletop industry and check out some of the panels.

Having the manufactured PPC of Overgrown to share while I'm there is definitely a bonus.

Let me know if you're going to be there!

Stickers of each of the five characters in Counterpoint: the violet opossum first violinist, the green lizard second violinist, the blue boar violist, the yellow armadillo pianist, and the red mouflon cellist.

You betcha!

A table with gold table cloth and components and signs advertising the game Counterpoint.

Day four of ECCC! Final day! Send me some good vibes, extra energy, and hand sanitizer! 😮‍💨🎻✂️🎲🎶

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

ECCC day three! 😮‍💨

Really happy to such wonderful friends helping me demo the game! 🤩

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Love this!

And within each playing of the game, there's a back and forth. Within the world of the game it might not look like cooperation, but from the next level up it is absolutely a cooperative act to sit down and play a game together. And it makes me feel that same amazed "This exists. It's possible." 5/

Coming soon: Counterpoint: a Co-op Classical Music Trick-Taking Game Counterpoint is a cooperative trick-taking game for 3-5 players where the challenges are based on different pieces of classical music.

Oh gosh! Do I have a game for you!!! 🎻🎶🎲✂️

www.kickstarter.com/projects/squ...

Name names! (The company—not John. We have clearly enough of those 🤪)

A table set with a gold table cloth, two signs with info about my game, Counterpoint, and the components for the game neatly arranged.

At Emerald City Comic Con - Indie Game Showcase all weekend. If you’re in Seattle and want to see more of Counterpoint in person, stop by and say hi! Let’s play some music!

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Spring 2026 Games Directory (Games Below)

Game Market West is back!
I'm proud to announce the tabletop games made by indie designers for the upcoming GMW Spring 2026, on March 22 at San Jose Guildhouse, are now available: www.gamemarketwest.com/spring-2026-...

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Oh, I also go through my follows on insta like 2x per year and cull folks I don’t care to follow, so they often show up too!

I find that the suggested friends list is mostly actual people I have met in person, but only like once or twice. Not frequently enough to actually want to follow. So in a way I guess it works well for me…

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...

Go back this lovely thing. It’s such a delightful game!

Unfortunately no. 😢 Hoping to make it back out there next year!

A delightful illustration showing a lizard, armadillo, and opossum playing a piano trio. The text Counterpoint is shown below.

Gearing up to take Counterpoint on the road next month for a few back to back tabletop cons.

Mar 5–8: Emerald City Comic Con (Seattle, Wa)
Mar 13–15: Terminal City Tabletop Convention (Vancouver, BC)
Mar 19–22: Gamestorm (Portland, OR)

Who will I get to see? Wanna play some music? 🎲✂️🎻🎵

My game design hot take is that you should rarely follow game designers’ advice. Especially industry professionals. Everyone has different goals they’re designing for and contexts they’re coming from that it’s rarely going to apply to you.

Definitely listen, but don’t feel like you have to follow

Today I emailed publishers about a concerning practice a board game media creator engaged in. This will likely become public, so I'm providing the details here to give the full context of what I shared.

1) Document: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o8ovt...

2) Video: youtu.be/fHXGWflPj4c

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a lego diarama version of the hot dog suit scene from I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE, complete with tiny hot dog suited tim robinson and hot dog car, all the business people have scowling faces

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

It's the nineties and there is time for JET SKIS! Two of the most garish and awesomely stylish jet skis in all the shapes and colors of the Saved by the Bell intro splashing by, with their drivers doing the bumpy, squatty balancing on the beautiful Caribbean Blue water as a friendly dolphin splashes the water as it's following them. All the colors are so bright and beautiful, it makes you wanna live there. Also, this is the image used as the banner for this BlueSky profile!

As the races progress later in the day, the clouds and ocean are basking in the lovely orange shades of the sunset as two racers closely chase each other, jumping off a ramp while doing a left-tilting trick, while the racer at the back having the more preferable position so they can look at that platinum dumpy of the leading driver.

One of the female racers in a white and pink outfit and jet ski, looking kinda like the Pink Ranger with her blonde hair waving under her helmet, currently doing a fancy and dangerous trick where she jumps and rotates around while holding the driving handles, like doing a gymnastics move on a pommel horse.

Just a beautiful, serene sunset panorama with some docked boats and palm trees lined up, lounging and sipping a margarita as the sun sets on the horizon. Aaaah, this is the life.

Wave Race 64 (N64) (1996)

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I got to test Ted’s co-op chamber music trick taker a year ago…and I REALLY want to play it again. Excellent depth, great theme, a novel core mechanic.

If you are a fan of Crew or LOTRFOTRTTTG, you should definitely check this out.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/squ...

LOTRFOTRTTTG just sent me! 🤣🤣🤣

Thank you for your note, friend! I hope you get to play it again sometime soon!

YouTube video by Board Game Buzzz Let's Fry Some Dice! - Gaming Mini-Vlog

Was super lucky to be able to show Carly Counterpoint recently. She is totally awesome! Glad to hear she enjoyed the game. 🤩🎻🎵

Coming soon to Kickstarter! Follow if you like trick-takers, classical music, or cute animals! www.kickstarter.com/projects/squ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL_n...

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