Phil Walker-Harding

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Looks great! Can’t code but very happy to help with testing down the line.

I had the same experience watching it for the first time recently! Such a fascinating flip of the crime show formula that somehow I never heard about.🤯

Thanks so much for the kind words Ella, and so glad you had fun with Wombat Poo! 😊

Thanks for the kind words Dan!

A photo of Wombat Poo from Joey Games with a stack of wooden poo cubes beside the game box.

It’s finally here! Wombat Poo is a stinky stacking game, brand new from Joey Games!

You can find out more and order from:
joeygames.com.au/wombatpoo
Or ask for it at your local game store!

Wombat Poo will be available in North America in March, 2026.

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An inspiration for Joey Games’ packaging, as was 70s Galt Toys.

Funny little frog! 🐸

Amazing result!

Play Cities online from your browser Play Cities online from your browser with the whole world!

Cities is now on BGA and it's a very nice adaptation! 🏙️👍

4 cards from the game Misfit Heroes showing characters made by combining a card and a transparency in a cards sleeve.

My copies of Misfit Heroes came today! Here are some favourite characters from my first deck: Spider Spirit, Reptilian Leprechaun, Tiny Giant, and Evil Baker.

I’m the same. Making actual marks on paper seems to help the ol’ brain get going.

As long as we never speak of this again: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl-out

Acquire, Medina, and T&E are so good I sometimes wonder if we even need another!

A board game prototype showing a grid board with small tiles on it forming different green and grey regions.

Working on another shared board tile-laying game! No keepers yet, but fun to try using a pretty old game design muscle again.

A Marimba Christmas should be 🔥

This is Matt’s most important video so far. Thanks for being vulnerable and getting the conversation going about the hard stuff in our job.

Still a great game!

A screenshot of the high score list of the Super Mega Lucky Box app. The high score is 88.

The players of the Super Mega Lucky Box app are amazing!.. I didn’t think 85 points was even possible and someone just got 88! It has been really interesting to watch players optimise this game so long after its release.

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Yes! This is the one! And the central system remains quite similar.

Mojito Trio | Sinister Institute + Lords of Worlds + Tropicalia by Mojito Studios Mojito Trio brings together three exciting family games designed by renowned creators: Sinister Institute, Lords of Worlds, and Tropicalia.

If this sounds interesting, you can check out Tropicalia on Gamefound now - along with another game of mine, the magical co-op Sinister Institute, and Kramer and Kiesling's Lords of Worlds! 3/3 gamefound.com/en/projects/...

A close up of the Tropicalia board, showing how the worker discs move along rows and columns.

This creates a little tactical puzzle around the action selection, and the ability to set up contingency plans in each round. For a long time I wanted this to be the whole game - but eventually I realised I needed a second system. A rare path for me to take, but I learnt a lot from the process! 2/3

A board game set on a tropical island, which is made up of a grid of action spaces.

My Essen release Tropicalia had its first version all the way back in 2014, but the central mechanism has remained the same from the start: two-phase worker placement. First, place workers around the edge of a grid, then move workers along their row or column to claim an action space. 1/3

Mojito Trio | Sinister Institute + Lords of Worlds + Tropicalia by Mojito Studios Mojito Trio brings together three exciting family games designed by renowned creators: Sinister Institute, Lords of Worlds, and Tropicalia.

I have 2 new games currently crowdfunding!
👻 Sinister Institute is a magical co-op adventure set in a haunted swamp!
🌴 Tropicalia is a puzzly worker placement game about harvesting fruit and building a village!
Honoured to be sharing the campaign with Kramer and Kiesling's new game too!

Always nice to see this one on the table!

Classic.

Watched The Killing again recently, always great! Stranger on the Third Floor is a fave too - by no means a top movie, but oh boy some of those expressionistic shots are stunning.