Joe Dewhurst

A day in the life of a space station threatening to tear itself apart. #OVER/UNDER injectorseat.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/m...

I have been loving #OVER/UNDER SO freaking much. I love my little newspaper...

Something so cool about #OVER/UNDER is how faction asymmetry leads to players leading totally different lives. Today, I heard about folks preparing powerpoints for their boss, the church is organizing art grants, the union is holding internal elections, and the hackers are shitposting.

Come back in and join the union!

Is @itsquinns.bsky.social following #over/under? Seems like the kind of thing you'd be into.

We're only one day in and there's already a flourishing ecosystem, with people setting up small businesses, casinos, and an evangelical religious cult, all before the real "plot" has even begun. Really amazing, imaginative, and inspiring work from the whole team, I'm very impressed.

Black and white union poster depicting a circular space station, with text reading: Union Strong, Solidarity, Teamster Local 32819L, Prospero's Dream.

I stayed up way too late for the launch of the #mothership megagame #over/under last night. I immediately signed up to the teamsters union and accidentally started replicating my real-life political activities: joining a mutual aid collective, agitating internally, and scheming behind closed doors 😂

Alright, let's fucking go.

The lobby for OVER/UNDER by @samsorensen.bsky.social is now live. Come help make history on the Dream.

discord.gg/FDJ7T4C2Sm

I finally tried CC:Vietnam, currently on @gmtgames.bsky.social P500, with @joedewhurst.bsky.social the other day and I am VERY excited. I plan on doing a stream about it soon to spread the love.

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for

on Tuesday, October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 25, I'm going to launch another real-time play-by-post wargame, open to the public, called OVER/UNDER. the server will open to players on Monday the 13th, but in the meantime you can read about it here: samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...

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8K Special! Ask Me Anything (feat. Pierre Vagneur-Jones) — Woke Wargaming and other nonsense YouTube video by Homo Ludens

To celebrate the 8k subs milestone I'll do a very serious "Ask Me Anything" stream on Thursday night at 8pm GMT with @pierrevj.bsky.social and @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social - please feel free to join us and ask your most serious questions 🥸
www.youtube.com/live/7y2n9Ew...

Can't believe you didn't invite me because you're scared of the questions I might ask.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

"ZA/UM union workers will be represented by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain. Studio management has recognized the fledging union and will meet regularly with a committee of elected workplace representatives."

Work in the UK games industry? Join us today:
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Both cases have to be met, so the Cells will only be activated if the destination is a railway or curfew *and* moving Cells plus cubes exceeds 3 (usually this means British need to keep 3 cubes in a space for it to be "safe").

Parts of this analysis really resonated with some difficult experiences I've had in activist spaces recently, especially the idea that the purpose of some speech-acts is just to make people feel better about themselves, and the idea that we should focus more on concrete actions ("put up or shut up")

Designer Diary: Cross Bronx Expressway, or Presenting a History on the Table | BoardGameGeek News

@boardgamegeek.com was kind enough to let me publish a designer diary for #crossbronxexpressway
boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...
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Longshot: does anyone in the UK have a copy of Square Mile (MB Games, 1962) that I could have a look at?

Tabletop Freelancer Rates Survey [PLEASE DO NOT FILL IN THIS SURVEY IF YOU DO NOT LIVE / WORK IN THE UK] This is a form put together by freelance tabletop workers in the IWGB to better understand the rate of freelance pay provided ...

The tabletop freelancer survey closes on Monday, if you want to make sure IWGB has the info to fight for fair freelancer wages share it and fill it in now!

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Cross Bronx Expressway: A Solo Urban Planning Sandbox One of the most wonderful things about working with GMT is that GMT One exists, recognizing the value of solo play for historical gamers. There was always going to be a solo system developed for Cr…

Check out our latest InsideGMT article from designer Non-Breaking Space and developer Joe Dewhurst: "Cross Bronx Expressway: A Solo Urban Planning Sandbox" @nbsp1618.bsky.social @joedewhurst.bsky.social insidegmt.com/cross-bronx-...

Radical Board Game Night: CHICAGO '68 Featuring game designer, Yoni Goldstein September 10th at 6:30pm Haymarket House 800 W. Buena Ave.

CHICAGO!

Join us at Haymarket House for a radical board game night featuring CHICAGO '68 game designer, @yoyoni.bsky.social

Wednesday, September 10th at 6:30pm CT

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YouTube video by GMTGames Cross Bronx Expressway | Official Trailer

For those interested, here is the official trailer for Cross Bronx Expressway, a boardgame designed by Non-Breaking Space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5aZ... @nbsp1618.bsky.social

I thought the trailer made it look a bit incoherent (like someone had just chucked in random horror tropes), but now I'm thinking I should check it out! The basic premise seemed interesting at least.

Everyone who read the article either thought it was obviously true (usually computer scientists) or obviously nonsense (if they were philosophers), but in both cases definitely boring and not worth publishing. So it goes!

For me it also resonated with this article on miscomputation that I never managed to get published (at least by the formal or social rules of the academia game, it is clearly physically published as you can read it with your physical eyes): philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21194/.

It provides a very useful taxonomy of different kinds of rules and how we (as players, designers, etc) can interact with them, break them, ignore them, and so on. Designers would do well to keep these different kinds of rules in mind, and it might be helpful for others analysing rules too.

Does Super Mario Bros. (1985) Have Rules? Yes! No? Maybe? Why do you care? Why does it matter?

I found this article by @jdragsky.bsky.social incredibly interesting and compelling, and I think many of my current (boardgame design) and ex (philosophy) colleagues will too: possumcreek.medium.com/does-super-m...