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counter point: there should also be more games in Frutiger Aero style

looks incredible

working on a windows 95 themed automation game about making powerpoint decks #gamedev

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Now waiting for you to release this phenomenal game to digital

As a pretty active user over at BGG since 2003(!), I'm deeply honored by Arcs' performance this year at the Golden Geeks. The game brought home 3 metals: Most Innovative, Best Expansion, and Best Wargame and was a runner up for Art and Presentation and Heavy Game of the Year.

Strange cartoony aliens and spaceships, with a muted red, blue and yellow palette, with the word ARCS written in white in the centre

A hand reaches to pick up a playing piece on a board shaped like the solar system, with a plastic sun at the centre. Arcs from Czech Games Edition.

Arcs wins big in 2024 Golden Geek Awards, SETI brings home pair of prizes:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Huge congrats to all the winners! Including @colewehrle.bsky.social @rorymuldoon.bsky.social @toinito.bsky.social @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social @leder.games @theophite.bsky.social 🏆

YouTube video by People Make Games I Captained a £4,000,000 Starship Filled with Actors

NEW PEOPLE MAKE GAMES VIDEO! 😅 I've having a big week

In London there's a $4,000,000 immersive starship simulator. If anyone would like to see what I'd be like as a sci-fi captain, as of today that is now (tragically) on the record www.youtube.com/watch?v=UROM...

Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

LOK Digital Game Of The Day, finally in my native Slovenia (among a bunch of other countries)

LOK Digital Game Of The Day, finally in my native Slovenia (among a bunch of other countries)

Ayyy, LOK Digital Game Of The Day in the App Store in..... Damn, so many countries! Finally also in Slovenia ☺️ @icedropgames.bsky.social @raindrinker.bsky.social @draknek.bsky.social @syrenne.com @mairispaceship.com

Wow that's super interesting

That cover art by 六角堂DADA is *chef kiss*

Shinjuku (Japanese edition) box showing the buildings in the district around Shinjuku station. (by 六角堂DADA - Rokkakudo DADA)

Game tokens (designed by 井上磨 - INOUE Osamu)

The Japanese edition of Shinjuku was nominated in the Graphic Design category of the Golden Box Board Game Awards 2024.

Congrats to 六角堂DADA (Rokkakudo DADA - box and gameboard illustrator) & 井上磨 (INOUE Osamu - art direction and component design).

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@inoueosamu.bsky.social

KELP

No big table?
Play board games on the wall!

•No worries about the baby
•Turn-based play works
•Spills are fine
•Good for teaching streams

Lots of perks!

…I know it’s a little crazy.

But doesn’t it look fun?

@leder.games

Announced: At SPIEL Essen 25, Czech Games Edition will release SETI: Space Agencies, an expansion for Tomáš Holek's hit game, as well as the new title Wispwood.

In July 2025, Galaxy Trucker 2E will see a new expansion of its own.

Details: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Tried the ROOT “Squires & Disciples Deck”!

・Same amount of item and ambush cards
Scoring and item play feels just like the standard deck.

・Super low costs!
Most cards need only one piece—craft like crazy!

What Should a Queer Children’s Book Do? How a vital, burgeoning genre of kid lit is being threatened across the country.

If overtly L.G.B.T.Q. books continue to be banished from library shelves, then it may be left to older works like “Ferdinand the Bull” and “Frog and Toad” to smuggle in queer-friendly themes.

🤩
楽しみです！

Black text saying BOARDLANDIA ONLINE on a grey background, next to a stylised black image of a die showing the five and six faces, with the final face making up the B of Boardlandia. The dice has battlements and a black flag flying.

A large container ship carrying many colours of containers sailing in a blue sea, with a hazy blue sky behind.

Online board game seller Boardlandia shuts down after tariffs add “unsustainable burden” to company’s existing challenges:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

I appreciate designers being honest about the games they create. This design from Yusuke Sato is about ditching groups of numbered cards to score points, and that's it.

BGG game page: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44... —WEM

Does using Rust really make your software safer? - Blog - Tweede golf We keep saying that Rust is how we make software safer. In this blog, we'll tackle a real-world vulnerability, 'rewrite it in Rust', and show you the results of our empirical research, both as a h ...

Does using #rustlang really make your software safer? tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/152/...

A hand places a card from the board game Wingspan onto the board. The cards show different birds, and some have painted wooden eggs sitting on them.

A man smiles at the camera, wearing a blue t shirt. Jamey Stegmaier from Stonemaier Games.

Wingspan publisher Stonemaier Games is suing President Trump after China tariffs threaten tabletop industry:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

@stonemaiergames.com

Spent the day deep in the weeds on Oath's design review. We're getting close!

Yes! Root is also one of my favorite games!

新しいデッキを遊んでたかDiscord友と議論してました😆
新しいデッキで遊んだら教えてください！
（あとKnaves🦨も楽しみ）

Sign the Petition Defend the Internet Archive

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The Game Designer Playing Through His Own Psyche Davey Wreden found acclaim in his twenties, with the Stanley Parable and the Beginner’s Guide. His new game, Wanderstop, grapples with the depression that followed.

In 2015, the game designer Davey Wreden declared that there is “a culture where violence is understood . . . to be the central means of problem-solving” in video games. His new game is a rebuttal, prizing dialogue and contemplation over heroic acts.

A photograph of the southern stretch of the Great Salt Lake and the Oquirrh Mountains.

A photograph of a mother and baby moose standing in a marsh, eating grass.

A photograph of 4 of my kids. They are all wearing baseball caps and they are carefully crossing a stream on a hike.

A photograph of a Lark Sparrow, perched on some sagebrush on Antelope Island.

🌍 Happy Earth Day! 🌎 Let's all try to show good stewardship for the only planet worth having! It's good to remind ourselves/others that it will not matter how much money we have if the air isn't breathable. It will not matter how much big our houses are if the soil can't grow food.

The Romp pup LOVES MATH and is super excited to listen to Episode 6: The Dice of Leder Games.

Gross, Hunter and Matt put MATH in our podcast. 🥲

It's dice talk time! This episode covers the combat systems of Arcs, Root, and Oath. Find out what makes a Leder Dice system unique, and how to best utilize these systems to your advantage! bit.ly/LGRompPod

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