Taylor Shuss 🔜 PAXU

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The board for Striking Flint. It is made up of 5 cards with needles and tokens on it.

A picture of 5 playing cards ripped in half.

Day 3 of @sdhistcon.bsky.social is a wrap, and my final day at the con unfortunately. Had a lovely time as always and already excited to get back next year.

Played some superb games throughout the event with some of the best people around!

Meeting up would be awesome Corey!

Day 1 of @sdhistcon.bsky.social was great. Got to play some prototypes of mine with some very smart people and got some amazing feedback.

Excited for day 2!

Ohhh yeah, that's the stuff. 🚆🌊

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PAX Unplugged 2025 Preview PAX Unplugged is a tabletop gaming-focused event that grew out of the video game-focused PAX events, and this preview highlights new games being demoed or sold.

About to board my train down to @sdhistcon.bsky.social. Always a great convention. Will have my IGNM game on hand to show off there.

Speaking of, that was just added to PAX U's preview page. I'd absolutely love if people gave it a thumbs up ahead of the event! 🌈🛫

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Alright, I gotta know: which collectors edition actually improved setup time and made you play the game more often?

YESSSSS. Truly, the ultimate game! 🪙⤴️

I'll be around!

Super excited to catch you this weekend! 💖

Ugh, that's awful news. My city got very close last year to enacting some terribly anti-library nonsense and I am so so sorry you have to deal with such bullshit.

A picture of my IGNM game Fold & Fly!, assembled with the vibrant cover on display. It is on a bed with a blanket below it. The blanket looks incredibly soft & inviting.

Headed out to SDHist this weekend. Very excited to be going this year, with a back full of prototypes as usual! I will also have a copy of Fold & Fly! on hand to demo for those curious.

A picture of my IGNM game Fold & Fly!, assembled with the vibrant cover on display. It is on a bed with a blanket below it. The blanket looks incredibly soft & inviting.

Headed out to SDHist this weekend. Very excited to be going this year, with a back full of prototypes as usual! I will also have a copy of Fold & Fly! on hand to demo for those curious.

Just send it my way then. 😉

Gamedesigners (and also editors/publishers)! Please show off your prototype workshops and tools.

I am especially interested in solutions for precise cutting a ton of cards, for cutting/punching round tokens and storing components.

Currently looking at rollcutters as my current solution is ...
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Spring Cleaning has been *the* card shedding game my group has gone back to over and over. Super excited it has a new version and hoping I love all the updates this has. 👻🐭

I will likely back this as well, as Spring Cleaning has been such a hit in my gaming group. Really hoping this new version doesn't mess with the formula too much.

Did any games stand out to you at the event? Anything you felt was above & beyond most other offerings?

Congrats Travis! 🎉

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Thank you Dan. I trust you to see the intent and care within my creations and expect you'll always reciprocate that level of care with your words. 💖

Just ordered lamination pouches to create a limited run of “deluxe” copies of Resilience — these will include laminated sheets, dry erase markers, and dice, all packaged in a poster tube, only for sale at Indie Games Night Market!

Club Spooky & That's the Spirit Assemble the coolest group of ghouls in Club Spooky and find the culprit of your accidental death in That's the Spirit

With Spooky Season in full swing, I highly recommend you check out both of these games from @connor.alwaysawake.games !

www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

They are unique and an absolute blast to play, Tylor and I have really enjoyed them. Please share along if you have the capacity!

After many unsuccessful stabs at designing a trick taker, I was able to finally design one that not only worked, but play testers are really enjoying.

And it's gotten good enough fast enough I am looking to pitch it at PAX U later this year. 🎉

The rules booklet for Greg Loring-Albright's Resilience.

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A close up shot of my player board, where I took too much harm and lost!

Got to try out @gregisonthego.bsky.social's IGNM release the other day, Resilience!

Highly recommend giving this a look at PAX U when it releases. One thing I am enamored with about this game is the kind of dialogues it can start about community prep work.Great work Greg, thanks for sharing!

I've seen it, and it's come up more than once when discussing my game with publishers. One publisher even thought I was just pitching this more or less until they actually bothered to watch the video I sent.

I love this Zach but I have a question about it.

Where do you hide this lore in Pact? Adding in that extra content sounds awesome but is it on the back of player boards? Flavor text on cards? In the rulebook?

Was it all pre-written before signing or was it written afterwards?

Very curious if these are any good Suzanne!

If you catch me at PAX U I will be more than willing to show it off.

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Pleasantly productive week. Got two new games to the table:
- A pickup & deliver trick taker
- a racing game that uses a component I have never seen in a board game before

Both went great! Way better than most first drafts. 🎉

Did you get any playtesting done this week? Tell me about your games!