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Finding Google’s NotebookLM super helpful when decoding board game rules in other languages. (EN when playing with Japanese friends)

Today, we conducted another playtest session for the fish auction game. Inspired by my visit to the GameMarket yesterday, I’m pleased with the new element we introduced into the game. Feeling good

Figma Buzz: Create & Share On-Brand Assets Instantly Figma Buzz makes it easy to create, manage, and distribute on-brand assets—helping teams stay consistent and move faster.

Looks like the newly announced Figma Buzz could be used as a handy card prototyping tool. I haven't tried it, but it has layers, CSV support, and bulk export.

The board game industry is hurting, livelihoods are being lost and some original games may never be seen.

Which is why I've been so inspired to keep celebrating the creatives who make games. Share what you love, make sure people know it.

Vicious Gardens! It's all set collecting and Take-That mechanics hidden under beautiful art and production. We played it through a few times, but I felt there were some edge cases it didn't account for, like having no way to swap out objective cards. Actually plays a bit like Froggy Finance 🐸

Today I did more development with my co-designer on the fish market concept. We took away the most complex part and managed to make it more fun at the same time. Let’s see how it goes. we might be able to bring it to the Sunday testplay session.

Me, quietly shouting about board games whenever I work out at the gym.

Another fantastic game of Risk after work—what a fierce battle!

Still really much brainstorming. Need to see what would be a good limitation in using/playing the cards. Might use tokens or a worker placement-ish system, and using legs for activities and stomachs for foods.

Created bunch of cards with multideck, using fake from ChatGPT.

I’m brainstorming ideas for a card game to help me plan my upcoming trip to Taiwan. Since I’ll be visiting Taipei with friends, I thought it might be fun to create a game that helps us learn and decide what to do during our trip.

Falsche FuFFziger A different sort of economic game revolving around laundering counterfeit money printed by the players. The games ends when the last printing press breaks down.

Found a rare copy of Friedemann Friese’s Falsche FuFFziger at the flea market, can’t wait to give it a try!

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2200

Heading to a Board Game flea market in the next town. The organizer seems pretty nice, and attendees include well-known local designers and publishers!

Game of “Risk”

After work, I had my first-ever Risk game with my coworkers. Well, we immediately scheduled another round for next week!

the static abyss soundtrack, shown here on a real life minidisc, is the soundtrack for our game Miru.

dear game designers/publishers. Have you seriously considered a soundtrack for your games? I think we'll be doing this for everything going forward. Not only is it cool to help players create an atmosphere for games, it also helps a little, to bring more artists into the community. Music! It's cool!

Hey, thank you for sharing this video. Interesting approach and I’ll definitely look into ways to incorporate this into my prototype!

Taking the game from two players to three seems to pay off big time. Much more diverse interactions, and overall it made it fun. Have to see if we can bring it to even more player counts. Probably four will be the sweet spot. #boardgame #gamedesign

Need to find a way to implement some of the feedback regarding end-game counting and ways to give the player more control over their strategies.

Participated in my first ever public play-test session. I have learned so much by playing other designers’ games and providing feedback. Glad to hear that our new prototype has some legs, and people seem to enjoy it.

Another round of play testing the new prototype of “Fish Market”. I’m enjoying the short and exciting gameplay so far.

I have not heard of Capacities before. Thanks, I'm going to give it a try!

Created another deck for the playtest session, loving the idea so far

My board game collection makes me smile

2025 is officially the year to go play the absolute heck out of your board game collection.

This year I want to try using Obsidian for documenting the game-making process. Wondering how others are keeping track.

Started designing a new game last weekend with a coworker. After work, I have created another round of teat kit using Multideck(design) and Affinity Publisher (print), feeling pretty good about it at the moment.

Three hand-stapled zines printed on white paper on a blue desk. “The zungeon manifesto and related articles from The Playful Void blog is front and center. A poorly drawn paintbrush, glue bottle and pencil are drawn on the cover. To the left is a copy of RoseThorn keep, by Charlotte Lakowski and Kaydevs. To the left is a copy of the monthly mega dungeon maker. The poster, shouting crow, made that one.

The internet isn’t real and it could be gone so fast. I am a strong advocate for printing things that you love. Get the edges of the pages curly with flipping. Let them be coffee-stained. Don’t worry about text ghosting through cheap paper. Live a little in the real world.

Here’s another old prototype photo. This is Gizmos, then called Inventions.
I had a lot of fun finding art from old books in the British Library archive. Unnecessary, but for me sometimes doing full “art direction” on a prototype is a fun project, and instructive for the design.

This is the reason I get excited about Tokyo Game Market

...and why Game Market West and Indie Night Market excite me.

There are folks who make games, not for profit, but to explore an idea and produce just enough to fund the next exploration. Games that don't fit preconceived notions of "game."

After 6 years with countless hours spent waiting for the screen to refresh, I have finally updated my Kindle… what a joy to finally be able to use the “scrollbar”.

新Kindleにしたらスクロールバーがやっとちゃんと使えててそれだけでもう最強w

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