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I love to see more storytelling card games!!!!

Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair 2025 The DMV is home to some of the world’s leading tabletop game designers! Come meet your neighbors whose games are available at hobby shops, online, and even your local bookstore. Designed in t…

Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair
📆 Sat, Oct 18
🕛 12-5pm
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RSVP for the panel (which I'll be moderating):
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/indie-...

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Hahaha none actually. I did put my memory foam pillow in it. I took out on the plane and the guy next to me made the most stereotypical impressed face I ever saw. It was hilarious.

Also I am the best raccoon in a trench coat.

My suitcase got pulled aside and the TSA agent asked if I have any cards in my bags.

"Yes, I have a few hundred" 😅

Those robits looks so sick

Die For The Lich on Steam Roll dice and magical trinkets and pair them with weapons to battle legendary monsters. Master the art of chance in a journey where every roll counts. Unlock new gear by completing grueling challenges...

I love me some Steam demos. The latest one I tried is Die for The Lich, a dungeon crawler that's a dice bag builder. It's been great so far.

store.steampowered.com/app/3415570/...

Trump Tricks Game is similar idea to pursue as well.

It sounds like none of them are mechanically doing what I was thinking so I guess I have to go make it now...

Thanks for coming in clutch.

Rainbow sounds like an idea I would have pursued... I was thinking a climbing game might fit better.

Is there a trick taker that uses the played cards into the next round? Or some variation of that?

A sheet showing 12 variations of the AB (AbyssalBrews) logo.

Being brand ready means knowing that you'll need to be present in a number of spaces that have various restrictions on the imagery present.

This is why I always recommend a branding spray sheet where you present your brand identity ready for multiple formats, like this:

I’m very excited to see Nature at Barnes & Noble. ♥️

Prototype of a space game about manipulating a shared track.

a 2-player lane battler about attracting animals to your side with their preferred food.

GMG's new Online Testing time is 8:30 Eastern on the first Monday of each month. We had a great group show up and 2 prototypes hit the table. Look forward to more! 🎲✂️

That's a fantastic photo 📷!

Haha love it!

My 2nd instinct is a worker bee in an area control where the Bee can either gather resources each turn/round or engage in combat once.

🎲✂️ Let's do a little design jam and stretch your design muscle. Say you were designing a game and it had a thing called a "Bee" in it, what would it do?

The first thing I was thinking was a pick up and deliver where the bee was a worker that picked up and delivered pollen.

Game Makers Guild | Meetup Test and share board game prototypes with local game designers and game-designers-in-training! Get feedback, give feedback.We welcome both playtesters and game designers of all levels!

🎲✂️ Two different in-person testing opportunities this week in Boston, MA and Rochester, NH. Check out our Meetup page for more details: www.meetup.com/Game-Makers-...

From first prototype to production ✂️🎲✂️

Dice next to a 1 shot called The Goblins and The Pie Shop.

I got to dm two ttrpg games two nights in a row. My friend (whose visiting) always wanted to to dnd because of the IT Crowd. She loved it so much yesterday, we did another game today. I think she's a convert.

Netrunner Americas Continental Championships in Montréal

Netrunner Americas Continental Championships in Montréal

Netrunner Americas Continental Championships in Montréal

Don't forget to tune in to our Youtube or Twitch to watch the finals of the in-person Americas #Netrunner Continental Championships, streaming live from Montréal in a few hours!

You can catch up on Day 1's action on www.youtube.com/@NullSignalG...

Protospiel Online starts in under an hour! If you haven't gotten your badges, you can still get one.

If money is an issue, I have some sponsorship badges to help with the cost.

Wish I could be there! If you are there, go check it out. I know there are some amazing games by amazing people there.

Protospiel Online Attendee Highlights: Protospiel Online is always a personal and professional highlight. The community is like an amazing and supportive family of fellow creatives who truly understand the design journey. Plus, I'm always inspired by the quality of games and level of creativity that everyone brings to the digital table. I love being productive and getting fantastic, actionable feedback all while having oodles of fun. ~Kirsten Lunde

4 days until Protospiel Online August 2025! 🎲✂️

Get your badge and join Discord attendee only areas to get support from your team captain!

Doors open Friday Aug 22 at noon US Eastern for 60 solid hours of online playtesting.

Yes, I am all for changing Theme to Setting to move the industry forward.

Here is a chance to pitch your tabletop game idea to Pegasus via a digital meeting!

pegasus.de/UEber-uns/Ka...

🎲✂️

Sundays are for rules editing.

Two playing cards, both with red and black backgrounds, and beige areas towards the bottom explaining the cards' rules in-game. The left shows a white man with moustache wearing an 1800s-style white suit and cracking a whip, and is titled SLAVER. The right card shows a half-naked black man in chains, apparently drooling or foaming at the mouth, titled FUGITIVE. Cards from the board game Ace of Spades.

Devir Games is recalling all copies of its new release Ace of Spades after being called out for using racist and culturally insensitive artwork in the game, describing it as “a serious mistake that we recognize and deeply regret”:

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

Recently the leadership of the Tabletop Game Designers Association became aware that the new game from Devir, Ace of Spades, contains offensive and disturbing artwork of minority groups in the American West. While the industry as a whole has made progress in being more inclusive and sensitive in depictions of people, this demonstrates that there is still much work to be done. We urge all publishers to use cultural consultants to review artwork, language, and other aspects of games to help guard against these issues and protect against the blind spots that all of us have in certain areas. Also, generally, it is fraught when slavery and other serious issues are used as ‘window dressing’ or stereotypes. These issues are worthy of inclusion and exploration in games, but need to be engaged with in a thoughtful way for a reason, not just for period seasoning. TTGDA will also now strongly recommend that all contracts contain a clause that gives designers the right to review art prior to publication, and remove their name and likeness from a game if they have issues with the artwork, theme, or mechanics changes implemented by a publisher. This will be part of our standard review template going forward. As an industry we need to continue to strive to do better.

TTGDA statement about sensitivity around art depictions in games.

Indie Games Night Market — New Mill Industries

The vendors for the Indie Games Night Market have been selected and notified!

Check out what's coming!

www.newmillindustries.com/ignm