Scott Nicholson

that's what I was gonna say!

YouTube video by Scott Nicholson My house, after staging for sale

My house has been staged for sale, and living in the "live laugh love" house is driving me a little batty, so I made a parody video.

To get the jokes, start with the 90-second video from the listing:
www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...

Then visit Scott's Brain:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=skPu...

Three vinyl stickers of the game changer loop-de-loop in progress pride, trans, and non-binary colours respectively. The stickers also have the words "we've been here the whole time"

Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!)

UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game...

International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

Ah good to have it!

This will be going into my lectures in my board game design classes.

Have you enjoyed pictures I've shared from my house (between Burford and Paris) in the country over the years?

Now my house can be your house!
(I'm downsizing and moving to south Cambridge.)

Feel free to share with anyone who would enjoy a country lifestyle.

www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...

I have had students use AI to write their board game rules for my class.

It never turns out well. They may look like rules, but you actually try to play the game and it falls apart.

So, I ask them to teach me their game.

It usually doesn't take long to get them to admit what they did.

Map of Gen Con booths shown as rectangles with booth numbers. A round yellow circle in the upper left holds the maroon logo of Central Michigan University Press. Booth 2759 is CMich Press's booth.

In ONE WEEK, Central Michigan University Press will be at Gen Con! Find us in the Exhibit Hall and meet game designers Wendy Robertson (Hydrologic Cycle) and Jason Cox (Five Hundred Year Old Vampire (FYOV))! Staff members and affiliated designers will be part of various Gen Con events, too!

YouTube video by Scott Nicholson Comparing camera setups for a live remote escape room

We are close to listing our property for sale. As part of the process, I learned that our barn was built in 1895.
So, I have a 100+ year-old garden shed and bird house.
(I made a video comparing ways to hold a camera for a virtual escape room from the barn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB1-... )

I feel that many board games targeting a non-mass market crowd have gone down the evolution scale. They are bloated, too large, and too expensive. It's excess for the sake of excess, both in design and in mechanisms. The Kickstarter machine has not been good for the hobby, in my opinion.

yup.

A room full of board games, with a table in the middle with a Crokinole board in the middle.

NOW it's a Canadian game room. #crokinole

Y'all, fun, free logistics advice:
Please stop using UPS for Canadian shipments.

No matter what's in the package or what's on the customs paperwork, UPS Canada will assess a duty on it, and if the declared value is over 40$ CAD, will charge absurd, exorbitant customs broker fees.

(and every serious thing, too)

Bearded man holding Q pleating card. He is wearing a rainbow lanyard, and is in front of a red game box labeled Molly House.

Yaas Queen. Playing Molly House.

(oops, the name is Rock Hard, not Hard Rock

Board game with amplifier with dials that go to 11. Grey bearded man playing trying, and failing, to throw rock stay horns.

Enjoying Hard Rock 1977! Very thematic. This game, just like my amp, goes to 11.

5 people sitting around a board game table on a basement

Indonesia!

I was today days old when I learned a new term that is perfect for what it describes:

The floordrobe.

If you are a floordrobe fanatic, you know what I mean.

a pile of colored plastic lids for storage containers.

While downsizing, I have amassed this pile of lids. I do not know where any of the containers are that go with these lids.

I was excited as I found a container without a lid. I went through the pile... and NONE OF THESE LIDS FIT!

and with a black and white paint marker, you can turn those 1s into 3s or 5s and guarantee it!

I have one of those that I use when I'm in a sweaty environment, where the n95s get uncomfortable. It is comfortable!

Three masked people playing a black and white board game called Traumfabrik. There is a CD player in the back.

Playing the best version of Traumfabrik (Dream Factory). Even pulled out a CD player to play the included soundtrack.

Three people in masks playing a board game called Striking Flint.

It's a Hollandspiele evening! The recent Laurier game design grads (who spent 4 years studying the Mechanism is the Message) were quite engaged with Striking Flint.

A bearded man in a colorful shirt with a Don't Panic button on his forehead and a panicked look.

Found this button while downsizing. It's from the Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game

or three days to Escape the Tomb.

You know, my "Escape the Zombie Jesus" escape tomb game never took off.

Even since COVID, I've been involved in one or two weekly groups on BGA, and lots of pickup groups.

I only play synchronous with live chat, as I want the experience of playing at a table.

I find if I play turn-based, I spend WAY too long analyzing my turns.

I would be happy to play w you.

The 1970s had a very different toke..er... take on a lot of things..

1970's artwork of the characters from the Lord of the Rings.

I used to run with a pretty tough gang when I was younger.

The gang:

Three people around a board game that has fields and multicolored dinosaurs. The three people are wearing masks. One is a greybearded male wearing ty-edye. They are in a room surrounded by board games.

Rawr!

Dinosaur Island time!

I use some of the other approaches here (with the most effective being going to a board game flea market with a sign that says "I WILL TAKE ANY GAMES FOR PARTS TO TEACH GAME DESIGN", but then you don't get a lot of the same of something.

The teacher supply stores give you quantities.