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Steve Margetson

@stevemargetson.bsky.social

Tabletop Game Designer and Developer Based In Manchester, UK. Games Include: Godtear, Hearts of Iron, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter World, and many more! stevemargetson.com He/Him All views are my own.

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Great to wake up to good political news this morning. Even more so when it's your local constituency

27.02.2026 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome paint job. Didn't know Carnevale was doing 3D printing

20.02.2026 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not normally a big historical games person but this looks really appealing and awesome. Congratulations!

11.02.2026 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Almost exactly what happened to me. Game good!

11.02.2026 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I played way more of it last night than I had intended to

11.02.2026 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Please stop, my heart can only take so much

09.02.2026 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve got experience working on board games, card games, and miniature games, both in-house and on licensed products.

Hit me up if you’re looking for a senior game designer, developer, or product designer, or if you know someone looking for one!

Games I've worked on: www.stevemargetson.com/games/

03.02.2026 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey everyone, after 8 amazing years working on some fantastic games with some of the best people I’ve moved on from Steamforged Games and am looking for a new challenge!

As such I’m on the look out for brand new opportunities in the tabletop industry freelance or full-time.

03.02.2026 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great pitch looks absolutely awesome

02.02.2026 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œUnbiased” board game reviews are the last ones to be trusted. Everyone has biases. Far more trustworthy are reviews that acknowledge their influence and bias. It indicates a level of awareness, honesty, and ability to contextualize that hints at more thoughtful and meaningful analysis and review.

01.02.2026 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 231    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 10
Image of the board for the game, Fate of the Fellowship. It's a map of Middle Earth with various small wooden pieces and many flying Nazgul miniatures.

Image of the board for the game, Fate of the Fellowship. It's a map of Middle Earth with various small wooden pieces and many flying Nazgul miniatures.

Image of the cover of the board game, Boop. It's a box with a cartoony white and ginger cat on the front with the tagline: A Very Thinky Game For 2 Clever Cats

Image of the cover of the board game, Boop. It's a box with a cartoony white and ginger cat on the front with the tagline: A Very Thinky Game For 2 Clever Cats

Finally got to play some board games at the weekend, played Boop, Monikers, and Fate of the Fellowship.

Fate of the Fellowship is awesome! Despite being built on the bones of Pandemic, it's amazing how much it feels like it's own thing. Wins the prize for the smallest meeples too!

21.01.2026 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Impossible that its been nearly 10 years

18.01.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sad that Florian has LLed before the only RtN that I'll get to play this season. Made worse by the fact that I was too sick to play my two local RtN's last weekend :(

#fabtcg

18.01.2026 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Was a fan of it back in the day for its unique visuals and gameplay. Not sure how well it holds up. It's going to be hard to give a similar effect of wonder that the original visuals gave. We'll have to wait and see

14.01.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking back at Longshanks its honestly wild how many Guild Ball events I played across the world. A total of 227 games at events, probably as many if not more outside of events between playtesting and casual play.

It's good to have a record, many have slipped from memory.

14.01.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations! This is truly surprising and unprecedented. I look forward to Buried Giant's future!

13.01.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
An old neanderthal man tells a story in smoke to a little, homo-sapiens girl

An old neanderthal man tells a story in smoke to a little, homo-sapiens girl

A young man rides a white stag during golden hour inn the mountains

A young man rides a white stag during golden hour inn the mountains

Cover for Sul: From Gold to Iron and Rust - a green statue of a man rises from the sea against a yellow background

Cover for Sul: From Gold to Iron and Rust - a green statue of a man rises from the sea against a yellow background

A vampire and a demon battle in a snowy forest

A vampire and a demon battle in a snowy forest

Hello #portfolioday!β€οΈπŸ§‘πŸ’›πŸ’œ

I'm Jacqui, a freelance illustrator in the UK. I work mainly in board games, but looking to try my hand at TCGs, TTRPGs and book covers

Spend an obscene amount of time world-building and writing #Sulbook with @kovah.bsky.social

πŸ’Ό jacquidavis.com
βœ‰οΈ logicgairy@gmail.com

13.01.2026 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
A whole bunch of winter style painted soviet lady minis in front of a jon Hodgson ruins backdrop.

All sculpted by Alan Marsh, shown painted by John Morris and available from Bad squiddo games or their retailers

A whole bunch of winter style painted soviet lady minis in front of a jon Hodgson ruins backdrop. All sculpted by Alan Marsh, shown painted by John Morris and available from Bad squiddo games or their retailers

Hi! We're a woman owned business that specialises in 28mm miniatures of women! WW2 is one of our largest ranges, We're currently knee deep in Resistance Fighters for reasons at the mo but we have lots of troops. Here's some Soviets!

www.BadSquiddoGames.com

[ @handiworkgames.bsky.social backdrop]

12.01.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 367    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

Not a question. Just give me that tactics game!

07.01.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
PnP Bundle | An amazing bundle of print-and-play games.

Calling all Indie Game Designers!Β 

Do you have a great #PrintandPlay game sitting on your hard drive waiting to be discovered? It’s time to get it onto players' tables.

We (Florian FiedlerΒ & I) are curating the firstΒ #PnP Bundle, and we are looking for hidden gems to include.

🧡

06.01.2026 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Should have paired it with the first Discworld game, draws from the book. Granted the second game is a lot better!

03.01.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

2025 has been a year of some really highs and honestly some catastrophic lows. Though ultimately the year changing doesn't materially change anything I'm hoping and aiming to make 2026 a much better year

31.12.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Prey and Outer Wilds are both games that I constantly think about. Both have just stuck with me and will stay with me. A lot of games are great but a very select few do this.

03.12.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To put your concerns to bed we're not using AI on the project and the main artist on the project is Jacqui Davis (Red Rising and Everdell Farshore).

Working with Jacqui has been excellent and I can't wait to show off more of her amazing art

19.09.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Terra Mystica by Steamforged Games - The Ultimate Edition of a Timeless Classic Coming to Gamefound this October!

Ending the working week with the announcment of Terra Mystica. It's been such an honour to bring a brand new version of this classic to life. @logicfairy.bsky.social has knocked it out of the park with the visuals for us. I can't wait to share more!

Check it out here: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

19.09.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you ready to unleash your inner superstar and take your performance to the top?! @fabtcg.com is ready to make YOU a VIP! Win your very own Pleiades Armory Deck and TWO marvel hero cards! Like, Follow, and Retweet by 11:59pm EDT on Thursday, September 11th to enter! ✨ #fabtcg

09.09.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 302    πŸ” 250    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 26

I would say a lot of my favourite artists of the last 10 years have had releases on Kscope. Some of favourites include: Amplifier, The Pineapple Thief, Lunatic Soul, Porcupine Tree (and Steven Wilson's solo stuff), and Anathema.

06.09.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Explaining a board game also #wood πŸͺ΅ πŸͺ΅πŸͺ΅πŸͺ΅πŸͺ΅πŸͺ΅πŸͺ΅πŸͺ΅

07.08.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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HELLDIVERS 2: The Board Game by Steamforged Games Dive into an intergalactic struggle to protect Super Earth and rid the galaxy of alien threats in the name of liberty and democracy.

Final stretch! The campaign for Helldivers 2: The Board Game ends in ~6 hours!

gamefound.com/en/projects/...

22.04.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Helldivers 2 The Board Game Quick Guide | Spread Democracy in Defence of Super Earth | Sponsored
YouTube video by Always Board Never Boring Helldivers 2 The Board Game Quick Guide | Spread Democracy in Defence of Super Earth | Sponsored

Quick video primer for the #Helldivers2 board game! youtu.be/u2HS7tzaM0k?...

07.04.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1