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Will this be available to ship to Austria? Need a copy for a friend.

Riposte! game cards

We are trying to do three different game projects this year, which is a lot. The smallest project is a pair of 18-card games that @tentagil.bsky.social and I designed. We wanted to do something small that we could get printed in-country and fulfillout selves. There are a few hurdles to this...

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.

"I can't afford a visual artist"

So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?

Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Zwei meiner Studis (Designstudiengang) haben kurzfristig ihren Praktikumsplatz verloren ... hat jemand Tipps, Hinweise, Connections im Bereich 3D Animation, 3D Game-Entwicklung?
Im Idealfall Raum Österreich oder Deutschland?

I want to explore City of Six Moons so much!!!

Introduce yourself with 5 board games you've played with NON-MALE game designers

Crazy Pix
Men at Work
Kunterpunkt
Abandon all Artichokes
Napoleon's Thriumph

Amazing thanks!

Wow. Do you have sources for that? Would love to learn/read/watch more about it.

A Controversial Video-Game Designer Returns With a New Game and More Controversy The announcement of ‘Order of the Sinking Star’ was met with criticism over the political views of its creator Jonathan Blow

NEW: I spoke to Jonathan Blow about his ambitious new puzzle game and why it took ten years to make. Then, days after the announcement, three designers came out denouncing Blow for his views on Trump (pro), vaccines (anti), and more. Here's the whole messy story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Are there board game collectors who collect prototypes of published games?

I know at least 1 famous game designer that doesn't care for his prototypes and I thought it could be good prices for a charity auction.

That's very good, but board games don't have the same capacity to deliver lore as an RPG does. They have to frame their messages mechanically. brenda.games/work-1

I think there are a lot more ways to get certain messages across or get people interested in power dynamics or structural problems than we always imagine.

This is a perfect example of using lore for telling something relevant.

www.instagram.com/reel/DTtTWMr...

Yeah. There are some great science projects going on. Sadly I already work too much, so preparing for another board game related responsibility is currently outside of my time budget.

But it´s definetly on my list. I want our hobby/art form to be take seriously. Board Games have so much potential.

Thank you both! Have heard of some of them, but not from most of them. Currently trying to find someone in Vienna who has some @hollandspiele.bsky.social . Because getting them to Austria is just too expensive.

If you have some recommendations I would love to take a look at them. I am not into historical games at all, but I always love to learn.

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Sorry for not being clear. I tried to bring across that board games are able to do this and that there should be more than enough people designing/playing/watching historical games who could be interested in such games.

Given what is currently happening and has happened in recent years in world politics, I am surprised that board games as a medium/art form are not able to tackle/address the parallels to the cruelties and danger that comes from unchecked power.

Has anyone compiled/researched/talked about where certain game mechanics/concepts/themes where first used?

I would love to see this as a video series instead of another Top 10 of XYZ.

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Snapshot of the top portion of three of Cardboard Edison's reports on board game publishing contracts.

HEY BOARD GAME DESIGNERS! We're updating our reports on publishing contracts! If you've signed a game with a publisher in the past 5 years, let us know (our Gmail is our name) and we'll send you the anonymous survey. See our past reports here: cardboardedison.com/reports And please spread the word!

Same with board game designers.

Happy Happy zu euch. Danke für die vielen guten Folgen und guten Diskussionen.

Making of a Top 10 ist wirklich eines der besten Formate. Weil es Klassiker und Neuheiten verbindet, in Kontext setzt und dann von euren Vorlieben komplett gesprengt wird :D

We finally got the Board Game Beat/Bluesky feed set up!

To see every new Board Game Beat article in your Bluesky timeline (once the site launches, of course):

Go to bsky.app/profile/inde..., then hit Follow.

I know it's not an option for everybody but do these tests with fellow designers or good friends. And stop them the moment you have seen enough.

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Hello and welcome new followers!!

If you aren’t aware, Bluesky has a feature called “starter packs” that help jumpstart your account by following some of the best posters on a particular topic, curated by the creator of the pack!

Here is one I created in the past, with a lot of great people in it!

Things only real boardgamers do:

- figure out balancing issues in a game on the first playthrough
- ignore thematically unpleasant implications by praising the designcraft
- mock games for thematic inconsistencies
- play to win, always
- mention how they've outgrown mainstream games, unprompted

Hi all - got some bad news a few days ago. I'm going to be laid off from my board game designer role at the Uzzle at the end of the year.

I'm really proud of what the team and I accomplished over the last year. It was a great year of professional growth for me as a game designer...

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

FBR or Fantastic-Beautiful-Review :)