Cardboard Time

It's my new preferred way to drink them.

Me at One Fourteen bar with a glass teacup filled with an old fashioned in my hand

Real ones drink their Old Fashioned from glass teacups.
Thanks to award winning game designer @marcelineleiman.bsky.social for the celebratory bev, here's to many more for both of us 💖.

Nice.

BG Stats 4 x 4. The Daily Weather; Logic & Lore; Forage; Cosmoctopus; Demon Castle Mononoke; Soothsayers; Cozy Stickerville; Duel for Cardia; Space Base; Wingspan; Empire's End; Let's Go! To Japan; Astro Knights; Call to Adventure; Chicken Fried Dice; Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure.

BG Stats 4 x 4. SpellBook; Azul Duel; Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition; Kings in the Corner; Skull; Skull King; Trickadee; Goats & Goblins; Honeypot; Naturopolis; Poetry for Neanderthals;

February was excellent for plays!

A colorful podcast cover with diagonal rainbow stripes and small white sparkles in the background. Large black text at the top reads “Proud to Gayme,” with smaller text below saying “by Tabletop Gaymers.” Two purple, meeple-shaped silhouettes wearing black headphones face each other. At the center bottom is a black, twenty-sided die-shaped microphone icon with white text reading “Episode #23” and “Marceline Leiman"

We chat with Marceline Leiman (she/her), a game designer, educator, & award winner. Marceline shares her journey from labeling herself as an ally to coming out as trans femme. We discuss the nuance among queer identities & experiences & using game design contests to challenge herself
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me: so, ultimately, the reason why it's like that, is capitalism

guy asking me for quotes for an article: I don't know if my editor will let me say that

me: yeah, but it's the correct answer

It's great, and I think one way or another you will.

Pinball Galaxy player board and main board

Pinball Galaxy player board

Evan Halbert just threw what's basically a pachinko machine into a euro game.
What a wild ride Pinball Galaxy (working title) was, with where your balls land determining what actions you get to do on your turn, and you have the ability to customize your board with upgrades as the game goes on.

Thank you Charlie 💖

A plaque that reads: GAMA Inspirations awards 2025 Arwen Kathke Thank you for your support of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tabletop gaming industry!

Sunday night at GAMA Expo in Louisville, KY, I was announced as one of the winners of a 2025 Inspirations Award, an award given to both members and non-members for their contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion in tabletop gaming. My full statement: cardboardtime.com/news

photo of a woman (Emma Larkins) facing the camera, green and rainbow hair, pink heart sunglasses, necklaces and orange top, surrounded by a "baseball card" frame that says Fantastic Collectibles and Senior Game Designer, Trading Card Game

THRILLED to announce I just started a new job as a Senior Game Designer working on the Trading Card Game team for Fanatics Collectibles! 🤩 Not much to report yet, and most of the work going forward will be under NDA, but I'll be sure to share more details when I can.

From left to right:Andy Looney, myself, Kristin Looney

Had a lovely breakfast chat with Kristin and Andy Looney of @looneylabs.bsky.social this morning. Some great things coming up from them for their 30th anniversary, including a very chill soloable game I'm very excited to chat about.

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Container looked awesome and sounded a lot simpler than I was thinking it was

A gps system in a car with a very rotund fox behind it

We're #gamaexpo2026 bound!

With this guy's batting average I'm surprised he didn't misspell liberal while he was at it.

I was a teenager during the evangelical-nuclear Reagan years and I am not happy to have to live through this phenomenon a second time, I can tell you.

@fanfactories.bsky.social and Shawn from @flatoutgames.bsky.social will be joining me tomorrow to teach and play the newest games on KS, Honeypot and Forage! Come root for your fav!

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The cruelty is the point for them Jonathan.

The "we apologize for any inconvenience" is just another dagger.

Think what we have to go through to finally be ourselves, from being ostracized in coming out to endless paperwork to get documents that align with who they are, just to get a letter like this saying you're a felon for using an ID that correctly identifies you.
You'd be furious too.

I know we're gonna both be busy at Gama, but coffee and venting would be fantastic.

It would be great for my humanity not to be a subject of debate on nightly national television, that'd be fantastic.

Board game media should talk to each other more about best/ethical practices. Publishers should be aware of these practices. GAMA (or some official association) should be mediating this.

I'm so tired of the "we got ours" mentality when trans women of color were literally the reason that "they got theirs", yet so many see fit to just go ahead and pull that ladder right up.

Rayroads Game Design: Amabel HollandHex Number: 93Duration: 120 minutesPlayers: 3-4MSRP: $50.00 Your world is dying. Soon, the last of its resources will be extracted from its husk, and it will no longer be ab...

Rayroads is probably the last game of what I've been jokingly calling my Dry-Erase Period. I have a couple other games in the pipeline that might use markers in a minor way but as far as "marker games", this is the last one barring some sudden inspiration. 🧵

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Here's the thing I will continue saying every time this came up: Kamala Harris did not mention trans people in her campaign. She went out of her way to avoid it. She dodged every question on trans rights. And then she still lost. So what Newsom wants is *open hostility* to trans rights

I can get behind that.

I must taste the standard reference peanut butter Omar.

I must taste the forbidden peanut butter.

If I ever suddenly come into a large sun of money, I won't say anything, but there will be signs:

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