Cardboard Time @ GAMA

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.

Convention Organizers:

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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.

@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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Logic and Lore box and cards set up on the table.

Over the weekend @peppermintfox.bsky.social (who took this 📸) and I played a couple of rounds of Logic and Lore because she hadn't played yet. This game is always so fantastic and tense, the expansion is still on Kickstarter for another few hours!

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@durdlegames.bsky.social

YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY Free Black Women’s Library is critical cultural hub, safe haven for inclusive literature

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In memory of Robert Carradine March 24, 1954 - February 23, 2026 Left: Robert Carradine as Lewis Skolnick in Revenge of the Nerds Right: Robert Carradine later in life.

Revenge of the Nerds, its MANY problematic elements aside, did give us the message of people of different backgrounds, ethnicities, and interests coming together and overcoming oppression by bullies: a message that gave me heart when I was a kid and one that we should especially remember today.

Anytime I see "Grinding" in relationship to working hard it's hard for me to take that person seriously.

STRAP IN AND CHOO CHOOOO.

Colorbind Games Review: Troyes Dice Troyes Dice, designed by Sébastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges, and Alain Orban, puts players in the City of Troyes during the Middle Ages, when society was organized around three orders: the nobles, …

New review!

"For Troyes Dice, the key to visual accessibility is a limited color palette (red, yellow, and white) and clear, decently sized icons on components and the player sheet..."

I distinctly remember someone saying "Twitter is for the enlightened". Where is he now? Who knows, I ain't going to check.