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*he/him* Spacecraft Analyst 🚀 Double Bassist 🎻 Gay Dad 🏳️🌈👨👨👧 Game Designer 🃏 --The Queen's Interests: https://buttonshygames.com/products/mysticana-the-queens-interest-expansion-game --ExoShip: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/exoship
The Kickstarter campaign for Infinite Paths is now live! Check out this sleek, fiction-first solo RPG system that can be adapted to whatever story YOU want to tell — or choose from one of the included settings if you need a little jumpstart!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lea...
I probably would have thrown the 9 and 4 of clubs. I like keeping the double run in case the flip is A-5
26.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Which modern games offer a chess-level depth with no dependence on luck/hidden information, without any of the cons that exist in chess? Chess has withstood the test of time due to its astounding depth to simplicity ratio - there's only a handful of rules, and yet the board states and strategic possibilities are near-infinite. However, chess has a few major and unavoidable issues: 1. First-player advantage: There's no way to get around the fact that white always has the upper hand. 2. Limited opening strategies: Unless you're playing Chess960 (Fischer random), the number of optimal opening strategies are relatively small, and once you reach a certain level of skill, the start of a game is mostly down to memorising those openings. 3. Length of the game: At high levels of classical chess, moves can take very long, with the result being games that take anywhere between 2-7 hours, most of the time spent thinking. 4. Draws: The biggest issue, in my eyes - when two players are evenly matched, a large percentage of games end without a result, and on many occasions, the last hour is played with both players aware of that eventuality but unable to stop it.
I found a Reddit post about “common issues” with chess and if there were modern chess-like games without them... it got me thinking about #Crownfell and how it addresses them.
www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...
Allow me a short thread… 🎲✂️
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5. It has been centuries since any one human could know everything that is known; understand everything that is understood.
This is a remarkable power of science. We delegate trust and authority to experts as internally established in ways that are remarkably resilient to mistakes and malfeasance.
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
I'm thrilled to finally announce Leafy Dragon Games' next project: Infinite Paths!
Designed by @jamiethul.bsky.social, this sleek solo TTRPG system lets players jump into an epic adventure of their own creation in just a few minutes.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lea...
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Drawing Dungeon is a great dungeon crawler where you have some choice over the enemies you encounter and even the layout of the map. A really clever and fun roll-and-write, recommended!
04.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Crownfell base game box, standing beside the playmat, with some cards on the mat, mid-game.
The crowd sale for #Crownfell has been approved for November 18! Add-ons include a neoprene playmat and a solo expansion.
This 2-player asymmetric chess-like has 17 cards unique movement and abilities.
Sign up to be notified here (shares appreciated!) 🧡 www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/cr...
👻 Happy October! 🎃
Here’s a free, cozy, printable game you can play from the couch, with any number of players!
A wallet game with the title Phantasmic, with cards looking like fantasy tarot in the background.
The preview/signup page for my upcoming bluffing game Phantasmic 🃏🔮 is up on the @buttonshy.bsky.social website!
If you want to be updated when the game goes live—go sign up to be notified!! ✨
I dunno, looks like there's no problem here.
26.09.2025 16:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
screenshot of a headline and image from a news article. Headline is "Cruise Ship to Visit Buffalo Four Times in 2026". Image is diagram of cruise route, showing red line between locations on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, going through Niagara Falls
yes hi I just have one quick question about our cruise route? It's probably nothing but
26.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0This is really reminding me of a website I used to visit ~20 years ago that somehow still exists essentially unchanged! They present a hand like this every day and there is poll of what you would throw to the crib and then people discuss the results www.dailycribbagehand.org
25.09.2025 22:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is what I would have done too
25.09.2025 22:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ooh I don’t, having enough people for a stable rpg group is something we struggle with too - scheduling adult free time is tough!
14.09.2025 00:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's a release!
Drawing Dungeon is a roll-and-write dungeon crawl I've been working on for a few months now!
Four maps and a playtime of 15-20 minutes per session, all for $3!
Explore the dungeon, collect treasure, and defeat the boss (or die trying)!
ExoShip has similar vibes - resistance movement on a generation spaceship to overthrow an authoritarian government
09.09.2025 04:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
High Tide has officially released and is NOW AVAILABLE in the USA for immediate delivery!
You can now order it direct from Underdog Games website or Amazon!
Canada, Mexico, and rest of the world—stay tuned!! 🌍
www.underdoggames.com/products/hig... 🎲✂️
Love the table presence of this game! Really looks great
28.08.2025 15:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A collage of images of the game Mysticana by Dustin Dobson and Jamie Thul: a close up of the Earth Avatar card, a living tree spirit examining a flower; an orange sticky note with the title and some sparkles doodled on it; closeup of the Water Guardian, a deep sea angler fish with the number 5 in the corner; an array of cards with different elements on them; the brown vinyl wallet for the game; the card backs depicting the how Water beats Fire, Fire beats Earth, and Earth beats Water.
Mysticana is the Game of the Week! My recent obsession has been "Game Systems", sets of components that can be used to play lots of different games.
Mysticana works like a video game console, where little expansion packs (a few extra cards) let you play specific adventures.
Love the art!
I created a thread where I share the link to the zine I made on bgg for the new codenames.
Surely there will be transphobes who come to attack me for it—so please help support me on there!
boardgamegeek.com/thread/35536...
A zine printed on yellow paper with a Mr Yuk that looks like the CGE logo. The logo around it says “Yuk Yuk Says Stay Away” with the CGE letters below it. Below that, a hashtag: #BlacklistCGE
During Gen Con, I will have 250 of these zines with me.
The goal is to inform normies about what’s going on with CGE and a call to action to join the blacklist.
No buying, pitching, or covering CGE games until they give the community a proper apology and response on how they plan to make good. 🎲✂️
Not only is my game Cranky Cove on sale right now at its lowest price ever, but there's also a free demo available! If you have a #Playdate handheld system, now you have no excuse not to try it. play.date/g/cc
26.07.2025 20:47 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
The statement on why CGE decided to make a new Harry Potter Codenames game despite the harm JK does on a daily basis might actually be worse than the fact that they decided to do it in the first place. 🙄
www.czechgames.com/news/why-we-...
This is horrendous.
Working with the Harry Potter IP was a decision they made. Even if there are contracts that require them to release N editions over Y years… guess what?
THEY COULD HAVE TORE THEM UP.
"You’ve got to [...] construct the most efficient base that you can manage to prop up and feed, fighting an environment forever trying to undo your efforts, and more often than not doing so with a team of founders who will be teetering at death’s door by the end of the experience."
ExoBase Review:
Card Rails Exchange is now available for preorder if you want to snag a copy. This will be up for a few weeks, hoping to ship in mid-late August.
Thanks all for sharing.
www.presspot.games/store/p/card...
Workworkwork physical book
Workworkwork book - spread
Workworkwork book - spread
Workworkwork book - spread
Workworkwork physical books available now!
The printshop was quicker than anticipated. I think they look beautiful. They are still offered for a 10% discount which will persist until July 28. For all who preordered - we'll start sending them out on Monday.
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The Queen’s Interests and the Mysicana foundation deck have fantastic illustrations by Filip Popovic. It’s so cool seeing the final product after working with my prototype!
03.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
