@gdofnc.bsky.social
Official account for the Game Designers of North Carolina. https://gdofnc.herokuapp.com/
It's release week for Beasts! This Friday you'll officially be able to find it in game stores in the US, so we'll be celebrating all week long 🎉
01.12.2025 20:23 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Squirrel Away is on the Holiday Must-Play list from Board Game Gumbo!
03.12.2025 20:20 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
TerreDice is calling VNTYPL8S their party game of the year! Squirrel Away and Flintlock (a game I helped dev) also get some love! youtu.be/-YhT1QPT_Wo?...
04.12.2025 03:45 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The latest addition to the GDofNC library is Tír na Nóg Blessings & Burdens by group member @isaacshalev.bsky.social!
01.12.2025 20:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We walked around Ueno, then Akihabara to visit the game shop Yellow Submarine. Tokyo Game Market has a printed catalog available for purchase so I needed to study and translate what was going to be available. Spotted a @gdofnc.bsky.social game on the shelves! Art Society by Mitch Wallace!
22.11.2025 23:42 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
It's almost time for #paxunplugged! Here's where and when you can find me and my games this weekend, including some signing sessions for Squirrel Away and VNTYPL8S. If any mutuals are going and want to meetup sometime, reach out, or just stop by one of these spots!
19.11.2025 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Going to PAXU!
Who will I be seeing there?
Also: Unpub room times
Fri:: 1:30-4:30
Sat:: 10-1
Gonna be showing off my upcoming game this weekend at PAXU. Look for Alpha Team Mechanized Battle Force Go! at the How to Steam Broccoli booth!
20.11.2025 14:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Just a sign. That’s the post.
20.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The project page for my upcoming game Alpha Team Mechanized Battle Force Go! is now up on Kickstarter.
You can select to be notified on launch!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...
Submitted one of my game designs to a couple publishers today and it's a bit of a personal success for me.
The games I am currently working on with publishers kinda fell into my lap - right place at the right time - so doing the work to get my other games out there feels like a big step.
The cover art for yanari. It depicts a farmers market with witches and fantastical creatures. The art style is inspired by studio Ghibli.
An overview of the components from the base game.
An excerpt from the kickstarter page showing the base game with box, priced at $40.
An excerpt from the kickstarter showing additional components in the deluxe edition: a bonus which, wooden tokens, and card sleeves.
Yanari: The Witches Market is entering its final week on Kickstarter. I hope you enjoy it!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/198...
@1985games.bsky.social
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Squirrel Away design diary complete! 😮💨
I always super-underestimate how long it takes me to write these. Somebody teach me to be less verbose!
The final end state of my new party game, Subject Matters.
This game continues to be a rip-roaring good time!
My new card game Yanari is live on Kickstarter! Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/198...
#boardgame
Just realized that there will be 6(!) of my games on the floor at Essen - Beasts, Squirrel Away, the German editions of the Merchants of Magick expansions, and the German editions of Chomp and the Flyers and Scavengers expansion. boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/...
07.10.2025 15:13 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0"I think Beasts offers some interesting flexibility and strategic play that is wholly unique from The Game, but perfectly reasonably compared to it. For one thing, Beasts has infinitely better SEO than The Game” 🤣
Eric gets it! And I will never get how "The Game" got approved as an actual title.
Group member David Marron launched a crowdfunding project for Wizard Community College, a hilarious RPG card game. Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/161...
01.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Back home after a fantastic (1st annual?) GDofNC game jam! We had 19 designers in 5 teams. And even the jam constraints were gamified. Each team took turns drafting components, mechanics, and themes from the list. It was a blast, and my team is going to keep working on our game, Kazoo Prodigy.
14.09.2025 06:46 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Here's my card game Yanari: the Witches Market from @1985games.bsky.social, set in the world of #Obojima!
youtube.com/shorts/aB19m...
#boardgame #cardgame
Finally got my designer copies of Beasts today, so it became the 8th unique game on my Self Shelf! 😍🎲✂️
04.09.2025 16:19 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Periodically, I take some time to make sure I'm keeping good track of my in-print games and any royalties I'm due (an unfortunate necessity). Today while crunching numbers, I noticed that I recently hit 100k units sold across all my games. What? 🤯
05.09.2025 16:57 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A Message From the Stars made it onto the list of Top Games of 2024 from @beforeyouplay.bsky.social! youtu.be/srlSTOmI-Zk?...
02.09.2025 15:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you missed Squirrel Away at #GenCon, here you can see a full demo from the con! youtu.be/peA72EFKMJc
02.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Publisher Mighty Boards launched a crowdfunding campaign for group member @mitchwgames.bsky.social's Art Society deluxe edition and expansion! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mig...
02.09.2025 15:15 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The last time one of my games was rated this highly after this many BGG ratings, it was #1 on the BGG Hotness (The Wolves). Just sayin'... 😉
28.08.2025 13:39 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"It feels like a modern classic" - First full review of Beasts courtesy of The Game Boy Geek! youtu.be/1W9P-uDKcTc
29.08.2025 15:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
First playtest of Stupid Racing Game(working title). I guess it ended up being more of a flip-and-move than a roll-and-move?
30.08.2025 16:40 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Beasts board game
Latest addition to the GDofNC library is Beasts! Designed by group member @stoichamster.bsky.social and published by @pandasaurusgames.com!
30.08.2025 20:13 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Missed this earlier, but @indymonthly.bsky.social named Beasts one of the best "non-intimidating" games of #GenCon!
20.08.2025 13:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
