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It's already been a year, folks. Making and Playing games is self-care. Community events are community-care. You're invited to join us for our first Pittsburgh Playtest of the year, this Sunday, January 18th. Meet local game-makers and playtest their latest game prototypes

Cover of Diatoms box.

Final scoring of Diatoms.

Day 6 of the @spielmas.com ⛄️ festival found us under the microscope looking for Diatoms from @sabrinac.bsky.social @ludoliminal.bsky.social and @25thcentury.games.

#SpielMas #boardgames

Is it a hint that we are reposting? ;)

Making game night count Dr. Jessica Hammer is here to show us how to play smarter, laugh harder and make every game night count.

AS SEEN ON TV?!!
What a delight to see both our games get a shoutout on Talk Pittsburgh in this segment with Dr. Jessica Hammer from Carnegie Mellon's Center for Transformational Play @cmuctp.bsky.social
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Diatoms is on NPR’s list of top games of 2025, alongside a fantastic cohort of other amazing games from this year 🥳

Be sure to check out PAX Rising for the up-and-coming games that will own your table like Uh Oh, Dino! by @ludoliminal.bsky.social and Toppings by @ludamusgames.bsky.social (which Big Sticky and I had the pleasure of playtesting).

They're in booth 3143!

If you do buy Diatoms at the 25th Century Booth at PAX Unplugged, Sabrina will happily sign it if you like that sort of thing. Just bring it by the PAX Rising showcase, booth 3143 and look for her purple apron

There will be a Diatoms Learn and Play at 12:15 on Friday, Nov. 21 in room 204A (with 4 copies of the game being given away at the end!) and the game will also be available in the Learn & Play Lounge (Room 201A)

#Diatoms will also be at PAX Unplugged!
You can buy the game and the wooden tiles upgrade at the @25thcentury.games booth #2804

Headed to #PAXUnplugged this week? So are we!
Sabrina will be demoing Uh Oh, Dino! at the PAX Rising Showcase booth #3143 during show floor hours. #stopbyandsayhello

A strategy real-estate game, a 2d digital co-op platformer, a trivia time warp, a solo RPG where you befriend yourself, a dragon tournament, a co-op dino adventure - these are just some of the game experiences you can try out Pittsburgh Playtest, This Sunday Nov. 16, 1-3:30pm at Ruckus Café!

A green dino carrying an egg looks down in surprise at the Uh Oh, Dino! game box. Nearby are two more eggs with the words Two Days Left!. Bottom text reads Live Now on Kickstarter!

The #UhOhDino #Kickstarter ends this Thursday. Join our herd!

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Uh Oh, Dino! - Cute & Chaotic Co-op for 2-4 Players Shifting board, adorable dinos, and a drawbag of danger ☄️&🦖 Meteors & Meat-Eaters expansion ✨Limited 2025 Holiday Shipping Available!

Uh Oh, Dino! from TTGDA member @ludoliminal.bsky.social is a cute & chaotic cooperative dinosaur game with a shifting board, adorable dinos, and a drawbag of danger that's currently funding on @kickstarter.com through October 30.

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Pittsburgh Playtest Graphic with details: Sunday October 26th, 1-30pm at 5844 Forward Ave in Squirrel Hill, RSVP at PittsburghPlaytest.com

Pittsburgh Playtest Graphic with details: Sunday November 16th, 1-30pm at Ruckus Cafe, 1707 Babcock Blvd, 15209. RSVP at PittsburghPlaytest.com

There are two more Pittsburgh Playtests in 2025! THIS SUNDAY we'll be in Squirrel Hill with a full slate of 10 local games! Join us and bring friends!

Next month we'll be at Ruckus Cafe on November 16th!

Excited to share that Uh Oh, Dino! will be included in the Pax Rising Showcase at Pax Unplugged! We'll be running game demos all day every day for the show!

See all 6 of the games that will be demoing at PAXun25.com/rising

#PAXUnplugged #uhohdino

A skeptical blue dino and anxious purple dino are nervously protecting a large spotted egg. Lower right corner reads "Live Now On Kickstarter" with an image of the game box. In lower left is the Kickstarter Projects We Love badge while upper right has the Uh Oh, Dino! wordmark.

Don't be nervous, dinos! There's still one week left to back Uh Oh, Dino! on Kickstarter. Adorable dinos, shifting board, drawbag of danger, and 100% scientifically accurate*

*±90%

Uh Oh, Dino! is rocking it on Kickstarter! We hit 600 backers this morning and 900% funded. 🔥
We love seeing the excitement for our quirky co-op dinosaur game! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

#kickstarter #boardgames #cooperativegames #uhohdino #dinosaurs

Uh Oh, Dino! - Cute & Chaotic Co-op for 2-4 Players Shifting board, adorable dinos, and a drawbag of danger ☄️&🦖 Meteors & Meat-Eaters expansion ✨Limited 2025 Holiday Shipping Available!

I just backed Uh Oh, Dino! - Cute & Chaotic Co-op for 2-4 Players on @ludoliminal.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

We are live! And we funded in 15 minutes! Amazing! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

Woah! We're less than one day out from the launch of the Uh Oh, Dino! kickstarter! Are you following along? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

Last day to enter this giveaway!

Uh Oh, Dino – Meeple Mountain Uh Oh, Dino is a cute and chaotic co-op game of stegos, earthquakes, and dino eggs, coming soon to Kickstarter. But you could enter to win a copy now! Join Meeple Mountain as we partner with…

Want a chance to win a copy of our adorable Dino co-op, Uh Oh, Dino!?
Check out the giveaway on Meeple Mountain for lots of ways to enter: www.meeplemountain.com/board-game-g...

Coming soon: Uh Oh, Dino! - Cute & Chaotic Co-op for 2-4 Players Shifting board, adorable dinos, and a drawbag of danger ☄️&🦖 Meteors & Meat-Eaters expansion ✨Limited 2025 Holiday Shipping Available!

"concerned dino" facial expression to reinforce the feeling of cute tension in the game. Now each dino's visual identity is its own adorable way of expressing "Uh Oh!"

This is another #Identity post for this week's #BoardGameProtoHype theme on instagram (3/3)

My Little Pony characters- heart, moon, clover, star. That was our "double-coding" to make each dino unique for color vision purposes as well. When we did the final aesthetic pass on the game, we decided instead to do different patterned shapes on the dino's backs and give each dino a unique (2/3)

A closeup photo of the pink and blue dinos in Uh Oh, Dino! with the box in the bottom left and the words "Team up as a herd of plucky concerned dinos to rescue your baby dino eggs! #Identity #BoardGameProtoHype" with photo by @boardgamecolor on instagram

In Uh Oh, Dino!, you are playing cooperatively as a herd of dinos trying to rescue your baby dino eggs. We really wanted your dino pawns to be tactilely fun and visually endearing. For a long time during the game's development, the dinos had unique butt "cutie marks" similar to (1/3)

This post inspired by this week’s #BoardGameProtoHype theme of #Identity www.instagram.com/boardgamepro...

You've got your trusty field notebook reference and you'll be arranging your diatoms on a board that's decorated like fancy papered slides of the Victorian era. These are just some of the ways the game uses form and function to invite you to take on a fantasy identity and play within that space.

To support that fantasy, we use the mechanics and components together. We ask you to "take water samples" from an algae pond by placing tiles then peering through an ornate lens to identify which algae species you've found. Then you collect those diatoms from little petri dishes.

Topdown view of Diatoms components laid out on a table with the Diatoms box in the lower left corner and the words "Follow the footsteps of Victorian naturalists to discover the unseen beauty hidden around you. #identity #boardgameprotohpye"

Every game makes you an offer:
Step into the magic circle and become... something...someone. In #DiatomsTheGame we wanted to offer you the chance to follow in the footsteps of Victorian naturalists who practiced an obscure artform- creating microscopic mosaics out of single-cell algae.