play and craft. building puppets by day (IG curious_mechanics) and board games by night. here, the latter! Black Lives Matter. he/him
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The IDF raided the renowned Jenin cultural institution @freedom_theatre while children looked on "screaming and crying." Staff were seized, detained and tortured, while the theater was trashed and robbed. Artistic director Ahmed Tobasi describes the ordeal.
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Which board game publishers are doing the best job of producing historical-themed mid-weight strategy games that are not about war, geopolitics, or colonialism?
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Game Designers!
How to improve the likelihood of a publisher picking up your game a 🧵
I’ve done this tweet before but thought I’d update it based on submissions we’ve had over the past year 1/14
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It's release day, and the design diary for The Wolves is live on @BoardGameGeek! Check it out to see @BoardGameGhee and myself ramble for entirely too long about designing a board game during the height of COVID.
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do not work with golden bell studios if you are an artist or game designer. they will steal your work and then sue you for the rights
Since 2019 I’ve been in an expensive, stressful legal battle to protect Webcomic Name (my “oh no” comics). It’s a relief to finally talk about this publicly! I’m launching a crowdfunder to pay my
remaining legal fees to end this. 1/8 gofund.me/7478032b
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How it started / How it's going
First playable prototype of The Wolves from 6/20/2020 on the left. Final production components on the right. It's come a long way!
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In our geeky fiction, we prefer the rebels, outcasts, underdogs - Frodo, Luke, Peter Parker, Buffy Summers, etc. Yet in our Euro board games, the choice is colonizer or nothing. As @ThinkerThemer said, find the rebels, outcasts, underdogs of history. Go make games about them.
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Game designers! Reply to this with an elevator pitch for your next game; I bet some of our fans would love to hear what you have on the horizon.
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I don’t love kicking up more dust storms. But this is a HUGE property in the center of our industry. It’s sets the pace for our tastes in games. If it wants to borrow from African stuff, it needs to include African people. Black people.
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Men on BGG explaining why Mansplaining is a bad theme/title for a game and, oh, the irony is just palpable.
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Anyone know who currently holds the English language / North American rights to El Grande?
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Tonight at 9pm ET (UTC -5), @EricaBouyouris and I welcome @TheJayBell to the @MeepleSyrup Show to regale us with tales of his PAX Unplugged experience and his currently available and forthcoming games. Join us live in the chat at youtube.com/MeepleSyrup or facebook.com/MeepleSyrup
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Was able to play this yesterday! Lost a close one. So much fun turning the gears and finding new paths for your rats. Plus it's more aesthetically pleasing than a game about a rat maze has every right to be!
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Please stop using the Chop Suey font, graphic designers. Please. – at London, Ontario
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Happy to finally announce Wormholes, my second published game! AEG has a fierce lineup of releases for 2022, and I'm so excited to be a part of it.
