Who doesn’t want to play a game about being a seagull, pooping everywhere and robbing chips?
Saw the full process of LJ designing this and it’s lovely to see it (hopefully) made available!
What a weekend!!
The best roomie for the weekend! The spiritual urn-egy is much needed.
Back in at @theatredeli.bsky.social tomorrow, lots of lovely stuff to play if you fancy popping down.
💥📣🐶
When you lose your shit at the Lads on the train who’re already pissed and harassing women at 9am and somehow come away feeling like you were being unreasonable…
😔 Corrections welcome
The central icon is black and white and features a design of a game controller either dripping with fluid, or possibly running as if made of paint. It has the text "Strange Play Showcase". Surrounding the central icon are a number of previews for the featured works.
The Invisible Casino embraces the strange...
The Dealer's next outing is this weekend at the @voidspacezine.bsky.social x London Games Weeks Official side event: Strange Play!
🗓️ Sat 18th-Sunday 19th April, 11:00-18:00
📍 Theatre Deli, London
📟 Tickets and Info: voidspacezine.com/strange-play/
Both are trying to brute force solutions to “But what if I don’t have friends?”, so yeah checks out.
(Feel obliged to shout out my fellow “low social spoons” neurodiverse gang in this semi-sarcastic post)
Very exciting! Tysm
👀👀👀 This is a very exciting title.
A bearded man with a red face is wearing a bright green golf visor in the style of the great Luigi Mario (it was apparently a promotional item for a Mario Golf game)
When you’re supposed to be helping someone clear out their house but you keep refusing to throw things away and instead wear them for the rest of the day.
Love this take! Gaming in public is a joy. Main barrier I’m thinking about (coming more from boardgames perspective): how do we get people more comfortable with failing in public (losing the game, not understanding rules/interactions/conventions)?
A very busy fancy cafe full of tables of people playing games
Me making a smooch face in front of a poster that reads “Car Boot Casino”
A table full of casino prizes such as a bet lynch mug, a glass duck, a jigsaw puzzle
Thank you to everyone who braved the BIG queue to join us in a packed out Car Boot Casino floor tonight.
& especially big thanks to all our beautiful croupiers.
It feels reasonable to expect people in the games industry particularly to understand that “playing to your outs” doesn’t always mean you win.
Today I’ve been playing the latest game by @inkle.co The one that’s like Type Help and Her Story. Loving it!!
Anyway I stepped away for a bit and now all of a sudden I’m Admiral Ackbar-ing all over the kitchen.
Anyway, I’m off to tell everyone I love to play it. 👋
"Straight to VHS card game" is exactly the vibe I want to see more of in this world 👏
Good grief, he's done it...
A blog post compiling much news about The Invisible Casino, including news! (+ New news!)
Would love to see you at the Car Boot Casino @ V&A on ✨Friday✨ - check out the post for details. Should a lovely bunch of games...
cdiffin.itch.io/the-invisibl...
Had a lovely game of Zoo Vadis on the weekend, which I think is responsible for some of my all time top “aren’t boardgames great” moments.
As do I!
Sadly I’m an unrelenting people pleaser. An expectation has been set, and now must be met!
Thank you for suggesting I might be able to cultivate a mystique, though…
Those of you on here:
@d-king.bsky.social @richardsherriff.bsky.social @megamelone.bsky.social
🙏
A bearded man with a bright red face stands awkwardly in a graduation gown: a mortarboard hat, gown and hood with red and purple trim. He wears a yellow tie that he doesn’t entirely hate and a white collared shirt, which he sort of does. He makes finger guns at the camera, having failed to learn to be comfortable as the solo subject of a “nice photo” even in his mid-30s. Signage in the background places the photo outside Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre. There are long shadows and quite pleasant natural light, indicating magic hour would have been about 30 mins away if they’d thought about it.
Also, here is a picture of me in a silly hat.
More sincerely, was a lovely day to feel gratitude for the people who got me to this point. Lecturers, classmates and of course my lovely partner and family. Thank you so much!
Just realised I’ve fallen victim to announcing announcements. At pretty much the first hurdle, too…
Thanks so much to @tigershungry.co.uk for having us along and organising such a wonderful sounding event! I swear I didn’t nick the name.
A show poster featuring a King Charles spaniel wearing a green visor, smoking a pipe and holding a hand of cards in what the author will inexpertly refer to as a regency style. Text reads: CAR BOOT CASINO Friday 27 March 6:30pm - 9:30pm V&A South Kensington Play/Performer Friday Late A night of homebrew bluffing & betting games
My project The Invisible Casino will fulfil its nominatively determined promise of appearing in the Car Boot Casino! Promises to be a great collection of homebrew card and bluffing games on show!
📍 V&A South Kensington
🗓️ Next Friday 27th March, 18:30-22:00
💸 FREE!!
www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...
We celebrate this concluding day of Neurodiversity Awareness Week by finally having access to my medication again!! Yay for private sector subsidies in the NHS 🙃
I have been very neurodiverse this week. Stand by for all the posts I meant to make this week!! NEWS!!
There’s probably a big chunk of the views from autoplaying after a good video that someone chose to watch but then fell asleep/got distracted by child/alt-tabbed too close to the sun… SEO is so much easier when you value it above, say, providing value.
Put me down as “excited for more games that might not be games”
I saw one group at @paradiceuk.bsky.social spend all of Saturday playing what I presumed was a single game of Speak Easy. Seems Big and Good Looking?
Went to @paradiceuk.bsky.social yesterday. Excellent time, had a few great chats. Nice to see indie physical games represented!
However, my most exciting pick up was a CRC published textbook. I am suffering the psychic damage of this revelation today.