We're presenting at our community council tonight and I'm using the term "puzzle pieces", just cuz I can't afford to spend an hour doing a full dissertation about their history and significance...
Thanks, Suz! I'm gonna need it!
A slide showing a satellite image of a proposed crosswalk painting made up of 12 pentominoes packed into a rectangle.
I get to paint a crosswalk I designed next month and I'm super excited and nervous about it. Wish me luck!
Hell yeah! Important questions: hashbrowns or cubed potatoes? Cornflakes or potato chip topping?
"Any last words, bounty hunter?"
"Ka-chow."
A deck of cards from the game Sprint!
I kid, but this game was a hit at SaltCon this year and busted it out whenever there was downtime between sessions.
Very fast and cooperative, and the count of how many cards you picked up is a good amount of drama.
A collage of images of the board game Sprint! , designed by Sébastien Decades and illustrated by Stivo: tortoise and hare standees are racing along a track; a doodle on a yellow sticky note of a hare running past a tortoise; sprint cards, with one showing the number 22, which is how many cards you need to pick up from a deck; the box for Sprint! showing the hare and tortoise racing in an arena; a deck of 32 cards, the main mechanism of the game.
Sprint! is the Game of the Week! Can you pick up a specific number of cards in order to move a tortoise faster than a hare? Then Sprint! is for you! It's a game!
A pink Kaiju with a giant bladed head and spikes on their back. The card is crudely drawn.
An arrangement of prototype cards that feature a crane, a power plant, a car, and a tree. Above them is a purple Godzilla creature.
It's been so long since I've made a new prototype. And no polyominoes to be found!
Incredible work, especially that frog politely listening to storytime.
A collage of images of the game boop. designed by Scott Brady and art by Curt Covert: orange and grey cats and kittens spread across a blue quilt-top board; a blue sticky note with a doodle of a fat orange cat peeking out of a circle surrounded by paw prints and fish skeletons; the box cover showing a cat peeking out of a circle.
boop. is the Game of the Week! Scare off kittens and cats for control of the quilt. That sunbeam shall be yours and yours alone!
Two packs of Fruit Stripe bubble gum that feature a soccer playing zebra with multicolor stripes. The unwrapped gum sticks are shown off to the right and are striped like zebras.
Hell yeah FruitBatStripeMan.
Getting the design itch again and this No Shuffle Design Challenge from Button Shy is really interesting! Can you design an 18-card game with no system randomness?
Every game I've had published came from a design contest, so let's see how this one goes!
buttonshygames.com/blogs/news-1...
A collage of images of the game Machi Koro, designed by Masao Suganuma: a blue sticky note doodled with the title, forest, mountains, and radio tower; a player's array of cards that will earn them money during the game, these are titled Bakery and Convenience Store; two six sided dice, one green, one blue; an array of cards players can buy during the game; a small pile of copper-, silver-, and gold-colored coins; the box cover showing a city in front of a mountain range.
Machi Koro is the Game of the Week! Is this the granddaddy of the recent trend of board games with high output randomness? Games like Hot Streak, Quacks, Magical Athlete, Challengers, FlipToons, etc. What do you think of these?
I kinda prefer when I know how my engine will run when I run it...
A screenshot of my chat with a GFiber agent as I try to cancel my Internet. Instead of attaching an email saying I'll be charged money on April 13th, I attach a screenshot of an audience review of Teen Titans GO! to the Movies that says "Horrible movie this is worse than the show I freaking hate it. DISCUSSING!" Underneath that I've written "Whoops, not that" For the record, Teen Titans GO! to the Movies rules. That screenshot was someone else.
Having a normal one trying to cancel my Internet.
The last four movies I logged in Letterboxd: Picnic at Hanging Rock, My Scientologist Movie, Project Hail Mary, and Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie
Pretty dry spell when it comes to movies, but Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie was really great. Cracked up yesterday just thinking about a joke from it.
#LastFourWatched
#LetterboxdFriday
The neglected drowning child meme where the loved child (labeled George, Ringo, and John) is playing with their attentive mother, while the painted head of Paul McCartney is drowning in the foreground.
The neglected drowning child meme where the loved child (labeled George, Ringo, and John) is playing with their attentive mother, while the painted head of Paul McCartney is drowning in the foreground.
The Jaws poster, but instead of a shark rising up from the depths of the sea to devour a swimmer, it's my dog George showing his teeth and the title has been changed to Paws. It's a masterpiece.
I can't sleep. I guess I'm just riding the adrenaline after making this.
A doodle on a pale yellow sticky note of an embroidered patch of a koala and the title "Koala Rescue Club"
Aw, thanks! It was fun to draw Meredith's cute koala art.
A bastardization of incredible eye sketches where two completely different eyes somehow belong to the same derpy face and the face is saying, "Eyy...."
Incredible work.
A collage of images of the game Koala Rescue Club, designed by Phil Walker-Harding, illustrated by Meredith Walker-Harding, and published by Postmark Games and Joey Games: a 6-sided die and wet-erase marker beside a player sheet with circled trees with koalas in them; the circle shape patterns and volunteers; the merit badges that earn you points for completing tree areas; a sticky note with a merit badge illustration; an array of veterinary hospitals.
Koala Rescue Club is the Game of the Week! Save trees and re-home koalas across Australia, all through polyominoes. You've got two layers to puzzle through, all while funding the local veterinary hospitals and earning merit badges.
If you want to print your own:
bsky.app/profile/helv...
A print of a poster that says "Abolish ICE". The image is a melting block of ice being busted up by flying angel eyes, surrounded by a ring of people locking arms
The same poster hanging up in the front window of a house
I love my library. Everyone gets a 3 foot print on the big printer each month. Finally got around to printing this beauty by @helveticablanc.bsky.social
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon are a married couple that created cryptic puzzles for the Atlantic and WSJ for decades and their archive is available for free!
My family will print off a few and just spend days plugging away at them. Wild stuff in there!
www.coxrathvon.com
Figures on a river showing a government spectrum from democracy to dictatorship.
A group of development cards from Trade on the Tigris. You won't believe how small these cards and icons are.
Jumped at the chance to teach and play Trade on the Tigris. My score was less than half of the winners, but I still had a blast.
YESSSSSSSSS
Looter's Lamp. Love the look!
A red fox squirrel spread-eagle on the top of a shingled roof, looking down upon their kingdom.
O, to be a squirrel sunning themselves on top of a roof.
