The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
Hexacon today was China's War. 1937-41. I was the invading Japanese while the other three factions squabbled and somewhat defended.
First day of Hexacon. Ready to play some Musket and Pike. 2nd Breitenfeld, I am the Imperials against a very keen to fight Sweden.
Play this game! Made by my workmate Bryce, it is a great take on backpack management crossed with survival. Great fun to play co-op too.
Pete RKO's a Triarchy player
Our metrics show that less than 0.01% of players defeated Pete so we have removed his cannon, he will now fight unarmed...
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2 players fighting through Act 3
An entirely new act, with new enemies, new areas, and a new boss with fresh mechanics, releases with the Packmates launch in April.
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Triarchy has reached 50,000 wishlists, and we're building something BIG for Steam playtesters this coming weekend. Sign up to join the playtests on our Steam store page: store.steampowered.com/app/2708040/...
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Packmates launches on April 16th, 2026 with a huge wave of new content, systems, and replayability that goes far beyond what you’ve played in any demo so far.
Wishlist Packmates on Steam to get notified on release day!
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Unexpected happy surprise this morning, gushing praise for Endeavor: Deep Sea in the GMT newsletter ("above the fold" no less).
I have adopted the wine cellar analogy for my unplayed games. I have laid in stocks for the right occasions and moods.
And yes, I have rated a 10 myself, and I feel no shame doing so, I enjoy it greatly. :-)
Chart showing entries 98, 99 and 100 being Fields of Arle. El Grande and Endeavor: Deep Sea.
Endeavor: Deep Sea hit the Board Game Geek top 100!
In the sacred groves, the Fungalblade Clan raises architecture to mirror unseen ideals, their structures precise echoes of a higher, unknowable order. #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming
It will be in The New Buildings section of the base rules, if they have that
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
Puerto Rico is a great game, although I did not get that super fancy edition. I think I might even get a credit in there somewhere (for the first fan-submitted expansion).
This gate marks the boundary of the real and a sacred mushroom grove. The mushroom people believe the world is an illusion and an echo of a greater truth. #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming
I just backed Guardian Maia: A Māori Sci-Fi Saga on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gua...
Gribbles have a diverse ancestry, while some are small they come in many types and sizes. There is talk of a gigantic, bloated Gribble champion - protecting their treasure from marauding pirate clans. #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming
Three stacks of boardgames, a full collection of the COIN games.
One of my favourite game series, Volko Ruhnke's COIN games:
Me when a driver is buggy: "computer's haunted"
Me when we take the crystalized thoughts of every dead person who has ever been recorded and compress them into a singular artifact we imbue with false life:
"It's just linear algebra"
The designer of Mouse Trap, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Lite Brite, and many other toys has passed away.
What a legacy of joy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
Revenants are optional aspirational bosses you start finding, even pretty early in the game. Lucian will be in the upcoming playtest for example (although is a little work to find/summon).
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
The board game Space Empires 4x and its three expansions in a stack.
Completed my Space Empires set, the full game with all rules seems pretty nuts, but when I have played with Expansion 1, I have been pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to play even while tracking teach per fleet and crew experience. Not sure how I feel about adding logistics to tht however.
What I have been working on the last little while at Digital Confectioners (pls wishlist):
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*New Episode!*
@ericabouyouris.bsky.social and @senfoonglim.bsky.social welcome @qarl.bsky.social, Jarratt Gray, @burntislandgames.bsky.social and @grandgamersguild.bsky.social to discuss the past, present, and future of SdJ Winner, Endeavor: Deep Sea.
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I am genuinely surprised Hudson Hawk has not become a sleeper cult film of interest. When I was in university, a group of friends and I watched it multiple times in the theatre. I need to rewatch it, and work if I was just had terrible taste when young.
After a great NZGDC, I get to spend the day visiting award winning game designer Jarratt Gray.
