Happy Birthday Debbie!

Excited to welcome our special guests for Game Market West Spring 2026, a tabletop game market where independent designers showcase/sell their newest games:
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Nice work! (Also, I like the soy sauce dishes…)

Animal Rescue Team (the first game in our SU&SD Presents line) has been nominated for an Origins Award in the Coop/Solo category! Thank you to the panel!

Me too!!

Leacock’s Lab: Forbidden Legacy Announced! Plus: Fate of the Fellowship Availability Update, The Four Doors Design Diary, and more

My March update is up: Forbidden Legacy announced, Fate of the Fellowship availability info, The Four Doors design diary, Flickering Stars update, and more!

Super cool. I can tell that I do this (partly) for a living though.

The Four Doors – Design Diary — Matt Leacock Games Matt Leacock: The design of The Four Doors followed a long, meandering route. It was the result of four different designers working alongside four different publishers to produce no fewer than five...

Matt Riddle and I have posted our Design Diary documenting the strange and circuitous history of The Four Doors.

Development was a gauntlet: five different themes, four different publishers, four contributing designers.

Includes: Goonies! Disease! Flooding! Vermin! and Meddling Locals!

Not sure how I missed that!

How about adding a saturation / chroma slider?

Thanks again for playtesting!

you know, for kids!

Forbidden Jungle – Design Diary — Matt Leacock Games After several years of design and development, Forbidden Jungle is finally here! In this diary, I’ll recount the search for the setting, some of the design challenges I faced, and look to what’s n...

For Forbidden Legacy, not that I know of, but I suspect there will be more to come soon!

For previous iterations, there's quite a bit on BoardGameGeek. You can also check out my design diary for Forbidden Jungle:
www.leacock.com/blog/2023/8/...

Forbidden Legacy to Debut at Gen Con 2026 Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau join forces once again

Grab your jetpack, Forbidden Legacy will premiere at Gen Con this year!

Designed with Rob Daviau. This one unfolds over seven chapters.

www.wericmartin.com/forbidden-le...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

Congratulations. You're an inspriation!

So sorry to hear that you've been so sick! A few years back I binged a big batch of short stories from by Ted Chiang and George Saunders. If you haven't read them, Exhalation, Stories of Your Life, Liberation Day, and Tenth of December area all great.

sending hugs ❤️

thanks!

Awesome! Good luck!

Rhado calls The Four Doors "A miracle of design." @mattleacock.bsky.social

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Leacock’s Lab: Animal Rescue Team Now Available, Trip Report, and More Plus: Spiel Essen and DAU Report, Animal Rescue Team Design Journal, Daybreak Returns to Public Radio, and more

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when I worked on This Guilty Land, and immersed myself in antebellum primary documents, the thing that really struck me is how incrementalism today is just the same shit it was then, responding to the same kind of bad faith arguments by evil fuckers, & treating real change as impossible & infantile.

How to solve the climate crisis in 60-90 minutes — Outside/In Can a board game about the climate crisis really make for a good Friday night with your friends?

Outside/In from New Hampshire Public Radio aired a wonderful episode about Daybreak yesterday.

Not going to spoil whether they won or not!

We were happy to join the first Sun Day day of action at San Jose City Hall today. Hope and expect this day to become bigger and bigger each year.

You must have been less than 10 feet away from us!

organizers speak outside San Jose City Hall for Sun Day 2025

OMG, you were there? Sorry we missed you!

Got your email—I'll be in touch!