Stained glass artwork featuring a rural scene with fields and hills and two figures in the foreground riding a tandem bike on a track as the sun rises
Harriet Love, contemporary stained glass artist #Womensart #Sunday
Amazing! Good luck!
Finally got the shop open! Riverwalk Games in ole Middleville MI
Child: Look Mommy! All the pretty shapes and colours! Mother: Don't look, Ricky. Those are BOARDGAMERS. I don't want you being influenced by... OH GOD NO! Child: It's too late, Mother. I am now poor and busy every weekend.
I'm busy this weekend. And also poor.
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BGA won't allow unpublished games past the alpha stage. I've also thought about it!
Galen's second mint tin campaign is absolutely crushing it over on Kickstarter! @galens-games.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
Sick of waiting for Brass: Pittsburgh. Played this instead!
Well... Soothsayers is incredible. Go play it.
Singapore has something like this too. It starts at the science center, with a model of the sun. I know, because I once spent a day visiting the different planets, but I cant find any info about it online!!!
Kid's drawing of Funi Raccoon Game
@kitworldz.bsky.social My kid likes your game.
There is a Japanese reprint which is suuuuper nice.
I'm standing on the shoulders of giants, Peer.
Luzon Rails didn't exactly sell a million copies (yet!), but I love that it has its fans! boardgamegeek.com/blog/5443/bl...
It looks prettier now!
I also added a high-readability version for people (like me), who struggle with colours or small text.
A productive Sunday! Now, this needs a load of testing...
A screenshot of BoardGameArena
Building an Invaluable implementation on BoardGameArena! Current status: functional but ugly.
Game night with my six year old. Two games of Double Seven and then Love Letter. Great!
My six-year-old daughter did a "pick any card" trick, chaotically shuffled the deck and then pulled the correct card from the middle. Incredible! I was so proud - thought she was a magical prodigy!
Turns out she just got lucky. In her first ever card trick, she just randomly pulled the chosen card.
A fantastic overview and review of @robindavid.bsky.social 's Verdant Arizona by The Family Gamers. They gave it an 8/10. Have you played it yet?
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I think that is a pretty rural example - I've never come across it. More common examples of that kind of repetition would be phrases like, "I did [thing], so I did."
But I don't speak Irish, so maybe someone wants to correct me too...
This is like The Ring with Irish stuff.
I’ve played games that come in wallets, but this is my first venture into the mint tin space with Verdant Arizona from @galens-games.bsky.social, and what a fun experience it was collecting and strategically organizing cacti!
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News to me. I should check my emails more often. Anyway, the design history still stands!
I'm super excited with what they've done with the game. Mine and Chris's game system is there, with this awesome thematic overhaul, missions, minis, and alien spaceships.
They're in the last week of their campaign now. Give it a closer look. www.kickstarter.com/projects/idv...
Ancient Rome cyberpunk imagery
Eventually, Chris pitched the game to idVenture, who started making it fit their own brand. NeoTokyo was switched for Alien Tech Ancient Rome (incredible!). We had deck-building and player alignments, and these were removed in favour of narrative cards that build upon each other (v cool).
I absolutely love the police drones in the game, and how they escalate as the game progresses. As a player tries to hack, the drones hunt them down - it's a tense endeavor!
We designed a system where there were tons of viable ways to play, and like A Feast for Odin, wrapped all these in a simple central mechanism - dice based hacking and combat.
I mentioned this to Chris, and we very quickly had a theme based around hackers in near-future Tokyo. The player could go about hacking corporations, trying to lay low, or they could invest in their strength and start shooting down police drones. Or maybe they want to be a bounty hunter, or maybe...
A Feast for Odin
I *think* this one started with me talking about how much I like A Feast for Odin, which lets players play in so many different ways. You can run a farm, or make jewelry, or go exploring, or just build houses! And at the end, you have this record of the path you chose in this sandbox.
