BG Stats 2025 Plays: 143 H-index: 4 Games: 81 New: 54 Players: 30 Locations: 10 Hours: 115 Days: 75 Forest Shuffle Flip 7 No Thanks! Bohnanza Wandering Towers Next Station: London Castle Combo Oath: Chronicles of Empire & Exile Critter Kitchen 92 designers: Matthew Dunstan: 4% Reiner Knizia: 3% Antoine Bauza: 2% Cole Wehrle: 2%. 133 artists: Beth Sobel: 6% Klemens Franz: 6% Hiroko Izumida: 4% Chris Quilliams: 3% Dennis Lohausen: 3%.

Another solid year - more card games than I expected! Forest Shuffle is an absolute gem tbf. #bgstats

Merry Christmas all ✨🎄
Nollaig Chridheil

A photograph of books on a shelf in a second hand book shop. The picture focuses on the blue hardback book in the middle titled "Guns or Butter" by R. H Bruce Lockhart

Well if I /had/ to choose...

Submissions Now Open for the British Cartoonists' Association's Young Cartoonist Awards 2025 – Broken Frontier The Young Cartoonist Awards 2025 are now taking submissions. See all the details here at Broken Frontier today.

News! Submissions Now Open for the British Cartoonists’ Association’s Young Cartoonist Awards 2025. www.brokenfrontier.com/young-cartoo...

Final speaker for our morning sessions is Kayleigh MacLeod bringing us full circle back on Scottish heritage and video games!

Ah! This is so cool!! Thank you for forwarding it to me 🙌❤️

A picture of Molenmuseum De Valk

Arrived with @systemerrorkaye.bsky.social in wonderful Leiden for The Interactive Pasts Conference 4 (@valuefnd.bsky.social)!

Looking forward to the talks, workshops, and project showcase! 🙌

A photo of a page of the rulebook for the board game, Rebirth. The highlighted rule, 10, states that the player who last visited Scotland starts the game

Cracked open a Knizia's Rebirth for a nice wee board game afternoon. Living in Scotland we're at a stalemate who goes first.

Back to my hobby of buying board games at Tabletop Scotland ✨

A copy of R F Kuang's latest published title, Katabasis, wrapped in cellophane packaging

It's so beautiful I almost don't want to tear into it with my grubby little paws ✨💛

Logo: "Selkie Awards" bordered by teal seaweed and an indigo seal Text: Now open for submissions of independent Scottish comics! Deadline 31 July 2025

🦭 The Selkie Awards are back for our second year! 🦭

If you're based in Scotland and finished a comic in the past year, we want to hear from you!

Our applications are now open until 31 July. Check out the details here: selkieawards.org/2025

#scottishcomics #scottishcomicbookday #smallpress

Norway: they are going to remove his armour at some point and he will be "lighter" because of it

Emotionally ready for another instalment of Eurovision ❤️

Kayleigh MacLeod - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Bidh an òraid seo a' coimhead air ceangal Richard Demarco is Edinburgh Arts ris an t-Sabhal is cultar traidiseanta na h-Alba is na Gàidhealtachd

Tha mi aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig an duigh!

I'm at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig today discussing my current research in games and cultural heritage!

It'll be streamed on Zoom, so if you can't make it in person,n that's okay :) You can watch me dust off my Gaelic in real-time

www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/kayleigh-nic...

A screenshot of the game "Stand up guy". The screen shows a pigeon on the left (player character) and a sad sports fan bear on the right wearing a foam finger. The player is currently holding one slapstick card in their hand. At the top of the screen is three bars, each indicating the humour type (slapstick, highbrow and absurd) The dial beneath shows how happy the player has made their buddy

'Stand Up Guy' is a deck builder where the aim of the game is to cheer up your pals using jokes that fit their type of humour. The card types ranged from highbrow, absurd and slapstick

One player controls the chicken, slingshotting themselves across the playing field with the ability to stun and knock eggs off the Dinosaur. The other player plays the dinosaur, with traditional controls they must collect and cache eggs on the floating green base for points. Each round lasts 30 secs

The main menu screen for Chicken + Dino Smash, features a 3D green dinosaur model and a blue chicken looking angrily at each other with an egg sitting between them

a short clip of game play - with a dinosaur collecting a couple of eggs before being hit by the blue chicken losing his eggs. the play space is a grey floor with purple walls. on the left it reads "dino points: 0" and on the right it reads "chicken points: 10" increasing in 10s as the gif plays on.

My partner and I have been working on a few fun and silly games over the past year. One of them, Chicken and Dino Smash, is a simple local multiplayer game where two players compete to collect as many eggs as possible.

BG Stats 2024 Plays: 179 H-index: 6 Games: 80 New: 72 Players: 36 Locations: 10 Hours: 129 Days: 82 Waterfall Park: 9 Wandering Towers: 9 Durian: 9 Rustling Leaves: 8 Forest Shuffle: 7 Next Station: Paris: 7 Ra: 5 Bohnanza: 5 Next Station: London: 5 86 designers: Matthew Dunstan: 5% Elizabeth Hargrave: 3% Antoine Bauza: 2% Dani Garcia: 2% Hjalmar Hach: 2%.

A decent year for board games in 2024. Maybe I'll aim for 200+ plays this year and make a dent in my to play pile :')

QRP with your 💀skull💀 art!

A screenshot of the green Duolingo owl popping out of a hole in a pink/red gradient over a white abyss. Duo with a speech bubble above them stating "you made 1969 mistakes this year" as part of the Duolingo 2024 wrapped.

That all? 💀 #Duolingo

Aha! It's Foundations of Metropolis. AFAIK it's very similar (if not the same) to Foundations of Rome but with fewer chunky buildings and a modern reskinning :)

A black cat sitting on a city building board game - Foundations of Metropolis - disrupting the view of the board game and it's pieces.

The city has been subjected to a rampaging cat monster 🐱

A photo of the fourth edition of A Profound Waste of Time featuring the interior of front cover artwork of Chell from Portal in an orange vortex - artwork by Molly Mendoza

A photo of the fourth edition of A Profound Waste of Time featuring the interior of front cover artwork of Chell from Portal in an orange vortex featuring Wheatley - artwork by Molly Mendoza

This absolutely stunning beast arrived today

a living room with a picture on the wall and a vase of flowers ALT: a living room with a picture on the wall and a vase of flowers

Ty ty!

a man with a beard and glasses is standing in front of a podium and smiling . ALT: a man with a beard and glasses is standing in front of a podium and smiling .

Don't mind me just casually walking back into bluesky after not posting for nearly a year.

A photo of the DARE Academy stand showing the games Partners in Slime, Braise Satan and Heldritch Rush

A picture of the DARE Academy stand showing the games Chem Punch, Sight Unseen and Left Upon Read

A picture of spiderman and vemon but as dinosaurs cosplayers

DARE Academy winners - 777 studios

I think I've just about recovered from EGX/Comic Con last week. As always it's an absolute delight to see our students kick butt and be amazing and show off all their hard work and talent after working hard during DARE Academy

A ceramic duck holding a donut

Merry Christmas from this absolute unit. 🎄✨