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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!)

@marcelineleiman.bsky.social

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🏳️‍⚧️ Published Game Designer, Developer, Educator. MFA graduate from NYU Game Center. https://www.marcelineleiman.com/ http://bio.link/marcelineleiman

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · Aug 5

Hello! Since I have a new job working as a Lead Designer at a new studio under Unstable Games—it’s time to make a new pinned post!

My name is Marceline, a full-time game designer and adjunct professor at NYU Game Center.

You may know my work from High Tide, Oceans, Trekking the World 2e, Organism!

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 20m

Thanks you!! I’m having fun with it, and I’m excited to get it into people hands

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 20m

Same here—I really grew up on playing card games. I’m hopeful I can land this plane!

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 21m

Thanks!! I’m hopeful it lives up to expectations

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 4h

Glad to see the Tabletop Games series at @uofmpress.bsky.social take off with @jreylee.bsky.social's book on Catan.

Clear, unambiguous writing on abstraction and gaming with regard to colonial themes.

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve been testing my new 2p Fishing/Rummy style card game! I’m calling it Heavenly Bodies 🪐💫🌙

It’s feeling very close to finding its spark! ✨

A hand of cards with numbers, suits, and images of nebulas.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 1h

Chicago: Come for the tacos, stay to watch us show ICE how they can go fuck themselves into oblivion.

www.chicagomag.com/news/chicago...

Chicago Is Organizing for All

Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.

www.chicagomag.com

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 16h

Come on by!

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks so much!!!

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 18h

I considered trying my hand at watercoloring at first! But I want to invest more time into my skills in watercolor before thinking I can compare to the beauty I was able to achieve with space photography 😅

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks so much Mike!!

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 18h

Fortunately color isn’t a component of the gameplay! You can approach it like a standard deck, which has 2 black and 2 red suits of different shapes.

I will also be providing an aid that lists which numbers belong in each suit to support players, as the organization of the deck is non-standard.

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks! Yeah my goal was to make symbols that were distinct enough to supersede any concerns about color—but thank you for bringing it to my attention!

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 20h

Brilliant idea! These cards look so cool

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 22h

Thinking of doubling down on testing this and bringing it with me to IGNM! 🎲✂️

What do you guys think? Would you play a game that looked like this? 🪐

I pulled the art from open source NASA images and inverting the colors!

Cards numbered 1-2 in 3 suits, each with a different nebula on them!

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 21h

You’re racing to a set number of points to win the round. You do this by forming sets/runs—but only start scoring points with each pair.

Pay attention to your opponent for which sets to go for or block, and avoid discarding cards they need!

A few mote bips and bops, but that’s the basic idea!

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 22h

I’m glad to hear you’re interested! If you like other 2p card games like Koi-Koi/Go Stop or Gin Rummy—you might like Heavenly Bodies too!

And thanks, I love the way the style has turned out too!

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 22h

Hook em!!!! 🎣

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you! It went through some ugly phases before I had this idea! 💡

I think of the style as “Space Age in the vision of the Scientific Revolution”

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 22h

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve been testing my new 2p Fishing/Rummy style card game! I’m calling it Heavenly Bodies 🪐💫🌙

It’s feeling very close to finding its spark! ✨

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 13d

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Bright orange individually packaged whistles, stapled to English and Spanish literature designed by Pilson Arts Community House in Chicago. They are placed inside a little free library in my neighborhood: Avondale in Chicago.

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 2d

It is!

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 2d

Those damn Lutrinals keep coming for me!

We’re petting/hunting them to practical extinction for a quest haha

Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 2d

Earthborne continues to be a good time!

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 2d

Another session of our @nyugamecenter.bsky.social faculty campaign of EARTHBORNE RANGERS!

@marcelineleiman.bsky.social, @halfrobot.com, Beau, & I are having a good time!

The four of us sitting at a long table with the game set up before us.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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