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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU

@stickydoodler.bsky.social

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I make games that spark imagination and empathy. I also promote tabletop game designers based in the DMV ♦️🎲 (DC-MD-VA). 爸爸 to Big Sticky and Li'l Doodler. He/他/any. 🌳✂️ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stickydoodler/the-bonsai-diary

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · Oct 23

Hello friends new & old! I'm Gene, and I design games that evoke empathy and imagination. I enjoy exploring the uncanny valley between board and role-playing games, where one day I will discover Shangri-La. Until then, I post about my design journey and theories and avoid engagement farming.

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine folk arcana rituals for the modern-day witches and hedge mages. Imagine the inevitable end of the universe. Jump into the imagination of @tomahawkbunny.bsky.social at

Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair
📆 Sat, Oct 18
🕛 12-5pm
📍 @peoplesbooktakoma.com

Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair ft McCricket Publishing Co. Covers of Magica Mechanica and Sometimes We Were Infinite

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 1d

We once visited Amsterdam and stayed at a friend's flat that was provided for her as a cellist. I was flabbergasted that such a thing existed.

Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 1d

If you're at Congress of Gamers tomorrow, you've got to check out Period Party by ThunderDay Games. The team has been polishing the heck out of this "period positive trick-taking game" for some time now (I playtested it almost a year ago at PAX Unpub):
www.instagram.com/p/DPoM5DqDmpi/

playperiodparty on Instagram: "Try Period Party in Rockville, MD this Saturday (Oct 11, 10–4:30 PM)! 🎉We’re so excited to kick off our third round of blind playt…"

Try Period Party in Rockville, MD this Saturday (Oct 11, 10–4:30 PM)! 🎉We’re so excited to kick off our third round of blind playtesting at Congress of Gamers! Come find us in the Unpublished Games section and help us shape the final version of our chaotic, period-positive trick-taking game ❤️🩸#playperiodparty #congressofgamers #playtest #rockville #maryland #boardgame #boardgameaddict #menstruation #periodactionday #periodpositive #tricktaking #periodparty #endperiodstigma #cardgame #boardgamedesigners #kickstarterView all comments

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 2d

Meet Deb and other artists at the Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair
📆 Sat, Oct 18
🕛 12-5pm
📍 @peoplesbooktakoma.com

Learn more and RSVP for the panel discussion:
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/indie-...

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Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair 2025

The DMV is home to some of the world’s leading tabletop game designers! Come meet your neighbors whose games are available at hobby shops, online, and even your local bookstore. Designed in t…

peoplesbooktakoma.com

Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 2d

... especially this one, which hits hard right now as so many of our friends, colleagues, and neighbors are suffering from the government shutdown -- deprived of both income and the honor of serving our country.

stori-lundi.itch.io/alone-among-...

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Alone Among a Government Furlough by Big Puffin Games

A solo journaling RPG about biding your time during a furlough. Congress didn't do their job so now you can't do yours.

stori-lundi.itch.io

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 2d

IRL, Deb Fuller has a dream job: game-based learning designer for K-12 education. But if "learning" isn't your thing, @bigpuffingames.bsky.social's journaling games and zines are full of heart and compassion...
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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 2d

The media portray politics as a spectrum between left and right, but that spectrum exists in a square where the bigger divide is between political and apolitical. Techniques like what you describe sharpen that line and convince apolitical normies to stay out of politics altogether

Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!!

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Fort Circle @fortcircle.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to register for Circle DC, now is the time to do it. We are going to send an email to our entire customer list (14000+ folks) that will include, among other discussions, a link to the registration at circledc.com. The dates are April 10-12, 2026. We only have 102 badges left.

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 2d

That's a purty li'l sapling! I hope it's given you some peace. 💚

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Deb Fuller @bigpuffingames.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to deal with the horrors of the universe through a little solo journaling with Bonsai Diary by @stickydoodler.bsky.social

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 3d

at the Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair
📆 Sat, Oct 18
🕛 12-5pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com

Learn more and RSVP for the panel discussion:
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/indie-...
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Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair 2025

The DMV is home to some of the world’s leading tabletop game designers! Come meet your neighbors whose games are available at hobby shops, online, and even your local bookstore. Designed in t…

peoplesbooktakoma.com

Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 3d

@games.mothspire.com creates games for transformation. I love "The Old Ways Must Go," which asks us to reexamine our rituals, refresh those that still matter, and to let go of those that do harm. And "The Optimist's Guide to Tarot" just speaks for itself!

Meet the Samphire half of this team...
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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 3d

Is your ideal heist potentially an engine-builder board game?

Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 3d

Awesome, congrats and can't wait to play!!

Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 4d

That's @laomao.bsky.social hand-painting the cover in this video. Her inkwash paintings are gorgeous and evocative, and she's available for commissions: skeb.jp/@laomao

Music credit: "Childhood" cc-by Scott Buckley: www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/chil...

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 4d

Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair
📆 Sat, Oct 18
🕛 12-5pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com

RSVP for the panel (which I'll be moderating):
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/indie-...

Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair 2025

The DMV is home to some of the world’s leading tabletop game designers! Come meet your neighbors whose games are available at hobby shops, online, and even your local bookstore. Designed in t…

peoplesbooktakoma.com

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 4d

In The Bonsai Diary, you grow a tree and tell its story over the course of decades and then centuries. The Kickstarter for this journaling game exceeded my hopes, and the first print sold out on @ipr.bsky.social last month. Luckily, it's back in stock in time for our upcoming event:
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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 4d

Very excited to have you join us! As far as this event is concerned, you're an honorary DMV ♦️ Designer

Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 4d

You might even say we'd be honored

Darth Vader invites Han Solo to a nice meal on Bespin

Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 4d

Well frick he nailed me in one

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Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 4d

Check out these tiny, hand-assembled zine games over at Knave of Cups on Friday!!

This is the first time physical copies of these have been available online

Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 4d

Arriving Friday - two new @junkfoodgames.bsky.social zines
🍃Wither & Grow - a tiny solo game following the life of a sentient being made of growing plants
🐍🕷️The Serpent & The Spider - a duet for a necromancer + a sword-wielder to team up, combatting corporate corruption in a fantasy techno-future

The cover of Wither & Grow, a solo journaling game by Junk Food Games. Dark green ink on light green paper. The title is all lower-case whimsical serif font with an elaborate ampersand. The central image is a hulking being made of shaggy plants. Its face is partially covered by vines, flowers bloom from its back, and its willowy arms drag on the ground

The cover of The Serpent and The Spider, a ttrpg for 2 players by Junk Food Games. Yellow paper with black ink, calligraphy font for the text, and, in the center, a hand-drawn vampire skull with a sword through it, accented by a snake

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 4d

It's like some kind of worker placement game

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 4d

Glad to have at least played the first one and moved some art around. Also, nice to meet your actual pickup! 🛻

Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 4d

Also, four is not so much to split. I'd rather focus fire on one day if you want to drive attention, or in rapid sequence so you can engage an existing audience to get off their butts and take action.