Eric Dittmore
@ericdittmore.bsky.social
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Tabletop game designer
DittmoreDesigns.com
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Eric Dittmore
@ericdittmore.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Adulting by Eric Dittmore
A cozy card game about the mundane struggles of adulthood.
eric-dittmore.itch.io
For anyone who is interested in Adulting but didn't make it to IGNM, fear not! The PNP version is here! While I'd love to print more copies, this will have to do for now. It is pay what you want; I really just want to get this game in as many hands as possible. Let me know what you think!
Got my submission in just under the wire! Love this contest. I’m looking forward to some feedback on my game Secrets, Secrets.
January 31, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Got my submission in just under the wire! Love this contest. I’m looking forward to some feedback on my game Secrets, Secrets.
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We are calling for an immediate stop to all purchases from Upper Deck.
Their total lack of communication is distressing—so we call upon everyone to help us escalate.
No purchases from Upper Deck. No media coverage or posts of their games.
Upper Deck will only respond when it hurts their wallets.
Their total lack of communication is distressing—so we call upon everyone to help us escalate.
No purchases from Upper Deck. No media coverage or posts of their games.
Upper Deck will only respond when it hurts their wallets.
YIKES.
Upper Deck (Marvel Legendary) just announced a CCG using the Harry Potter license.
Fans of UD are rallying against this decision. Like the CGE situation last year, I’m asking for your help.
Join us. Share your disgust and frustration, and help us push UD to retract their awful decision. 🎲✂️
Upper Deck (Marvel Legendary) just announced a CCG using the Harry Potter license.
Fans of UD are rallying against this decision. Like the CGE situation last year, I’m asking for your help.
Join us. Share your disgust and frustration, and help us push UD to retract their awful decision. 🎲✂️
UPPER DECK ANNOUNCES COVETED HARRY POTTER LICENSE, UPCOMING PRODUCT COLLECTION - Upper Deck
Carlsbad, CA (Jan. 7, 2026) – Upper Deck, the global leader in sports and entertainment collectibles, is adding another iconic license to its extensive portfolio – announcing a deal to create collecti...
upperdeck.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:14 PM
We are calling for an immediate stop to all purchases from Upper Deck.
Their total lack of communication is distressing—so we call upon everyone to help us escalate.
No purchases from Upper Deck. No media coverage or posts of their games.
Upper Deck will only respond when it hurts their wallets.
Their total lack of communication is distressing—so we call upon everyone to help us escalate.
No purchases from Upper Deck. No media coverage or posts of their games.
Upper Deck will only respond when it hurts their wallets.
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Got some exciting games to the table. Tax the Rich by @kostby.bsky.social - thematic trick-taking with dynamic teams, plenty of gotcha moments too. Adulting by @ericdittmore.bsky.social - multi-victor semi-coop deck building, which was a really collaborative experience in our first game #boardgames
January 18, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Got some exciting games to the table. Tax the Rich by @kostby.bsky.social - thematic trick-taking with dynamic teams, plenty of gotcha moments too. Adulting by @ericdittmore.bsky.social - multi-victor semi-coop deck building, which was a really collaborative experience in our first game #boardgames
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YIKES.
Upper Deck (Marvel Legendary) just announced a CCG using the Harry Potter license.
Fans of UD are rallying against this decision. Like the CGE situation last year, I’m asking for your help.
Join us. Share your disgust and frustration, and help us push UD to retract their awful decision. 🎲✂️
Upper Deck (Marvel Legendary) just announced a CCG using the Harry Potter license.
Fans of UD are rallying against this decision. Like the CGE situation last year, I’m asking for your help.
Join us. Share your disgust and frustration, and help us push UD to retract their awful decision. 🎲✂️
UPPER DECK ANNOUNCES COVETED HARRY POTTER LICENSE, UPCOMING PRODUCT COLLECTION - Upper Deck
Carlsbad, CA (Jan. 7, 2026) – Upper Deck, the global leader in sports and entertainment collectibles, is adding another iconic license to its extensive portfolio – announcing a deal to create collecti...
upperdeck.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:35 PM
YIKES.
Upper Deck (Marvel Legendary) just announced a CCG using the Harry Potter license.
Fans of UD are rallying against this decision. Like the CGE situation last year, I’m asking for your help.
Join us. Share your disgust and frustration, and help us push UD to retract their awful decision. 🎲✂️
Upper Deck (Marvel Legendary) just announced a CCG using the Harry Potter license.
Fans of UD are rallying against this decision. Like the CGE situation last year, I’m asking for your help.
Join us. Share your disgust and frustration, and help us push UD to retract their awful decision. 🎲✂️
Great game night tonight! Got Pacts and Persuasion to the table. I was blown away by both designs. So fresh and fluid. What a time to be a gamer!
@xoe.gay
@hollandspiele.bsky.social
@enzyshade.bsky.social
@dvcgames.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@hollandspiele.bsky.social
@enzyshade.bsky.social
@dvcgames.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Great game night tonight! Got Pacts and Persuasion to the table. I was blown away by both designs. So fresh and fluid. What a time to be a gamer!
@xoe.gay
@hollandspiele.bsky.social
@enzyshade.bsky.social
@dvcgames.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@hollandspiele.bsky.social
@enzyshade.bsky.social
@dvcgames.bsky.social
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In honor of the @cardboardedison.com 🎲✂️ contest, here are my 2-min. pitch video tips:
🪝 Push the hook(s) from the beginning
🧀 Be cheesily excited about your game
🫴 Show and tell, but mostly show
😲 Highlight the emotional highs
🪝 Keep everything connected to the hook(s)
Script template below...
🪝 Push the hook(s) from the beginning
🧀 Be cheesily excited about your game
🫴 Show and tell, but mostly show
😲 Highlight the emotional highs
🪝 Keep everything connected to the hook(s)
Script template below...
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
In honor of the @cardboardedison.com 🎲✂️ contest, here are my 2-min. pitch video tips:
🪝 Push the hook(s) from the beginning
🧀 Be cheesily excited about your game
🫴 Show and tell, but mostly show
😲 Highlight the emotional highs
🪝 Keep everything connected to the hook(s)
Script template below...
🪝 Push the hook(s) from the beginning
🧀 Be cheesily excited about your game
🫴 Show and tell, but mostly show
😲 Highlight the emotional highs
🪝 Keep everything connected to the hook(s)
Script template below...
Love to see Adulting paired with some self-care drinks! These folks get it.
January Drink Specials
Cappucci-Know Your Worth: chocolate tiramisu cappuccino (oat or dairy)
Tea-Center Yourself: amaretto earl grey tea topped with tiramisu oat foam (iced possible)
New Year New You Tiramisu: vanilla tiramisu steamed milk with cinnamon (oat or dairy)
TBC
Cappucci-Know Your Worth: chocolate tiramisu cappuccino (oat or dairy)
Tea-Center Yourself: amaretto earl grey tea topped with tiramisu oat foam (iced possible)
New Year New You Tiramisu: vanilla tiramisu steamed milk with cinnamon (oat or dairy)
TBC
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Love to see Adulting paired with some self-care drinks! These folks get it.
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🎆 Pyrotechnics is officially available for sale!
Start 2026 with a bang! Pyrotechnics is a two-player head-to-head card game that's quick and easy with just the right spark of strategy.
#boardgames
Start 2026 with a bang! Pyrotechnics is a two-player head-to-head card game that's quick and easy with just the right spark of strategy.
#boardgames
Pyrotechnics - The Seahorse and The Hummingbird
Pyrotechnics is a fast, two-player card duel packed with strategy and sparks—easy to learn, quick to play, and endlessly replayable.
www.seahorseandhummingbird.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:14 AM
🎆 Pyrotechnics is officially available for sale!
Start 2026 with a bang! Pyrotechnics is a two-player head-to-head card game that's quick and easy with just the right spark of strategy.
#boardgames
Start 2026 with a bang! Pyrotechnics is a two-player head-to-head card game that's quick and easy with just the right spark of strategy.
#boardgames
I highly recommend submitting a game to this contest. It was a great motivator to tighten up my rulebook for Adulting last year and resulted in some great feedback that helped me make the game what it is today. And if you subscribe to their patreon, you get 1 free game submission each year!
It’s time! SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2026 CARDBOARD EDISON AWARD ARE OPEN! Board game designers, show us what you’ve been working on! Deadline is January 31: cardboardedison.com/award
January 1, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I highly recommend submitting a game to this contest. It was a great motivator to tighten up my rulebook for Adulting last year and resulted in some great feedback that helped me make the game what it is today. And if you subscribe to their patreon, you get 1 free game submission each year!
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It’s so awesome that the folks @cardboardherald.bsky.social are covering indie and self-published games now!!
Go support them and show them you want more of this content by watching their thing, liking the thing, subscribing to the thing—do the thing!! ✨
Go support them and show them you want more of this content by watching their thing, liking the thing, subscribing to the thing—do the thing!! ✨
This review I posted today is probably my favorite vid I’ve done in ages, exploring the world of indie small print run games through Imps, a game by Nick Brachmann. #boardgames
youtu.be/fd-JvOoB_ME
youtu.be/fd-JvOoB_ME
Imps is the coolest game you can’t buy - TCbH Review & Giveaway
YouTube video by The Cardboard Herald
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It’s so awesome that the folks @cardboardherald.bsky.social are covering indie and self-published games now!!
Go support them and show them you want more of this content by watching their thing, liking the thing, subscribing to the thing—do the thing!! ✨
Go support them and show them you want more of this content by watching their thing, liking the thing, subscribing to the thing—do the thing!! ✨
What an amazing list of games! I’ve had the pleasure of playing most of these titles and am honored to see Adulting amongst such esteemed company.
Today is the fifth day of Best Week! Did you know that 2025 contained an unusually high number of games about human relationships? An unusually high number of *good* games about human relationships? Now you do! Read about them here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/29/b...
Best Week 2025! The D.T.R.!
Do people still D.T.R.? When I was a youngling, the acronym stood for Define The Relationship, that belly-clenching moment when two people would sit across from one another, lock eyes, and hold a s…
spacebiff.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
What an amazing list of games! I’ve had the pleasure of playing most of these titles and am honored to see Adulting amongst such esteemed company.
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Hey board game designers! Just SIX DAYS left until submissions for next year's Cardboard Edison Award open! Get your pitches and prototypes ready! cardboardedison.com/award
December 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hey board game designers! Just SIX DAYS left until submissions for next year's Cardboard Edison Award open! Get your pitches and prototypes ready! cardboardedison.com/award
So cool to see Adulting being played by the DVC Games crew! And side-by-side with a Taylor Shuss game no less. Someone pinch me!
Playing IGNM games today by @drawnonward.bsky.social and @ericdittmore.bsky.social !
Adulting + Fold and Fly!
Adulting + Fold and Fly!
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
So cool to see Adulting being played by the DVC Games crew! And side-by-side with a Taylor Shuss game no less. Someone pinch me!
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Adulting and Chasing Shadows, both great games by fellow IGNM alums @ericdittmore.bsky.social and @vawcer.bsky.social. So much fun!
December 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Adulting and Chasing Shadows, both great games by fellow IGNM alums @ericdittmore.bsky.social and @vawcer.bsky.social. So much fun!
Sent out my latest newsletter today. It includes a debrief of PAXU and what’s next for me. Read it here:
PAXU Retrospective - Dittmore Designs Newsletter #2
dittmore-design.kit.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Sent out my latest newsletter today. It includes a debrief of PAXU and what’s next for me. Read it here:
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This is such a cool conversation about the intersection of TTRPG/story games and board games, journaling games, and open play. Chris is an inspiration to me, as are Xoe and Matt, so I'm excited to listen in. The discussion is live, now!
On December 3rd at 9pm EST, Xoe and Matthew will chat with
@junkfoodgames.bsky.social about melding elements of board games and TTRPGs, creating play without an exact destination, and how to use victorless conditions to break boundaries within game design.
Find us on discord: discord.gg/pxZduDfKNZ
@junkfoodgames.bsky.social about melding elements of board games and TTRPGs, creating play without an exact destination, and how to use victorless conditions to break boundaries within game design.
Find us on discord: discord.gg/pxZduDfKNZ
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This is such a cool conversation about the intersection of TTRPG/story games and board games, journaling games, and open play. Chris is an inspiration to me, as are Xoe and Matt, so I'm excited to listen in. The discussion is live, now!
Thank you @jcw.gay for taking some amazing photos to capture my experience at the Indie Games Night Market! I’m so grateful to have these photos to remember what was a truly an amazing night. (Yes, I was smiling ear-to-ear for 3 hours straight.)
December 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Thank you @jcw.gay for taking some amazing photos to capture my experience at the Indie Games Night Market! I’m so grateful to have these photos to remember what was a truly an amazing night. (Yes, I was smiling ear-to-ear for 3 hours straight.)
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Building the Game did an episode talking with @ericdittmore.bsky.social about his experience with the Indie Games Night Market
www.buildingthegamepodcast.com/episode-705-...
www.buildingthegamepodcast.com/episode-705-...
Episode 705: The Spirit of the Market – Building the Game
www.buildingthegamepodcast.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Building the Game did an episode talking with @ericdittmore.bsky.social about his experience with the Indie Games Night Market
www.buildingthegamepodcast.com/episode-705-...
www.buildingthegamepodcast.com/episode-705-...
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Came home to an amazing assortment of games from some truly wonderful designers! All praise to the Hollandspiele sale!
@amabel.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@rollplusfun.bsky.social
@johndubois.bsky.social
@amabel.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@rollplusfun.bsky.social
@johndubois.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Came home to an amazing assortment of games from some truly wonderful designers! All praise to the Hollandspiele sale!
@amabel.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@rollplusfun.bsky.social
@johndubois.bsky.social
@amabel.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@rollplusfun.bsky.social
@johndubois.bsky.social
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Finally sharing my sizzle reel! If you're in need of video production work (or pretty much anything creative), hit me up, esp. at #PAXU!
I don't ask for this much, but if you're in the #boardgames industry and like what I do, consider sharing this! I'm looking to book up 2026!
linktr.ee/jcw.gay
I don't ask for this much, but if you're in the #boardgames industry and like what I do, consider sharing this! I'm looking to book up 2026!
linktr.ee/jcw.gay
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Finally sharing my sizzle reel! If you're in need of video production work (or pretty much anything creative), hit me up, esp. at #PAXU!
I don't ask for this much, but if you're in the #boardgames industry and like what I do, consider sharing this! I'm looking to book up 2026!
linktr.ee/jcw.gay
I don't ask for this much, but if you're in the #boardgames industry and like what I do, consider sharing this! I'm looking to book up 2026!
linktr.ee/jcw.gay
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Honored that you asked me to help sell Adulting at IGNM this year :) It's a great game and I think a lot of people saw it as the fun and charming package it is.
Adulting sold out at the Indie Games Night Market! It warms my heart to know this game is out there in the world bringing people joy. Thank you Kyle for helping me run the booth, and thanks to everyone that made IGNM a reality!!
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Honored that you asked me to help sell Adulting at IGNM this year :) It's a great game and I think a lot of people saw it as the fun and charming package it is.
For anyone who is interested in Adulting but didn't make it to IGNM, fear not! The PNP version is here! While I'd love to print more copies, this will have to do for now. It is pay what you want; I really just want to get this game in as many hands as possible. Let me know what you think!
Adulting by Eric Dittmore
A cozy card game about the mundane struggles of adulthood.
eric-dittmore.itch.io
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
For anyone who is interested in Adulting but didn't make it to IGNM, fear not! The PNP version is here! While I'd love to print more copies, this will have to do for now. It is pay what you want; I really just want to get this game in as many hands as possible. Let me know what you think!
I spent yesterday with my family, recounting my amazing experience at PAX and playing games. Highlight of my weekend was how happy my nephew was reading the “book” I wrote and playing with the cards ❤️
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I spent yesterday with my family, recounting my amazing experience at PAX and playing games. Highlight of my weekend was how happy my nephew was reading the “book” I wrote and playing with the cards ❤️
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Indie Games Market last night was a rousing success!!!!
WOW. I’m so impressed by all of the vendors organization and skill.
I’m sure we’ll be able together get stats from the PAX team, but this year definitely felt way bigger 🧵 🎲✂️
WOW. I’m so impressed by all of the vendors organization and skill.
I’m sure we’ll be able together get stats from the PAX team, but this year definitely felt way bigger 🧵 🎲✂️
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Indie Games Market last night was a rousing success!!!!
WOW. I’m so impressed by all of the vendors organization and skill.
I’m sure we’ll be able together get stats from the PAX team, but this year definitely felt way bigger 🧵 🎲✂️
WOW. I’m so impressed by all of the vendors organization and skill.
I’m sure we’ll be able together get stats from the PAX team, but this year definitely felt way bigger 🧵 🎲✂️