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Rob Harper

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Player and designer of board games, doer of some other things also. He/him

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · Apr 2

Woohoo! The game I co-designed with @mikeharrisonwood.bsky.social is now officially released. You can get it from the publisher's website, or a small but growing number of other places. Here we go...! 😁
gibsonsgames.co.uk/collections/...

Grab Bag Jungle

THE GAME Embark on a thrilling jungle adventure with friends and family in this immersive animal rescue game! Together, you'll race against the clock to save jungle animals by reaching into the Grab...

gibsonsgames.co.uk

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Matthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social · 4d

Today's video was a hard one for me to make - I wanted to talk about my experiences going through burnout in the last year or so as a game designer, and aspects of the wider tabletop industry that contribute to that.

youtu.be/D2rC_8F10R8

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The reality of being a full time game designer

YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! Of course, it does mean that the cabal diagram gets more complicated now 🤣

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 5d

Great quote from a great long-read comic about + against AI art

Quote from Matthew Inman, writer and artist for The Oatmeal:

"In my experience, the people who are excited about AI art also happen to be some of the most talentless fucking people I've ever met."

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 6d

I played a prototype version of the first episode of this, and had fun. It's kinda like Unlock games, but with more of an adventure storyline (I gather later episodes lean even more into that), fun puzzles, and great art and presentation. If that sounds like it might tickle you, take a look.

Minty Noodles Ltd. @mintynoodles.bsky.social · 6d

Interstellar Adventures spans across three thrilling episodes, with a total run time of approximately 3 hours.

Episode 1: Into the Unknown

Episode 2: No Going Back

Episode 3: Seeing Double

Now live! Back Interstellar Adventures on Kickstarter. 🚀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/min...

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Minty Noodles Ltd. @mintynoodles.bsky.social · 6d

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🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃 @agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 6d

I've seen a few other people now comment on this, so I'm glad its not just me that see these two and think it's The Doctor and Companion. 😆
#doctorwho #taskmaster

Team Maisie and Reece with The Master's little minion in the background.

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 6d

Wow - could be either way around too 😁

Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 7d

I finally got Dude to the table with the right group. Only four of us, but it was the right game at the right time and produced some good giggles. Very happy with this purchase.

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 8d

Looks pretty close to my process.

Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 10d

A chicken with ill-fitting shoes, presumably

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 10d

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 10d

You're going on my list

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 10d

I'd read this as meaning that they are a bit smaller than the advertised size, so you should buy a bigger size.

Note: I am not a lawyer and this is not financial advice.

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 12d

For today's article, I'm just griping about why "fun" is a bad word for critics. spacebiff.com/2025/09/30/a...

Anti-Fun

There’s one word I try to never use when writing about board games. The F-word. No, not that one. “Fun.” There it is. My critical curse word. Today I want to talk about why “fun” isn’t an especiall…

spacebiff.com

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 11d

Lucy Powell has warned that Labour should not wave through a devastating trans bathroom ban 👇

Ripping up trans rights would be a disaster for Labour, for business, for women, and for the wider LGBT+ community.

It's wrong. Labour needs to stop aping Trump and Farage, and protect our human rights.

Lucy Powell calls for MPs to vote on single sex space guidance

The Labour deputy leadership candidate calls for a debate and vote on guidance which is expected to say that trans people should be excluded from single sex spaces.

news.sky.com

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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games @jacksonpope.bsky.social · 11d

My fourth roll and write game is now available to download and play from our website! Fill your boots!

Eurydice Games @eurydicegames.bsky.social · 11d

Want to save a planet full of people from an encroaching alien armada? Of course you do! And in Exodus from Reynoldsworld, our latest print at home roll and write game you can! eurydicegames.co.uk/games/roll-a...

Roll and Write Games - Eurydice Games

A collection of print at home sci-fi roll and write games that only need dice and pens to play. Download, print and play within minutes!

eurydicegames.co.uk

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 13d

One of my game projects, The Castle War, had a bit of an issue with fragility in a certain situation. I think I have a way to reduce the problem without removing the edge that I like about that part of the game... 🎲✂️

On Mighty Monarchs and Glass Cannons

My work-in-progress, called The Castle War for now, is a 2-player card game that could be described as a "lane battler", where forces line u...

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 13d

Dude

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Scott - Minerva 🦉 @minervatabletop.co.uk · 14d

Playfest London ‘25 is underway 🥳

100 people, 50 games, 1 day. Let’s go!

#PlayfestLondon 🎲✂️

A selfie of myself in front of the Playfest London event, rows of tables of designers testing their board games.

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulation! Big achievement

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Atikin Games @atikingames.bsky.social · 15d

I love my game 🥹🥰

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Rob Harper @harperrob.bsky.social · 15d

The rest is also great

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15d

New research shows that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.

We must reject the division. Reject the hatred. And build a coalition of progressive voices that represent all.
https://bit.ly/4gFEUCW

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Vincent Knotley @vincentknotley.bsky.social · 17d

In the past hour or two signatures on this have nearly doubled.
It’s almost as if nobody wants a compulsory for all form of ID which will erode civil liberty and solve nothing.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 16d

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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