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Ted Mann Schaller
@tedmannschaller.bsky.social
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Product designer @ Halcyon — Using AI to drive green energy investment and development. 🔋 Board game designer — Designing silly little card games to spread joy. 🃏
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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 1d
Don't think I've anticipated a KS more than this one! Connor is a talented designer & artist. Games executed well where the art + design are by the same person are rare but guarantee a seamless & full experience. Both games are amazing. Highly recommend you check these out.
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Connor Wake | Always Awake Games 🔜 PaxWest @connor.alwaysawake.games · 1d
Excited to announce that Club Spooky and That’s the Spirit are finally launching on Kickstarter next week, October 14th!

Assemble the coolest group of ghouls at Club Spooky and find the culprit of your accidental death in Thats the Spirit!

Preview page here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...
A banner for the Ghost Party bundle ks with the launch date of October 14th. A copy of each game is standing upright with cards from the games splayed in front.
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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · Jun 5
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Johnny | Game Market West @gamemarketwest.bsky.social · 15d
Fall 2025 Recap: 400+ Attendees | 36 Designers & Special Guests

We had quite the lineup of games from a fan made expansion to a social deduction and area control crossover. Thank you for coming out and supporting indie game designers.

Stay tuned for our next event in late March!

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 20d
Antifa is not an organization, it's an ideology.

Banning an ideology is textbook fascism.

We should be anti-fascism.

Pic: my anti-fascist grandfather, sometime around WWII.
A black and white photo of my grandparents as young adults. Grandpa is in uniform and Grandma is wearing a white tailored skirt suit. I believe this is on the occasion of him graduating from officer training.
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 19d
Some shots from my talk on the history of playing cards in Copenhagen this week. I could easily make the talk double the length & would still feel like I was only offering a hypercompressed highlight reel of the big bullet points of a rich & fascinating global history, a legacy we all own.
Me in front of a big screen showing Windows 95 Solitaire at the point of completion Me in front of a projected image of all 48 hanafuda cards Me in front of an image of 8 cards from a deck of hunting themed cards from Stuttgart Me in front of an image of the martyred Saint Denis' severed head
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 20d
Thanks for reaching out! I’ll contact you in early October to set up some playtesting time!
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 20d
Thanks for reaching out! I’ll contact you in early October to set up some playtesting time! Also looking forward to meeting you in Nov for IGNM! 📃✈️
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 20d
Thanks for reaching out! I definitely want to talk to you! 🎻🎶
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Johnny | Game Market West @gamemarketwest.bsky.social · 21d
Game Market West is this Sunday, September 21 at Guildhouse in San Jose! It's a tabletop game market where indie designers show off and sell their newest board/card games.

RSVP: luma.com/6khylmfu

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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 22d
When life is busy, it’s nice to recognize some small incremental progress. Earlier this week I finally got Counterpoint up onto BGG and I’d say it looks pretty good there. 😍🎻

Lots more testing needed, so if you love trick takers and playtesting online, DM me! ✂️🎲

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Classical musicians cooperatively perform chamber music through trick-taking
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 24d
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 24d
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a white duck is standing on a green background with the words `` we do our little dancy dance '' .
Alt: a white duck is standing on a green background with the words `` we do our little dancy dance '' .
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 24d
📣📣 This Sunday! 📣📣

Join me and a bunch of other amazing game designers at **Game Market West - Fall 2025** in San Jose, CA. I'm bringing SO. MANY. MINI. DUCKIES for sale. Come get them before they quack away! 🐥🪩✂️🎲
Game Market West | Fall 2025 | Tabletop Games · Luma
Game Market West is a tabletop game market where independent designers show off and sell their newest board/card games. Featuring 35+ designers and specialty…
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 28d
Just a little over a week out from Game Market West! Getting all my duckies in formation… 🦆🎲✂️
A bunch of small game bags in process of being stamped with cover art. They all say “Okay, Duckies, Now Let’s Get In Formation”
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 28d
Excited for this one…

Every energy regulator in the US—searchable on Halcyon!

This has been a huge task for our team, and I’m thrilled with how we stepped up and put in the work.

The product is in beta—we will be learning and changing it everyday—but today it’s free and open to everyone!
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Halcyon @halcyonai.bsky.social · 28d
The energy world moves fast – the info moves even faster
Buried data = missed opportunities 🔎

That’s why we built Halcyon Search — it’s free, try it now: app.halcyon.io/search

Use it to:
- Find filings
- Turn ideas into concrete materials
- Track topics/companies/regions/keywords
#energysky
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Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 29d
It remains the fact that violence is bad. It also remains a fact that in a group that constantly calls for violence, that violence will wrap around and harm them. No one is safe from their calls to harm, because increasing the amount of gun violence in our society helps no one.
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Taylor Shuss @drawnonward.bsky.social · Sep 3
Fold & Fly! - my Indie Game Night Market release this year was inspired by a rewatch one of my favorite Ghibli movies - The Wind Rises.

The way the protagonist works through his problems has always felt strangely aligned with how I work, creatively-speaking. Sans the whole war part. 😅
two men in suits and hats are looking at something in the sky
Alt: An oversized simple white airplane flies over two men looking at the airplane. The sky is a gorgeous blue.
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · Sep 4
I prefer the blue stalls, tbh. It’s a fun little life spice.
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · Sep 1
DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains." Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · Sep 1
Thank you, friend! 😁
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · Aug 31
I use the classic endless-number-of-tote-bags-in-the-closet technique. Super great way to never find what you need!
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · Aug 31
The first PNW Tabletop Game Market was a success! Diva duckies danced home with a bunch of happy folks!
A board game designer with a table full of games and components. A blue table cloth, a number of yellow rubber duckies, cardboard tiles, cards and signs advertising the game Okay, Duckies, Now Let’s Get In Formation. A busy market of game makers and their games. A wide shot of the line when the market was in full swing. The line wraps around a corner. A wide shot of the market full of happy market goers!
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · Aug 31
Thanks for helping make it happen!!
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · Aug 31
Sooooo much sleep
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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · Aug 30
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Truly inspired this week
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