Arjan van Houwelingen
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Arjan van Houwelingen
@arjanvanh.bsky.social
Tabletop game designer, psychologist, lecturer and more at Hanze Applied University. Founder of the Dutch Game Design Guild (Spellenmaakgilde.nl). Publisher of GRUNN and FRYSK, with museum expansions. arjanvanhouwelingen.com
Your talk certainly motivated to
play it 👍
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@dcrapuchettes.bsky.social tagging you as well. Enjoyed Evolution the Beginning myself btw :-)
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Thanks again for the BtC podcasts, great content! 🙌
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
That 11 years: it was only Groningen for a long while though (spellenmaakgilde.net), I still remember I got only friends to come over or evenings were we were with 3 participants, me included. Now that long past with 25-35 participants each session, including a lot of folks joining as playtesters❤️
Spellenmaakgilde Groningen
Go to spellenmaakgilde.nl for the NL website!
spellenmaakgilde.net
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The Game Design Guild in the Netherlands 'Spellenmaakgilde' is now running for 11 years!

Mainly playtesting events, community events, facilitated author tables at convention. And some XXL events where we do see some publishers coming over scouting new games.

spellenmaakgilde.nl national website
Spellenmaakgilde |
spellenmaakgilde.nl
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Finally listened to this episode, was cool to hear Groningen being mentioned. That is Netherlands though, not Germany. I think Dominic might refer to the @sazpresse.bsky.social who took over the organisation of the Game Designer Convention in Göttingen (I checked: 44th one next spring, whoa).
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Not right, but i would place the title bigger on the bottom (and perhaps with the letters being more elaborate e.g. made out of branches or bug in it)
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
oooh it has been quite a while a new set came out (playing this one on mobile is so nice). tnx for the heads up!
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
And our publisher MNKY with some games we made for them 🙌
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Some more pictures 😊
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hmm netherlands = within temptation

And floor jansen so with a dutch spark —> finland = nightwish
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Toi toi toi!
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Should be fine and will attract moarrr players! 🙌
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
See you and your banner there! 👌🙌
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Air con here also now used for heating. (Heat pump would be more efficient) Sure it takes a lot of kwh, but burning gas (default way in NL) is soooo inefficiënt.

Net congestion and other challenges are real, but man fossils have also so many issues. We just dont know
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Relatable! I had guys walking ny probe me what the money scheme was -do you publish the games and take most money?!- at a public playtesting evening 😝😶 (running for 10+ years now)
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Master Detectives Code X is a deduction game about cracking your code by being clever in what information you share and obtain while every move counts.

And there already are some sub-licences in other countries (UK, Czechian)... 🥰
November 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM