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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 14h

Oh no! What is that? :D

Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 14h

I start to have a full schedule at Spiel! I look forward to seeing friends, demoing games, and pitching other games.

This will be fun!

Will I see you there?

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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 21h

See you there! I look forward to it.

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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 21h

Just wanted to say that I really appreciate our quick chat at Spiel last year — it stuck with me. Hopefully, I’ll get to see you again at the “Rita dinner”!

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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 21h

As a hobby designer with some good industry connections, I’m starting to see exactly what you are talking about in your video. Balancing a full-time job and spending most of my free time on game design is definitely starting to take its toll.

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Matthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social · 1d

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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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 1d

A preview of Buttonville!

youtu.be/CBrRNIln4dk?...

{ Règles Et Partie } ON JOUE AUX GLORIEUSES GUILDES DE BUTTONVILLE | Jeu De Société | Ravensburger

YouTube video by La zone de jeu de Gaëllou Simply et Chico

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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 2d

A French review of Buttonville! 🇫🇷

youtu.be/nBTTu7wNMFI?...

Les glorieuses guildes de Buttonville avis jeu

YouTube video by LudiKev

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Ross Esmond @ross-esmond.bsky.social · 2d

There's a point where a board game prototype becomes "fun enough" that play testing it is not a burden or a favor; it's just playing a fun but incomplete game.

I think getting to that point should probably be the initial goal of #BoardGameDesign, well before content, balance, or aesthetics.

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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely thread! We are not at all at a saturation point! ❤️

Spread the love!

Sabrina.C @sabrinac.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a tabletop game creator feeling discouraged about how many games are coming out each year, some perspective:
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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 4d

Det är lurigt. Jag känner ofta samma sak. :)

Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 4d

Känner inte ens till. Jag kommer inte i år, men kanske ett annat år.

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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 5d

"Vem ska bestämma över skolan – väljarna eller skolägarna? För de flesta är svaret väljarna. Men i dagens Sverige, där banden mellan politik och skolkoncerner är täta, är detta inte längre självklart."

Jag skriver om lobbyismen för undervisning på engelska.

www.gp.se/debatt/markn...

DEBATT: Marknadsskolan finns bara kvar för att politikerna och skolägarna är kompisar

När både opinion och forskning säger en sak, men politiker beslutar tvärtom, beror det ofta på välorganiserade särintressen, skriver Marcus Larsson.

www.gp.se

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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 6d

BG Stats sep. 2025

Omgångar: 21
H-index: 3
Spel: 12
Nya: 2
Spelare: 17
Platser: 2
Timmar: 12
Dagar: 10

Jenga: 3
Quarto: 3
Duel for Cardia: 3
Gobblet Gobblers: 3
Golden Cup: 2
Ark Nova: 1
Agricola: 1
Rats of Wistar: 1
The Castles of Burgundy: 1

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Ignacy Trzewiczek @trzewik.bsky.social · 8d

From Paris with love 🎨✨ Bohemians will be available in French, thanks to our fantastic partner IELLO! Immerse yourself in the bohemian spirit of Paris—in the French language, of course!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 9d

🎉 Update from me: I've just sent my editor the first draft of my second book, "How to Build a Universe"! ⚛️ ➡️ 🌌

It's probably still about a year from publication, but even just getting this draft together has been a journey. Really looking forward to sharing more with you! #HowToBuildAUniverse
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PublishersMarketplace Deal Report, from January 9, 2023, in the Non-Fiction: Science/Technology category:

"Theoretical astrophysicist and author of THE END OF EVERYTHING Dr. Katie
Mack's HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE, an exploration of the quantum realm that explains what the universe is really made of and how physicists have arrived at those discoveries, illuminating the weirdly beautiful workings of the universe and how contemporary scientists are approaching deeply unsettling truths about how it is built, to Christopher Richards at Scribner, by Mollie Glick at CAA (NA)."

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 9d

It looks like Osmosis (2025) by Agnès Largeaud is the 1,000th game added to this list on @boardgamegeek.com! 🎉

Thanks to @mcfluffy.bsky.social for that one, and to several others who contributed yesterday, including @bartgamedesign.bsky.social and @sblendito.bsky.social! Keep 'em coming!

Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 10d

I just noticed this list is up to 988 games. Who wants to find the missing 12 that will get us to 1000?
boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/297...

Games by Women & People of Marginalized Genders

There are several other geeklists that limit themselves in some way (one game per designer, noteworthy games). What if we tried to make a list that has all the games we know of that have at least one ...

boardgamegeek.com

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Peer Sylvester @peersylvester.bsky.social · 10d

IDK if publishers following me that are looking for some tipps for games to bring to Europe/US, but National Economy is a sleeper hit. There will be a new version in Essen,but TMK its again sold only in Asia.

(I have no affiliation with publsiher or designer, just think that game is worth pushing)

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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 11d

How important is the negotiation for your vision of the game?

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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 11d

It is really a gem with the right people around the table.

We love it! 🥰

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Etrigan wishes Link were back @etrigan.bsky.social · 11d

Lots of @hollandspiele.bsky.social stuff, esp. City of Six Moons (but I could name half a dozen others).

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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 11d

I want to promote the best deduction game I’ve played in a looooong time: Signal by @dvcgames.bsky.social

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...

Signal

Experts deduce how to communicate with an alien using limited resources.

boardgamegeek.com

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Matt Ollis @mattollis.bsky.social · 11d

Hey #boardgamesky!

I'm looking for examples of /weird/ board games. Games that do something you don't expect games to do, whether theme, mechanic, player experience/emotion, or other surprises.

Bonus points for being cheap, recent and/or quick to play, but none of these are essential.

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Nomadotto @nomadotto.bsky.social · 11d

Had a solid playtest of Hench, but folks tend to not do very much negotiation, even as I've been cranking the dial on that. Might experiment with cutting that whole system (maybe except for the liar)

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Erik A-S 🔜 Spiel 2025 @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 11d

Tell me more?

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