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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con!

@puzzlekindcreative.com

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(He/him) Hey, I'm Adam, a worship tech director, escape room designer & board game designer. bicycler 🚴🏻 & gardener 🍓 Trans rights = human rights Puzzle creations and games for sale: https://ko-fi.com/ajstichter 🧩✂️ Puzzle & Escape Game Design

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · Nov 20

Thought it'd be good to do an introduction post - Hi! I'm Adam, an escape game, puzzle box, solo ttrpg, and board game designer.

The pictures are of my puzzleboxes, my solo/coop card game "My Small Garden", one of the rooms in my Air BnB game, and elements from my escape game builds.

Three large puzzle boxes on tables. One has a set of gears and a lock on it side the other has a large Circle and another one has a maze with shapes.

There are cards in a person's hand. In the background there are Black and White cards in a grid.

A parlor with a large mirror above fireplace a couch lamp pictures on the wall. In the center is a rug with a circular table on top of it. On the table there are several boxes some locks and papers.

On the edge of a large crate is a globe and Egyptian statue a Caesar Cipher wheel magnifying glass and some keys. The background is a brick wall.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 21h

James is fun. Looking forward to watching this.

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 1d

So when you’re planning for your pitch, think not just in terms of your fun, mechanical hooks—make sure everything is working towards fulfilling the appeal of your game’s promised experience.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 2d

as a person who designs narrative-focused things, I think that staying true to the story is vitally important to escape game design - if your puzzles or mechanics aren't in service to the story pull players out of the immersion and they begin to realize themselves as frustrated players. ✂️🧩

Matthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social · 5d

In today's video I go over things I learnt from designing 3 different narrative game systems in my design career, and how other designers can think about approaching new narrative games!

Props to Dave Neale and @philwh.bsky.social for being awesome co-designers :)

youtu.be/YJmJ1IALfGc

🎲✂️

What I learned from selling millions of narrative games

YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan

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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 9d

Good morning! It's Pizzamas, and that means I can finally tell people about THIS:
pizzamas.com/collections/...

I wrote another Pizzamas Dungeons and Dragons adventure!

It's got tons of Nerdfighter references (and a few just for the LRR fans, heh heh), jokes and a message board!

Pizzamas One Shot - Part II

Did you absolutely love the first adventure? Well we’ve got a new one cooked up for you! Now with some new pre-gen characters and packed with a whole lot of excitement! Are you a DM? If you purchase t...

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 5d

The crowd sale for #Crownfell has been approved for November 18! Add-ons include a neoprene playmat and a solo expansion.

This 2-player asymmetric chess-like has 17 cards unique movement and abilities.

Sign up to be notified here (shares appreciated!) 🧡 www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/cr...

The Crownfell base game box, standing beside the playmat, with some cards on the mat, mid-game.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 5d

Thanks for the link!

Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 6d

How is mandamina?

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 7d

I am really quite worried about this might be.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 8d

14,292 games released on Steam in 2025 alone.
1100 new board games at SPIEL.

The sheer number of games being released now, all over the world by all these different sizes of teams, really boggles the mind, but what *really* boggles the mind is still having to *defend game studies* despite all that.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 9d

Hey look, you can spend money to let a corporation spy on you! 🤨

The Verge @theverge.com · 9d

Amazon’s Echo Pop and Dot speakers are the cheapest they’ve been in months

You can save $15.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 9d

Happy Pizzamas everyone! Favorite Kitsch 2 week Holiday, hands-down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=odsG...

PIZZAMAS IS UPON US!

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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Ian Sundstrom @ian-sundstrom.bsky.social · 10d

Going to release 🔴, a #pico-8 bounce shooter with mostly procedural animation and gfx, sometime this week!

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 12d

I really like this setup idea. definitely food for thought.

Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 13d

That looks rad.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 16d

That'll be so cool.

Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 17d

That's super cool! I know a couple parent/child tiny house build teams from my local area. Is he moving into it when finished?

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 18d

What do you consider a perfect movie?

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 23d

ok, played around & ended up here:
Use this image as a template. Image size is 94x27.5mm (scale this however you want in pixels) Pink & Blue bars are cut off when bluesky crops. Desktop crop- Pink. Mobile crop -blue (pixel 7 anyways). Generally, don't put anything in the colored zones.

sample banner template for bluesky both desktop and mobile

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 23d

Oh, this'll be exciting! We 100%'d the game together as a family about a year ago.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 23d

Congrats!!

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Matt Soucy @msoucy.gay · 25d

It's a release!
Drawing Dungeon is a roll-and-write dungeon crawl I've been working on for a few months now!
Four maps and a playtime of 15-20 minutes per session, all for $3!
Explore the dungeon, collect treasure, and defeat the boss (or die trying)!

Drawing Dungeon by Soucy Games

Sharpen your pencil and prepare to delve into the dungeon! Switch between exploring new rooms and defeating the monsters inside them to earn more items and treasure!

soucygames.itch.io

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 25d

Four review copies of #Crownfell are now in the mail. 📤

This launch has been far less stressful than my last game launch. I’m glad I’m taking my time and not rushing to fit into a ridiculous timeline… five stars, do recommend. 🎲✂️

A 3d render of 9 Crownfell cards sort of arranged in an X shape.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 27d

spongebob squarepants from spongebob squarepants is holding a box on his shoulder .

Alt: spongebob squarepants from spongebob squarepants is holding a box as the camera moves close to his eyes

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 27d

Wait, it's marshmallow outside?!

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 27d

Has anyone tried editing video over GeForce NOW? Just wondering if $200 a year is a viable option now for a pretty powerful remote pc.