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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18

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A multi-contest-winning board game designer in rural Manitoba; I designed Tides (Button Shy). I published #ExoBase and #ExoShip, and designed the upcoming #Crownfell (Nov 18). Get notified here: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/crownfell

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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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Jes the human 🔜 Twitch Con @jesthehuman.itch.io · 2d

The Games against Genocide via tiltify charity bundle submission period is now open: bit.ly/gamesagainst...

All TTRPGs and TTRPG adjacent supplements are welcome* Submissions are open until November 3 and the charity bundle supporting Doctors Without Borders will be live November 10 - December 12 🍉

Submission form for Games against Genocide

Hello all! Thank you so much for your interest in joining the Games against Genocide charity bundle via Tiltify! Please read all of the following before deciding to join the bundle. By submitting ...

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 10h

a person is riding a skateboard on a concrete surface

Alt: a person doing a kickflip in slowmo

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 11h

Improve. Definitely improve.

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Matthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social · 22h

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

🎲✂️

The reality of being a full time game designer

YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan

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Izzy.PumpkiNG | comms open @izzypetersart.bsky.social · 1d

The next person to contact me about a half or full body commission will get it half price! Pass it on!

Izzy.PumpkiNG | comms open @izzypetersart.bsky.social · 29d

Ttrpg party, for a group of clients. Comms are open.
#ttrpg #dnd #art

Watercolor of two black clad warlock girls flanking a prettyboy knight and a huge loxodon casting a spell

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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 1d

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

Image text reads:
Do you teach board games?
We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere.
The survey takes about ten minutes to complete.

To find out more, please use the QR code,
visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp
or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au

(University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778)

There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 1d

Not many board games are as mysterious as City of Six Moons. Is it a puzzle? A training ground for historical preservation? A grift? To answer those questions and many more, today we’re joined by Amabel Holland to discuss her oddest title yet. Listen here: spacebiff.com/2025/10/07/s...

Space-Cast! #50. City of Six Amabels

Not many board games are as mysterious as City of Six Moons. Is it a puzzle? A working board game? A grift? To answer those questions and many more, today we’re joined by Amabel Holland to di…

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🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social · 1d

For what my opinion is worth - MOST content creators cannot bring in a meaningful volume of backers so I'm shifting away from viewing them as buzz build. Where I'm seeing value in content is in playthroughs. Have them ready when you launch. If they air earlier, have lead capture ready.

Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 3d

Advice request:

Is it better to have review coverage in advance of a crowd funding campaign, to build buzz, or better to have that review coverage happen during the campaign so people can back it right away when they see it? 🎲✂️

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Graeme Borland @graebor.bsky.social · 1d

✨🧙‍♀️ VAULT OF STARS 🧙‍♀️✨
Play: graebor.itch.io/vault-of-stars
#LDJam entry: ldjam.com/events/ludum...

Made in <72 hours for #LD58. It's a short puzzler with a mini-narrative based on the theme of "Collector". This was so fun to make, and I'm really proud of the result 😊
#gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Vault of Stars (Jam Game Trailer)

YouTube video by Graeme Borland

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

I very much appreciate you taking the time to share your expertise!

I’ll see what I can do about recording some games before launch. Thanks! 🥰

Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

Thank you for the detailed response! That’s super helpful. I was just talking to a friend about how it might be good to record a game…

Which is not as good as *other people* recording a game and being enthusiastic etc… I get that. But it might be the best I can do (I am v small fish in big pond)

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

omg 🤯😆

Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

It’s so hard to balance “I want people to know about it ahead of time so they can talk about it and be ready” with “I want all energy to go into liftoff to this thing as far into orbit as possible” 😓

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Ian Howard @leafydragongames.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thrilled to finally announce Leafy Dragon Games' next project: Infinite Paths!

Designed by @jamiethul.bsky.social, this sleek solo TTRPG system lets players jump into an epic adventure of their own creation in just a few minutes.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lea...

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Coming soon: Infinite Paths

A solo TTRPG system

www.kickstarter.com

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

I’ve settled on “there’s a signup page so people can be notified”, so I want to start building buzz or whatever. I’ve already let the reviewers know that they can publish their reviews whenever works for them, so… it’s out of my hands now 😆

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

Oh absolutely acknowledging the privilege here. Having four reviewers lined up is incredible. 🧡

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, is that the ORIGINAL voynich manuscript? Where did you GET that? Wanna try playing a round of Druids and Dicotyledons?

xkcd.com/593/

[Weird root vegetables surround a strange script.]
[Megan holding up book to Cueball.]
Megan: This is the Voynich manuscript— a book, allegedly 500 years old, written in an unrecognized script. It's some kind of visual encyclopedia of imaginary plants and undeciphered "recipes".
[Megan points while Cueball opens the book.]
Megan: It could be a hoax, a lost language, a cipher, an alien text, glossolatia — no one knows.
Cueball: No one? But it's obvious.
[Megan continues to talk. Cueball holds the now closed book.]
Megan: ... Obvious? Linguists and cryptographers have been stumped for decades.
Cueball: They forget. Human nature doesn't change.
[Close up of Megan and Cueball - the book is off panel.]
Cueball: Just imagine someone found a book from our time, full of lists, illustrations, tables, and long, dry descriptions of nonexistent worlds written in an invented language. What have they found?
Megan: ...Dear Lord. It is obvious.

[Three people are standing around pawns and a die. One (a Cueball) is holding a sheet of paper, another (another Cueball) is holding a book, the third (Megan) is holding a scythe. At the top of the panel there is a frame with the following text:]
500 Years Earlier:
Person #1: Forsooth! I concoct an elixer of courage.
Person #2: Nae! The source booke sayeth that requires some wolfsbane!
Person #3: Your druid doth lose two points.

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

YES

Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

I just backed Battlecrest: Overlord (New Co-Op Game) & Deadrock by @buttonshy.bsky.social

Battlecrest is a no-brainer for me. Such a cool combat system, and they keep knocking new heroes out of the park.

Battlecrest: Overlord (New Co-Op Game) & Deadrock Base Game

Introducing an all new co-op boss battle against the overlord Eterna, new heroes and the harsh wastelands of Deadrock. 1-4 players.

www.kickstarter.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

People showing you they are *building* your game is so rewarding… and in a very different way from people buying your game. 🥰

Some Crownfell cards printed on card stock, in the process of being cut with a knife and ruler.

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Button Shy Games @buttonshy.bsky.social · 1d

Battlecrest is back on Kickstarter with a monster campaign featuring Overlord (an all new co-op boss mode by @bluedevilduke.bsky.social), Deadrock (new map and heroes), and so much more for both new and longtime players. It might be our biggest campaign yet. www.kickstarter.com/projects/239...

Battlecrest: Overlord (New Co-Op Game) & Deadrock Base Game

Introducing an all new co-op boss battle against the overlord Eterna, new heroes and the harsh wastelands of Deadrock. 1-4 players.

www.kickstarter.com

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

Thanks for reminding me of my newsletter though…! 😆🤦‍♂️

I can also send out a note to previous backers of both ExoBase and ExoShip, which is a much larger pool than my own newsletter, which is still pretty small.

Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 1d

Thanks. I probably don’t have that as many (potential) reviewers as I should… 1 for the solo mode and 3 for the base game. But I think it will be fairly staggered, over the next month.

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