This is practically ready to ship! :)
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This is practically ready to ship! :)
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. At a time when hateful anti-trans legislation is on the rise, let's honour and remember the lives lost to transphobia and violent hate crimes. May we all work towards a world where all people can live without fear 🏳️⚧️
Atlas, non-binary artisan and genius inventor, can turn anything into a bomb 💛💟🖤 Chroma Arcana the competitive card game. Art by Ver Fadul
The Pilgrim can shapeshift into any form, and has both a masculine and a feminine identity that they switch between 💖💜💙 Art by @verfadul
OP wearing a t-shirt with the board game company 'Roc Nest Games' on it, but the 'R' and 'T' aren't legible
ocnes games.
In the intro game, Nuri the non-binary pyromancer faces off against Zaria in a battle over the forests 💛💟🖤 Chroma Arcana the competitive card game. Art by Ver Fadul.
Morrigan the 7-armed Spider Queen, trans woman and badass 🏳️⚧️ Chroma Arcana the competitive card game. Art by Ver Fadul.
We've been having a tough time at RNG recently, being a half Palestinian company and having family caught up in the genocide in Gaza. But we're trying to compartmentalise because we want to unveil some trans and enbie Chroma Arcana characters for Trans Awareness Week! 🏳️⚧️
The Kickstarter pre-launch page for Chroma Arcana is now live! I'd really appreciate it if people shared it around 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/roc...
Diatoms by @ludoliminal.bsky.social is live on Kickstarter! Go back this beautiful, sciencey game 🥳
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...
So if you're a boardgame designer, please involve more people who don't look and think like you. Playtest with people with physical impairments, get previews from people from other cultures, hear more voices. (8/8)
This goes further than non-white previewers. You need to be involving a range of people at all stages of your design process. People from other cultures, other religions, people with physical impairments, younger people, older people, neurodiverse people, etc.. (7/8)
In business, diversity matters. Period. Cis white men don't make up the majority of the world, so if you make a product with only cis white men in mind, you are shooting yourself in the foot. It baffles me that a lot of boardgame companies don't seem to realise this. (6/8)
We gave an artist a brief for a card. He refused to paint the design we wanted, because he's a practising Muslim and the woman would've been too scantily clad. We changed the brief to more modest clothing, as well as making sure the rest of the cards were modest. (5/8)
In Chroma Arcana, the hand size was originally 8. It wasn't until we playtested it with kids that we realised it was difficult to hold. If kids struggle to hold 8 cards, someone with a physical impairment might also struggle, so we dropped it down to 6. (4/8)
If a left-handed person was more involved in the design process, this issue probably would've been spotted before it went to production. And it's the same for boardgames - how many issues are not being spotted because the entire design process takes part in an echo chamber? (3/8)
It's 2007. YouTube has launched on iOS, and 5-10% of uploaded videos are upside-down. Why? Because the app was designed by a right-handed team who expected the phone to be rotated a certain way, not thinking about how a left-handed person might use the phone differently. (2/8)
There's been a bit of discourse on the 'other place' recently about diversity (or lack of) of boardgame previewers, with some people questioning why it even matters. Lemme tell you why it matters. (1/8)
You should check out our Discord and playtest them both with us!
discord.gg/eTcFgTevCu
It's an area control/worker placement hybrid, with comically evil factions trying to steal the heart of the continent 🙂 It's set in a fantasy world, in the same universe as our card game that's coming out next year (Chroma Arcana)!
Trying out double-layer game board for Devour the Heart.
I wish there were more boardgames based on old videogames. Got a real hankering to play a Jade Cocoon-style boardgame.
A dog on a sofa next to a Chroma Arcana game
My Chroma Arcana opponent today.
People playing an unreleased boardgame where players have troops on a circular board
Playtesting Devour the Heart, our new territory control/worker placement hybrid.
Voidfall, a boardgame with a very colourful box, sits open on a table
Punchboards: the Game.
ND people, I was recently introduced to goblin.tools, now I'm passing it onto you. It breaks down your task list into manageable subtasks, as well as other handy tools for spicy brains.
Game in progress of Deep Rock Galactic boardgame
Game in progress of Deep Rock Galactic boardgame
Game in progress of Deep Rock Galactic boardgame
Rock and stone!
Art by Ver Fadul for competitive card game Chroma Arcana.
King in Yellow
He says “hello!”
“Won’t you come read my play, you fine fellow?”
And as the twin suns sink behind the lake, you think to yourself “this might be a mistake”
You want it
You got it
You want it (hey, just a bust a move)