Crownfell and Last Stand (solo expansion) from Mike Berg via Game Crafter.
Weekend plans: Set!
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@weheart.games @thegamecrafter.bsky.social
@haoleboygames.com
Greg Pool: Tabletop game designer, #RecoveringGeologist, and campfire busker. Curator of @SpielMas.com ⛄️. ✍️ Playtesting: Kamoamoa, Soccer 54, Bats of Limekiln, Pōpoki. Try look: HaoleBoyGames.com (HOW-lee)
Crownfell and Last Stand (solo expansion) from Mike Berg via Game Crafter.
Weekend plans: Set!
🎩
@weheart.games @thegamecrafter.bsky.social
I recently used a paper cutter to cut car insurance cards, and I was triggered into thinking I still had enough time to print and cut my latest prototype.
Spoiler: I did not.
NARRATOR: Bro never created pedagogy.
Because he’s an entrepreneur, not a scholar.
Demystify that.
I wanna do that with a real bird that flies past you when you play its card in Wingspan.
Robots Will Save Humanity
Night Frisbee
Wolves Breath
Add 🧟🧟♀️🧟♂️ to that second game and call it “Clean Up on Aisle 7.”
What’s the game behind Quacks?
I would learn to play Quacks.
Is that Wingspan behind it?
My current 🎲✂️:
🃏⚽️♥️♦️♠️♣️🏃🏃♀️🥅🥇
🃏🦇🏞️➡️🌊🥇
🎲🐈🌋🏡
Switching all my 🎲✂️ to cognitive speed training.
My Fluxx-Uno-Sushi Go game is going to save us all!
You mean…the AI couldn’t just…oh, never mind. 🤦🏻♂️🤣
Love the “bingo” anecdote from @elizhargrave.bsky.social in this story.
“Game publishing isn’t an industry of unique special ideas” is being sung by every tabletop game designer who is currently dancing on the corporate grave of Ryan Dancey.
I used to play in a bluegrass band where the fiddle player said he only listened to music by composers who were dead. He was a pretty good musician, though, so we laughed it up.
Update to #Soccer54 ⚽️ rules v2.0.0214 and PK Shootout 24 rules v1.3.0215:
I’ve updated both games with the latest mechanics I’m testing in Foosball 74. This includes an advantage suit, filling empty spaces, and a Referee card for PK Shootout.
🎲✂️
The eruption of the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Episode 42. The answer to life, the universe, and everything.
Live cam: www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...
#RecoveringGeologist
The good news is I tested with the field only being the 3x3 grid of cards. So, the goal card is decorative.
1. I did run one unguided test, and they played it 2x. 🙌
2. I ran 4 other guided tests and only had to sit as a player 1x, because of numbers.
3. I really focused HARD on not injecting my personality, ⚽️ color commentary, & enthusiasm. And that did result in fails that are leading to design ideas!
OMG I am guilty on all counts, your honor. Excellent advice!
“People expecting a cooperative, asymmetric, or solo experience should not play this game. Side effects will include competitiveness, analysis-paralysis, and an inability to enjoy the randomness of math rocks. Prolonged use will render players useless in most cafés w/ inadequate table space.”
“Ask your doctor about playing this game.”
Name badge, ruler, scissors, playing cards, play mat, and pencil.
I’m heading back to a public playtest tonight after a two-month hiatus. #BoardGamersLift
Heading to Santa Cruz CA tonight for a playtesting event, my first since early December before "life" got in the way. I've been able to print and sleeve a new deck for Foosball 74, my custom variant of #Soccer54.
But Nick’s 🎲✂️ post is living rent-free in my head.
You clearly can’t hold down your beer while knitting under the stars, either.
I’ve been using soft-cover 5.5x8” graph-lined notebooks by TruRed from Staples. They’re soft, flexible, and lite. But I transcribe to Google Docs, and then transfer the best ideas to Trello. That way wherever I go I can be analog but refer to more refined ideas and directions via my phone.
Go Otters!
It’s called “research.” 💯🤣
Four Mac adapters for a power cord all in a similar position and orientation.
Four Mac adapters for a power cord all in different positions and orientations.
I was supposed to be cleaning a junk drawer, but all I could think about was “THESE COULD BE GAME PIECES!” 🎲✂️