@citysquarestudios
duo creating new original tabletop games every month from New Zealand 🇳🇿 Our games use stuff you already own! 35+ original games on Patreon part of the 52 Pickup zine series https://www.patreon.com/CitySquareStudios
52 Pickup, Board games with stuff you already own
The board games, card games, and TTRPGs we design all use stuff you already own.
This means we don't need to ship anything to you! You just bring playing cards, dice, chess sets and/or friends!
We make our most recent game free for a month on Patreon.
patreon.com/c/CitySquareStudios
#indiegames
We just got a piece of light cloth cut that we could fold and pin to adjust size if needed
One of my favourite things is editing the bio to increase the number whenever we publish a new tabletop game
the inversion concept sounds really interesting, what does it look like mechanically?
200 years of backstory is a an achievement! Does the lore end up shaping the mechanics or is it more just backdrop?
For you what is the best way these games achieve a spiritual successor status?
Would you say it’s the same location years apart is the biggest same but different driver?
Has anyone made a spiritual successor to their own TTRPG?
Like not a direct sequel or anything, but it has a direct link building on the themes and ideas.
Looking to do one of these soon, trying to hit the sweet spot between different but not so different it's unrecognisable.
#ttrpg #ttrpgdesign
Working on this project was a blast! Check it out along with all the other fantastic 52 Pickup games!
Issue 35 out! Free this month!
Echo City: solo pen & paper dungeon crawl. Phantom skyscraper, floors generate as you go, psy-creatures, something worse at the top.
First 52 Pickup game not by us. @sgt-shivers.bsky.social nailed it.
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-151354903
#sologame #indiegame
You sense a strange power emanating from above. Find it. It’s your only way back to reality!
The next issue of 52 Pickup, a monthly series of original tabletop games, is coming very soon… 🃏🎲♟️
Inspiration comes from strange places!
two button meme template release the game now and fix the edge case later spend three more weeks fixing the edge case first
It's an endless cycle...
#gamedev #indiedev 🎲✂️
Shufflin Sugar Skulls?
Get in quick! Our latest original tabletop game, Nickname, is FREE for less than a week!
At the end of the month, Nickname will then join the 33 other issues in the 52 Pickup: Complete Collection.
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-149542022
#partygame #boardgame #tabletop
very true, being more on design and play testing by myself right now, so could definitely get some more crossed off when I get to external play testers
Just posted it after you, I always have scope creep unfortunately bsky.app/profile/city...
it's only fair I show you mine, it seems I'm scared of the bottom left
You're so close in multiple ways! Not sure if that's good or bad though 😆
game dev bingo sheet made with buzz word bingo
It's been a while since I put together a game dev bingo! Have you scored a bingo this month?
#indiedev #gamedev #ttrpg 🎲✂️
Fire warrior 2 sounding real good
the player who breaks your game is doing you a favour
the panopticon grows ever larger unfortunately
fair enough! We're a team of 2 so need to use something online to make sharing our progress a little easier
that would give me anxiety
I feel that, like progress is measured in repo commits
Your game will mean something to someone, even if it's just you.
Make it anyway.
#indiedev #gamedev
Thinking about the "elusive shift" and when it's recognised it happened and when it didn't. To put it another way, when a new type of game was born as opposed to a variant of an existing type.
Board Wargames vs Miniature Wargaming - Neither, I *think*. Seems to be parallel development.
waiting for the "he was a rounded corners boy, she was a sharp edges girl" song to come out now
It just wants more and more cards! Be sated already with 52 (and maybe jokers)!
