Board game vendors: what’s the tablecloth meta? 6 ft? 8 ft? Standard throws? Stretch? I don’t want to buy a bunch of different ones. Is there a catch-all that works for most convention tables—even tall rounds?
Thursday, March 12—we’re playtesting at GDC, hosted by the dream team: Golden Gate Gamemakers, Gamescape, and Unpub in the open play area. Swing by and try Under One Sky—we promise to take notes. @unpub.org
Grateful for the Golden Gate Gamemakers Meetup at Guildhouse in San Jose—our first blind playtest, newly named discoveries, and great rulebook feedback from Jordan. 🎲✂️
Listen to our next episode to hear all about it.
We have a long-standing math norm in our school district that applies to board game design—and to life: “Errors are gifts that promote discussion.”
Go forth and make your misplays! We are all now wiser. 🎲✂️
At first glance I thought it was a non-English word. Reading Katz’s comment made me see “Bin Bandit”—but now all I can think about is how great their description is for a game.
Under One Sky was not selected, but we received some encouraging feedback from judges that we’re excited to share on a future episode. @cardboardedison.com
We’re wishing all the Cardboard Edison finalists the best of luck! We’re looking forward to watching all of their pitches.
WTB the transcripts! Would love to hear more about sustainability.
Roll and Move instantly summons Monopoly and The Game of Life—the original ‘strategy optional’ experience. Great for kids: as adults, we’d just prefer our downfall come from our own terrible strategy, not tiny cubes making life choices for us.
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We love a good story! 📖
“Oh good God,” one playtester said tonight during our first round of blind playtests. They were reacting to the sheer number of options that opened up once the board started rotating. 💥🔭
Great read! The scoring system is absolutely a win. I wish I had the space here to tell you about the misplay I just made—I would’ve taken it on the tie-breaker, but I threw it away! Maybe I’ll save that story for our next episode.
Wow, those are so wildly from where the game ends up! Neat insight.
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Thanks for sharing—your transparency has really set a great example for us.
Love the education value!
Games I have played on BGA this year:
Space Base
I’m sorry, I want to try other games!
“It’s what our fathers taught us.”
Mark’s doing all the art and graphic design for Under One Sky, but he’s also got a rotating grid tile-placement game that’s beautiful and fun to play!
It’s beautiful!
I love Bullseye’s box.
I’ve got one free digital code if you’d like to sport The Misplay? 🎲
This is fun—you can grab the The Misplay Microbadge over on BoardGameGeek! 🎲✨
Huge thanks to @wildthayne for making it happen! 🙌
For context, how many games on a pallet?
That's a moment! Congrats! 🎆
Will have to try!
Maybe? I’ll check it out. I’m building a list of games to try—I need more plays with real-time tension mechanics.
