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Game designer. Radical optimist. Play is essential. he/him

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Fresh fruit juices, baby.

07.03.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I like it way better than azul. The theme does a lot of work for me in this one

07.03.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Big cumulonimbus towering over a building in Malaysia

Big cumulonimbus towering over a building in Malaysia

Tropical thunderstorms are my favourite weather

07.03.2026 10:07 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ack do I have to get a Switch 2 nooooooo 😭

06.03.2026 06:39 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

First game I sourced and developed for exploding kittens!

The designers (Ken and Jeremy) are stupid good at this kind of game

06.03.2026 06:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I keep forgetting how YOUNG all you youngins are πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€

06.03.2026 02:06 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAs the reasons for the carnage cut their meat
And lick the gravy
We oil the jaws of the war machine
And feed it with our babies”
- Iron Maiden, β€œ2 Minutes to Midnight”

05.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Btw when Blood Rage Valhalla becomes available at retail, I highly recommend trying it

I know it’s kinda weird for a designer to brag on his own game

But I feel it got prejudged during crowdfunding

The game is good. Real good. And different enough from BR to stand alone

All IMHO of course

05.03.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

So much! And the unhelpful rally β€œjust do stuff that brings you joy!” Sounds a lot like β€œjust be a different person”

05.03.2026 04:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Gained some hot momentum on a game I’m working on.

Saw one news clip. One clip. Lost it all. Trainwreck.

News in its current form should be illegal

I’m not even kidding

05.03.2026 04:17 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
Towering cumulonimbus over the shore of Penang, Malaysia

Towering cumulonimbus over the shore of Penang, Malaysia

Will always be spellbound by the Malaysian sunset

04.03.2026 07:40 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Convention Organizers:

If you have invite a guest from a minority demographic

πŸ‘InviteπŸ‘themπŸ‘toπŸ‘participateπŸ‘inπŸ‘moreπŸ‘thanπŸ‘justπŸ‘theπŸ‘diversityπŸ‘panelπŸ‘

PLEASE

AND

THANK

YOU

03.03.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 295 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

About a month ago I purged my games in progress again - everything without a deadline attached went to the bin

Still have like 6 active games in the mix

03.03.2026 00:39 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry allβ€”I just don’t have any spoons for WW3 shit, so Ima just talk games for a bit and pray for all our souls

01.03.2026 12:24 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The only prescriptive advice I’ll give young designers:

Make games only you could make.

Don’t ask me what I mean by that, cos you either already know - or you’ll figure it out.

28.02.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
Three Penangites playing Wrath of Fire Mountain at local game studio

Three Penangites playing Wrath of Fire Mountain at local game studio

Playing Wrath of Fire Mountain first time in a few months.

I love this game so much.

28.02.2026 10:50 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Four gamers at a game store in Penang playing I Heart Manatees

Four gamers at a game store in Penang playing I Heart Manatees

Fellow Penangites also heart Manatees!

28.02.2026 07:29 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Dude?

Dude

Dude

Can I help you turn this into a kickass party game?

27.02.2026 05:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Last night I made yet another family-game-in-progress much β€œsimpler” by adding rules

It flows more intuitively, models real life patterns better and mechanical patterns worse

Less β€˜elegant’ and IMO much more broadly appealing

Looking forward to getting this to the table!

27.02.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
a close up of a cat with its eyes closed and the words yes indeed above it Alt: a close up of a cat with its eyes closed and the words yes indeed above it

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27.02.2026 03:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œEverything is interesting, if you know enough about it”
- Trevor Noah

27.02.2026 01:29 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Drummers today are so fast, precise and technical. They can play anything and god those YouTube videos are impressive to watch.

But there’s only one Bill Ward.

This is a post about game design

25.02.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Lurking the thread and looking for red flags (ie. designers I would not be compatible with) :)

24.02.2026 04:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHere is how you help prevent DHS from building concentration camps in your area” broke me, I think

23.02.2026 04:12 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Designers: watch other people (not professionals, not designers) teach your game WITHOUT CORRECTING THEM. Over and over and over again.

I teach my own games as little as possible, and often discount those tests as essentially tainted lab conditions.

21.02.2026 04:40 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank YOU! This looks really special, and brightened my day

21.02.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This checks all my boxes for what an ideal hobby game could be

A concept rooted in necessary complexity that pays off in such a joyful way.

I can’t wait to play!

21.02.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming soon: Walkable City - the Urban Planning Boardgame Asymmetric Cooperative boardgame about building a city without cars.

Disclosure: I’ve not played this game nor even watched the video.

I am backing it to reward a theme and vision so endearing I want it to succeed.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

21.02.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Omg I love this premise so much. AUTOBUY

21.02.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(Assuming you meant skippable)

I find a lot of my favourite bands created some of their best work mid or even late career

Still not sure how much of that is correlation or causation

20.02.2026 05:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0