Michael Sprague 🎲✂️

Meetup page screenshot with details for an upcoming Playtest event!

🚨 New Meetup Alert 🚨

Are you looking for a new place in #boston to test your mettle, show off your latest #prototype or just play cool new games? Then hit up Tavern of Tales on Tues 3/3

Let's continue to prove that #boardgamedesign is alive and well in the Boston region.

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6 card game boxes

@scrapbots.bsky.social and @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social look what's arrived on the same day??

2️⃣ #playtesting meetups this week. Each averaged 10 attendees and 4 games. We also spotted GMG member @backwardscapgames.bsky.social #newrelease on a retail shelf!

Greater #boston area #boardgamedesign 🎲 ✂️ continues to thrive.

Check our bio for links to stay up to date on where to find us next.

Crate Digging: January 2026 — Breakup Gaming Society Find out what's in my Rucksack, get 50% off tickets to Indie Boardgame Showcase, plus six other indie tabletop nugs.

Well well well, looks like Rucksack made the highlights list alongside Pyrotechnics, by @backwardscapgames.bsky.social and @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social!

If you haven't checked out @natewarren.bsky.social's Break Up Gaming Society, you really should.

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Body?

Art looks incredible

Punched out punchboard

Any guess as to what I just punched???? ❤️ #pyrotechnics with @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social

Save the Date Flyer 4/18/2026

Attention all #boston 🎲✂️ #boardgamedesigners

SAVE THE DATE! 4/18/2026

After the last successful All-Day #Playtesting event we are ready for another round. Please join us at Church on the Hill in Boston.

Upper Deck and Harry Potter | BGG Upper Deck, creators of a whole host of trading cards, but more importantly (to me) one of my favorite board games Legendary, has officially partnered with Harry Potter to work with the license for t...

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My 6 year old just solved this!

Pyrotechnics: Design Diary - The Seahorse and The Hummingbird Designer Mike shares the journey of Pyrotechnics, a two-player dueling card game born from color combos, playtesting, and a fireworks theme.

If you're curious to see how Pyrotechnics came to be, you can read all about it from start-to-almost-finish in the designer diary by Michael Byron Sprague.
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Print n Play of cards, bagged tokens and a box

Lot of iterative design work and graphic design overhaul for #rockout my rockband themed tableau builder. Now it's time to get #crafty and assemble this baby. Once this is out of the way and ready for the @gamemakersguild.bsky.social #allday #playtesting I can move to @cardboardedison.com prep! 🎲 ✂️

Pyrotechnics - The Seahorse and The Hummingbird Pyrotechnics is a fast, two-player card duel packed with strategy and sparks—easy to learn, quick to play, and endlessly replayable.

Pyrotechnics by TTGDA member @backwardscapgames.bsky.social is a 2 player head-to-head card game that's quick and easy with just the right spark of strategy.

It's currently available for pre-sale with delivery expected before the end of January 2026!

www.seahorseandhummingbird.com/shop/pyrotec...

January 2026: New Year, New Games Happy New Year!

@elizhargrave.bsky.social as one of those playtesters you mentioned I can attest that I am extremely excited for that Wingspan small box game! 2026 looks like it will be exciting!

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Night Soil is such an intriguing game to me. I'm looking forward to my opportunity to play it in 2026.

5... 4... 3... https://www.seahorseandhummingbird.com/shop/pyrotechnics-board-game/

🎇 #boardgames 🎆

Pyrotechnics launches tomorrow! December 31st, 2025 at 11:59pm EST

Pyrotechnics - The Seahorse and The Hummingbird Pyrotechnics is a fast, two-player card duel packed with strategy and sparks—easy to learn, quick to play, and endlessly replayable.

Hey everyone!

Pyrotechnics will be pre-launching on 12/31. Publisher: @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social

You can register for a launch email here: www.seahorseandhummingbird.com/shop/pyrotec...

This is a tight little 2-player, resource management game.

Thanks!

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#boardgamedesign

Pyrotechnics - The Seahorse and The Hummingbird Pyrotechnics is a fast, two-player card duel packed with strategy and sparks—easy to learn, quick to play, and endlessly replayable.

🎲✂️ New website, who dis: www.seahorseandhummingbird.com/shop/pyrotec...

Publisher of my first published game did a little revamp of their site. Check it out and consider signing up for notifications on Pyrotechnics, officially launching (pun intended) on 12/31/2025. @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social

The silhouette of a seahorse over the silhouette of a hummingbird over the outline of a circle. All of it washed in a gradient from green to blue to purple.

new logo who dis?

Cards with fireworks and tokens with sparks

Pyrotechnics is as tightly wound as a classic abstract. Excellent trade offs and tension. Feels like a beefier game than its smol size. Great work by @backwardscapgames.bsky.social and @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social

4 white coasters about 4 inch in diameter with multiple colored dice places in dice shaped holes on the coaster.

Idk what it is yet or if it's even a game but yesterday I put some square holes in some coasters and we are drafting some dice in a strange fashion. Maybe it's something. 🎲 ✂️ #boardgames #dicegames #gamedesign

These are some incredible photos!

PAX Unplugged 2025 Preview PAX Unplugged is a tabletop gaming-focused event that grew out of the video game-focused PAX events, and this preview highlights new games being demoed or sold.

Please! Go do the thumbs up thing at BGG for my game, #pyrotechnics which is debuting at #paxunplugged

🎲 ✂️ #boardgames

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Thanks for checking out Pyrotechnics! This week we tabled Fort, Just One, Tapple (my first time) and Point Salad. A lighter week. Looking forward to a heavier (for me) game day coming up in two weeks.

Table presentation of Interstellar Influence

First play of a production copy of Pyrotechnics

Sunday's boardgame purchases, including Stamp Swap, No Loose Ends, Fort and Faraway.

My boardgame heart is filled with joy and gratitude this weekend. My co-design w/ @muse-and-mettle.bsky.social was tabled for the 1st time with the pull print. Production copy of @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social's 1st release #pyrotechnics hit the table. And I picked up 4 sweet newish to me games.

Game components splayed out

Games in box for with publisher's business card

Very happy to share, that barring unforeseen circumstances, my card game #pyrotechnics will receive it's full release on 12/31/2025 courtesy of @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social

Just got my designer production copies today, and oh boy does it look great! 🎲 ✂️

I tried it at 6 once with the expansion, would not recommend. 2-4 it's one of my favorite game play experiences.

Hey now, let's not go trying to get people sued...lol

Game map with a 4x8 grid, blue sky and ground reminiscent of an early Super Mario level.

#sneakpeak at my current 🎲✂️ project "Level Playingfield". An asymmetric 2-player only game where one player is the hero, using deck building to traverse a level and the other player is the level master, using tile-laying to try and stop them.

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