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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I want to thank all the designers and illustrators behind the site www.game-icons.net. That is an awesome way to build a first working prototype as you engage in game design. I'm so grateful for this rich set of game icons!

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4180 free SVG and PNG icons for your games or apps | Game-icons.net

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Best line from a board game review I watched today, about Railroad Tiles, "the difficulty scales directly with greed." The harder you push for points, the more tangled and punishing the game gets. Push gently, and it stays gentle. The player sets the dial. (via Shut Up & Sit Down's Youtube video)

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Watched a video today by The Cardboard Herald that put words to something I had been circling: the word 'cozy' in board game design is doing two different jobs, and we keep mixing them up.

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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 28/04/2026

I'm teaching a free game design class this weekend! It's a crash course in topics like player agency, types of players, thematic scope and resolution, and game arcs. We'll even practice pitching our games! Near Baltimore, MD. No registration required. #boardgames #ttrpg #baltimore 🎲✂️

Program Type: Games
Audience: Teens (Ages 11+), Adults
Program Description
Event Details
An introduction to designing your own board game or roleplaying game! You’ll learn about: theme vs. mechanisms, engaging player experiences, and how to bring your game to life. For anyone who has considered making a game or just enjoys playing them. No experience required -- just curiosity about game design!

Hosted by John Mulligan.

John Mulligan is an ENNIE-nominated independent tabletop game designer. His published games blend the storytelling of roleplaying games (TTRPGs) with the mechanisms of board games. He also writes at Skeleton Code Machine, exploring tabletop game design and inspiration.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 21/04/2026

The second weekend of Cardboard Edison Award finalist judging is in the books! Pics from the event in the 🧵

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Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Update on Lizzie Studio, the upcoming free open source virtual tabletop tool for designers. You can now create dice templates and dynamically generate dice based on a spreadsheet! Great for games with different dice types like Quarriors. youtu.be/ruOhhbZh9fg?...

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Lizzie: Templating Dice

YouTube video by Geoffrey Engelstein

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

First playtest completed of my 18-card no-shuffling game. It went pretty decent I would say. The scoring was a bit off, and the card design needs to improve a bit. But it's looking positive, so will continue to work on it.

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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It was nice to get back to work properly on An Infamous Traffic at #CircleDC I had missed working on economic games!

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 10/04/2026

And the last finalist prototype to arrive for this year’s Cardboard Edison Award is Limelight by Cameron Fleming. Appropriate since today is “opening night” for the first Award judging event!

Limelight prototype: trays of cards, tokens, cash bits, playbills, and more.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 11/04/2026

Judging has begun! Here are the prototypes for all 20 finalists in the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award! Details about all of them are available at cardboardedison.com/award

Shelves holding all 20 Cardboard Edison Award finalists.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 09/04/2026

The next finalist for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award to arrive: Wunderkammer by @roscoschock.bsky.social, where we’ll be bidding in simultaneous silent auctions in multiple dimensions! cardboardedison.com/award

Wunderkammer prototype: board, tiles, and bidding tokens.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 10/04/2026

The next finalist for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award to arrive is the first in the contest’s 11 years to come with a ring box: The Wedding Planner by José Lema! cardboardedison.com/award

Prototype of The Wedding Planner: player aids, power cards, various bits, rulebook, “thank you” and “you’re invited” cards, markers, a ring box, and more.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 10/04/2026

The next arrival in the finalists for this year’s Cardboard Edison Award is Hybrid Hijinks by Jena Kreese, where we’ll be creating crazy animal hybrids that double as configurable player powers! cardboardedison.com/award

Prototype for Hybrid Hijinks: map, cards, and a bag filled with bits.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 10/04/2026

Here’s 2026 Cardboard Edison Award finalist The Leftovers by Larry Ted McBride, where magical foodfolk cooperate to build decks and take tricks! cardboardedison.com/award

The Leftovers prototype: player mats, guidebooks, cards, chits, and more.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 06/04/2026

Cardboard Edison Award finalist StrongHolds by Nelson de Castro has arrived! These stickered magnetic tiles will be used to build and knock down castles!

StrongHolds prototype: just a big ol’ brick of stickered magnetic tiles.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 06/04/2026

What? Oh nothing, just preparing to summon a demon tree in 2026 Cardboard Edison Award finalist The Roots of All Evil by Dean Burry…

Prototype for The Roots of All Evil: cards, tokens in four colors, and a 3D demon tree.

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

So many interesting board game design contests happening at the same time. It's a fun time to be a designer.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 05/04/2026

Next arrival for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award finalist judging: Possessions by Dan Nichols, where ghostly players have one hour to complete their unfinished business!

Possessions prototype: rules, dice, cards, mats, and more.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 31/03/2026

The next Cardboard Edison Award finalist to arrive? Moonforge by Pawel Owsianka—mining asteroids and forming new moons in just 90 minutes! cardboardedison.com/award

Moonforge prototype: planet tiles, action cards, mining tiles, cubes of various colors, reference sheets, and more.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 02/04/2026

The latest finalist for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award to arrive is Astrolabe by Yasaman Farazan! And yes, those rotating astrolabes spin exactly as you’d expect them to. cardboardedison.com/award

Astrolabe prototype: astrolabes with concentric rotating rings, player mats, board, cards, a seeing eye token, and more.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 29/03/2026

The next 2026 Cardboard Edison Award finalist arrival: Match Patch by @jackrrosen.bsky.social! Getting ready for some simultaneous crop harvesting! cardboardedison.com/award

Match Patch prototype: stacks of crop cards, power cards, player tiles, colored discs, cubes, and more.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 28/03/2026

The next of the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award finalists to arrive is a freshly printed prototype of the cooperative resistance game Goa Kranti by @andydgames.bsky.social! cardboardedison.com/award

Goa Kranti prototype: boards, score tracks, cards, unpunched tokens, and a bag of dice and pawns.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 28/03/2026

The next finalist in the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award to arrive is PiramiDuel by Guillermo Viciano, Diego Ibañez & Juanjo Quintero! So many scoring conditions! cardboardedison.com/award

PiramiDuel prototype: tiles with various scoring conditions, a bag of dice, some cubes, and the rulebook.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 27/03/2026

Next arrival among the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award finalists: Deductive Seasoning by @ericledger.bsky.social! And yes, that chart you see is of course the Periodic Table of Flavor. cardboardedison.com/award

Deductive Seasoning prototype: dry-erase boards with periodic-table-like charts, markers, cards, player screens, and more.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 25/03/2026

Next arrival for 2026 Cardboard Edison Award finalist judging: Let’s go deep-sea diving in Midnight Spawn by Jayson Farrell! cardboardedison.com/award

Midnight Spawn prototype: large board, lots of cards fanned out, player tokens in four colors, and other bits in baggies.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 25/03/2026

The next 2026 Cardboard Edison Award finalist to arrive is Braggin’ Wranglers by @bumblepie-games.bsky.social. Time to get our lassoes ready!

Braggin’ Wranglers prototype: lassoes, animal tokens, and more.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 22/03/2026

The next finalist for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award has arrived! It's the polyomino, bone-transportation pick-up-and-deliver game Catacombes de Paris by @phoenicks.bsky.social!

Prototype of Catacombes de Paris: boards, carts, polyomino and other tiles, and more.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 18/03/2026

The next finalist for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award has arrived! It’s the push-your-luck dice game Ladybugs by Michael Posada!

Prototype for Ladybugs: red and green dice; red, blue, and yellow cards; and rulebook.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 17/03/2026

The second 2026 Cardboard Edison Award finalist to arrive is Black Ruth of Dogtown by @kddgames.bsky.social! It was handed off to us in person at Unpub this past weekend! Details at cardboardedison.com/award

Prototype for Black Ruth of Dogtown: a large player mat, rulebook, sigil cards, portent cards, and other bits.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 08/03/2026

The first finalist for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award has arrived: Hatchlings by Alan Leduc! (Pretty fast for a game about turtles…) Details at cardboardedison.com/award

Hatchlings rulebook, board, cards, mini turtle pawns, egg shells, and other bits

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Unpub @unpub.org · 26/02/2026

If you asked to be emailed about the 2026 UTMP Session, you're about to get an email! f.mtr.cool/xuagntkcev

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Ever since I was aware of the Cardboard Edison Award I always wanted to end up as a finalist at least and in 2026 that desire was fulfilled. Goa Kranti has been selected as a finalist for the Cardboard Edison Award. @cardboardedison.com Find the 19 other amazing games at cardboardedison.com/award

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Cardboard Edison Award — Cardboard Edison

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Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Nayakas by TTGDA member andydgames.bsky.social is a worker placement game for 2–4 players and works to capture the spirit of India’s feudal kingdoms after the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire through simple yet strategic gameplay. Find out more information here: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44...

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Andy D (@andydgames.bsky.social)

Aspiring to be a good board game designer

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

It's here!! My worker-placement game based on the Vijayanagara Empire, NAYAKAS, was launched last week. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44...

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The first prototype for my game, Courtful of Tricks, an entry to the Solo PNP game design contest on BGG.

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Adam Eschborn @adameschborn.com · 08/08/2025

I just listed my game Produce Bazaar for @protospielo.bsky.social, which is taking place Aug 22-24. I'd love some help getting this game published! Game: protospiel.online/prototype-ga... Offer feedback for my sell sheet (which is attached): protospiel.online/sell-sheet-f... 🎲✂️🎲

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Protospiel Online 🚧 Next Dates TBD @protospielo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Community Newsletter Issue Read the full issue hello.protospiel.online/posts/celebr... 🎲✂️ Want the next issue as soon as it drops? Join the newsletter and get your Digital Prototyping Tools Comparison Guide as a sign up gift! 🎁🤓🎁 hello.protospiel.online

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Celebrating PO's 5 Year Anniversary--Community Newsletter Issue 50!!!

Hey Reader!

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We played a three player game of Century Spice Road. I lost and it was a terrible loss. The scores ended 67-65-37. Fun game though :)

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Protospiel Online 🚧 Next Dates TBD @protospielo.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Badge sales for Protospiel Online August 22-24 2025 are open! 3 days of digital playtesting with 24 hour moderator support. Early bird pricing is available through Mon Aug 11, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT. 🎲✂️ protospiel.online/badges/

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Badges - Protospiel Online

3 days of playtesting on Discord + virtual tabletop. 10% of total badge sales go to charities supporting human rights.

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Played Parks finally! It's a game that I always placed right where I could see it on my shelf, and I took it with me whenever I attended meetups, and after nearly three years, I played it today! Finished with a respectable score of 35.

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 28/02/2025

I did a small printrun of Vibes, a game about helping art students find a group they vibe with, and I'm looking to see who I ought to send review copies too. I've never sought out reviewers before and I don't want to go on Facebook which is where everyone tells me to go. youtu.be/hbL-UC327rQ 🎲✂️

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Vibes: Help your students find a group they vibe with!

YouTube video by Knife Bunny

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I used thermocol foam to create player boards for my prototype of Daily Bread. How do you create your board protos?

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Andy D @andydgames.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Sharing an updated image of the game board for Nayakas, my worker placement game.

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BoardGameGeek @boardgamegeek.com · 28/01/2025

Played: In Boitas, a 2-4 player trick-taking game from Sidhant Chand & Kheo Games, you try to win import goods at ports each round, while picking up cowrie shells as well to buy additional cards, which can be worth points or grant special abilities. BGG page: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42... —WEM

Mid-game shot of the trick-taking game Boitas

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