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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 09/07/2026

Prepping for play testing Echo tonight, checking some colors and encoding.

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GMT Games @gmtgames.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Check out our latest Youtube video: " Echo from the Dark || Adam Blinkinsop Interview at PunchedCon '26 || GMT Talk" youtu.be/QNBd2qmojBk In this video, @candidrum.bsky.social introduces us to game designer/developer, Adam Blinkinsop, via a quick interview at PunchedCon 2026. Enjoy!

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Echo from the Dark || Adam Blinkinsop Interview at PunchedCon '26 || GMT Talk

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Fred Serval @fredserval.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

PunchedCon 2026 was a delight. We debrief the games we played there with bean farmer @candidrum.bsky.social, solo mom @joedewhurst.bsky.social, babyface @pierrevj.bsky.social, radicalised @ericvulgaris.bsky.social and ASMR voice @blinks.itch.io youtu.be/8177PhxrJCE?...

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PunchedCon 26 - Wargame Convention Debrief

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Fred Serval @fredserval.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

First night at PunchedCon 👀👀👀👀👀

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 22/04/2026

Loved playing this in San Diego, excited to be able to get my hands on a copy. 🎉🎉

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Bitch.io: Don't Play WIth Me @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026

2026.02.25 Found a new vocal stem and coping mechanism today!

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 08/02/2026

Love the moment pretty early in here where Jeremy goes to talk and is interrupted by the module's slow feedback gain -- this thing is a creepy monster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiir...

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Exploding the Forge Tim Vicks Vaporub X

YouTube video by Red Means Recording Modular

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 13/01/2026

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 12/01/2026

Gallerist suffers in comparison to Kanban (same day), even though I've played Gallerist and had a gallery full of masterworks by the end -- something about the flow... Or maybe 10 hours of gaming is too much for a valid critique?

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 02/01/2026

My Modular Nights set with Greymadr on Dec 14 finally hit YouTube! (Link is timestamped to our set, the third of the night @ 43:36.) youtu.be/KQomwQKNsRg?...

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Modular Nights - Dec. 14, 2025

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 01/01/2026

A few games played this year; plays is such a weird stat for wargames, but I'm terrible at tracking playtime so it'll have to do.

BG Stats 2025

Plays: 443
H-index: 8
Games: 166
New: 90
Players: 105
Locations: 12
Hours: 517
Days: 116

The Gang: 75
Echo from the Dark: 27
Viticulture: 27
Crokinole: 16
Iqishiqi: 13
Atlantic Chase: 10
The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game: 10
Innovation Ultimate: 8
Similo: 8

190 designers:
Reiner Knizia: 4%
(Uncredited): 3%
David Thompson (I): 2%
Wolfgang Warsch: 2%
Dean Essig: 1%.

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Scott Nicholson @scottnicholson.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I recently released a 20th anniversary episode of Board Games with Scott. In this show, I talk about what I've been up to and Critical Games. You can watch this episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Xg... #boardgames

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Board Games with Scott - 20th Anniversary Special - Critical Games

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LycanthrEppy @epidiah.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

🚨 ALERT: New Copyright Laws Going Into Effect January 1st, 2026 🚨 Starting in the new year, if you play a #ttrpg on a streaming service or write about folks streaming #ttrpgs and you fail provide links to those games for your audience, you will be legally considered an absolute poopy-butt.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I work in board games, and what makes my work in the form good is my genuine interest in books, in film, in music, in dance, in cooking, in woodworking. Cultivating curiosity & a voracious appetite for different works in different forms is so incredibly important.

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Chris M. - AKA YMC @tableflipsyou.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

What’s a traditional card game you know you’ve got at least 100 hours playing? Anything you can play with a standard pack of 52. Preferably something you still enjoy. Easily Cribbage for me, but Spades was also big in our family growing up. I usually preferred to play without sandbags if allowed.

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

And he said, "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something."

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 15/12/2025

Our set started around 1h30 at Substation's "Modular Seattle" night (I played with my friend "Greymadr"): www.twitch.tv/videos/26441...

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Twitch is the world

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 13/12/2025

Prep for Sunday concert: got to build my instrument.

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 11/12/2025

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 11th 2025 (Tricky), in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

One time we were out to dinner with the team who'd translated Apocalypse World into Italian. The project lead signalled for quiet and they all raised their glases. "Vincent," he said, and then they all as one: "fuuuuuck yoooouuu."

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

“There’s more to historical board games than just hex-and-counter WWII”: Candice Harris on turning her video talents to making historical wargaming more accessible after her surprise BoardGameGeek exit: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... @candidrum.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social

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Peer Sylvester @peersylvester.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Comparing two games just bc they both score majorities is akin to compare Pictionary and Empire Builder because both use "drawing" as a mechanism

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Non-Breaking Space @nbsp1618.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

for many who have come to my work from #crossbronxexpressway this may seem a bit jarring, but december is for #ortona @gmtgames.bsky.social www.gmtgames.com/p-1072.aspx?...

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/12/2025

Scrivener Wrapped

This year you wrote for 37 hours. It's better than nothing.

You wrote a total of 6,993 words. That puts you in the bottom 2% of all writers!

That's about 185 words an hour! Quality vs quantity, huh?

185 words an hour, 2 hours a day, 5 days a week would have been 98,658 words this year!

98,658 words is about the same length as TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

You could have written TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD this year, but you didn't.

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

For this latest Space-Cast!, I sat down to chat with Paolo Mori and Alessandro Zucchini about their collaborative project, Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars, and why they decided the world needed another (and better) hex-and-counter wargame. spacebiff.com/2025/12/03/s...

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Space-Cast! #51. Mori, Zucchini, Napoleon

Ah, Napoleon. Old Boney. Roll’n’Bones. The Bone Zone. The guy’s got a lot of nicknames, and even more board games! The latest, and one of the most intriguing, is Battlefields of t…

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Autolabelling service that tells you if a poster needs a wellness check or if they are watching sport

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I don't know how to introduce this one. After three titles about opium peddling, I figured the rest of SDHistCon would be breezy by comparison. I was wrong. The next day, I experienced one of the toughest board games I've ever played. Perhaps *the* toughest. spacebiff.com/2025/11/24/u...

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Unnameable

After the first day of SDHistCon, where I played three games about opium peddling, I figured the second would be easier on my stomach. I could not have been more wrong. It has no name. Its designer…

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 15/11/2025

I think a lot about “default” expectations in our time — how often they are of very recent construction. (We have dates for when umpires were introduced to kriegsspiel) If I do my job right, my students don’t assume roleplaying games have a “master” — any more than that games have a win condition.

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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

And we've now hit 1,000 backers! Thanks all for the interest in roleplaying history! (The first character I ever made was an elf, written out on the green character sheets for Basic D&D.)

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 16/11/2025

Cross Bronx Expressway -- my public sector was too quick to build housing and it left us in a rough budgeting spot. Community and I survived through the 40s, 50s, and 60s to get to the end with Private sector's win. Lots learned for next time though.

An early game of Cross Bronx Expressway, designed by NBSP, published by GMT Games.

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 15/11/2025

In no particular order: - Here I Stand - Cockroach Poker - Spades - Combat Commander - The Gang - Crokinole - Leaving Earth - Innovation - Can't Stop - Slay the Spire: TBG

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This past weekend, I was delighted to attend @sdhistcon.bsky.social, where on Saturday I played not one, not two, but three games about selling opium. It was quite the day. Read about it here: spacebiff.com/2025/11/13/s...

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SDHist 2025: Day of Copium

This past weekend, I attended SDHistCon in San Diego, the most interesting board gaming convention currently running. Here are the official snapshots: the Summit Award went to War Story: Occupied F…

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

That thing where you've got a Big Task to complete, but you're not feeling it and you can't find a way into it, but you can't settle to do anything else because the Big Task is looming over you? That.

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ALT: a drawing of a person sitting at a desk with a computer that says hello on it

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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Apocalypse World has had a bigger impact on my life than any other roleplaying game. It's just a phenomenal game, designed by phenomenal people. You should pick up a copy of the new edition!

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 08/11/2025

A productive demo of Echo from the Dark yesterday at #SDHistCon

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Adam Blinkinsop (he/they) @blinks.itch.io · 04/11/2025

Leek & potato soup (leeks, butter, potatoes, water) is pretty excellent if you have time. You use pretty much everything -- the greens make a great broth even by themselves -- and it's filling like crazy.

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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Did ether of us say T minus 1? Today was T minus 1. Launch in under 24 hours. Probably under 12. See you there, dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

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Coming soon: Apocalypse World: Burned Over

The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.

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