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Soucy Games @soucy.games · 02/09/2026

Today feels like a good day to announce it! I'm preparing for my first crowd funding campaign! Bot Builders is an engine building game about robots and the people who make them, inspired by real life robotics competitions.

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Coming soon: Bot Builders

Recruit your team, build your robots, and complete objectives to win in this game inspired by real-life robotics competitions.

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Ian Howard @leafydragongames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh hey! My game One Breath Left is in this bundle — along with a bunch of other cool games — so check it out!

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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

TA-DAAA!!! ✨ The second of three games Ordinary Magic will be crowdfunding is… Lifted Spirits 👻 🛎️

LIFTED SPIRITS

Welcome to the town's delightfully grand hotel for spirits! As an ambitious bellhop, you'll compete to control the elevator's movement, draft guests, and escort them to and from their rooms with ease. Tend to your guests' preferences efficiently to earn compliments and rise above your coworkers, and you'll just maybe take the title of Imployee of the Month!

2-5 Players

30 Minutes

Ages 8+

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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

✨ HOLY DINO NUGGETS ✨ A new personal record!!! Dino Racer has hit number 4 on the @boardgamegeek.com Hotness!!!

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THE HOTNESS
Top 50 trending games today
MARCELINE LEIMAN'S
DINO RACER
4 - Dino Racer
A wild racing card game of prehistoric proportions.

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Ian Howard @leafydragongames.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

After the last Button Shy design challenge, I offered feedback to willing entrants in exchange for a small charitable donation. That meant watching and rewatching a lot of pitch videos, and there’s one big piece of feedback that I found myself repeating: SHOW US WHAT MAKES YOUR GAME EXCITING. 1/8

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Button Shy Games @buttonshy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Not sure if anyone here has seen it, but we’ve been posting *nearly* daily blogs called A Day In The Life Of A Board Game Designer / Publisher. There are so many good nuggets in each one of them. buttonshygames.substack.com/p/august-11-...

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August 11, 2026 - A Day In The Life Of A Board Game Designer / Publisher

Out There has a name. Out Of Print is getting promos. And after today I'm out.

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Garphill Games @garphillgames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Shem Phillips is on a mission to save your shelfie! The Omens expansion to Raiders of Scythia comes in a full size box that will match the design style of all the other Ancient Anthology box covers. Don't miss it, launching 18 August 👉🏽 garphill.com/omens

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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📣 I’m excited to announce!! 📣 I’m partnering with Unstable Games to start a sister studio to them named… ✨ Ordinary Magic!! ✨ I’m so excited to bring 3 BRAND NEW GAMES under this new studio to you this Fall!!! 🍁

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Ordinary Magic by Unstable Games - Gamefound

3 New Games, 1 Extraordinary World. Explore this visionary studio partnership between award-winning game designer Marceline Leiman and Unstable Games.

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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Come check out Dino Racer at Booth 934!! 🏁 🦕 🦖 Underdog Games will be doing carnival-style races and giveaways of Dino Racer at every :30 of each hour! Come on down, try your luck to win a copy for free!!

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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The day is almost here!!! ✨ Come join me and @yinwa.itch.io as we sell Shortstack at Game Market Indianapolis alongside many other cool indie creators!!!! We will have 100 copies of the game to sell!! We make no promises and have no active plans to reprint, so come through if you want one!! 🥞

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Game Market
Indianapolis
SAT @ 7pm - 10pm
JW Marriot, 3RD FL

$30

Pictured: (left) a huge stack of copies of Shortstack, with the price ‘$30’ framed in a star bubble. (right) illustrations of Marceline Leiman and Ami Cai excitedly pointing at the copies of Shortstack and at the event information.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Expansions are kinda weird, right? I spoke with ten game designers and a historian about one of the most unusual elements of modern board games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v08K...

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Expanding Board Games

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Luke Wolyncewicz @bumblepie-games.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#playconau highlights🧵! I gotta start with Designer Alley: it was amazing seeing everyone's creative games and chatting about their design journey. Massive shoutout to the amazing volunteers who kept shepherding people to the alley so the tables were always full!

Games in designer alley at PlayCon: Bragging Wranglers by Luke Wolyncewicz

Games from designer alley at Playcon: Blind Corner by Jay Yeates

Games in designer alley at PlayCon: Drifting Skies by Ryan Boucher

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Luke Wolyncewicz @bumblepie-games.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Had an absolutely magical time yappin about games with everyone and meeting friends in person for the first time at #playconau designer day. Thanks so much to the PlayCon team for putting this event together! Got a whole weekend of games ahead and the trip was already worth every cent

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Luke Wolyncewicz @bumblepie-games.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Finishing up my entry for Button Shy's 18 card "No Shuffling" challenge: youtu.be/QTsRRcOMAyE. This one really leans into the "no shuffling" by building on Tag Team's action programming mechanic, and I'm super happy with where it's ended up!

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Robot Wrestling - Pitch Video

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Ian Howard @leafydragongames.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

5-Star Match is getting a little bigger and a little better! This fall I'll be launching the Going Over expansion, which adds tons of new customization options for this solo pro wrestling booking TTRPG. Follow along at the prelaunch page below! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lea...

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Coming soon: 5-Star Match: Going Over

An expansion for the pro wrestling TTRPG 5-Star Match

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 21/05/2026

Out at a cafe, testing the new Grimoire expansion with the #Crownfell solo mode. It’s, uhhh… pretty spicy…! 🌶️

Crownfell is laid out on the playmat on a table with my laptop. A window shows the evening sky over The Forks in Winnipeg.

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Ian Howard @leafydragongames.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Had some zines printed up for demoing at Breakout Con this weekend! I’m pretty stoked to show off Infinite Paths in particular. It’s a really neat system with a lot of fun potential and these quickstart rules look SO GOOD in person!

Printed zines of two games, Infinite Paths and Burnword, sitting on a wood table. The cover of Infinite Paths shows a full-color image of an adventurer stepping between multiple worlds, represented by natural, science fiction, and dystopian elements. Below it, the cover of Burnword is printed with black-and-white text indicating that it is for playtesting only.

A full-color interior spread of Infinite Paths showing common checks made in the game in pink, yellow, and green call-out boxes.

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 25/02/2026

Who wants to see some awesome-looking game pitches? These are the finalists for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award!!! cardboardedison.com/award

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

“It’s crazy how it has grown globally”: unpublished board game design award Cardboard Edison unveils new finalists as entries more than double since 2020: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... @cardboardedison.com

Head and upper body of a bearded man sitting at a table, constructing a castle from magnetic tiles. StrongHolds by Nelson de Castro, one of this year's Cardboard Edison Award finalists.

A black and white photo of a woman wearing glasses, and with long hair swept either side of her forehead. Suzanne Zinsli, co-founder of Cardboard Edison.

Wooden animal playing pieces in the shape of pink pigs, white sheep and brown cows, on a green and blue mat representing fields, forests and a river with a bridge. A blue string lasso is surrounding some of the animals. Braggin’ Wranglers by Luke Wolyncewicz, one of this year’s Cardboard Edison Award finalists.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 15/02/2026

Today is the last day of this sale: get 'em while they're hot, etc

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 09/02/2026

🥳 The sale at The Game Crafter is now live! Most of my games are discounted. If you missed out on the #Crownfell crowd sale, or had your eye on any of these other games, now is a great time: www.thegamecrafter.com/designers/we...

A screenshot of my TGC store, showing ExoBase, ExoShip, Crownfell, and Dice Deck as being on sale.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 01/02/2026

Lessons Learned from Making Seventeen Board Games A talk I gave for @graemedevine.com's Game Design class at California State University, Monterey Bay 🎲✂️

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Mike Berg - We Heart Games Talk at CSUMB

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Luke Wolyncewicz @bumblepie-games.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I didn't think I'd have anything ready for this year's Cardboard Edison Award, but with a sudden spark of inspiration I managed to scramble together Braggin' Wranglers over the last couple of months! The key was keeping things simple and focusing on the kinetic component hook 🤠 youtu.be/YFgGg8NHCis

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Braggin' Wranglers Pitch Video

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 28/01/2026

Talking to some game design students tomorrow... here's the final slide of my deck:

- start small
- get it on the table
- make ten games
- keep playing

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Button Shy Games @buttonshy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

With this incoming storm, we have a FREE game to keep you busy! The Daily Weather is a little solo game about aligning the weather with a new puzzle each day. We released the PNP / PCIO files at our Kickstarter preview page and the response has been wild. www.kickstarter.com/projects/239...

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Coming soon: The Daily Weather

Challenge yourself to create the perfect forecast using each day’s unique conditions. Play every day!

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Strega van den Berg @stregawolf.art · 16/01/2026

I'm going through a rough time financially, so I'd really appreciate any #MutualAid rn! That can be in the form of commissioning me for art, or in a donation on my CCLA library, both of which can be found on my website. www.stregawolf.art Sorry for constantly being on this, just a rough time rn.

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Strega Design | graphic and industrial design

Strega Wolf Eden van den Berg is an industrial designer and collage artist based in Eindhoven, studying at the TU/e.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 09/01/2026

I'm working on a new #Crownfell expansion called Grimoire, which has extra ability cards that you hold in your hand, to use instead of taking a normal turn. Played cards go to a centre row, and are then available for your opponent to pick up. James and I playtested the 1st draft of the cards:

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Crownfell: Grimoire expansion playthrough - first playtest

YouTube video by Mike Berg

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Button Shy Games @buttonshy.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A Dragon's Gift is live on Kickstarter! Transport goods between villagers to build a lovely gift for the resident dragon in our 10th Simply Solo wallet game by @scottalmes.bsky.social. With amazing art by @manonmergnat.bsky.social. www.kickstarter.com/projects/239...

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A Dragon's Gift

Transport goods between villagers to build a lovely gift for the resident dragon in this Scott Almes solo game. Pocket sized, only $12!

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Cardboard Edison @cardboardedison.com · 01/01/2026

It’s time! SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2026 CARDBOARD EDISON AWARD ARE OPEN! Board game designers, show us what you’ve been working on! Deadline is January 31: cardboardedison.com/award

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Luke Wolyncewicz @bumblepie-games.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

10 Lessons From 5 Years of Game Design Over the past two weeks I've been writing a series of mini dev-diaries finding a lesson from each of the 10 games I've finished. Which ones resonate with you? Have you come across these in your designs? The full series: boardgamegeek.com/thread/36308...

10 Lessons from 5 Years of Game Design:
1. Constraints breed creativity, deadlines breed finished projects
2. Lean into humour and emergent storytelling
3. Identify the essence of the experience, distill it down to just the crucial parts
4. Every point of friction is a chance for someone to give up on the game
5. When estimating the complexity of your game, be aware of your bias as the designer
6. Knowing the experience you’re trying to create gives you freedom to pivot and cut details that aren’t working
7. If players consistently misinterpret a rule, change the rule to match their intuition
8. Understand the difference between something that is interesting to design vs interesting to play
9. Hook-first design ensures the game you end up with is much easier to communicate
10. No theory, process, or snappy list of 10 lessons replaces playtesting!

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Luke Wolyncewicz @bumblepie-games.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Five years ago I designed my first board game and wrote my first (slightly embarrassing) dev diary. My latest game feels like a culmination of all the lessons I've learned over five years, and it feels like the right time to finally write another dev diary! boardgamegeek.com/thread/36308...

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Dev Diary: The Road to Jigokudani | BGG

Introduction Five years ago I designed my first board game. It was an absolutely magical experience - so much so that I wrote [url=https://bumblepie.space/blog/summoning-circle-scramble-postmortem.ht...

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