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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 17/09/2026

Did a play of Cat Paper Scissors this past weekend! We're not done with the game quite yet, so expect some more news coming soon. 😉

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 09/09/2026

The indie night market went well. I did slightly better than expected. A lot of people, and logically more casual buyers. Several people didn't even know what a trick-taker was (which fair). A huge thanks too to @connor.alwaysawake.games for putting on the event!

My table at the PAX West Indie Game Market, including displays and signs for Coupon Clipper and Tricked Out.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 03/09/2026

I'm going to be at PAX West in 3 days! Come by the PNW Tabletop Game Market at 7:00pm to pick-up a copy of Tricked Out or Coupon Clipper (and of course to check out all of the other awesome games on sale).

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 05/08/2026

Just took inventory of everything post-GenCon. Looks like I sold all but 4 copies of Tricked Out! But don't worry, I'll get another print run done in time for PAX West! (And needless to say the Indianapolis Game Market went well. Such an amazing opportunity to get my stuff out there.)

A photo of 4 copies of my cars game Tricked Out.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 01/08/2026

Site of the Indy Game Market in 9ish hours. Er, well I think at least. It's the 3rd floor of the JW at least.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 28/07/2026

Getting ready for GenCon! I'm briging a ton of copies of Tricked Out and Coupon Clipper, so fingers crossed 🤞 the Game Market goes well.

A photo of a several copies of my game Tricked Out and my game Coupon Clipper.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 15/07/2026

The old prototype art of Growing Groves vs. what it turned into. (The old art was mostly stock art I googled.) The idea was a fruit-based game but with a fantastical twist. From left to right we have: Swirlberries, glassfruit, cheesefruit, and starfruit. Not shown: The cut fruit with human teeth.

Two rows of treetops with swirlberries, glassfruit, cheese fruit, and starfruit, with an arrow between them.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 18/06/2026

Here's my 9. A mix of games that I wish got more critical acclaim and games I that made me go "this deserved to blow up more".

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, Signs of the Sojourner, Umurangi Generation, Smile for Me, The Norwood Suite, Paradise Killer, Path of Achra, Backpack Hero, Cross Blitz

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 12/04/2026

Fun thought experiment. Tough choice for a few categories. grids.fun/t/about-me-v...

From top left to bottom right: Bloodborne, Signalis, Silksong, Warcraft 3, Dark Souls, Diablo 3, Mark of the Ninja, Shadow of the Colossus, Digimon World, Backpack Hero, Hades, Borderlands 2, Hotline Miami, Left for Dead 2, Persona 5, Gunfire Reborn, Rock Band 3, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, Dragon Quest Monsters, Path of Achra

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 04/04/2026

Tricked Out cameo in Shut Up & Sit Down's latest video!

A list of several trick-takers on Board Game Geek, including Tricked Out.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 18/03/2026

I had a great time at Dice Tower West! I was able to hang out with a lot of people, and it was great playing games and chatting with old and new friends. Game Market Vegas went well too. Sold most of my copies of Tricked Out and a bunch of my copies of Coupon Clipper.

My table at the start of Game Market Vegas.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 12/03/2026

Game Market Vegas is tonight! If you're at Dice Tower West come by the room next to the welcome area at 5pm and check it out. I'll be selling Tricked Out and Coupon Clipper and I know they'll be a bunch of other great stuff too. There's a second session Saturday at 6pm too.

The door to the Private Event Space next to the welcome area at Dice Tower West.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 08/03/2026

Got a chance to play Fú a couple times this week. I like how it has positive player interaction, something that I think is disappointingly rare in board games.

The board game Fú. A player board is in front with various snack tokens on it, with piles of decorations and money past that. To the right hand side are several red envelopes.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 06/03/2026

My top 9 games. Organized mostly by genre.

My top 9 video games. From top left to bottom right: Hades, Gunfire Reborn, Path of Achra, Salt and Sanctuary, Bloodborne, Hollow Knight, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, Cruelty Squad, and Plants vs Zombies: Heroes.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 05/03/2026

Playtesting/demoing at Geeky Tea's last night! Some close games of Cat Paper Scissors. It can get very "I guessed you'd guess that I'd guess..." by the end. I also finally got to play it's other sister game Cat Tree by @nathanrlong.bsky.social, which I quite enjoyed. It was mean but in a good way.

A game of Cat Paper Scissors in progress, with the Clowder cat tokens off to the right.

A game of Cat Tree!: Time to Climb in the middle of scoring.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 28/02/2026

Old(ish) prototype of Cat Paper Scissors. I've been redoing the art and layout to replace the generic filler clipart, but mechanically I'm really happy where the game is. And @tatewu.bsky.social's cat tokens look great, of course.

A photo of Cat Paper Scissors, including some cards with rock paper or scissors on them in front of each player, and cat tokens in each corner.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 25/02/2026

Exciting news! I'm going to be releasing a *second* game next month, this one as part of @tatewu.bsky.social's upcoming Clowder Token Collection Kickstarter. Cat Paper Scissors is a little 18-card PnP that makes use of Ta-Te's cat tokens, where players engine build as they play rock paper scissors.

A board game cover with the text "Cat Paper Scissors by Chris Lawrence" followed by an image of paper, a rock, and scissors.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 18/02/2026

Some of the cards from my upcoming game, Tricked Out! I'm not the best graphic designer, but I at least wanted the game to be colorful.

5 cards from Tricked Out, labelled Winner, Highest, Everyone, Lowest, and 2nd Highest.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 03/02/2026

I'm happy to announce my next game, Tricked Out! Tricked Out is a card game you play simultaneously alongside an existing trick-taker, with tricks scoring you points in Tricked Out and giving you special abilities. I'll be selling it at Game Market Vegas at Dice Tower West, so come check it out!

The cover of Tricked Out, with the Queen of Hearts wearing sunglasses and holding a skateboard.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 21/01/2026

It is done. I've officially moved from Windows to Linux.

A screenshot of the default desktop of the Linux distribution Mint.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 17/01/2026

Got a chance to play @matthewdunstan.bsky.social's Happy Home last night! It's a sort of combination of a set collection game and a polyomino game, as you try to fill your house with the right pieces of furniture. It was fun, and felt very thematic. (Ignore the fact my bathroom has 2 toilets.)

The board game Happy Home, with several furniture tiles filling the house board. Cards are off to the side, labeled with their closest room.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 15/01/2026

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Playstation 1's Threads of Fate box cover

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 24/11/2025

I had a great (but tiring) time at PAX Unplugged this past weekend! I pretty much spent all of Friday and Saturday running around, and then all of Saturday night at the IGNM. It was amazing seeing everything, and being able to meet so many cool people. Hopefully next year will be just as cool!

Me, Chris Lawrence, behind a table with several stacks of my game Coupon Clipper.

A PAX Unplugged sign with a big purple X behind it.

A spider crawling on a sign that says Scram, with an E that has been inserted in red to make it say Scream.

A bunch of orange and pink lanterns hanging from a covered booth.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 22/11/2025

The Indie Games Night Market starts in an hour! Come grab a copy of Coupon Clipper and Fold & Fly from me and @drawnonward.bsky.social.

A photo of Taylor Shuss and a table with Coupon Clipper copies and Fold & Fly! copies.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 14/11/2025

All of the scissors that are going to go into copies of Coupon Clipper! It's worth noting all of the blades are less than 4 inches, so all of the scissors are carry-on safe.

Several dozen pairs of scissors, and a few piles of tokens with scissor icons on them.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 11/11/2025

Coupon Clipper is going to be at PAXU! Copies of it'll be sold at the Indie Games Night Market, alongside @drawnonward.bsky.social's Fold & Fly! The game has had a very rocky life, but I'm excited that at least a handful of copies will be able to reach people.

A photo of the board game Coupon Clipper, consisting of a colorful sheet of coupons and 4 pairs of scissors.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 12/10/2025

Playtesting in Santa Monica! We got 6 or 7 games to the table so it was a pretty successful afternoon.

Several people playing a board game prototype.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 04/10/2025

I was always pretty happy with how the cover to Propaganda came out. I made it by taking a couple different photos and "rotoscoping" them together. My one regret is using toy pieces, since some people thought they were in the game. I could've probably found a different "model".

The cover of the board game Propaganda, with a phone aimed at several toy soldiers carefully cropping some of them out of it.

The basis of the cover, a real photo of a phone aimed at a board.

A zoomed in picture of several toy soldiers, where 2 blue soldiers are surrounded by several red ones.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 30/09/2025

Ran a playtest of Propaganda on Saturday! This board has a zone that scores only to whoever has the highest sum of dice in it. (If it's a little off center it's because I was the superpower and had to close my eyes while they played lol.)

The board game Propaganda with several dice rolled onto the board. One player has their phone out.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 13/09/2025

New boards for Propaganda! Including one designed by the lovely @neilk-design.bsky.social and one by @drawnonward.bsky.social. I'm trying out a few different things and playtesting to get things just right, but hopefully they'll be in peoples' hands soon.

Two and a half boards from the board game Propaganda. One has a stripped pattern in the middle, another is asymmetric, and another is out of sight.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 02/09/2025

Photos of Propaganda from playtesting this past weekend. There are new things in the works...

A photo from the board game Propaganda, of 2 dice on the board, just barely on 2 different scoring spaces. 2 more scoring spaces are barely visible at the top and bottom of the photo.

A photo from the board game Propaganda, of 2 dice on the board on 2 different scoring spaces. Several other scoring spaces are visible in the back.

A photo from the board game Propaganda, of 2 dice on a scoring space. The photo has been edited with various parts of it redacted, implying additional dice may also be present.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 02/09/2025

Played a lot of FlipToons last month. I enjoy the game and quite like the random "I hope I get lucky" feel from it, but it's hard to really give your deck an identity. Part of me wonders if it's best on BGA where you can probably just knock out 20 games in an hour.

A photo of the game FlipToons, with 6 cards in front and a row of cards further back.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 29/08/2025

Purging the ol' game collection a little bit. It's rough because I liked playing all these games but ultimately when choosing what to play I never looked at them and went "oh man I want to play this one".

3 board games on a table, Bunny Kingdom, Hamlet, and Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 16/08/2025

Interestingly Team Fortress 2 and one of the Left 4 Dead 2's were gift copies. If I included only games I purchased for myself Everquest (which I've played 10 minutes of) and Torchlight would be added. It's funny how much overlap people have. It really shows you how small Steam was back then.

The first 5 Steam games I purchased, Left 4 Dead 2, Evil Genius, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Team Fortress 2.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 15/07/2025

Got a chance to play Nature last week. I really enjoyed it, which isn't surprising since I think Evolution's one of the best designed games out there. We played with Jungles and Disasters, and I like how the modules change how you should play each game. Like due to an event, Tusks were very good.

The board game Nature. There are 2 species (represented by dials), with 3 trait cards above the first and 2 trait cards above the second. The first has 7 population tokens below it, and the second 6 population tokens.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 15/06/2025

Yesterday I went to a new convention in LA called LFG Con, and played a bunch of games, including Hot Streak. Hot Streak was alotta fun, the chaos was great and there's a real reaction from players when someone is knocked down or squeaks over the finish line.

Four different mascots racing along a grassy track, with the hot dog racer turned around running backwards. Stacks of cash and bets are off to the side.

The four mascot races in the "podium" (the box), indicating how they placed in the race.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 27/05/2025

Got a chance to play a bunch of board games at Strategicon this past weekend. My favorite that I hadn't played before was Wondrous Creatures. I could take or leave the worker placement aspect, but I really liked the card play. It reminded me of a slightly lighter Ark Nova or Everdell.

Several cards from the board game Wondrous Creatures laid out.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 11/05/2025

Played Decorum yesterday and quite liked it. Interestingly, we did a little bit of roleplaying and while it made the game much more fun it was sometimes borderline cheating. It made me wonder if these silent co-op games kind of shoot themselves in the foot, so to speak.

The board game Decorum. The left half is a house covered in decorations, and the right half is a board with all the decorations laid out.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 04/05/2025

I've been playing Minecart Town lately and enjoying it. It's a tile laying game by the same studio who did Little Town and Little Factory, two games I adore. Minecart Town doesn't feel quite as unique but I really admire how streamlined and easy to learn Studio GG's rules are.

13 tiles arranged in a grid, with a few displaying railroad tracks and the rest buildings.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 25/03/2025

A few in-game pictures of Propaganda that I took yesterday at Game Market West as part of me demoing. The strategy of taking a picture of an empty board to show how poorly you're doing (when of course you're scoring a bunch of points right out of shot) is always one of my favorites.

An empty game board, depicting several scoring zones with no dice on them.

A game board with a white die in the middle of nowhere and a white die on a white zone, indicating no points are being scored.

A game board with 2 black dice in a white zone, indicating points are being scored.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 13/03/2025

Empires of the Void II, one of the games I got to play at Dice Tower West. Ultimately I think I had the same problem with it that I had with Arcs. It felt like I was playing a game the majority of the time rather than the players, and when I did fight players it just screwed up my plans.

A photo of Empires of the Void 2, which consists of a board filled with planets, cubes, and space ships.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 08/03/2025

The Propaganda table from Game Market Vegas Thursday (ignore Steve in the background). There's another session at 6pm tonight in the same room in the front, and I'll have the remaining copies of Propaganda with me!

A table with several stacks of a board game labeled Propaganda. Two signs also describe the game and that it has a price of $25. In the middle the game is opened and splayed out. Steve is there.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 28/02/2025

One of the key components of Propaganda is the box, since it and the board are one and the same. However, I discovered later that the sticker paper I used actually peels with time. As such, for the second "printing" I've been using spray glue and regular paper. And so far it's looking good!

Several towers of boxes, seen from above. The boxes are all slightly askew with Propaganda's game board visible in each of them.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 07/02/2025

Game night tonight. We ended up playing Castles of Burgundy (which was my first time ever playing it) and the Star Trek version of Fantasy Realms. Fantasy Realms is probably one of my favorite games of all time, though I do find the Star Trek version a little more muddled.

A photo of several face-up cards depicting characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation, each with a rainbow filter.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 24/01/2025

Played a game of Propaganda last night. Someone pulled ahead in the first 2 rounds so the last round was a bit of a hail Mary, but it was exciting. One guy also covered dice with his hand in his photos (since the rule is 2 dice max) which is something I hadn't seen before haha.

Two dice on a board. Each is in a different black zone.

Two dice on a board. One is a 5 and the other is a 6.

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Chris Lawrence 🔜 PAXU @chris.eternalstudios.com · 23/01/2025

I've been addicted to Path of Achra lately. It's an incredibly well designed rogue-like that's all about min-maxing your character. There's a ton of options that synergize in cool ways, and it's all presented in a way that's easy to understand. And the game's snappy to play, so you can experiment.

A grid with basic pixel art. One space has the player character, while a few nearby spaces have rat enemies. At the bottom is the combat log. At the top is health, and to the side a list of character buffs/debuffs.

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