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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 04/10/2026

Updated my logo + website after a long stint on squarespace. They raised their prices so I decided to just build my own thing again. Check it out! coinflip.games

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 17/05/2026

I think this counts as an Urban Professional too. Grey heron at a construction site.

Binoculars photo of a grey heron on top of a construction shed.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 13/05/2026

Game design is really unhinged sometimes

A (purposefully) confusing image showing a bunch of dice and arrows pointing at a giant piece of sashimi. The numbers on the dice are halved when the arrow is pointing at salmon roe and doubled when pointing at wasabi. The total of the sashimi numbers is written in the paper lamp on the right of the image.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 23/04/2026

It's the final day for Chicken Fried Dice on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/urb... (No chickens were harmed in the taking of this photo)

A box of Chicken Fried Dice behind flames

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 18/04/2026

No context poll: what costume would a moose wear to conceal his identity?

A moose cheekily peeking out from behind a bush

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 16/03/2026

Launching a KS tomorrow. I'm not panicking, you're panicking! (because you haven't hit the follow button yet, right??) www.kickstarter.com/projects/urb...

Chicken Fried Dice cover art for Kickstarter. Includes a "Project We Love" sticker

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 19/01/2026

100% scientific poll. Which of these images catches your eye the most?

Chicken Fried Dice box sitting on a table with the game components strewn about.

Insitu shot of Chicken Fried Dice setup to play. The red truck is showing with a cat, lizard, and chicken customer

Stylized shot of the Chicken Fried Dice box and cards over a black background. There are dice being dropped in front of the box.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 25/11/2025

Photographic evidence of me losing my voice from talking about Trickadee all weekend.

Photo of people listening to me pitch Trickadee at our booth at pax unplugged. One person is holding their hand up to their ear to hear me better

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 23/11/2025

I wasn't planning on doing the Indie Night Market, but when there was an open table, how could I not? It was a wonderful event and my only regret is not being able to make it to the other tables!

A picture of me with all my copies of Trickadee ready for the Night Market to start.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 20/11/2025

#PAXUnplugged2025 is tomorrow! If you're going, grab yourself a little bird themed stocking stuffer!

PAX Unplugged floor map highlighting the Coin Flip Games booth (#3752) and Trickadee for $20. Trickadee is a trick-taking and set collection game about birds in the Pacific Northwest

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 28/09/2025

Bonus fun: 3D modeling in a van by the beach

Same render shown on a laptop inside a van. The background scene is of a beach in Seattle

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 28/09/2025

Convention planning via 3D modeling is pretty fun. I think we'll be doing up a booth something like this at PAX Unplugged

3D rendered booth with teal floor tiles, 2 big banners showing Chicken Fried Dice and Urban Professional Games. There are 2 black tables and a tall banner also of Chicken Fried Dice. There's a big spiral of Trickadee copies on the side of the booth.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/08/2025

PNW Tabletop Game Market was a huge success! I had so much fun and now I will need so much sleep.

My table setup before it opened. I was selling copies of Tabby Tower, nook, and Trickadee. Demos of Chicken Fried Dice.

Action shot of a demo of Chicken Fried Dice

Wide shot of the market in full swing. Large crowd of people browsing games

The line before the market opened wrapped around

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 22/08/2025

I'll be there with a few copies of Tabby Tower for sale! This is a game near and dear to me as it was inspired by my cat, MC Cat Commander. He passed away a few weeks ago.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 20/05/2025

Made a logo tonight that I'm particularly happy with. Tell me to stop shifting pixels around and then undoing it.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 21/03/2025

This is a little known rule, but here at @urbanprogames.bsky.social we have a dress code for playing our games. This was at the Legislative Game Night hosted by Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs and the Tabletop Game Association.

Four people sitting and playing Chicken Fried Dice wearing business casual attire. They're reaching into the middle of the table to pick up dice.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 16/03/2025

Bok bok! Chicken Fried Dice has a new little mascot for all our future booths. I think they need a name...

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

And finally... December! We got into PAX Rising and rallied our friends to help out at the booth. We were so grateful and blown away by the response. Chicken Fried Dice had a great showing and Trickadee even got a little boost just by proxy.

Rob and Ashwin standing behind the Chicken Fried Dice table in the PAX Rising booth.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

Also by this point I was prepping for the Trickadee Kickstarter. It was a mad dash to get the campaign ready before November. I had to drop some planned add-ons just from a lack of being able to actually deliver on them.

Trickadee promo image showing all the components of the game.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

Right around this time, Ashwin also pitches the wildest idea for Chicken Fried Dice to make the boards modular. I had been in the habit of shutting down component changes at this point so we could wrap up the game more quickly, but it was a brilliant idea. We had to go for it!

Early prototype of the modular truck board for Chicken Fried Dice. The pieces are not glued together to show the layers

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

Late summer was all about prepping for PAX Unplugged in December. We applied and were really banking on getting into PAX Rising. Though we wouldn't find out until October that we were selected. Meanwhile, we were getting more and more artwork from the wonderful Meimo.

Sketches from Meimo showing some options for the Chicken Fried Dice box.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

July was a blast from the past! Not only a retro game, but one I had signed to Talon Strikes back in 2019. It was Mix Tape, but due to some trademark issues, is now Cassette Crush. The Kickstarter was a success and it was fun to follow along without having to do the work like with nook.

Mix Tape / Cassette Crush cards laid out in a grid. They're all brightly colored and show parody song titles from the 80s and 90s on them.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

Origins was a lot of things, but it was our first time exhibiting as Urban Professional Games and showing off Chicken Fried Dice in a big, public way. @boardgameghee.bsky.social crushed it at the booth. I also got more involved with the Building the Game podcast community. Such amazing folks

The demo setup for Chicken Fried Dice at Origins. The game is set up for a quick elevator pitch rather than playing.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

May was also the beginning of Trickadee! It started from the guts of a very different bird themed game I was working on with Aaron Mesburne and quickly deviated into something completely new. I did the artwork for the original version, but was unhappy with it. I'm so glad I found Kelsey King.

Early version of Trickadee showing my original art on top of a European Starling and Kelsey King's initial sketch on the bottom of a Chickadee. The cards are laid out like a rainbow.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

By May, we had decided on an art direction for Chicken Fried Dice and solidified the name/brand for publishing it. Urban Professional Games earned a nice little raccoon mascot drawn by myself. We were deep into planning a booth at Origins to demo the game at this point as well.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

By this point, 2 giant boxes of nook arrived. I learned very rapidly some lessons on shipping and fulfillment. Mostly that stuffing 150 envelopes is about as many as I'd want to do myself. Got all the orders out though!

Several boxes containing padded envelopes with nook.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

Chicken Fried Dice continued to evolve pretty dramatically throughout 2024. #Unpub validated one of the best parts of the game with real time dice drafting. We were still taking turns pulling dice from cool little shopping carts before this.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

Also in January was #OrcaCon! @boardgameghee.bsky.social and I decided to publish Chicken Fried Dice ourselves late in 2023. We were fresh off #PAXU and had made some updates to the game. I think we felt it was "close" at this point, but we had little idea just how much more work there was to go

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 31/12/2024

I started the year by launching a #make100 Kickstarter for nook. I had decided to do this fairly late in December and threw together a Kickstarter page mostly following in the footsteps of @zeruagames.bsky.social. Launch Tabletop was a huge asset for this small of a campaign.

nook the card game laid out in a table with fall/winter decorations slightly blurred in the background.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 26/12/2024

Nearly throw away gag from Shaun of the Dead where Shaun sees his zombified roommate. I'll say this just about anytime I see someone out and about more than once.

Screenshot from Shaun of the Dead with Shaun looking bloodied saying Fuck-a-doodle-doo!

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 18/12/2024

I never posted the battle damage our Chicken Fried Dice prototype cards suffered. Apparently dry erase spray on coating can only take 1 day of use at a convention before... This!

A card from the game, Chicken Fried Dice. The left side of the card is very worn from constant writing and erasing.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 09/12/2024

And the folks we were sharing the booth with were so talented and friendly. I wish I could have spared some time to see their games as well. They were just as busy as we were! Shout out to Kickstarter for selecting us and putting our games right in the center of the hall! Happy 15th!

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 09/12/2024

PAX Unplugged was just incredible. Now the post-con blues can set in. I had such an amazing time in the PAX Rising booth showing off Chicken Fried Dice. There was so much energy about this silly little food truck game @boardgameghee.bsky.social and I have been working on for years and years now

Rob and Ashwin smiling in the Kickstarter booth.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 08/12/2024

We ran out of flyers... so I'm taking this puzzle online! See if you can use the pre-plucked dice and abilities to feed all 4 customers. Our solution: urbanprofessional.games/cfd-puzzle-1...

Puzzle flyer front. This is a simplified version of Chicken Fried Dice that has some parts of the game filled in or simplified. Your goal is to feed all 4 customers. The truck has 3 prep ingredients: 4 yellow, 6 green, and 1 white. The truck has 1 sauce (change colors) and 1 chop (cut die into 2 numbers). Toss is unavailable. The menu board has one ability already available (green X). The pre-plucked dice are 4 white, 6 purple, 2 red, and 6 yellow. The customers are (from left to right and ingredients bottom to top)
- Okapi, white > green > purple. Reward 3 red X
- Chicken, white > red > red. Reward 1 wild X
- Lizard, white > yellow > green > yellow. Reward 2 sweet
- Fox, white > purple > red > red. Reward 1 red X

Puzzle Rules
In Chicken Fried Dice, you operate your own food truck where you're trying to feed as many customers as you can. In this puzzle version of the game, try to feed all 4 customers using the dice we've plucked for you.
Feed customers by filling in all the ingredient slots on their cards using the numbers from matching ingredients. Ingredients come from dice and abilities. You must Order UP! the ingredients– meaning each number must be greater than or equal to any numbers below it. Once all the ingredient slots are filled, earn rewards from that customer in the form of star segments and abilities.
Star segments determine how well you did in this puzzle.
There are two types of abilities: Xs and favorites. Xs allow you put an X on an empty ingredient slot matching that color and disregard it for Order UP. The rainbow version is wild and can apply to any ingredient. Favorites allow you to circle an ability on the matching flavor track on the Favorites board (one is already available to use). This unlocks more abilities to feed customers.
Your truck has 3 stations to help you solve this puzzle. Prep includes 3 available ingredients with set colors and numbers. Use Chop to split any die into 2 numbers adding up to that die's number. Use Sauce to change the color of a die. You may not need all of them!
Good luck!

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 07/12/2024

Oh, yes, if you haven't been by already... we're in Booth 2833 with a bunch of other amazing games. I also have Trickadee up on display for those with a keen eye. A few folks yesterday reaalllly wanted to play and it was so much fun being able to show it off to them over in the freeplay area.

A map of the PAX Unplugged expo hall. The Kickstarter booth (2833) is highlighted in green with the location of our table in the booth. Chicken Fried Dice and Trickadee logos are shown above the booth.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 07/12/2024

Day 1 of #PAXUnplugged was hopping! It was really fun seeing people read the name of the game from a distance and make their way straight over for a demo. "You're telling me a chicken fried these dice?"

An image of the Chicken Fried Dice table in the Kickstarter booth at PAX Unplugged. In the foreground, 4 players are trying out a full version of the game and in the background, 3 people are getting the elevator pitch of the game.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 06/12/2024

We're so close to 200%! And only 2 copies of nook left!

Screenshot of the Trickadee Kickstarter campaign page. The project is 194% funded with 7 days to go.

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 05/12/2024

🎲✂️ I saw a few designers posting about this. I have printed and chopped cards at every pax unplugged I've attended. This batch was designed on the plane ride over and picked up this morning. Related... Anyone up for a rummy x balatro game that might explode wildly?

Freshly cut cards in the FedEx print shop

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 04/12/2024

I'll be in the PAX Rising booth showing off Chicken Fried Dice! Swing by if a real-time roll-and-write sounds like your jam.

PAX Unplugged map directing viewers to booth 2823 to demo Chicken Fried Dice

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Rob Newton | Coin Flip Games @coinflip.games · 04/12/2024

Spotify just making up genres at this point. I apparently listened to a lot of Psychedelic Marimba World and Van Life Indie Pop Folk this year.

Spotify wrapped image. Top artists were Black Belt Eagle Scout, Arc De Soleil, BALTHVS, Bnny, and Khruangbin. Top songs were Sweet Taste, Cartagena, Take That Back, Paloma, and Babyyy. Minutes listened was 44,217.

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