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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

⚠️ (Please note: all art depicted is from the original Zoch version and not by QB nor intended for use in our final version.)

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The old theme was about fruits. The new theme is about books, specifically the street libraries of Berlin. This new direction will guide art & our mini-expansions. Here’s another photo that more clearly shows the first version of Jeroen’s mini “goals” expansion we’re developing.

Photo of Jeroen Geenen's Cherry Picking, with some prototype cards mixed in.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

🍒 It's a reimplementation of Jeroen Geenen’s Cherry Picking. We’ll share more details in a design & dev diary later, but for now we’d like to briefly introduce you to the original version which we’ve been playtesting again to solidify the scope & focus of our current dev.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

📚 We wrapped up March beginning work on Street Library. Along with Dragon Eyes, it’s intended to be one of our first small box games aimed at a lower price point (similar to Herbaceous, by Pencil First Games, which we localized in German & Dutch back when we used to translate games).

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

With the arrival of May - and good weather here in Berlin - I have to catch y’all up on our dev activities from the last month!

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Spring is here in Berlin, bringing with it cherry blossoms, and I love them. 🌸

Photo of cherry blossoms on a branch against a blue sky.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is a very neat game and I'd suggest you consider to grab a copy before they're gone!

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

@boardgamegeek.com is there a way to remove a release year from a game listing? I am not seeing the option to leave the field blank.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A bit of research with Codinca in bed tonight.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

We won’t go into the specific rules and details now, but if that’s something you’re interested in don’t be shy to reach out to become a playtester as we’ll be playing a lot of Towers throughout April! playtest.qualitybeast.com

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Quality Beast: Playtesters' Guild Signup

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

📝 Our testing is focused on the vanilla base game for now. There is expansion content but we’ll get to that later. We agree w/ many of the areas they’d like to improve, so we're mostly evaluating the solutions they’ve proposed, seeing if they match the game’s original (and newly proposed) vision.

Photo of a board game prototype of Towers of the Sun by Quality Beast.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🃏 Here’s a quick side-by-side view of the cards from each version. @allplay.bsky.social’s dev team prepared a PNP for us to use but we chose to redo both their cards and our original ones so that new players wouldn’t have a bias towards either set.

Photo of prototype cards depicting both the Quality Beast and Allplay versions of the Towers of the Sun fight cards.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🌞 At the end of last week we were back testing Towers of the Sun. ✂️ We had some prototyping to do in order to compare and contrast the version from Allplay’s dev team with our original turned in ruleset.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Ooooo love this theme! 📺💀👻

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Tonight's texture: Frankfurter Tor staircase soap swirls.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I won’t share all the potential rules changes here in this short update, but we’re testing some different selection rules for what you can take when you pull stones from the bag, along with a variety of different scoring and player elimination changes.

Image of the prototype version of Dragon Eyes, a board game by Tim Bosje and Quality Beast.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I was back to the physical #DragonEyes prototype over the weekend, continuing testing of Tim’s new, definitive ruleset. Here you can see the temporary prototype colors, before we begin experimenting with different paints to showcase the treasure’s more thematic colors.

Prototype stones from the Quality Beast board game, Dragon Eyes.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Absolutely stunning. Beautiful beautiful work.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Amazing work. Spreading for visibility!

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Once we had the cards completed, we fired up the TTS mod and made any additional changes required before we buckled down to study the new dev rulebook. Finally we got in our first game! It's an exciting time and we're eager to be testing more over the next weeks...

Screenshot of the the Quality Beast board game Towers of the Sun in Tabletop Simulator for testing, with the game's designer, Stefan Brakman, in the corner in a video call.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We began by reviewing their card tweaks & prepping them for use in our internal testing TTS mod. The cards in Towers are meant to be simple, & the current dev changes try to keep that while also striving to better incentivize fights & marge card play more into the spatial puzzle.

Screenshot of the current Allplay prototype of the Quality Beast board game Towers of the Sun, specifically showing the cards, with the game's designer, Stefan Brakman, in the corner in a video call.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Friday saw us wrapping up the week by diving into our second round review of Allplay's development changes on #TowersOfTheSun...

Screenshot of the Quality Beast board game Towers of the Sun in Tabletop Simulator for testing.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Some of the most impenetrable and underground hip hop / rap of all time. Lune TNS from Funcrusher Plus by Company Flow: open.spotify.com/track/12U8kx...

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Lune TNS

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This week I got the #DragonEyes mod closer to an up-to-date state, adding in: - Curse Tokens (for point tracking) - Per-Player-Count Score Cards - Order Tokens - Eye of Greed (the 1st expansion) Next task is adding in the rulebook & the 2nd expansion, Family Heirlooms.

Digital version of the upcoming board game, Dragon Eyes, by Quality Beast.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I've been impressed with how fast y'all have been moving to get the new studio running. Pretty inspiring stuff. Can't wait to see what the future brings for Buried Giant. Especially w/ the structure discussed in your recent design diary. This matches early convos we had at our first SPIEL together.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Here's a close up. Played a bit with the material settings in TTS but I don't ultimately this level of detail will be something to approach as we build the reviewer prototypes and pursue factory samples. Iconography tests coming next!

Image of Mancala stone style components for the Dragon Eyes prototype by Quality Beast.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I'm updating our TTS mod for #DragonEyes to begin locking in the component list for quoting. Got the stones to be about the same shape as those in the designer prototype (similar to Mancala stones) and began applying our first draft of thematic colors.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Cooking a lot these days and right now getting my kale on. Anyone else cooking with kale and got good recipes?

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Hot damn, your work is absolute gorgeous fire sauce! I would love to work with you one day. Certainly following and bookmarking for the future... 🤞 But for today I will throw in a modest repost to help spread visibility!

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Why, hello old friend. How exciting and emotional it is to fire you up once more... #TowersOfTheSun

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Early morning electrician appointments at the new office to fix the doorbell. Looking good, right? ⚡😅

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Quality Beast @qualitybeast.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to everyone around the world! We hope you have safe, fun, and cozy celebrations with family and friends. We'll see you all in 2026! 🎉🥳🤗🦊🧡

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Nice! I'm been doing homemade ramen recently and trying to learn more.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Sure sounds like a great day! Homemade ramen or restaurant ramen?

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Super impressive work. 🖊️🤍

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Amazing work! 👏👏👏

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy Holidays everyone! 🎄🕎🎁❄️🎉✨ I hope y'all have safe, relaxing, and joyful times with close friends and loved ones. 🧡

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It's been overwhelmingly busy of late, but last weekend I took the kiddos to their morning sport and while they climbed I finally got a few spare moments to dig into some design ideas bouncing around in my head...

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

PS. Any changes you made from the original?

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Haha, thought you'd like that post.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This one is on my my list to try next. I must admit, it's the theming and art that pull me in.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I've still yet to play it! Can't wait to though.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Yo, big thanks to you! Still hunting more copies of Inflation! though... I know you only do one-and-done, but any word on someone else printing it again? It's so good!

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Each year our Kita has an Adventskalender where a different kid's parent makes the activity that day. I always design a game w/ my girls. This year was an Adventskalender game - very meta! Design & art by my girls (8 & 5) & me, w/ ideas from their mom & my partner.

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It's surreal to share this news, but there's no better day than on my birthday! Big shout out to Joe Wiggins (anyone know if he's on BlueSky?) over at @allplay.bsky.social for the trust and belief in the game for so many years, in the past and into the future! #SeizeTheBean

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Whew, I haven't done this in a while! ☕️📣 #SeizeTheBean

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dilkROM @dilkrom.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It's a jungle out there. 🌿

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