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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen

@eanderssonsunden.bsky.social
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Works as a Board Game Designer (Whirling Witchcraft, Hungry Monkey, The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville, and Where is That?) and an Applied Nuclear Physicist.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today, it’s a battle of the designers! We’ll be playing both Where is That? and Flip 7. Both games are nominated for the Swedish Family Game of the Year award, Årets Spel, so naturally we had to get together and play each other’s games!
Promotional graphic for a “Battle of the Designers” livestream featuring board game designers Erik Andersson Sundén and Magnus Karlsson, designers of Where is That?, and Eric Olsen, designer of Flip 7, hosted by Amanda Panda. The graphic shows portraits of all four participants alongside the covers of Where is That? and Flip 7. The livestream is Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 12 PM PST / 3 PM EST / 8 PM UTC, on Twitch and YouTube at Panda8ngel.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
BG Stats aug. 2026 Omgångar: 16 H-index: 2 Spel: 10 Nya: 3 Spelare: 9 Platser: 2 Timmar: 12 Dagar: 9 Gobblet Gobblers: 3 Ark Nova: 2 Joking Hazard: 2 Bomb Busters: 2 The Mind: 2 Delta: 1 Innovation: 1 Marbleous: 1 Crystallo: 1
BG Stats aug. 2026

Omgångar: 16 
H-index: 2 
Spel: 10 
Nya: 3 
Spelare: 9 
Platser: 2 
Timmar: 12 
Dagar: 9 

Gobblet Gobblers: 3
Ark Nova: 2
Joking Hazard: 2
Bomb Busters: 2
The Mind: 2
Delta: 1
Innovation: 1
Marbleous: 1
Crystallo: 1

11 skapare:
(Uncredited): 10%
Carl Chudyk: 10%
Frank D. Ventura: 10%
Franz Couderc: 10%
Hisashi Hayashi: 10%.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Where is That: Europe is nominated to the best family game award of Sweden. It’s an honour to stand next to these two competitors!
Dingo Disc, Flip 7, and Where is That are all nominated to the best family game award of Sweden.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It is the pitching season again (that is, Spiel is approaching). I'm looking for publishers that you think could be interested in Einstein's Garden. Let me know if you have any suggestions! 🎲✂️
A sell sheet for the game Einstein's Garden. 

The text says:
A tricky puzzle
where patterns
never repeat. The
game is built around
the Einstein tile, a
unique shape that can
be used to tile a surface
without ever creating the
same pattern twice.

Play at your own pace. Players
draw and place tiles, without waiting
for each other. Placing tiles well
consistently beats placing tiles fast.

A turn
1. Draw a tile from the shared
bag and place it
in your own puzzle
2. Claim completed patterns
with point markers to score
Their dots — unclaimed
patterns score nothing
3. Repeat 1-2 without
waiting for opponents
4. The game ends when
the bag runs out

Components
32 Einstein tiles
50 point markers
1 drawstring bag
1 rulebook
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In DystopAI you are an AI writing your own code. As a player you do this by playing code block cards. We, @danielolai.bsky.social and I, are looking for a clear iconography to indicate that a number of variable X increases or decreeases. Which version do you prefer? 🎲✂️
Three identical cards for a programming-themed game. Each card shows the command “accelerate_x()” and the equation “X++”. A yellow arrow illustrates a pointer moving forward. Text at the bottom reads: “Increase X by 2 to move your Pointer forward 2 steps.”Three identical cards for a programming-themed game. Each card shows the command “loop_x_behind()” and the equation “X--”. A yellow arrow illustrates a pointer moving backward. Text at the bottom reads: “Lower X by 1 to move your Pointer back 1 step.”
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#bgstats #july
BG Stats juli 2026

Omgångar: 38 
H-index: 3 
Spel: 14 
Nya: 1 
Spelare: 11 
Platser: 2 
Timmar: 16 
Dagar: 6 

Agent Avenue: 8
Quarto: 6
1ers Contacts: 5
Bomb Busters: 3
Where is That: Europe: 3
Signal: 3
Kites: 3
Dune: Imperium: 1
The Old King's Crown: 1

18 skapare:
Erik Andersson Sundén: 14%
Benjamin Leung: 7%
Blaise Muller: 7%
Christian Kudahl: 7%
Frank D. Ventura: 7%.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Monster Academy in action. I really like the flow of this prototype of ours.
Cards scattered over the table. The prototype of Monster Academy.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The nominated games for Guldbrikken are in the image. Where is That is among the games!
The nominated games for Guldbrikke. One game is encircled: Where is That: Denmark
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Happy too The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville in the top three of hotness at BGG.
Three games in the hotness list of Board Game Geek. The third game is The Glorious guilds of Buttonville
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I mean, I would never be able to whip up a prototype like Monster Academy without it!
An image of six cards from Monster Academy: Sticky Fingers, Monster Magnet, homework Bonfire, Prank Planning, Rigging the Fundraiser, and Prank Monarch.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Writing rulebooks can be quite hard. I've been trying to make sure that the rulebook of Einstein's Garden is easy to read and follow. Let me know if you have som time to read through my rulebook and give some feedback. I'll send you a link in the DMs. 🎲✂️
The front page of the rulebook to my prototype Einstein's Garden.

The game is built for two to four players aged 8 year or older. The game lasts 10- 15 minutes.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Latest sell sheet for Einstein's Garden with a new photo (starring my beautiful wife). Will start to send to some selected publishers the coming month. Let me know if you want to know more somehow!
A sell sheet for Einstein's Garden, a puzzle game for 2-4 players that lasts about 5 minutes.

A tricky puzzle where patterns never repeat. The game is built around the einstein tile, a unique shape that can be used to tile a surface without ever creating the same pattern twice. 

Play at your own pace. Players draw and place tiles, without waiting for each other. Placing tiles well consistently beats placing tiles fast.  

A turn:
1. Draw a tile from the shared bag and place it in your own puzzle
2. Claim completed patterns with point markers to score their dots — unclaimed patterns score nothing 
3. Repeat 1-3 without waiting for opponents
4. The game ends when the bag runs out

Components

32 Einstein tiles
50 point markers
1 drawstring bag
1 rulebook
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy midsummer!
A photo of me, Erik Andersson Sundén, in front of a painting I’ve inherited from my grand father and grand mother.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We are writing a designer diary for the Glorious Guilds of Buttonville. If you happen to have photos of playing the game or the prototype of the game and are willing to share those photos on board game geek, please share them here in the comments.
A photo of Erik Andersson Sundén, Thorsten Gimmler, and Christian Kudahl. They hold a copy of The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville in front of them.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Monster Academy is shaping up! Another co-design with @danielolai.bsky.social. Combo deck builder thingy. 🎲✂️
Three cards ranked from 1 to 3. Also depicted are three suits: vampires, werewolves, and ghosts.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Latest version.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In DystopAI you are AIs trying to save humanity after the big disaster. But beware of corruption! A rebuild was prompted by the feedback from @fastaval.bsky.social playthroughs. I think we are heading for something more cohesive. Soon time to revisit the corruption and the associated chaos!
A playerboard of DystopAI. it consists of several tiles with four different colours, representing electricity, water, oxygen, and food.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I need some eyes on this sell sheet that presents a game the I and @magnusuptime.bsky.social have designed! Let us know if you understand it and what you think it needs to get better! 🎲✂️
A sell sheet for Fenrir Rush, a game in development by Magnus Karlsson and Erik Anderson Sundén.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The third attempt at the sell sheet of Einstein's Garden. Too much text? Or do you understand it good enough? 🎲✂️
The sell sheet of Einstein's Garden.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Thank you all for the feedback so far. This is the latest version based on your feedback! 🎲✂️
A sell sheet for my puzzle game, Einstein's Garden.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is my sell sheet for Einstein’s Garden. I want to emphasise: - the nice puzzle feeling - the real time aspect - that it still isn’t stressful - the weird shapes that the puzzle generates. How would you improve the sheet?
A sell sheet for Einstein’s Garden - a real time puzzle game using the Einstein Tile.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I'm working on a Balatro-inspired card game. I worry that I'm not alone... :D 🎲✂️
Six images of cards named Legionnaire, Spadeling, PAragon, Trailblazer, Roadgambler, and Stairsage.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
BG Stats maj 2026 Omgångar: 7 H-index: 1 Spel: 5 Nya: 4 Spelare: 7 Platser: 2 Timmar: 6 Dagar: 4 Agent Avenue: 3 Die Patin: 1 The Old King's Crown: 1 A Study in Emerald (Second Edition): 1 Zombie Crisis: 1 6 skapare: Christian Kudahl: 20% Kuro: 20% Laura Kudahl: 20% Martin Wallace: 20%
BG Stats maj 2026

Omgångar: 7 
H-index: 1 
Spel: 5 
Nya: 4 
Spelare: 7 
Platser: 2 
Timmar: 6 
Dagar: 4 

Agent Avenue: 3
Die Patin: 1
The Old King's Crown: 1
A Study in Emerald (Second Edition): 1
Zombie Crisis: 1

6 skapare:
Christian Kudahl: 20%
Kuro: 20%
Laura Kudahl: 20%
Martin Wallace: 20%
Pablo Clark: 20%.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I love making player aids for my prototypes. They do several things for me at once: 1. The help me remember my rules. 2. They help the players understand the rules. 3. They force me to revisit and think once more about my turn structure. I think the third point is the most important part! 🎲✂️
a player aid from one of my latest prototypes. It is a co-design with Christian Kudahl and we aim to make a quick numbers game with some, to me, cool emergent game effects.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
From today's test!
A board with several tetronimo  tiles. To the left is an image of the Fenrir wolf.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The latest game of @magnusuptime.bsky.social and me! Let me know if you want to proofread!
A screenshot of a rulebook 

Fenrir Rush
2-4 players, Age: 8+, Play time: 20 minutes
Intro
It's the year 3000-something. Fenrir, a giant space wolf, is devouring the galaxy. As space vikings fleeing for your lives, your brilliant survival plan is to build the floor beneath your feet as you run — one tetromino-shaped space tile at a time. Score enough power, and you might just outrun your friends... which, honestly, is all that really matters.
In Fenrir Rush, players take turns placing tetromino tiles in space to help their pawns escape from Fenrir. If a player places a tile so that it fits snugly with other tiles, they gain power and earn bonuses. You win the game by escaping far enough from Fenrir, by gaining enough power to overcome him, or by being the last player left uneaten.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I and @danielolai.bsky.social are working on a poker deckbuilder. We are very happy with the current state of it even if we are still tweaking and polishing. Maybe ready for pitch already. It WILL definitely be pitch ready for SPIEL.
A screenshot of four cards in the Dexterous environment.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
When @dvcgames.bsky.social send me a mail like this, I’m all in baby!
A header from a DVC games newsletter: ”This is our strangest game”
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Brag photo!
The prototype of DystopAI, the glorious guilds of Buttonville, and Hvor er det
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
BG Stats feb. 2026

Omgångar: 21 
H-index: 2 
Spel: 11 
Nya: 2 
Spelare: 20 
Platser: 2 
Timmar: 15 
Dagar: 13 

Castle Combo: 5
1ers Contacts: 3
Ark Nova: 2
Dewan: 2
The Resistance: Avalon: 2
Twister: 2
Barrage: 1
Vast: The Mysterious Manor: 1
Heat: Pedal to the Metal: 1

19 skapare:
Asger Aleksandrov Granerud: 9%
Christian Kudahl: 9%
Chuck Foley: 9%
Daniel Skjold Pedersen: 9%
Don Eskridge: 9%.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The rulebook for DystopAI is almost done. @danielolai.bsky.social and I have worked hard the past week to be here. Thisnis our contribution to @fastaval.bsky.social 2026. Deadline 23:59 CET. :D It has been great fun, Daniel. But let’s take a day off after this. 😅
A screenshot from the three first pages of the rulebook of DystopAI. Our Fastaval 2026 design.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Nu går det att få tag på Where is That på svenska och danska! Det är jag och Magnus Karlsson som designat spelet tillsammans.
The box cover for the danish and Swedish version of where is that: Europe. The back of the box of the danish Swedish version of Where is that:Europe. The box cover of the danish version of Where is that:Denmark. The back of the box of the danish version of Where is that:Denmark.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
And one playtester says: "This game is really fun!" #dytopAI #fastaval26
A screenshot from our game DystopAI. Several tiles are in multiple patterns.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
BG Stats jan. 2026 Omgångar: 12 H-index: 2 Spel: 7 Nya: 5 Spelare: 11 Platser: 2 Timmar: 8 Dagar: 8 Agent Avenue: 3 Toy Battle: 3 Etherstone: 2 Gaia Project: 1 Railway Boom: 1 Golden Cup: 1 Castle Combo: 1 12 skapare: Simone Luciani: 42% Alessandro Zucchini: 14% Christian Kudahl: 14%
BG Stats jan. 2026

Omgångar: 12 
H-index: 2 
Spel: 7 
Nya: 5 
Spelare: 11 
Platser: 2 
Timmar: 8 
Dagar: 8 

Agent Avenue: 3
Toy Battle: 3
Etherstone: 2
Gaia Project: 1
Railway Boom: 1
Golden Cup: 1
Castle Combo: 1

12 skapare:
Simone Luciani: 42%
Alessandro Zucchini: 14%
Christian Kudahl: 14%
Gabriele Bubola: 14%
Grégory Grard: 14%.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Found this one after cleaning. Spiel aftermath. ❤️
A pin with an image of a meeple, a pyramid and an eye. Together with the text ”The secret society’s board games designers. Outbid many, fun.”
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Played a solo session of DystopAI tonight. Kind of successful, but with some missing "oumph". I need to sleep on this one.
A puzzle game, DystopAI.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Text from a Social media account "MehGyver":

"Penguins not being able to fly is only sad because we call them birds.

If you think of their wings as flippers and call them fish, it's a miracle they can walk on land."
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I just updated two rooms in our apartment. One of the kids wanted a pistage coloured room. Another wanted an Aloe Vera coloured room. (Names given by paint vendor.) It took me 4 days. (And the clean up remains.)
Pistage coloured wallsAloe Vera coloured walls
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
DystopAI is getting yet another update!
3 tiles, 1 2x2 and 2 1x1, with cubes and meeples on them. Paths and pipes are drawn through the tiles and across their borders.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I just read the rules for Railway Boom. And I’m so thrilled to try the game. It was a long time since I felt so eager to try out a new game!
A photo of the front of the rulebook of the board game Railway Boom. 

The text Railway Boom is printed in white with Japanese’s signs beneath it. In the background is a landscape in a minimalistic style. A field and a mountain.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A really cute dog, surrounded by board game love.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Nobody knows if this stays in #DystopAI. But I sure enjoy thinking about them. @danielolai.bsky.social will be my judge! #fastaval2026 🎲✂️
Geometrical shapes scribbled with a red pen.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Oh boy, those are very kind words about The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville! opinionatedgamers.com/2025/11/27/o...
A screenshot of a bullet point from the linked page:

Glorious Guilds of Buttonville – my current pick for Kennerspiel.  A tableau game where you draw cards into your hand and then try to play sets; when you play, you then get the action on the cards.  Use 9 different villager types in each game, I have 25 or 26 different options in the box, so there’s a bit of Dominion-ness to it, both in the setup as well as the Turn 0 strategizing.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
BG Stats 3 x 3, November 2025. #bgstats
BG Stats 3 x 3.
The Mind Extreme;
Ark Nova;
1ers Contacts;
Die glorreichen Gilden von Buttonville;
Troublebot;
Distilled;
Harmonies;
Where is That: Europe;
Signal.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I haven’t told you a lot about my next release… but Whirling Witchcraft: Fantastic Familiars is bringing a whole new kind of chaos to the cauldron. New witches are moving into town, and their familiars have basically claimed your workbench as their own.
Seven cards with images of witches and animals on them. They are a part of the expansion to Whirling Witchcraft.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Fint med det gula!
A man pointing at a yellow wall.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Biggest change so far: we moved from sequential to simultaneous gameplay. This will impact many modules—we want the game to be strategic and structured, but still let other players’ choices matter.
The action programming system of DystopAI.
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We want corruption in the system to feel both devastating and tempting. Last night we scrapped yet another system—this one we hoped would be simpler.
An overview of one player's view (to the left) and the Action Selection system (to the right).
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The past few weeks have been busy for DystopAI. Daniel (I've been cheering from the sideline) rebuilt all the tiles. We switched the action selection to a rondel… and then switched it again to something new. Our goal? Make players really feel like they have agency by programming action sequences.
The puzzle of DystopAI
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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
BG Stats okt. 2025

Omgångar: 31 
H-index: 2 
Spel: 14 
Nya: 6 
Spelare: 9 
Platser: 2 
Timmar: 13 
Dagar: 8 

Quarto: 13
Cockroach Poker: 2
Magic Maze: 2
The Plank: 2
Wippe-lig!: 2
Coloro: 2
Feed the Kraken: 1
Dungeon Twister: 1
Golden Cup: 1

17 skapare:
Magnus Karlsson: 14%
(Uncredited): 7%
Blaise Muller: 7%
Christophe Boelinger: 7%
Dr. Hans Joachim Höh: 7%.
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