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Chris Prime @chrisinhm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This prototype has been super fun to get to the table. My first party/dexterity design. Back to the Box While you sleep, your lost board game pieces must quickly climb their way back to their boxes or succumb to the evil vacuum in the morning. 🎲✂️

Mixture of game pieces balanced and stacked haphazardly on a bowl-shaped "board"

A table with cards, game pieces, and people around it

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I LOVE coffee. I LOVE frogs! This game IS designed for me!

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Italian board game creator Paolo Mori has picked up his second designer of the year prize in the space of five months thanks to Lucca Comics & Games – one of Europe’s biggest comics and tabletop gaming festivals: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... Huge congrats @mropla.bsky.social !

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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 · 18/09/2026

This is my go to trick. I’m just interested in hearing people out.

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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

genuinely a cheat code for talking to people is just asking them questions about their interests or whatever they're doing in their life. they will just talk and talk and talk

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Patrick Bleeder @patrickleder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our team has put together a great game you are going to love. Please back it when you get a chance! bit.ly/KartOnKS

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Kart

Crash through the neighborhood with Kart, a new tabletop racing game for 2-4 players!

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🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Playing through #EnchantedIvy by Sarah Joshua from @allplay.bsky.social. Charming puzzley solo game about building a fantasy inn, making guests happy with their placements, and filling your building wall with ivy. Cozy? Yes. Challenging? Also yes! (Plus there are stickers!) #BoardGames

Enchanted Ivy at the top of the table with the first game scenario in play below.

A partial grid of cards that look like they have patterns of ivy filling the card with some cards showing a balcony on top. There are character tokens in the balconies and the character info cards are to the right along with the ivy score card.

Enchanted Ivy at the top of the table with the prologue scenario complete below.

3x4 grid of cards that look like they have patterns of ivy filling the card with some cards showing a balcony on top. There are character tokens in the balconies and a door token at the bottom of the grid on a card. The character info cards are to the right with the scenario rules below.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

All good questions. Which i don’t have an answer too yet. :D

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh wow! I LOVE this visualization of splines. I want to make board games using these! If you are here, Freya Holmér, I am so impressed by you presentation skills on display in this video. 🎲✂️ youtu.be/jvPPXbo87ds?...

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The Continuity of Splines

YouTube video by Freya Holmér

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

👌 Nevertheless, the game is here, even if there are no winners.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

At the moment my plate is full. I will not forget this though. It might be that I come back to you! 🥳

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Let me know if you are up for a co-design. 🎈

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I wonder if it would feel ok to be a state trying to hide their nuclear weapon.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m not sure how to make it feel good to play that game. I need to think a bit about what roles I want to give the players, I guess.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And here I am, pondering if there is a game in the planned verification schedule of disarmament. Where some players are nations who want to disarm and others are trying to SAY that they want to disarm. It’s a quite serious topic. Can such a game exist and still be enjoyable to play? 🎲✂️

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I design board games. As a side hustle, I am an associate professor in applied nuclear physics. ;) One of my research areas is the verification of disarmament of nuclear weapons.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fourthly, this is the worst part, I wait. Once I get a reply, I book meetings with 15-30 minutes in between at Spiel. Sometimes it can be REALLY crowded and hard to get from one hall to another.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thirdly, write a mail to them and explain: 1. Who I am and what games I have gotten published so far. 2. A brief description about each game I want to pitch to them and why I think it is a fit (similarities in weights or themes to other games of them). 3. Send sell sheets and videos (one per game.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Secondly, I research the publishers. What are they looking for (scan social media and BGG after their latest releases).

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

First of all, I have games that I think are good and that I like. I know their weights and that each play through of it is quite stable. (No crucial hiccups.)

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m preparing for sending mails to publishers before Spiel in hopes of getting to pitch to them. I will explain how I do it, and then I hope you chip in and tell me how you do it! 🧵🪡

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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

played whirling witchcraft yesterday and it's still so fun. 'barely managed chaos' + chill art and vibes. totally deserves a new home. we need more witchy games!!

the game's 3d cauldrons, workbenches, and some cards

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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games @jacksonpope.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's #CraftWednesday! Do you have a game-related crafting project in progress? It could be a prototype, print and play, upgrading the components of a favourite game, making an accessory or even something larger like a table or games room. Share a picture and join in! Please RP!

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s kinda wild that people think that just because I’ve published a lot of games I must be raking in it In reality, aside from advances, it takes years of work before a designer gets any money In 6 years of active pitching and designing, I should be receiving my first royalty check this week 😊

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And that is not enough. They all shared their thoughts on how to pitch at spiel. And they all cheered for me as I got the game signed with @alderaceg.bsky.social. This community has meant the world to me. And this publisher has taken care of me since the start. I’m grateful. ❤️

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When I finally won the best game award (announced to the Darth Vader theme, I guess I was a swede that stole the trophy!), I was amazed! The cheering. The pure joy of my competitors.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I brought a few copies and the game was played over and over again. I was amazed! And all the people that included me in their community were simply fantastic. I was a small part of a bigger movement. A movement of encouragement and experience sharing.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And it was accepted for the competition. I celebrated and got quite obsessed to make the game as good as possible. I probably played the game 100 times. Maybe 200. And as Easter approached I was ready.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

By accident, I stumbled upon the idea of what became Whirling Witchcraft. And in some way, I got to hear about Fastaval. At the moment I cannot recall how I learned of it. But I submitted my little engine building intermezzo. It was nothing like what i had designed before.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tonight is the last night to send in pitches to Fastaval. @fastaval.bsky.social is a Danish con. But it’s mostly a community. In 2019, I had dabbled in game design for quite some years. Played with friends in Sweden. We had fun! 🎲✂️

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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

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Glad it catches upurnknterest. This one is special! It has a neat scrolling mechanism that I adore!

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Semi Co-op @semicoop.com · 30/08/2026

If you are a publisher and you can't get a hold of Erik during Spiel, we will happily rant up to 40 minutes why you should publish a new version of Whirling Witchcraft. Or we can just play a game of it and you'll be convinced that way. 🧙

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The contract of Whirling Witchcraft at AEG is running out. I’m looking for a new home for it. No hard feelings between us. I look forward to pitching more games to them in a near future.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Einstein’s Garden is an abstract puzzle game based on the Einstein tile. It is in realtime, but play testers keep telling me it doesn’t FEEL like realtime.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In Fenrir Rush (co-design with Magnus Karlsson), you are running away from Fenrir, the Norse mythology wolf, to try to save yourself. Your run by puzzling Tetris like shapes on the map to try to get as far away as possible.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hexes & Homecomings (co-design with Daniel Olai) is a highschool monster drama. It is simultaneous deck-builder where each round is about building the highest scoring hand.

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Erik AS 🔜 Spiel Essen @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In UtopAI (co-design with Daniel Olai), you are AIs programmed to save humanity and improve your computational power. You do this by programming your algorithm to build an efficient human restoration machine. But beware of corruption…

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