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Thomas Cardwell

@gameswell.shop

🎲 Indie board game designer ♦️ I run gameswell.shop with my amazing wife 🏔️ Original PNW and Texas games for playing cards

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 09/12/2025

New free game download! Roadrunner is a climbing/card-shedding game for 3-5 players from our Texas book of new card games that is live on Kickstarter right now. Use speed tokens to boost card values, and aim to empty your hand of cards each round! gameswell.itch.io/roadrunner

A book with roadrunners and game rules, a run of cards J-Q-Q-A with a wooden token on the second queen, a larger wooden token engraved with “TEXAS”, and some smaller tokens atop two Jokers.

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 24/11/2025

We funded this weekend at PAX Unplugged! It was awesome to see a bunch of folks there! I had a great time demoing our games new and old, sneaking in games with folks after the expo hall closed, and chatting with designers at the Indie Games Night Market.

Thomas and Kelly holding a sign that says “Just launched on Kickstarter” in front of our Texas: Card Games Inspired by the Lone Star State book banner. The word “launched” is crossed out and replaced with “funded!”

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 19/11/2025

We'll be at @officialpax.bsky.social in Philadelphia this weekend at Booth 4309—we are launching our Texas Kickstarter and showing off our PNW games! Come say hi if you'll be at the show! #paxunplugged

Map of PAX Unplugged with an arrow pointing to booth 4309 labeled "This way to Gameswell". PNW- and Texas-themed card game books are overlaid.

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 06/11/2025

Boomhauer: Dang ol’ New York dang ol’ Times dang ol’ infographics man

Map of Texas with Dallas and Houston incorrectly labeled from a New York Times infographic showing possible affected airports from the government shutdown.

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 05/11/2025

There’s still time to do the thing!

Picture of Thomas pointing to an “I Voted” sticker.

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 26/08/2025

@distantworlds.bsky.social is closing this Sunday—I got a “The Last Unicorn” in their honor. If you are in Seattle give them a final hurrah! I demo’d PNW here when the first Kickstarter was running. A good place.

“The Last Unicorn” latte with pink, blue, and purple. Distant Worlds Coffee in backdrop, with Pride flag hanging from window.

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 25/08/2025

Find yourself someone who is as excited about you as @fanfactories.bsky.social is about the PNW Tabletop Game Market at PAX West this weekend

Joseph wearing a large board game backpack with a sign binder-clipped to it that says “PNW Tabletop Game Market”

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 08/07/2025

PNW Cards Launch Party! Join us at Yonder Cider August 3rd, 12-5pm in Seattle. Learn new card games, and snag a book and cards. An all-ages, pet-friendly game day awaits!

Me holding a linen hardback book of card games, engraved with “PNW: Card Games Inspired by the Pacific Northwest” in front of a wood-paneled bench at Yonder Cider in Seattle. The table in front of me has fake greenery, little wooden tokens, and more books, along with some playing cards.

The Jack, Queen, King, and Ace of Clubs in our new Pacific Northwest deck of playing cards laid in some rocks freshly wet from a rain. The Ace depicts Deception Pass, with its windy wooded shores. The Jack is a bears head tooth mushroom growing from a log, the Queen is an Orca, and the King is a Seawolf.

Our PNW book of card games on a wooden table, embossed with gold foil on a linen cover, surrounded by playing cards and little walnut circle tokens depicting orcas, campfires, mushrooms, and compasses.

The Jack, Queen, King, and Ace of Diamonds from our PNW playing cards nestled in a bush with small waxy leaves. The Jack depicts a morel mushroom, the Queen a salmon in sea-stage and spawning-stage forms, the King a Roosevelt elk, and the Ace shows a scene Crater Lake, Oregon.

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 07/07/2025

July Thirst is a reminder to stay hydrated this summer.

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 26/05/2025

Classic Texas:

Weather report with Sunny, 93F, and a flood watch.

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 08/05/2025

When you want to play but only understood half of the rules. #boardgames

Dog looks longingly at a human looking through my PNW card game rulebook; playing cards and game pieces are placed on table in front of them.

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 01/05/2025

I really wanted to personally make something to include in the Kickstarter campaign, and I continue to be pleased with our game pieces (featuring @thecreepingmoon.bsky.social ’s illustrations)!

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 15/01/2025

One of my OrcaCon highlights was @bethsobel.bsky.social stopping by our booth, gifting us some lovely pins and cards, and picking up one of our books! Kelly and I were both a little starstruck, but thanks for finding us in the merchant hall—we love the River and Stone deck!

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 14/01/2025

Token time: my personal manufacturing for the Kickstarter begins.

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 13/01/2025

“Great British Bake Off meets Our Flag Means Death” I had a great time demoing Pirates of the High Teas by @emilykeepskitties.bsky.social today! Excited for this one! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pin...

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Thomas Cardwell @gameswell.shop · 07/01/2025

Found on my walk: AI-generated Pixar lamp irl.

Lamp with many articulating limbs and shades

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