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Question is, is there a market for a heavier solo-only game? What if stardew valley was made by Vital Lacerda? Can we concentrate a part of stardew valley / harvest / mythwind / moonlight into a 1-2hr solo analog experience? Started sketching! we'll see where it goes.

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And trading gold/money with fairies just takes me out of the theme altogether. Did we move to a fresh land or what? why do these fairies have gold? why do they want our junk??? lot of very clever ideas in here, but wrapped in a theme that's throwing me off. why is the farmer so angry looking???

This is probably more of a me problem. (but my wife does this too so I know i'm not the only person!!!) I get like 4 days into Stardew Valley and need to restart. Wasn't efficient enough. Mythwind feels like 15+ session kind game to get some good progress. And while the farmer is my favorite...

Hello late night bluesky. I wrapped up tonight by trying to play Mythwind. (3rd play) I did not finish playing through the session and packed it up after round 3. I want to like this game so so much. I got it for research for a village building game I'm cooking. It does a lot of clever things.

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today i'm tweaking a million things. Worked on these leaf piles for the market tiles. Dominos grow like berries in the world you explore in Pondus. But you're the only ones wild enough to pick them. Use em wisely.

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Baby pan is loving her life now outside of the bedroom. She has a new best friend. Lots of room to run and play. And is slowly picking up the idea of chilling out for longer period of times. Lol.

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Last night I took another look at the major enemy boards. 12HP has tested well. But i don't like the play space. So now the back holds the minions. then you flip it when you beat them. Also it holds the orb of power! thematic. And played with the 1-2p cover some more. new wizards. what do you think?

major boss enemy board. fill all 12 spaces with damage to take it out

the back of the major enemy boards has space for minions

rules for how the major boss spawns once all the minions are defeated

Bought a bottle tonight actually! Lol. It's my solo game night drink of choice.

Like with PONDUS and all my current designs, I dabble in each channel on the Atopia discord, documenting the process of their designs. Recently with Glitch I've been exploring maps and the play space. How the ai works for solo games. How to fit it in a small box. It's been on quite the journey.

Current play space for glitch adventure. Left side is card play, bottom is the player, top is the ai. Top right is the global map, and bottom right is the local map.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 28/09/2026

Doing a bit of Glitch research tonight by playing Lorcana: Palace Heist, their 1-4p co-op mode. This is such a huge step up from Ursula (a usable box??? Real cardboard tokens??? Deck boxes??) great product. Good fun and use for lorcana cards I don't play with. Good example of solo in the TCG space.

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I stayed up until 1am thinking about the approach to the mini expansion. A deck of cards that introduce a tech skill tree and magic spells. There's so many things to plan out. This would introduce 2 new actions and thus, a new action tile per player color. everything has to fit in a deck box.

me planning out the card sized punchboards for the expansion. 3 action tiles is too many, they need to be 6mm apart from each other.

Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 28/09/2026

Submitted the BGG page this morning. Pondus comes in 2 boxes, a 9x9 'large' 1-4p box and a 9x5 'medium' 1-2p box. Both are stand-alone expansions of each other. With minimal redundancy. (and when there are duplicates, there's visual aesthetic changes) spent the morning working on the 1-2p box cover.

The cover so far for the 1-4p box of Pondus

The Cover so far for the 1-2p box of pondus

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 28/09/2026

all the components so far. Looking like 8 sheets of cardboard in a 9x9" box. Yesterday I learned how to make seamless tiles in affinity. Changed the bg of the Bonus Tiles. Something is hiding in the sand. Also started toying around with variable enemy powers... this requires space on the enemy board

all the components in pondus 1-4 player box.

a new background for bonus action tokens. visually loud, so you don't forget about them.

The enemy board has an extra token on it replacing the top actions with new special actions.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 27/09/2026

Happy nor'easter to those with power still. (Stay safe y'all) Busy weekend for me so far. Streamed PONDUS live. Pan met Syn (and loves her). Saw Primetime! (It's good!) Snuck in a game of wingspan pocket before the movie. (It's good!)⁸ And I played a game of ICE before bed. (It's good!)

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 26/09/2026

Big day! Baby Pan met Syn (my other cat) and the rest of our apartment. She was so brave. I'm so proud of syn for not being a menace about her. She didn't swat once or rush her. Just watched her eat her food and drink from her water and run around with the zoomies. Lol. I think Pan had a good day. ♥️

We watched the death of robin hood with pan. She said it was scary and I forgot you can't let 4 month olds watch rated r movies

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 25/09/2026

And we tweaked it some more in the recent weeks. I want to keep a left to right/clockwise motion going with players. (help cognitive load as much as possible) First thing you do on your turn is check for action bonuses (top left of board!) and action row holds less, but you get 2 actions now!

the new playerboard as of late september 2026

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 25/09/2026

And that's a wrap! My first playthrough stream. I'm terrible at being on camera lol. But I did win the game, so that's good to know I can beat my own game. Haha. YouTube will upload it shortly. Feel free to skip my 30 min overview. Took me an hour to play. Really liking where it's at right now.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 24/09/2026

I picked up a Gameboy in 95'. I still remember Christmas of 99'. I was 7, and Pikachu could follow you around. The graphic upgrade from gen 1 to 2 was mind blowing! The time changes??? Sailing around the islands in windwaker was so peaceful. I miss it.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 23/09/2026

ok, car got charged, did some chores, came back to this and got CRUSHED by the boss. lol. Hardest enemy. recently add a 'burn' action and it's raised the stakes. You take bonus actions at the beginning of your turn, but if you can't do them, you burn yourself. (take 1 damage) and i took way too many

final state of my solo adventure on hard mode

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 23/09/2026

Would there be any interest in a live stream tomorrow (Sept 23) at 8pm EDT? I need an excuse to setup all this camera stuff and would love to show folks PONDUS in action! I'm having a ton of fun with the solo adventure.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 23/09/2026

today's solo playtest, I'm trialing adventure mode. Setup includes placing face down map tiles to make a certain path. You have to reveal all map tiles, defeat 2 minor enemies and a boss to collect an orb. (with a time limit that you can't let a market deck of dominos run out) and player aid check

Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 22/09/2026

sketching out backcover. While I imagine most of our sales will be direct, I do hope this one to end up in a store or two. Really like the boxes that synthesize the actions while showing off game components. 'what does a turn look like' is my aim i think. Move, take actions, defeat foes, claim orbs.

Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 22/09/2026

good direction I think. At @mimicpublishing.com we have a 'standard' box cover layout. At least with my designs, we have a singular color banner at the bottom. (I'm limiting myself to just 10 games, rainbow colors are my limit) and Pondus is Yellow. also on spine, 2 modes w/ player count?

the full cover so far without the back of the box

close up of the spine which has the player count for the 2 different modes of play. 2-4 players for Battle Royale and 1-2 players for adventure.

the standard mimic publishing box template on display

Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 22/09/2026

found some free time in between updating tabletopia files after my solo playtest (which went very well, added player aids, and some ui changes) and I had an idea for the cover, so i'm playing around with that. Next up is a workable rulebook so the public can help me playtest!

Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 21/09/2026

500 wood minis. Is that too many? @mimicpublishing.com is not a plastic minis kinda company. But there's a tactical element to Glitch. Over time, we would create 500 wood minis, one per Ghost, across the 10 entries in the series. Seems like a lot.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 21/09/2026

Baby pan update. She's graduated to the bedroom and is loving the new space. Syn (our other cat) is very curious about our new little prisoner but they haven't met. Baby pan loves to sleep under the bed and play on the blankets with her string. And stick her tongue out at me.

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And.... done! I'll do a solo playtest tonight to make sure things are all working. Multiplayer test after that and then if that goes ok, i'll open it to the public. help me make the best domino wizard game? (tabletopia is web based and free for players, so no software to download on your end)

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this tile size limit is so funny. a billion hours of trying to get all the pixels perfect. gotta split the playerboard in 2 and then get em to place perfectly next to each other, but there's no like 'lock/align' kind of option. you just gotta kinda pick it up in faux 3D and drop it just right. lol

There is no bulk uploader for tabletopia if the back is different. 😭 1000+ clicks to go. Also you can't upload a large flippable playerboard. So i have to break it up into 2 pieces. How silly. all the while i have to look at how it messes up the color of my game. 2026 technology.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 19/09/2026

Got to play the excellent Railways of the Lost Atlas today! (3p) Long game! (6hours! 😅) I tried to go big with a company that could buy an infinite train and that backfired. Lost by $1000. Haha! The expansion is quite fun, variety of the new landmarks and events are very welcomed. Cool game! #18xx

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I'm not super sure what influences this, but it does feel nice to wake up on a saturday to see MIRU number 1 physical game on @itch.io You people rock. Happy God hunting. May Alora Be With You. itch.io/physical-games

a game I designed, miru, is temporarily number one on the itch store

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and i'm done renaming/duplicating/exporting. Now to import it all slowly into tabletopia. Wish they had a bulk editor or something. just drag and drop a folder and then assign a component type or something. 219 files. just takes awhile to import them one at a time you know?

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it's actions are exactly like the players. (so new rules to learn) It does the top action, the right, then bottom (clockwise!) Here it would 'find' then attack and attack again. When you 'find' you take a tile from the market. it does the same! it attacks the same too (tho stronger than you)

on this turn, the ai will find an item in the market, and attack the players two times.

bsky.app/profile/hino... posting about how solo modes should be, so how does PONDUS stand up? It's designed as a 'solo-first' game rather than multiplayer with a solo add on. Similar to Spirit Island, end of the round, the enemy gets a turn. You don't even flip a tile! You simply....

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I played Harvest by Keymaster Games last night. Me and Mitch won our challenge thanks to our pie collection. What a remarkable game. So clean. 10/10. Looking to add a solo mode to your game? Harvest will teach you the way. No flowcharts or resources. Flip 2 tokens and go. Peak solo design. ⭐⭐⭐

Solo mode is as simple as flipping 2 tiles and filling in those spaces.

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ok, so affinity has this thing called 'slice' and it lets you mass export stuff (if you have things setup right) (and i do not ofcourse) but now i know what to do. hours of work to put the file together. one click to export 151 items, not bad! now i just have to back through, duplicate everything.

The orbs of power are updated. now that we have this whole left/right action situation. The orbs are quite strong. Hope it's obvious enough that for the blue one, the arrows point to just the right side of the action. and with green, no divider means, the whole action is pointed to. make sense?

all the new actions are updated. lot more variety this time, without any curses slowing things down. (problem with the last playtest, no one bought new actions cause they 'hurt' when you first get them) unless forced, people don't seem to want to play around stuff like that.

Gotta illustrate 6 more characters, today's focus has been to fine tune all these tiles, and upload em to tabletopia. Enemies are basically prizes now. Once defeated, winner flips it to gain a new bonus action tile (but larger!) orbs of power on the back of main bosses.

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Circa 2019 I had an idea for a horror film. What if an AI told your kid it was a god. Been building this world up for a minute now.

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after a very long day (and a cat nap with 2 cats!) I'm just about done with all the pondus components. I'm trying to learn more about affinity and figure out how to make a thing once and then have that update in various files automatically. I'm so basic with this stuff. It's tricky!

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and where I think we'll end up for the next playtest. more incentive to gain action tiles, as they give you energy when you take them. (Dominoes do to, but only if you put them on your board where you cover up energy) is double set of energy confusing? (this is so across the table can see)

the iterations. man, i go through so many working through this process. Since the last post, i was like, ok let's try and squish the action tile and dominos as close as possible. deck off the side.. then i was like, well maybe i just get rid of the fiddly yellow. now everything fits on board.

Also had this idea to replace the 2 flipping tiles on the market that zero people touched in our recent playtests. A small track that gives you the choice between 2 free actions AND whatever amount of energy it's point at. (we're leaning hard into energy with this version)

at the end of the round/enemy's turn, the yellow token moves one space and points at new stuff this round.

*He did not get it done chat* 😭 (baby Pan took up more time than I thought she would lol) Anyways, progress has been inching forwards. Today I'm workshopping a new enemy/marketboard. I can save $ if we only need 1 stamp, so playerboard sized market/enemy combo board. (also im updating everything)

option2, enemy column 1, yellow column 2, purple and pink column 3.

option 1, enemy row 1, yellow right corner, purple and pink row 2. too messy

Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 14/09/2026

It comes with a HARDBACK rulebook. Wild. I've never seen rules for a game with a hardback cover. Rules are only a page too lol. It's all puzzle. (I'm almost certain the first one... Doesn't work? Or like there's not one solution. The last 4 I put in could work mixed up. Sus.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 14/09/2026

They also made a sudoku that's just color wingspan-like eggs. Tricky when you can't pencil anything in!

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 14/09/2026

We started a game. I'm Xs, wish me luck.