Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 29/09/2026A rogue ai agent has eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me it was misaligned 1110
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 28/09/2026Gotta swing by a tea house and get yourself a new ~~piece of trash~~ cat toy 040
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 24/09/2026Still a great series, highly recommend it. Just be aware that there’s one episode you maybe don’t want to watch surrounded by incidental shoulder-surfers. 050
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 24/09/2026I had this but with Delicious in Dungeon. Watched the first ~half of the series at home. Seemed totally airplane-watchable! So I took the rest on a plane. But suddenly at like the 2/3 point there’s an episode with two of the characters (women, of course) bathing, and I’m awkwardly fast-forwarding. 260
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 19/09/2026Love that the plums are out! I’m watching a mailing list I’m on for plum #2s to show up at a local warehouse so I can grab a box like that and make a plum mead 120
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 15/09/2026Gotta say I cannot recommend inhaling a grain of quinoa while eating a salad. It’s not super pleasant. Turns out people can’t breathe amaranth seeds 0100
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 14/09/2026*We* also don’t want to be talking about this! The default position should be “don’t make any new rules banning kids participating in sports, let them play” 110
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 14/09/2026Ugh *Talarico* was the one who decided to engage with the issue. “Talk about what the 99% cares about.” No shit, which is why it’d have been great for him to say ~“I refuse to entertain questions about trans athletes in youth sports, because I really want to focus on (e.g.,) economic policy.” 120
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 14/09/2026He’s gotta put in some extra naps to break it in properly. 020
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 14/09/2026Man, Canadians are up here _innovating_. I just got a giant bowl of chicken shawarma poutine. In unrelated news, I overate and now wish to lie down. 2312
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 14/09/2026And the lovely thing is, a little bit of close listening and validation can do wonders for a person’s mental health, but too much can be disastrous. 120
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 12/09/2026The Seattle Vertices. Logo is a graph arranged to resemble the space needle, but there’s other merch that uses the same graph in the shape of other city symbols. It’s probably isomorphic to one of our more nonsensical intersections. 011
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 09/09/2026Even if that didn’t include shipping, probably yes. I think most people buying indie board games understand and expect paying a little more for something that wasn’t printed at scale. 030
Reposted by Hollis makes gamesAlways Awake Games (Connor) 🔜 PaxU @connor.alwaysawake.games · 08/09/2026And we've funded!!! Thank you so much to everyone who's backed and supported me along the way! Now I think I'll take a little rest 0246
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 07/09/2026Now that DAGnabbit! is out there, I’m on to the next project, which is, I suppose, also the last project! I’m planning a re-release of last year’s indie market game for early next year! This will be my first self-published game outside of game markets. 081
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 07/09/2026And it’s under _really_ active development. Every time I look at it again some part’s been substantially improved. 120
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026• PAX West staff and enforcers for making the whole thing possible • The other vendors! Events like this only work when there’s a supportive community behind them. 140
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026Big big thanks to: • @connor.alwaysawake.games and @tedmannschaller.bsky.social for organizing and running the market! • @nomadotto.bsky.social for setting up the group dinner for the vendors • @emilyhancock.bsky.social for designing the posters for the event [continued] 180
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026So what marketing we’re doing is working! I’m sure there’s room for improvement, but people are finding us. I only have my perspective as a vendor, but the market felt well-run, so whatever minor catastrophes most certainly happened behind the scenes, the organizers shielded us well from them. 140
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026That said, some people definitely came to the market having read over the online catalog. I got a few people who said they’d read about DAGnabbit! and headed straight to my table to check it out, and I overheard some bits of conversations that suggested the same happened for other games. 130
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026For the market itself: I think it went great! We had a huge line out front at the start. I think this was helped by the fact that the market opened right as the main tabletop vendor hall closed, and they made some intercom announcements pointing folks our way. bsky.app/profile/fanf... 140
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026There’s a printable version at hollis.games/confetti if you want to check it out!hollis.gamesConfetti • Hollis's Games 120
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026This was also the first big outing for my new business cards, which have a tiny roll-and-write game on the back! Folks who picked up a card were generally delighted to see the game, and for a market in was nice to have a cool little freebie to hand out to everyone. 140
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026As part of my demos, the market collectively played about 2.5 solo games. The two finished games ended with scores of 19 (nearly perfect!) and 17 (not bad!). The best possible score is 21. 120
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026Knowing that there is an audience for mathy games, maybe there will be more in the future! I’ve even got a hidden movement game on the back burner that’s actually about group theory… (the boards are all finite nonabelian groups!) 140
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026But I didn’t want a theme; I wanted it to be unapologetically about math! The game evolved name-first, after all. If it weren’t for the silly math pun, it wouldn’t even exist. So to see a double-digit number of strangers be delighted by the game is truly joyous and validating! 130
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026I was unsure what the reception would be. Part of the reason DAGnabbit! is an indie market game is I think any publisher who wanted the game would start with the question, “can we find a resonant theme to explain why we’re drawing these arrows?” 120
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026DAGnabbit! at the PNW Tabletop Game Market: postmortem time! I sold 28 copies of the game, just under 60% of what I brought to the market. That’s 28 people who were as excited to play my weird little math game as I was to make it! 192
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 06/09/2026Beer that, if lifted, you may find surprisingly sharp 030
Reposted by Hollis makes gamesNomadotto @nomadotto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It's happening!!! Come to the PNW Tabletop Game Market on level 0 of summit at Pax West if you want some quality games, and also Hench. 051
Reposted by Hollis makes gamesJoseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Today is the day! Come swing by the PNW Tabletop Game Market at #PAXWest tonight at Summit 0. You'll find 20 uniquely indie tabletop games that you can only get directly from these designers! A lot of loving care and craft goes into these games. So come check it out after the expo hall closes! ♥️🎲 12010
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 05/09/2026Thanks to @emilyhancock.bsky.social—who will also be at the market!—for designing the poster 020
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 05/09/2026One day and a few hours from now, DAGnabbit! will be available at the PNW Tabletop Game Market, along with a bunch of other fantastic games by local designers. Find us all on Summit level 0 from 7-10pm tomorrow! 1165
Reposted by Hollis makes gamesdavid malki ! @davidmalki.com · 29/08/2026It's been simmering for a long time, now almost at a boil!! NOODLE BATTLE, the pasta-themed tile puzzler, will be premiering at PAX Prime's PNW Tabletop Game Market along with a ton of other fine games (link below). And how about those delicious drawings? All by @mydadisdracula.bsky.social! 1328
Reposted by Hollis makes gamesNomadotto @nomadotto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026First is Hench, a 30-minute, 3-6 player game of backstabbing cartoon minions in a VHS case. @danthurot.bsky.social has a great review of it here - spacebiff.com/2026/08/25/h... I'm selling it at the PNW Tabletop Game Market on Saturday 5th 7-10 pm. You can also order from me after the event!spacebiff.comMooksHench is a strange, lovely beast. It’s as far as it gets from Edward Damon’s previous title, Rex Regnat, and not only because its Saturday morning cartoon vibe is a sharp contrast with … 121
Reposted by Hollis makes gamesJoseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Step complete! Ironed on all the logos for Brick Brick Go, the brick building party game I'm going to be selling at the PNW Tabletop Game Market at PAX West! 2305
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 28/08/2026Made the table sign for the game market and finished packaging the last few copies of DAGnabbit!. 9 days left, but almost everything is in order. 0154
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 28/08/2026Fuck, why didn’t I think of that? I was already going to the grocery store later today, now I’m definitely going to make something like that this week. 070
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 28/08/2026If you depend on ad revenue and you know that YouTube frequently demonetizes videos where it detects the word “sex” in the captions, well, guess we’re talking about “seggs” now, or “s🥚” once it catches onto that. 020
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 28/08/2026I agree, but I think the correct place to direct that ire is toward the platforms that created incentive structures for creators to do that. They reward reach, but then artificially stifle videos based on contextless puritanical rules. 120
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 24/08/2026I love the use of “nucleation point” for the way a piece of furniture not in constant use attracts clutter, but also I’m angry because it’s such a succinct description of a thing I do that (despite this conversation not involving me at all) it sounds like a personal attack. 140
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 22/08/2026Regrettably, there were no leftovers. Not pointing fingers, but *someone* ate several of these, going so far as to refrigerate some of the batter and make some pear and gruyere versions for breakfast the next day. 040
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 21/08/2026When you add a submodule to your repo it should give you a list of sane alternatives to what you’re doing (“have you considered forking the repo and using an actual package manager?”) and make you confirm that you really want to make everything that touches this repo 21% harder. 021
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 21/08/2026(Halfway through eating this I departed from French culinary tradition and put some hot sauce on it.) 180
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 21/08/2026Picked up some buckwheat flour for another recipe, but I figured I’d try my hand at a galette breton. It may not be perfectly shaped, but it was delicious. 2180
Hollis makes games @hollis.computer · 17/08/2026My entry in this year’s PNW Tabletop Game Market now has a live BoardGameGeek page! Just a few more weeks before I can get it into people’s hands! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/47...boardgamegeek.comDAGnabbit!Draw arrows to connect vertices, but don't create a cycle! 071
