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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Finally got my copy of Hunt for Blackbeard from @fortcircle.bsky.social @volko.bsky.social ! Just now unboxing and sorting and it is maybe the fanciest game I own! Gorgeous and tactile!

Board game, Hunt for Blackbeard, with box open and contents arrayed on a table. The box and rulebooks portray classic images of the infamous pirate

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

At the "balance and usability" phase of development for Blood & Mead. This is my least favorite part of design, but being here is a good sign for the 'done-ness' of the game.

Board game prototype on a wooden table alongside a notebook and cards of hastily scrawled balance notes

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I still have a couple promo copies of Night Soil. If any reviewer would like a copy, please let me know! North America only, unfortunately, as I have no special shipping discounts

Board game on a felt tabletop. The board has a map of Tudor london and various tracks. Nearby cards depict woodcut art by the talented Jesse Gillespe

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

From last night: testing an expansion for Night Soil. Adding Gin, a weirdly impactful new resource to rhe system shakes things up without a lot of rules. So far so good!

A board game on a table. The board is a whimsical map of Tudor London covered in player tokens and cubes representing human waste. Cards depicting laborers are nearby.

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

finally, for now, Rattleskull Inne. This is an aggressive pattern-forming and area control game about buying drinks in a 1700s Tavern to earn political favor

Board game prototype on a table. A map of a tavern is made up of tiles with pictures of tables. Printed plastic mugs and tokens are scattered about. Nearby are cards for patrons and drinks.

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

second, Blood & Mead. 2-player card driven game spanning Norse mythology from creation of the world through Ragnarok. Perfect information cardplay with short/long term risk balancing

A game prototype on a table. An array of cards that are drafted as actions beside an array of cards representing the 9 realms. The realms have tokens representing mortals and fate

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Heading to @unpub.org on Friday! A quick thread about what I'm bringing: Fantasy 1917. This is a Euro-inspired negotiation 4x-ish thing about Dieselpunk WW1 Dwarves, Elves, etc. duking it out

Board game prototype on a table. A board has fantasy islands, a stock market, and is sprinkled with tokens representing zeppelins, stocks, and refineries

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Prepping this for UnPub in a few weeks. Game was rethemed to be Fantasy WWI Dieselpunk. Aside: I love printable sticker paper!

Board for a board game prototype on a wooden table. The board is covered in stickers depicting floating islands, zeppelins, and a Fantasy stock market

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A little crafting to prep for @unpub.org in a few weeks. This is the updated board for Fantasy: 1917

A prototype game board with floating islands and zeppelins stickered to it

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Found the mental space to do some design work last week! Blood & Mead is pretty close, I think, just some balancing mostly around setup I hope

A card game on a black tabletop. An overlapped array of cards show the many stories of Norse lore. Beside it, a map made of cards shows the Nine Realms. Cubes and disks represent mortals and Fate

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Last minute decorations inspired by Terry Pratchet

On a window sill sits a skull wearing a red Santa hat. A sword leans on the wall nearby. Under the skull is a speech bubble reading "It is a sword, it is not meant to be safe"

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Turns out you can play Star Wars:Legion with just some custom dice/rulers and all your kid's LEGO figures!

Felt table with space playmat and Star Wars Lego figures set up for battle. Some fickle dice are at the ready

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Rebel base blown away in literally the last round! I taught them too well...

Closeup of Star Wars Rebellion map with Death Star looming over a blown away Toydaria

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Teaching my eldest Rebellion: of of my favorites!

Star Wars Rebellion set up on a black felt table. A map of the Star Wars galaxy is shown, strewn with mission cards and forces both Rebel and Imperial

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Really glad I started setting up Envelopes of Cash well ahead of game night...

A board game on a felt table. The board shows a map of the USA with football players on it. There's also money, illicit bribes, and other football stuff I don't understand

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Found some time to focus on design. Trying out a new approach wherein my prototype board is also my notebook. So far so good, actually!

Space themed mat on a felt table with a very rough prototype board game on it. The board is a piece of paper mostly covered in playtest notes

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

For my mental health, I forced myself to sit down and do some solo testing on Rattleskull Inne. Not my idea, but I created 3 "persona" cards so that each "player" could have their own style and to make the mental load easier for me. I highly recommend this approach!

Top down view of black felt-covered table with a board game on it. The game is a small board with mug-shaped player pieces in various colors amid a sea of cards depicting 1700s tavern drinks and patrons

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Final (hopefully) quality check on Burned before we can start the first edition in earnest!

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Thanks to @sowronggames.bsky.social for the shout-out! Burned is indeed planning for a release later this year!

A card game laid out on black background with box. Art style is neon noir spy vs spy

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

3-handed solo testing of Rattleskull Inne. All "working" and probably ready to put in front of humans again

Felt-coveted table with prototype board game on it. Several piles of cards and a board with colored plastic player pieces in the shape of steins

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Running through the Night Soil Solo mode to test the board layout. Nearly got overwhelmed by waste in round 2

A board game on a felt-coveted table. There is a board with a map of London and action spaces and an area control section. Wooden cubes, player tokens, and meeples are laid out on the map. Cards beside the board depict the AI player's actions and cards available for the player to use

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This little game I've been working on since 2018 will be on KS next week!

A board game on a felt tabletop. The game has a map of London with action spaces on it, colored Patron control tracks, and turn order trackers. There are player pieces, coins, and cards on the table as well.

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Got Night Soil to the table in all it's pre-production glory!

A board game on a table. The board shows a map of Tudor London and a series of overlapping colored tracks. There are also cards and tokens beside it

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Blinging out my Rattleskull Inne prototype with 3D printed tankards as player pieces because it makes me happy and because I can

A game prototype. Chipboard tiles with colored circles and tables printed on them are arranged on a black table. Player pieces on some of the circles are tiny 3D printed tankards

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Holy crap! I am now holding the pre-production copy of Night Soil! I am so fracking excited!

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Found some mental bandwidth for actual game design this morning! So far it's a sorta area control auction thing themed around buying people drinks in a 1700s pub to win votes

Black felt table with a prototype board game. There is a paper board covered in round wooden tokens for area control and hand drawn cards representing pub patrons and drinks

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

After waiting on backorder for 3 months then on my shelf for 1, I finally got to try El Grande last night. I did not play well, but this is really cool, straightforward, and nicely confrontational. Really eager to play again!

Board game El Grande set up on a black table with shelves of games and cups in background.

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Some great games start looking like this. Also, some games die on the vine right here. All part of the process

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I guess Boardgame Bluesky is doing shelfies? In the middle of some reorganization but here's mine. For those who care: it's orgsnized by player count

Kallax shelf full of board games and some books with steins and plants on top

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

"Accessibility? Is that one of those young'un buzzwords? Microscopic black text on purple is fine!" -some Pokemon Exec, probably

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Playing Oceans. Shhhhh! Nobody sees me behind all the ink!

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Game design today: messing around with a bag-draw method for gaining income. I apparently stumbled upon some weird mathematically stable thing rhat I really don't understand. Oh well, there's no requirement that I can solve the equation as long as it works in the game!

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Playtesters found an infinite loop in Blood & Mead last night. Nobody knows how to break a game like Magic: the Gathering players...

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Been banging away at an idea to combine my old Pirates of the Spanish Maine ships with the cool templates from X-wing

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Whenever you see design journals like: "I had this awesome idea and my family loved it and I worked hard and a year later it was signed!" Remember all creatives work differently and different creative works have their own timelines This design here has been in the works for literally 20 years.

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Brewing today. Probably the most complicated recipe I have ever made! Boiled malt wort, carmelized honey, boiled cherries!

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Got Night Soil prototype to the table to test alternative power tiles. I think I'm very close to the level of variance I want them to add to the core experience

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Citrus remains one of my favorite "can always remember the rules just pull it out and enjoy" games

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Messing with Favor powers on Night Soil tonight.

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Sometimes game design iteration feels like art (add a little color here, touch that up, erase that line) sometimes it feels like surgery (hack THAT off, we didn't need it) and sometimes it feels like boiling something down to remove all the fat but keep the solid bones underneath

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Last week: teaching Burned in a Brewery

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Working on solo mode for Night Soil. I do play some solo board games but very rarely, so I feel somewhat unequipped to know what players will enjoy

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Jon Teixeira Moffat @jontexmo.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

Showing off Burned pre-kickstarter at my local game store

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