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Nick Ferris @nickferris.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I've updated my list of designers selling their games at the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged with the new folks of 2026 including @practicalpeng.bsky.social @tricktaking.bsky.social @jamiesabriel.bsky.social @nnoa.bsky.social @mandashafer.bsky.social and more! If I missed you, let me know.

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These Games Are Not For Sale @notforsalegames.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

These Games Are Not For Sale celebrates artful games made for the sake of it. This one-day festival inside PAX Unplugged will spotlight games that money can’t buy. Come experience games, not buy them: 🚫🪙🚫🪙🚫 🎲✂️ 🪙🚫🪙🚫🪙 🗺️ Pennsylvania Convention Center 📍 Terrace Ballroom 🗓️ Saturday, Dec 5 🕙 10am-10pm

These Games are not for $ale
A celebration of artful games that money can't buy
At PAX Unplugged Terrace Ballroom (2nd floor)
Saturday, December 5th
10am-10pm

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

😳 I hope you brought proper ear protection!

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Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We have learned of a website (which we are not linking to) that is charging people to pay to play knockoffs of popular board games like Catan, Wingspan, Agricola and more - different names, crappy art, same mechanics.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Maybe Advanced Squad Leader? I’m only aware of the popular names, not really the specifics of each game in that world

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Likely whatever is the most broad or popular, like Memoir 44, if I had to take a guess

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rival Banners could be Root? @leder.games Ships could be Star Wars X-Wing? @fantasyflightgames.bsky.social Railway is Ticket to Ride Frontier Island Seaward is just Catan + Seafarers I’m stuck on “Hex and Counter” since I’m not familiar with those games

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

More stolen vibe-coded games I’ve discovered this morning on the “in-development” section of their website I’ll need more help figuring out what each of these games are. I see Terraforming Mars, Azul, Gloomhaven @cephalofairgames.bsky.social, and Pandemic as obvious ones.

In development

Ships
2 Players • Miniatures
Plays like a tabletop miniatures game. 1 vs 1 ship warfare.

* Rival Banners
2-6 players • Asymmetrical • War game
An asymmetrical war game where four factions fight over one map, and each plays by rules of its own.

Outbreak
2-4 players • Co-op • Hand management
A co-op race to find a remedy for four spreading strains before they overrun a 48-city world map.

Hex and Counter
-4-6
2-4 players • War game • Hex and counter
A war game of counters on a hex map. Zones of control, odds and one die decide every attack.

Tiles
2-4 players • Tile drafting • Abstract
A tile-drafting game. Take every tile of one colour, fill your rows, and score as your wall joins up.

Red Thaw
1-5 players • Engine building • Tile placement
An engine-building race to make a cold, dry planet livable, on a board built from real Martian terrain.

Railway
2-5 players • Route building • Real map
A train route game on a map of real passenger rail lines: claim routes between 54 cities, from Seattle to Miami, and connect the cities on your destination tickets before the trains run out.

Delve
1-4 players • Cooperative • Heroes you keep
A cooperative dungeon crawl for 1 to 4 players.
Choose two cards a round, play one half of each, and fight through the dark with heroes you keep from game to game.

Frontier Island Seaward
Expansion • 2-4 players • 4 scenarios
Frontier Island goes to sea: build ships, sail to new islands, strike gold and dodge the pirate across four scenarios.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am told it’s been delivered to our warehouse! Should only be a matter of time before USA folks get theirs!

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My desire to play a game the new Jonathan Blow game is slightly lower than my desire not to give Jonathan Blow any money. Dude sucks in his politics. Makes games that I like. I’ll wait for a *deep* sale or more likely forget and not bother getting to it with so many other great games to play.

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Connie @connievdc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So excited!! Check out how *gorgeous* this game is. I promise the gameplay lives up to it, too.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Possible Correction: “Tidewick” seems to have been identified as an Everdell clone, not Le Harve. If someone more familiar with Everdell could help double-check this correction it would be appreciated!

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ah could be? I’m not familiar with having played either, if it’s Everdell or Le Harve

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That’s the part that is the absolute slimiest. They basically are charging for doing prompts and web hosting. What value are they actually creating themselves when the games are stolen with material loss to the original designers and publishers?

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Farmers is Agricola @lookoutgames.bsky.social Frontier Island is Catan Global Conquest is Risk Words is Scrabble Espionage is Codenames @czechgames.com MapMakers is Cartographers @thunderworksgames.bsky.social

Farmers
You have fourteen rounds to turn a two-room hut into a working farm, and everyone in your family has to eat at every harvest.

Frontier Island
$14.99 • or included
Trade, build and settle a hex island. If you know Catan, you already know how to play.

Global Conquest
$14.99 • or included
Armies and dice on a world map. It plays like Risk, with nothing to set up or put away.

Espionage
$9.99 • or included
Two teams, a grid of code words and one-woro clues. It plays like Codenames, with the secret key on the clue giver's phone.

MapMakers
$9.99 • or included
A flip-and-write game. Everyone draws the same shapes, each onto their own map on their own phone.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Palace Gardens sounds like Azul Queen’s Garden? Tidewick could be Le Harve? Cavefolk is Caverna Builder is Dominion

Palace Gardens
Draft coloured hexagons from a shared display and plant them around the fountain in your own garden.

Tidewick
Send out your crew, build a harbor town, and make it the finest on the coast by autumn.

Cavefolk
Clear the woods, dig into the hill, and build the richest farm in twelve rounds.

Builder
Start with a handful of Copper and Cottages, buy better cards every turn, and build a deck that does more than anyone else's.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It seems that publishers can ask for their game to rightfully be taken down. “Aviary” / Wingspan has already been taken down. Please contact the proper publishers to request their games to be taken down. We’ll also need help identifying all of the games so the correct people can be informed.

Screenshot from the TV Top Games website:

IN BETA • SUPPORTERS ARE PLAYING THESE NOW

Get beta access, $4.99/mo →

Palace Gardens
2-4 players • 4 rounds • Tile drafting

Tidewick
1-4 players • Worker placement • Town building

Cavefolk
1-7 players • 48 rooms

Shapes Tiles
2-6 players • Tile laying

Builder
Any number of players • 25 min • Deck building

Farmers
1-5 players • Worker placement

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Happy to send screenshots over email to you. Here’s what their website shows as their proposal to potential subscribers:

SUPPORTER MEMBERSHIP
The whole shelf, every month
One subscription unlocks every game we've made, every expansion, and the beta titles were building next, on the TV you already own.
V Every game in the catalog
Every game on the shelf and both expansions, plus whatever we release next.
V Beta games before release
Play what we're building while we build it, and tell us what's wrong with it.
V A vote on what we make next
A supporters-only Discord channel with our team, where the roadmap actually gets decided.
V Your own in-game badge
Set it to any character you like. It shows up next to your name at the table.

Supporter
CANCEL ANY TIME
$4.99 | month
Your first 30 days are free. Checkout asks for a card, and nothing is charged until the trial ends; cancel before then and you pay nothing. Then billed monthly. Games you already bought stay yours whatever happens.
Try it free for 30 days
Not ready? Play a free demo first. It takes two minutes and proves your TV can cast.
WHY NOT JUST BUY THE GAMES
You can. It costs $69.93 and stops there.
Buying outright is a fine way to get one game for one group. Supporter is for people who want game night to keep changing: new titles, expansions and betas arriving without another checkout.

BUY ONCE
SUPPORTER
The game you paid for

Every other game in the catalog

Expansions and bonus content

Supporter only games

Beta access & roadmap vote

Price
$69.93
$4.99/mo

INSIDE THE MEMBERSHIP
A small studio you can actually talk to
Supporters get their own Discord channel with our team. Suggest a game, argue about a rule, or point at the thing that annoyed you last night.
That's how the roadmap gets written.
/ Suggest and vote on the next game
V Play beta builds before anyone else
Pick any character for your supporter badge

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Shelf Stable Podcast 🔜 Spiel Essen, PaxU @shelfstablecast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This thread is frightening. I guess Halloween is around the corner. Thank you Marceline for sharing.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s absolutely maddening that someone would take this much advantage of so many creative people against their consent and dare to charge money for it… I’m not a lawyer but this should be outright illegal.

A screenshot from TV Top Games website featuring such games as “Espionage” (clearly based on Codenames) and “MapMakers” (Cartographers)

Another screenshot from TV Top Games:

Get beta access, $4.99/mo →

Palace Gardens
2-4 players • 4 rounds • Tile drafting

Aviary
1-5 players • 4 rounds • Engine building

Tidewick
1-4 players • Worker placement • Town building

Cavefolk
1-7 players • 48 rooms

Shapes Tiles
2-6 players • Tile laying

Builder
Any number of players • 25 min • Deck building

Farmers

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And then I go on their website and find off-brand clearly vibe-coded versions of many popular hobby games including Wingspan, Agricola, Cartographers, and many more… AND on top of that madness… they charge subscription fees to play these games This will only get worse.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I just solicited to share information about the rulebooks to my crowdfunding game designs for Ordinary Magic That they would be able to get rules-reinforced version on their website in a week, free of charge to me…

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I fear we’re ignoring the reality that there are people who think it’s a fine idea to throw our rulebooks into an LLM and have it spit out a vibe-coded version of our games Players will take advantage of opportunities to “try the game” and form their opinions based on these… things

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Great picks! I was watching SophiefromMars when I posted this haha

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Find you a trans girl that doesn’t have incredible takes on media and politics? Bet you can’t.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Trans women are my favorite video essayists” says all my friends with good taste. Hey come on that’s kind of a weird generalization. Surely there aren’t— *Discovers another new-to-me trans video essayist* I stand corrected.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And not only this, skip Amazon 24/7 over 365.25 days of the year

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Glad to see it’s business as usual in the Leder office!

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Connie @connievdc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So excited! My next game, Tideward, is out in January with Avalon Hill! It's an absolutely gorgeous, strategic, family-weight game that takes a light ruleset and packs a ton of strategic punch! It's even got a rotating board.😎 See me talk about it here: www.facebook.com/reel/1623187...

facebook.com

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow—that’s a lot! I didn’t realize you were continuing your education, but it’s awesome to hear! What degree are you going for?

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@colewehrle.bsky.social is a man who needs no further glazing in his career, but I will happily support any project he launches! It’s one of the games I was just slightly too late in my exploration to get the first edition. So glad I’ll be given a chance to try the game now! @wehrlegig.games

kickstarter.com

An Infamous Traffic: Second Edition

A new edition of the acclaimed game of cutthroat capitalism in the nineteenth century opium trade.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

10 hours left!!! And only 2.5k until we unlock the 75k goal!!!! MOVE!! GROW!! EAT!!

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Final 24 hours!! We’re smashing through those stretch goals—now at 69k!! Stretch goals! ☑️ 55k: 6th player included in every tier ☑️ 65k: Vacuum formed box insert 🔘 75k: A special 2/3 player board 🔘 85k: Field tokens upgraded to wood

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's finally here! Are you ready to join us in kicking off #BannedBooksWeek?! This year's event is too big for just one piece of art, so we have THREE! #LetBooksBe bannedbooksweek.org

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ORGANISM is in its final 48 hours of crowdfunding!!! Currently rounding in at 63k!! @prismofeverything.bsky.social Stretch goals! ☑️ 55k: 6th player included in every tier 🔘 65k: Vacuum formed box insert 🔘 75k: A special 2/3 player board 🔘 85k: Field tokens upgraded to wood

kickstarter.com

ORGANISM

ORGANISM is a board game of growth, exploration, survival, and reproduction! with simple rules and boundless potential

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes!!! I’m so proud and excited to partner with Kosmos to bring Dino Racer to Germany!!! 🇩🇪 🦕 🦖 Fingers crossed for an SdJ nomination!!

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Martina Fuchs🔜 SPIEL Essen @missbaybee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey @marcelineleiman.bsky.social, gestern wurde von Kosmos veröffentlicht, dass #DinoRacer bei ihnen 2027 rauskommt. Freue mich sehr auf das Spiel❤️ Yesterday, Kosmos announced that #DinoRacer will be released by them in 2027. I’m really looking forward to the game – and I’m happy for you too. ❤️

Das Cover von Dino Racer von Kosmos
The cover of *Dino Racer* by Kosmos

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nice! Never heard of these! How did you find them?

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m always down for some weird stuff! I’ve also been feeling more and more like it’d be fun to join a book club again But I wonder if I’d enjoy it more as an opportunity to mingle with people and talk about the books that we’ve been reading, rather than a focused discussion on one particular book

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Currently reading: Butter End Times Fascism What’re yall reading these days? Anything to recommend for me next?

End stones Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@amabel.bsky.social could these be a new branch on the Pitfall evolutionary tree??

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This may be a niche pull, but if you liked the game Umihara Kawase, you absolutely will adore this game. The physics based grapple may turn some people off—but mastering them is so satisfying to pull off for those that like to push themselves! store.steampowered.com/app/384690/U...

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Save 75% on Umihara Kawase on Steam

The original Rubbering Action game comes to Steam! Play as Umihara Kawase, an adventurer traveling through a world in search of ingredients. Hook the lure at the end of her stretchy rubber rope onto c...

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There also seems to be a ton of optional end game content I’ve been diving into! It’s been fun to get some more lore, and it being built for advanced players means there’s more exploration into the technical side of the game’s physics movement.

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Marceline is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just finished Rusted Moss and unlocked all 4 main endings! If you like the sound of Celeste meets Metroid with physics-based grappling hook mechanisms—you may be in for a treat! While it’s designed for m+kb, I got along great using a switch pro controller. store.steampowered.com/app/1772830/...

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Save 60% on Rusted Moss on Steam

Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harbori...

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