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Designing games with a punch 👊

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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Origins was a great time, but super exhausting! Glad to be back home. Thanks to everyone who came out to play Pirates of Port Royal!
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
YARR! Let's play Pirates of Port Royal at Origins! I'll be in the Unpub Room at 5:00PM this Friday, and 1:30 PM this Saturday, at the Convention Center in Columbus Ohio!
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Printing prototypes for Origins
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Impromptu game of pirates! Yarrrrrr! 🎲✂️
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Try my new Ancients style game I made for the Buried Giant Studios community Game Jam: Ragnarøkkr Tabletop Simulator: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... Rulebook: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🎲✂
Cartoon Image of Ragnarokkr set up.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Newest prototype came in the mail today! 🎲✂️
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I'm actually working on a game that has a similar issue to Arcs, given the interconnectedness of the mechanisms, any general advice on how to lay out information when it's interdependent on other systems? A lot of the time it feels like trying to pick the best way to orient the attached picture:
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Prototyping 🎲✂️
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Playtesting Tales from the Supernova with the Central Ohio Game Designers group at Dragon's Lair. Very cool lines of play from a new player with maxing out their loyalty and building a ton of ships. The new win condition worked well although the card itself needs to be clarified. 🎲✂️
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Quentin Tarantino made his top 20 movies of the 21st century and I did mine too. My only rule was no repeat directors.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Trying something different with the map "hexes" in Tales from the Supernova. When tiled in this way, cards are identical to hexagons. 🎲✂️
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
You're gonna see a lot more of Tales From the Supernova in the coming months! Removing player boards did a lot to speed up the teach of the game. Who wouldn't want a 1-6 player smash up of a 4X game and Pax game? 🎲✂ #boardgame #boardgamedesign
Photo of a 3 Player game of a prototype of Tales From the Supernova, a game inspired by both the Pax series and 4X games
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Looks like he wants to be a dentist.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🎲✂ I've been working on a fusion 4X/Pax game for a while, and I'm running into some tension between the two "styles" of games and I'm wondering if it's a design issue on my side or an issue of misunderstanding the genres. When you think of a "PAX" game what does that mean? What does 4X mean to you?
Pirate version of my 4X/Pax game. Space version is called "Tales from the Supernova", this version is set in the Golden Age of Piracy and does not have a title currently. The image contains a market of 4 multiuse cards, a deck of cards, and a "bounty" card, face up. There is also a map of 7 hexagons, with player influence pieces and player ships, but also ships of the French, Spanish, and English Armadas.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Best use of a glossary in a game to date as well. (Third edition, but still)
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A different coat of paint and it looks like a totally different game.🎲✂️
Pirate version of Tales From the Supernova
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
What if Tales from The Supernova was a Pirate game instead?🎲✂️
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Here's an example of the space version in a playtest!
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
What do we think about Pirates? 🎲✂️
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It's all coming together 🎲✂️ Tales from the Supernova is truly taking shape.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Made some new system cards for my 4x/Pax fusion game Tales from the Supernova! 🎲✂️
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Playtests of Supernova and Untitled Cowboy Game were both super exciting. It's very cool to see both of these come together!
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
How did you leave out mandatory fun?
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Made some new chunky pieces for Supernova!
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New version of Tales from the Supernova feels great!
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Pre release went well, ended up losing 1-2 to a guy whose pool was Sephiroth, Cloud, Buster Sword, nibelheim aflame, two Joshuas and a ton of removal in black and white and red. He had more removal and rares in his deck than I opened. #mtg
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New rulebook for my cowboy worker placement game, no name yet. Are you going to be an honorable Sherrif, or a train robbing outlaw? docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
last playtest was really successful!
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
New prototype boards are looking good, need to do the trains and the player references next.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Updating the rulebook with some pictures.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New Cowboy worker placement game, successful playtest. I lost, but it was a blast. Really surprised how good this one already feels.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Moo! 🐮 (Some prototype pieces for a worker placement I'm working on) 🎲✂️
Cow meeple resources for an upcoming worker placement game.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New working prototype for that cowboy worker placement game I was thinking about. 🎲 ✂️
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Uh, so I knew I had this in too big a box before this, but I didn't realize how small a footprint this actually has. You can fit all of tales from the Supernova into the Arcs Miniatures pack box which is roughly the size of Patchwork.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
My very real and not sarcastic whatsoever takeaway from reading this is that I am Eric Lang now.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This made me laugh because it's probably more right than I'd care to admit, even though more than half of the games I've made are light party games.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Prototyping the new deck for Tales from the Supernova🎲✂️
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Look what came in the mail today! Looks even better in person! Everyone should check out @kadinsketch.bsky.social and Loogie!
New copy of Loogie, signed by Kadin!
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
New version of Tales From the Supernova is completed, and getting updated for screentop.gg I'll have updates soon, but in the meantime, here's a pic of the freshest batch of printed pieces!
Fighter pieces for Tales From the Supernova.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We glub but glop.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Most up to date prototype of Tales From the Supernova, the idea being the cross section of a 4X game and a "Pax" shifting allegiance game.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The board is a little too small but this is all really coming together
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
And also with you
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
🎲 ✂️ Which one looks more like a first player marker to you? Thematically players are generals of a bounty hunter guild/part of the same group, but are infighting for control of the entire organization?
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
(walking out of the woods with a deer horn helmet onto unsuspecting campers) "Don't forget to clean up your litter... or else!"
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
More Metal Gear tonight, had a perfect run on mission 2. I have to say, this is one of the coolest productions I've ever played.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Played Metal Gear Solid, I don't know what I expected, but I'm enjoying the production of this quite a bit, and the first mission was a lot of fun. I definitely did not expect the entire game as a campaign, but it's really cool, like a mix of fury of Dracula and Descent.
The final layout of the first mission of the Metal Gear Solid boardgame. Snake made it to the elevator.
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
We made an igloo!
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greg @maximpactgames.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Made a meat and cheese board for Christmas Eve! 🎄🦌 🎁
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