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MothSpire Games @games.mothspire.com · 11/09/2026

I'm so excited about our current pipeline of games right now. Kung Fu Kittens, which is currently live on BackerKit; Gorgon's Garden, our cooperative tactical flirting game, and a 2nd Ed standalone reimagination of the OmegaZone RPG built on @nerdsomatics.bsky.social's Rule of Three.

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Tim Rodriguez @ogreteeth.com · 02/09/2026

Final hour for the early-bird free variant booklet for Kung Fu Kittens, my trick-taking game about elemental martial artist cats! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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Kung Fu Kittens - an Elemental Trick-Taking Game

A trick-taking game of cats who wield martial arts expertise and elemental power. Show off your style, and discover who is the strongest!

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Congratulations to Astrolabe! cardboardedison.com/award It was such a joy to experience the game—such pleasing tangibility to the prototype and such engaging mechanics. And well done to all the finalists. It was a delight to take part in judging all these games with my peers.

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Cardbord Edison Award — Cardboard Edison

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 14/04/2026

Making art is fun. Making a product is a totally different thing, and it involves work, and work sucks so they should pay you up front

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

My tarot game The Old Ways Must Go is one of the many delightful games in this collection :)

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Crowdfunding getting you down? Me too—what are y’all’s alternative strategies? One thing I’m trying is using itch sales of my prior zines with a sale goal to fund the print run of the next zines. Feels like lately it’s time for safe bets. itch.io/s/171885/tar...

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Tarot for Transformation by MothSpire Games

A bundle by MothSpire Games, $20.00 for The Old Ways Must Go, The Optimist's Guide to Tarot

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Nobody is allowed to die right now, Yall hear me? 2 in 24 hours and 2 funerals this week. I need to beat the “it comes in threes” rule.

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Want some silly, saucy fun? My love letter to Taco Bell is finally in a consumable form. Relish your saucy hotness: nerdsomatics.itch.io

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Samphire

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Had a lovely time in community last week: we ran a shop but mighty Tarot x Gamer event at our local FLGS Pure Panic and then jammed all day outside Peoples Book for an indie game fair. Thanks @stickydoodler.bsky.social for all your organizing and commitment.

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A free local event next Thursday in Silver Spring. Come join the tarot / gamer party!

An orange and green gradient flyer reads "Tarot x Gamer" Join local game designers to play with tarot cards in new ways: crafting rituals, storytelling games, rpg design, and card spreads for community repair.
In the center is a photographic imagine of two tarot cards crossed 90 degrees over each other, with the Ace of Cups on top.
The bottom text reads "Oct 15/6, 2025, 6pm til close @Pure Panic 8317 Fenton St, Silver Spring, MD
The bottom left has Pure Panic's stylized pogo of rainbow loops

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

A playful game about a hella serious topic (power and non-consent), it's the thing I've had the most fun (yet) designing and testing this year.

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Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Here's the list of 184 products from 108 of our member publishers we'll have in #Booth449 at #GenCon2025, including a link to download a 36 page PDF or ePub with short descriptions of all of them, in case you wanted a little travel reading. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Gen-Co...

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Got my weird lil game about credibility and archival silence I've noodled on for two years out of playtest draft and into a TTRPG coherent form by using the @tabletopartsfund.org grant as a Real Due Date. #neurospicy #gamedesign

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It’s finally here! Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning takes a look at how board games make persuasive arguments, how they might move us emotionally, and how the ways we talk about the form might hinder its development. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4z...

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Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning

YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland

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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Designed in the DMV is back out with v2 of our catalog of locally-crafted games! We're using these catalogs to engage local businesses and their customers with our creations. While the main focus is on TTRPGs, we also have a page of locally-designed boardgames such as Wingspan and Fluxx! (1/2)

A pamphlet showing three games from MothSpire, and a stack of "Designed in the DMV" placards adjacent.

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My lil LARP got a little award, and so did my friend @greylibertine.bsky.social Check em out! www.goldencobra.org/2024winners....

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Golden Cobra Challenge

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