iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

all the electric bikes and scooters and solar panels make me feel like I’m living in the future and it’s like the one rad part of what has otherwise been the dystopian path

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Bart de Jong @bartgamedesign.bsky.social · 8h

Random 🎲✂️ thought: a puzzle is a conversation between the player and the designer. A game is a conversation between the player(s) and the system.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 1h

missed board game club this weekend but only because my partner and I took advantage of childcare to have a rare afternoon just the two of us. did manage to sneak in a playtest online this morning tho’

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 6h

In my own work, I can try to convince drivers that they should slow down and be safe or I can try to convince parents who walk their kids to school that the streets should be safer and that they can call their elected officials to ask for such things. Which one is going to result in real change?

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 6h

I've said this in some of our book talks, but as an advocate I think spending a lot of time trying to find common ground with "someone on the other side" is generally a waste of time. It's much more effective to identify latent supporters of the things you want in the world and get them to join you.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 7h

Overwhelmed with game design stuff (in a good way)

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Reading "Life After Cars" and was blown away by this fact. A light rail station being added to a rural area in Japan reduced health care costs in that community to the tune of $600 per person per year!! 🤯

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 23h

if you don’t feel like an imposter, you might consider stepping out of your comfort zone

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 23h

In 2024 I kept a diary on a deck of cards. Every week I would write an abbreviated summary of the main events, in ultrafine sharpie. 52 weeks, 52 cards. I finished the year, but the plan was to play Solitaire on NYE as a means of reflecting on the year, and I never did that.

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Corey Young @coreyyoung.com · 04/10/2026

New addition to the game room ♠️♦️🚲♥️♣️🃏

Framed sheet of uncut Bicycle playing cards

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 23h

has anyone ever found out what F.R.I.E.N.D.S stands for??

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A Man Possessed is Kickstarting Rune Rite! 🔮 @amanpossessed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wildly impractical deck of playing cards. Make or do not make?

Three graphics of potential playing cards. The leftmost card is a potential card back, middle is a two of hearts, rightmost is a seven of spades. They are all drawn in a skewed pixel-art manner.

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Jiggety Jatters. The worst name. @jessefuchs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i’m ready for water to be opaque, give me the new eyes

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Keith DeViere Donaldson @kddgames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The rulebook is poker card size. Too small for my local printer to handle, so I made a jig and invested in a Bostitch Booklet Stapler. ✅

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 03/10/2026

They say you gotta get the prototype type the table fast, so here we are. Walking through the motions this morning. Table space feels good. Good energy so far, using pieces from Elseware express (an 18xx-like I'll launch next year). Play cards and take actions. Have the best company in the end. Easy

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

i haven't tried this variant yet, and I completely forget why i was so convinced IT WOULD BE A TERRIBLE IDEA when writing this draft of the rules

screenshot of a rules doc section listing variants. One is "Always Pay My Debts" then there's THIS IS PROBABLY A TERRIBLE IDEA all caps and then Two Player

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

should I go buy books tomorrow?

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

ngl it’s pretty cool to see my name on a game box even though it’s only because I paid some people to print a box with my name on it.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here is a video about my game Calculators, now available for sale on The Game Crafter: www.thegamecrafter.com/games/calcul... ...And here is a list of ten reasons you should NOT buy Calculators 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9T-...

youtube.com

Calculators, an unabashedly arithmetical trick-taking game

YouTube video by uanarchyk

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Sam / ceefox @ceethefoxrun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Bury My Heart in Mockingbird Station" resonated deeply with me, and has been stuck on my head for weeks. Even here in the UK, as a gay man, the feelings of community rejection are strong from the post-industrial, slowly crumbling rural farm town that was once my home.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

somebody who makes a lot more money than me remarked in a meeting today that there are people in the company who make a lot more money than she does just to come up with product names. how do I get *those* jobs? I love naming things. I’ll name things all day long for a fat paycheque. hell yes.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As a game thinker, personally, I'm not interested in distinguishing games clearly from other kinds of behaviors and activities. I'm interested in finding and learning from the games that are hiding, unidentified, unrecognized, unacknowledged in the other things we do.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

Often when I add pictures on here, type up alt text, and press post, it disappears and doesn’t post. I would say 75% of the time. I never bother redoing all that work. I just don’t post whatever it was. Wonderful website very stable.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

every few years, despite all evidence to the contrary, I think: “I should buy a theremin”

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me: “I wish this one specific resource existed” Game designer I admire: posts this one specific resource as a video Me: “Ehhhhh. A video? I don’t know…”

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I should like to call the book ‘Down Stream’—I suppose because it is quite irrelevant and has certainly been used before as a title. ‘With the Stream’ — ‘Among the Sedges’ — ‘The Garden of Pan’ — No good. It may come — as you say—while shaving —yet ever I shave and it comes not."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My friend Jean gifted me this card with her own painting of a seagull inspired by B'town Beak-tectives! 🃏

Photo of a card with the painting of a seagull with a trilby holding playing cards in their wing.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

At one point, years and years ago, I really wanted to try the game Tannhauser. I don’t remember why; it probably got mentioned in a forum topic and then lodged itself in my brain. Anyway, I noticed the other day that it is on BGA, so I spun up a game and tried it. It’s fine. Not really my thing.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

cursed mash up idea: HellzaMMMBoppin

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Joseph Arthur Ellis @jarthurellis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I made this with my elementary school-aged kid. We don't know what we're doing with lighting or sound, but I still found the result really fun XD

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am a black coffee drinker at home, but I make a cup exactly how I like it, so when I’m out I mix it up instead of getting disappointed. Which is how I ended up rolling the dice on the local coffee shop’s Carrot Cake Latte with homemade carrot syrup and cream cheese whipped cream. It was 🔥.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Backrooms wasn’t what I was expecting, but I felt in the end it wasn’t sure what it wanted to say. Send Help was less horror-coded than the thumbnail suggested. Fun enough, forgettable.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Open world video game where you are waiting for packages to arrive except because it’s a video game you are allowed to track and hunt down the packages yourself to liberate them from UPS’s stranglehold instead of just smashing f5 (you can choose to just refresh too, it’s open world after all)

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Shreesh @shreesh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fe-Bid-uary Mu-rch & more HanaFish April Clacker June Two-uly China-gust Se-Parlett-ember Deutsche December

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

THE ELDER GODS CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE THE ELDER GODS MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

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Sean Ross @seandavidross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd like to recommend Split Tarock for your Tarocktober festivities. Easier to get to the table, as you only need one other player. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/47...

boardgamegeek.com

Split Tarock

Bid, stash, and try for the half-wit in this tarock for two.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

a happy Tarocktober to all those who celebrate

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

new superman movie but it’s 2 hours of superman doing hydraulic press style videos on YouTube using his bare hands

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Need to come up with a new trick taker ASAP because Witchy Whist is just sitting there as a title and October is ticking away

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why does every package tracking interface have you click a little “show details” button to get the goods? If I’m the kind of neurotic refresher who actually tracks their package in the first place, you can go ahead and assume from the jump that I want all the details too.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I was in university I had a book I used as a mousepad. It was a small hardcover copy of Fred Hoyle’s “October the First is Too Late”. I read it a couple times, but I used it as a mousepad for years. This day always reminds me of it, for obvious reasons.

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City Hare Studio 🔜 Essen SPIEL 2026 @cityhare.studio · 01/10/2026

I made a new deck of cards! I intend to make a few games that uses it in the future. Go check it out! www.thegamecrafter.com/games/fivedeck

thegamecrafter.com

Fivedeck

Disjoint deck of cards in five suits.

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

ate some cheese? log it in your daily dairy diary

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

new review series where I only review games 100 years after they came out. very excited that in ten years’ time I’ll get to review Spades (spoiler: it’s a good one!)

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PnP Time @pnptime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Packing 12 levels of dungeon crawling into ONE card? Here’s Barny Skinner, the creator of One Card Dungeon, sharing the journey behind it in the 15th Behind the Scenes issue: pnptime.beehiiv.com/p/behind-one... #printandplay #boardgames #sologames #indiegames #onecarddungeon #gamedesign

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have mixed feelings about vibe coded card game websites. A ton have popped up, made mostly by real enthusiasts, and often showcasing games that otherwise would have no digital version. It’s hard to see that as an unalloyed evil, but I’m still not super keen to engage with them or their authors.

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Stephen Lockyer @mrlockyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Niche convenience store for pigeons

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