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Tristan Salazar @ofnadwy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ada Palmer: I created the Gendered Sex Club as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At last we have created the Gendered Sex Club from the classic sci-fi novel, Look What Happens When You Have a Gendered Sex Club (apologies to @adapalmer.bsky.social for this gross mischaracterization of Terra Ignota)

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) @playkeelblade.com · 11/09/2026

Our final playtest before October's Steam Next Fest is now live! If you missed signing up on Steam, join our Discord to get your own key while supplies last: discord.gg/6nEPsYzUtm Patch notes available here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/270... #Keelblade #Playtest

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) - Keelblade - One Last Playtest Sets Sail... before Next Fest! - Steam News

Our first weekend playtest as Keelblade, and the last before a BIG Steam Next Fest Demo in October

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was excited to get my copy of Blades '68 today. I looked at the credits and thought, huh, some familiar names, this Tim Denee guy really pays attention to NZ rpgs. I check, he is from New Zealand. Another reason to like it ( also another example of NZ game design punching above its weight).

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The game I’ve been working on has a new name: Keelblade. I’m immensely proud of what our team has been building, and very glad to finally put its new name out into the world. Wishlist it now, and play the demo during the upcoming Steam Next Fest. store.steampowered.com/news/app/270...

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) - Triarchy is now Keelblade! - Steam News

It's still the same game you've been following and playtesting, with a new name that better reflects the fantasy pirate adventure it's grown into.

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I really enjoyed Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance, which is accessible history that is a joy to read. I discovered she also wrote scifi, so started on her Terra Ignota series, it is fascinating but ...

Nice dog scary dog meme, with the nice dog labelled Ada Palmer writing history, the scary dog labelled Ada Palmer writing Scifi

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) @playkeelblade.com · 02/08/2026

Wild screeching can be heard far to the North, and charred emissaries bring tales of woe. Perhaps you should sail South instead in our Steam playtest? store.steampowered.com/app/2708040/... #Triarchy #Playtest

Wyvern signs have been spotted in the seas to the North - even a warship this powerful will struggle!

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) @playkeelblade.com · 30/07/2026

You're gonna need a bigger boat for what's coming in this weekend's playtest… #Triarchy #Playtest

This ship looks worthy of a crew with your experience

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Endeavor: Deep Sea was is on the Did You Know of Wikipedia today (might be New Zealand only?):

The Did You Know section of Wikipedia, it includes a reference to Endeavor: Deep Sea

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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 04/06/2026

John Blanche, a hugely influential illustrator famed for his work on Warhammer 40,000 and other Games Workshop properties, has died.

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Legendary Warhammer artist John Blanche has died

Blanche's work set a stark, brutal vision for the grim dark future.

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Dr Thom @thomaslinley.com · 31/05/2026

#wellycon #boardgame con is on this weekend and I caught up with the creators of #EndevourDeepSea for @deepseapod.com. For the cons special edition card they wanted to showcase New Zealand marine science and ended up using our expedition. ...where do I put this on the impact reporting?

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) @playkeelblade.com · 21/05/2026

Mudley entertaining a business contact... fully tax deductible, you understand. Cooking debuts in Triarchy with our next Playtest, coming end of May. #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming #SteamPlaytest

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Jetset @jet-set.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Hexacon today was China's War. 1937-41. I was the invading Japanese while the other three factions squabbled and somewhat defended.

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

First day of Hexacon. Ready to play some Musket and Pike. 2nd Breitenfeld, I am the Imperials against a very keen to fight Sweden.

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Play this game! Made by my workmate Bryce, it is a great take on backpack management crossed with survival. Great fun to play co-op too.

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) @playkeelblade.com · 01/04/2026

Our metrics show that less than 0.01% of players defeated Pete so we have removed his cannon, he will now fight unarmed... #Triarchy

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Packmates @packmatesgame.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

An entirely new act, with new enemies, new areas, and a new boss with fresh mechanics, releases with the Packmates launch in April. #Packmates #PCGaming #Gaming

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) @playkeelblade.com · 26/03/2026

Triarchy has reached 50,000 wishlists, and we're building something BIG for Steam playtesters this coming weekend. Sign up to join the playtests on our Steam store page: store.steampowered.com/app/2708040/... #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming

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Packmates @packmatesgame.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Packmates launches on April 16th, 2026 with a huge wave of new content, systems, and replayability that goes far beyond what you’ve played in any demo so far. Wishlist Packmates on Steam to get notified on release day! store.steampowered.com/app/3171540/... #Packmates #PCGaming #Gaming

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Packmates on Steam

Gear up your animal hero in this 1–3 player co-op survivor roguelite forged on tactical inventory mastery. Arrange loot for devastating combos, obliterate enemies, and battle to dominate the darkness ...

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Unexpected happy surprise this morning, gushing praise for Endeavor: Deep Sea in the GMT newsletter ("above the fold" no less).

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Endeavor: Deep Sea hit the Board Game Geek top 100!

Chart showing entries 98, 99 and 100 being Fields of Arle. El Grande and Endeavor: Deep Sea.

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) @playkeelblade.com · 18/12/2025

In the sacred groves, the Fungalblade Clan raises architecture to mirror unseen ideals, their structures precise echoes of a higher, unknowable order. #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed

the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized

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Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved.
Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like.
Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch.
This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) @playkeelblade.com · 11/12/2025

This gate marks the boundary of the real and a sacred mushroom grove. The mushroom people believe the world is an illusion and an echo of a greater truth. #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming

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Keelblade (formerly Triarchy) @playkeelblade.com · 04/12/2025

Gribbles have a diverse ancestry, while some are small they come in many types and sizes. There is talk of a gigantic, bloated Gribble champion - protecting their treasure from marauding pirate clans. #Triarchy #PCGaming #Gaming

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

One of my favourite game series, Volko Ruhnke's COIN games:

Three stacks of boardgames, a full collection of the COIN games.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Me when a driver is buggy: "computer's haunted" Me when we take the crystalized thoughts of every dead person who has ever been recorded and compress them into a singular artifact we imbue with false life: "It's just linear algebra"

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Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The designer of Mouse Trap, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Lite Brite, and many other toys has passed away. What a legacy of joy! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...

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Burt Meyer, 99, Dies; Made Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Revenants are optional aspirational bosses you start finding, even pretty early in the game. Lucian will be in the upcoming playtest for example (although is a little work to find/summon). www.youtube.com/shorts/dsZW8...

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Triarchy - Meet Lucian #gaming #pcgaming

YouTube video by Digital Confectioners

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Completed my Space Empires set, the full game with all rules seems pretty nuts, but when I have played with Expansion 1, I have been pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to play even while tracking teach per fleet and crew experience. Not sure how I feel about adding logistics to tht however.

The board game Space Empires 4x and its three expansions in a stack.

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I am genuinely surprised Hudson Hawk has not become a sleeper cult film of interest. When I was in university, a group of friends and I watched it multiple times in the theatre. I need to rewatch it, and work if I was just had terrible taste when young.

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

After a great NZGDC, I get to spend the day visiting award winning game designer Jarratt Gray.

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

New game coming from Digital Confectioners (where I work). The designer is Bryce Haywood, which is totally a name you will see again over the next few decades. It is a great co-op back pack survivors game I have enjoyed playing the hell out of. store.steampowered.com/app/3171540/...

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Packmates on Steam

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Back from Berlin, with this! The Kennerspiel des Jahres:

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Spiel des Jahres @spiel-des-jahres.de · 13/07/2025

Das Kennerspiel des Jahres ist: "Endeavor: Die Tiefsee" von Carl de Visser und Jarratt Gray erschienen bei @frostedgames.bsky.social und @boardgamecircus.bsky.social Atmosphärisches Unterwasserabenteuer mit viel Varianz und Tiefe Herzlichen Glückwunsch🎊🥳 #KeSdJ25 # SdJ25 #Brettspiel

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

In Berlin for the Spiel de Jahres, but also a rare moment where the Endeavor: Deep Sea team is mostly in the same place. So obviously testing time.

Prototype components for Endeavor Deep Sea, Uncharted Waters. Some tiles have blank ink markings on them.

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

You know a game is coming together nicely when the internal tests end up with people making up shit-post memes about it.

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Burnt Island Games @burntislandgames.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This morning we received a 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗹 nomination for 𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧: 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙎𝙚𝙖, so it feels like the perfect time to announce the next chapter! The 𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧: 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙎𝙚𝙖 - 𝙐𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 expansion will push your adventures to the next level. Sign up to follow the campaign here: tinyurl.com/29suu9r9

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Spiel des Jahres @spiel-des-jahres.de · 20/05/2025

Nominiert zum Kennerspiel des Jahres: „Endeavor: Die Tiefsee“ von Carl de Vissser und Jarrat Gray (Frosted Games / Board Game Circus) „Faraway“ von Johannes Goupy und Corentin Lebrat (Kosmos) „Neuland“ von Charles Chevalier und Laurent Escoffier (Game Factory)

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T-LARC @t-larc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If anyone ever breaks down the ways that high-ranking positions get filled, they'd better call it a meritoxicology report.

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Nick Bentley Makes Games @nickbentley.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

At the end of May I'll no longer work for Underdog Games. The owner is shrinking the company to almost nothing to give it the best chance of keeping the lights on during the tariff tsunami. It won't need new games (I manage our design studio, and design myself), so I'm done. 🎲✂️(1/7)

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Qarl 🔜 SPIEL Essen @qarl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This result changes my opinion on AI driven search: "If you're looking to dance for alien gods, you could consider exploring the musical piece "Scythian Suite Op. 20: ii. Evil God and the Pagan Monsters Dance (Alien God)", which features a dance inspired by the Scythians' sacrifice to Ala."

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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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