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Haole Boy Games @haoleboygames.com · 19h

Published! I now have both #Soccer54 ⚽️ and #Popoki 🐈 #boardgames available to play for free at @playingcardsio.bsky.social on their Community Games page. Just in time for #Solotober and #Solotober2026! 🎩: @themisplay.com for setting a standard of excellence for indie game designers. 🎲✂️

Both Pōpoki and Soccer 54 are available to play online at Playing Cards IO.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 17h

At minimum: - first read is understandable when read in order - when I return to the game in a year I specifically do NOT want to have to reread the rulebook front to back to refresh my memory on unengaging details (do I draw at the end or beginning of my turn, common edge cases, icon reference etc)

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

so I've been going through my old work for mundane reasons, and came across clips in which I reported on abusive sexual misconduct -- a teacher and a reporter (diff cases). Both from 1992. It just made me stop & ponder. How tired I am. Don't really have a grand pronouncement to make. Wish I did.

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I will finally say that when you point out this specific hypocrisy, a fascist doesn't hear you say they're inconsistent and wrong. They're overjoyed that you're agreeing that the basis of their actions are right and should be 'more consistently' applied.

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Just because it's trending: if your reaction to ICE targeting Ilhan Omar is to call for Elon Musk and/or Melania Trump to be denaturalized and deported, YOU ARE NOT HELPING.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

what incredible beauty there is in just existing for a moment. to sit and breathe and have a pumping heart. to let any goals or expectations fall away. to think 'wow i am here.' life is an unfathomable blessing but in quiet moments of acknowledgment i think we can at least REACH for understanding

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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trying to do the "systemic gameplay" thing here. #gamemaker #gamedev #indiegames

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

reported on something that was really difficult for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons in a lot of different ways.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Maybe a roll and write that uses cards, like welcome to or cartographers

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allsee @allsees.online · 01/10/2026

if you combined Blue Prince and Silent Hill you'd get Incoherence: Dark Rooms, a survival horror room-drafting game where the rooms are built from your own memories

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolutely incredible. I love to see this digital art history being preserved.

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Francisco González @grundislav.games · 01/10/2026

YEEHAW! Grab ROSEWATER, a rootin-tootin' old west adventure where your choices actually matter for 33% off during the Steam Autumn Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

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Longfang @longfang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

RIP. This product image has killed me.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sounds like a good way to fight scope creep too.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haven't watched (or finished) most of these, yet I know they suit my tastes. Started: bojack, the wire, breaking bad, always sunny. Finished: TP, good place. Not started: the rest. Gotta get on that.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Does the 6 hours need to fit inside the weekend?

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So WHO vouched for the data? WHO relied to much on AI? Who made the hiring and sourcing decisions? Who is leading the military operation? Who is commander in chief? Who should be immediately removed from their positions that enable them to consistently make these poor decisions and kill innocents?

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Enjoying this one more than I expected. You can feel hamstrung at times by your draws, but there are enough fronts to pursue to still make good plays.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah. Wrote a whole book about it. We make issues salient in discourse through consistent effort. It’s an empirical fact but folks acts like political issues& issue attitudes are sprung from a “kitchen table” cabbage patch. We should argue for what we want. Again & again. Until it’s common sense.

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have been repeating everything I said in this thread for going on two years now, and still, y'all think "we just need to chop off a little bit of your equal rights" as somehow a compelling argument. It's not. We're way beyond compromise.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of my dream game projects wants to play with time in some adhacent ways. It definitely feels like an underexplored mechanic in the rpg space, so cool to see a big game like this take such a risk.

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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games @jacksonpope.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's #CraftWednesday! Do you have a game-related crafting project in progress? It could be a prototype, print and play, upgrading the components of a favourite game, making an accessory or even something larger like a table or games room. Share a picture and join in! Please RP!

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yay: when done well with a dedicated group, super memorable, rewarding experience. Publisher *might* sell the game twice to some dedicated fans. Nay: hard to test, hard to convince buyer, or their friends to commit, player is going to be less likely to buy ANOTHER game until finished.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Procrastination can be a superpower

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Make it camels racing yachts

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

✂️🎲 A 🧵 A friend sent me this video that was talking about how the back of a game box is essential for stores to market and sell the game, given that they can’t have every game set up nor do they have demo copies of all games available. youtube.com/shorts/-hQBk...

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A great back of the box layout is the best tool to help retailers sell your game.

YouTube video by Games Unlimited

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Played first game of Rebirth the #boardgame. 2p. It has the sauce! I like how you only have 1 tile to place, and your options are limited by that tile. I think it does a lot with those restrictions to sharpen the strategy. The component and graphic design is very pleasing as well.

A board game box: "Rebirth, Reiner Knizia". Multilayered castle city on a hill overlooking a pastoral scene with bison, 2 people in white robes carrying a red flag in the foreground, and another castle in the distance. Airships dot the landscape.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Love the double layer design, so smart. Is there going to be more details on the gameplay?

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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...

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How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I know I'm not supposed to, but this kind of thought experiment, while interesting, feels like "if I cut out all the bad parts are you OK with it now?" But like, we can't cut out the bad parts.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When C3po is getting paid for his art and not his creator or those who are instructing him what he must paint, I think we approach ethics. But, the ethical problems I have with the current environment are so strongly tied to our ecomonic reality that I do kind of reject your premise.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I guess a good solution would need some strong tech behind it. And I think it still only works for some games, where you don't rely as much on the immediacy of player reactions (so games that WOULD work well in an asynchronous environment)

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You could still have the designer in the box - hook it up so the designer gets all the updates and can interrupt to fix issues. Let the designer record voice/interaction clips in the same interface that testers can refer to.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Try to force yourself to do the creative task first, even if you are only going to spend 5 or 10 minutes. Sometimes, you get hooked and actually make progress. Once you start up the video game its not happening.

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Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today TTGDA released what we believe is our most important effort so far - our Licensing Contract Rubric. This is an objective scoring metric that can be used to partially evaluate the quality of a contract. We applied it to a huge swath of the industry, and this chart shows how they scored. 🧵 🎲✂️

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

File cabinet, components bagged in the filing dividers.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We place too high a value on finished things. Biologically nothing is ever really finished, everything is always in progress. Every unfinished prototype is developing your thinking and informs your later work.

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Brie @briechindeyerle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Louder for people in the back, "Art has throughput and quality bars. Engineering has velocity, defect rates, build health. QA has coverage and escape rates. Production has burndowns and forecasts... The decision layer has status updates." www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

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I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

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Bez Bonnie-Beth 🇹🇭 🇬🇧 @stuffbybez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If enough people react or reply to this, I'll go back to making a vaguely strategic game with a 'theme' of magical battles. Tiles and cards and fancy meeples. AMA

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It almost sounds like if there were *less* steps people would make more mistakes because they would rely more on memory.

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saluk @saluk64007.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Love it. "Be good" doesn't show you a path from where you are to where you want to be, "be better" usually guides you in some clear next steps. (as long as you watch out that you aren't incrementally improving away from your overall goals!)

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