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Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We have learned of a website (which we are not linking to) that is charging people to pay to play knockoffs of popular board games like Catan, Wingspan, Agricola and more - different names, crappy art, same mechanics.

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, it’s rough but we will prevail!

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, major bummer :( our current thought is straight to retail. That will mean we wouldn’t be able to do a super deluxe version, but the game would have a life.

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Joey Haeck @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering are unionizing! Read our letter and sign our petition to management below! I'm the proudest to be a Wizard I've ever been—this union is the first step to making D&D better than ever before.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is really fun to go through these with @senfoonglim.bsky.social ! 🎧✂️

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Strangely, it’s reminding people that NOT finding the hidden player (the Mushroom) is actually decent information lol. We guide players to use memory tools (dry erase tokens) to note when/where they found evidence of the Mushroom and when/where they didn’t - it’s baked into the play loop now.

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎲✂️ The Seekers distills the hidden movement mechanisms from MIND MGMT into a very approachable family weight game for 2-4 players. Featuring art by Rocio Ognjenovic and a comic written by Chris Schweizer, the campaign is live now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/min...

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The Seekers

The approachable deduction board game!

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I mean, I would totally listen to your version of that classic!

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So, give the campaign a gander and support if you like it. A share on your socials would be great, too. Talespinner Games is going to make good on the promises the original publisher made and deliver a great game to their new customers as well.

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fast forward a few years later and the comic creators got the rights back and have worked their tails off to redo the art and graphic design, streamline the rules, AND make the original backers (who never got a game) whole.

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This campaign means a lot to me, Erica (co-designers), and Alara (developer). The original Kickstarter made a good chunk of change but the publisher did not deliver because their business partner ran off with the funds. We thought that was it for our lovely Queens.

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is from a comic artist, but much of it can apply to tabletop game designers

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Games are a form of art. Travis poured his heart into those 100 copies. No creative should feel obligated to make more of something just because someone else wants it. Boundaries should be respected. And no, I don’t necessarily want more money it it’s going to cost me in other ways.

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Meeple Syrup Show @meeplesyrupshow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🎲✂️ Tonight at 9PM ET (UTC-5), @senfoonglim.bsky.social and Hafiz speak with Victor Shiu of @launchboom.bsky.social and Ibis Tea Games about crowdfunding, Hover, and more! Come join in the chat youtube.com/MeepleSyrup or facebook.com/MeepleSyrup!

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Quiet Year changed how I saw roleplaying.

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hopefully next time it won’t be a whirlwind trip and we can go explore the other nearby provinces!

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

These sound like my kind of games, Rodney. Oh, also, I’m driving to NS in a few days to take Monkey 2 for his first year at Dalhousie. I’ll wave as I drive past the island ;)

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That’d be sweet! Holding out for a few more years before I travel to the states again, but I’m building an itinerary for when I do!

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Awesome! Love seeing what’s going on in other parts of the world!

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Pay on Print would be a much better way to do things with trad publishers; even better would be Pay on End of Campaign for those who use crowd funding.

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In fact, @amabel.bsky.social, we should have you back on to talk about these findings! Or… if you’d like to maybe do a short series of podcasts…

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Amabel’s reasoning is why @ludologypod.bsky.social and all of its offshoots exists. We look at “the whys of gaming” but, almost invariably, those “whys” are tied to people. If to err is human, play is even more so IMO!

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And if you're from a smaller country, it could be highlighting designers and publisher from your region/province/country etc.

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Aweome! Next time I'm at Pax U, I'll check it out!

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I totally would! Me and goblins get along well :D

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Cool! That's not a bad drive from SW Ontario!

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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I feel like you’re missing out on being closer to Canada…

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