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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 4h

🔮✨ Selected as a part of Kickstarter's Witchstarter creator spotlight, Rune Rite is launching on October 13th. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea... Why follow now? Because you'll like Rune Rite. It's fun. Also: • 20% off retail • A free mini-expansion #boardgames #kickstarter #crowdfunding

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Rune Rite
Witchy Thinky Fun
Your Next Favorite Flip & Write
Launching 10/13

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🔮✨ How do you conjure your own polyominoes? It’s surprisingly simple and wildly satisfying. Zero downtime and maximum puzzly goodness. Coming to Witchstarter on Oct 13th! Sign up for a launch notification here: www.seahorseandhummingbird.com/shop/rune-ri... #boardgames #kickstarter #crowdfunding

An image of the Rune Rite components set up during play, illustrating the basic concept of gameplay.
• Choose a card
• Conjure a polyomino
• Write the right rite
We're on Kickstarter!

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And who will help me bake my bread? “Not I”, said the internet. #boardgames 🎲✂️

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Celebrity preview plays of @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social's Rune Rite continues apace. Not a bad maiden effort, Ray. Tonight I'm teaching it to my homie @whovian223.bsky.social and R. Buckminster Fuller. #flipandwrite #kickstarter #soloboardgame

Completed scoresheet for solo play of Rune Rite from The Seahorse and The Hummingbird. Five kinds of runes are arranged in a 3x3 grid, each section of which is also a 3x3 grid. Score tabulation is at bottom.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An intended upgrade for Rune Rite. Instead of a punchboard "stone altar" that players must assemble, a cardstock insert in the bottom of the box for both storage and gameplay. Crackling with powah! #boardgames

A 3D rendering of the bottom of the box for the board game Rune Rite. It features an insert that forms a square well for cards and is part of the gameplay.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How to efficiently remove laser-cut punchboard soot and deposit much of it into your lungs. 🫁 #boardgames 🎲✂️

A brush extension connected to a drill, laying on top of and next to various components for the prototype board game of Rune Rite.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's not simply "yet another board game Kickstarter." It's **MY** "yet another board game Kickstarter." #boardgames #kickstarter #crowdfunding

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today I learned that I can print directly from Affinity Publisher 2 to my printer with the pages automatically reordered into booklet format. Print, fold, done. Pro tip: Print double-sided on the short edge.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🔮✨ Rune Rite is a polyomino flip-and-write game like nothing you've ever seen, coming to Kickstarter on 10/13. Fun, puzzly and satisfying. Read more about the game and sign up for a launch notification here: www.seahorseandhummingbird.com/shop/rune-ri... #boardgames #kickstarter #crowdfunding

Gorgeous & Thinky Flip & Write Board Game
20% off & a free expansion
Launching October 13th on Kickstarter

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My first game of @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social's Rune Rite on Screentop. (Disclosure: I am working with @amanpossessed.bsky.social in formal capacity. It was an easy call. I believe in the man.) Anyway, I'm darn proud of that 4x4 of water runes I stacked in the lower right. #flipandwrite

Screen shot of a finished scorepad from a virtual tabletop solo play of The Seahorse and The Hummingbird's Rune Rite flip-and-write game. A 3x3 grid, each square composed of a smaller 3x3 grid, is filled with five kinds of symbols indicating water, air, spirit, earth and fire runes.

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A Man Possessed is Kickstarting Rune Rite! 🔮 @amanpossessed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The punchboard “stone altar” fits together perfectly 😮‍💨 and now we have a full, high-quality prototype on our hands, ready to ship to reviewers. My hands are all sooty. #boardgames 🎲✂️

A full set up of the components for the board game Rune Rite. A game box in the back, cards in the middle, player sheets and a punchboard card holder in the middle.

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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 01/07/2026

Make your next work of art in Color Jam, a cozy, print-and-puzzle coloring game launching on Kickstarter later this year. Grab your favorite crayons and play solo or with friends. Follow along here for when the project goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun... The night is for creativity. 🖍️

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Coming soon: Color Jam: A Print-and-Puzzle Coloring Game

Enjoy cozy and clever coloring at your next game night. Craft the story of each hand-illustrated picture with creative color choices!

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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 21/09/2026

Life is a lot of different things. It's beautiful, tough, challenging, wholesome, stressful, peaceful, thoughtful, magical, mundane, absurd, chaotic, familiar, strange, and everything in between. We hope you're finding joy where you can. Never forget, you are incredible. Thanks for being you.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🔮✨ It’s happening! Rune Rite launches on Kickstarter on October 13th! A witchy, puzzle-y flip-and-write game for your Hallowe'en! 🎃 Follow the link to sign up for a notification on launch day. Why sign up? Backer perks listed in the comments... 🧵 #boardgames #kickstarter

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Rune Rite - The Seahorse and The Hummingbird

Coming to Kickstarter on Oct 13th! Rune Rite is a witchy flip-and-write of runes, rites and polyomino conjuration. Build custom polyominoes to score big.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🆕 Witchbound! For sale at The Seahorse & The Hummingbird! Solo point-and-click-style narrative adventure, ages 14+ In Witchbound, a grand adventure awaits you in this open-world style story-driven game. You’ll explore scenes full of details for you to interact with using... #boardgames

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Witchbound - The Seahorse and The Hummingbird

Explore an enchanting world, learn magic, craft potions, and discover secrets in this open-world game about becoming the first witch in over 100 years.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Have you ever heard a good song? If not, you should look into it. Highly recommended.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🥣🐟 Mm... Kixtartar. That's right! Rune Rite is coming to Kickstarter on October 13th! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea... 💎 Rune Rite is a unique and puzzle-y flip-and-write game with polyominoes, simultaneous play, and satisfying moves. #boardgames

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Would you love me if I offered plastic miniatures?

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 15/09/2026

I see it's Kickstarter day today. Any more projects launching in the next few hours or can I rest easy?

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🔮 A long time in the coming. Rune Rite is the build-your-own-polyomino flip-and-write game and it's coming to Witchstarter on October 13th! Follow the prelaunch for a notification on 10/13. Backers will get: • $5 off the $25 retail price • A free copy of The Grimoire Mini-Expansion #boardgames

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Coming soon: Rune Rite Flip-and-Write Game

Sharpen your quill and unstopper your inkwell! In this flip-and-write game for 1-5 players, you'll conjure your own polyominoes to win.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I would like one extra-large order of going viral, please. With a side of fund. #boardgames #kickstarter #worldWideSensation

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Congrats to @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social for getting Rune Rite into the curated Witchstarter project on Kickstarter. (Launches Oct. 13) 🚨 For my tabletop media people: Hit me up if you want to preview it on Screentop and a new polyomino fits on your Sept. calendar. #flipandwrite #kickstarter

Cover of Rune Rite flip-and-write board game box on black background. A small witch in a large hat and robe raises their hands before a boulder field of glowing, icy stones.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Witchstarter looms nigh. Sixteen preview copies of Rune Rite ordered from Launch Tabletop. Will everything come together in time? 🤷 🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷 🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷 🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♂️ #boardgames

All of the production files for a Launch Tabletop order of preview copies of Rune Rite.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You'd think I was defusing a bomb, how nervous I am prepping these production files. Cutlines for interlocking punchboard elements. Which of these slots is one-quarter millimeter too far off? Which tiny rounding error will make this whole thing a huge waste of time and money? 😰💸 #boardgames

A screenshot of Affinity Publisher 2 with a punchboard sheet of tiles for Rune Rite are being laid out.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Working on a Rune Rite mini-expansion. I've failed at this several times, but I think I've got it now. #boardgames

Two cards edge-to-edge to form a "book". A grimoire. It says, "Storm of the Serpent," across the top. The left card has a 9x9 grid with some cells X'd off and a water rune at the bottom. The right card has an earth rune at the top and a 9x9 grid with different cells X'd off.

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A Man Possessed is Kickstarting Rune Rite! 🔮 @amanpossessed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hello! Mason County Central High School (www.mccschools.org/o/mcc-high-s...) reached out to ask for board game donations for their board game club. MCC, in West Michigan, serves some underprivileged youths who might not otherwise have access to... #boardgames 🧵 1 of 5

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Mason County Central Board Game Donations

Mason County Central High School (https://www.mccschools.org/o/mcc-high-school) reached out to ask for board game donations for their board game club. MCC, in West Michigan, serves some underprivilege...

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Join the party! Have yourself a free release-day game of Pyrotechnics on Board Game Arena. There are lots of people playing, you're sure to find a game quickly! #boardgames

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Play Pyrotechnics online on Board Game Arena

Enjoy Pyrotechnics in your browser. No download required.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

🎆 Pyrotechnics is out of Beta on Board Game Arena and today is Pyrotechnics Day in the Summer of Games 2026! At the moment of my screenshot, there were 195 concurrent games of Pyrotechnics going on. That feels nice. #boardgames

A screenshot from the home page of Board Game Arena with a calendar of treasure chests that can be opened daily. It's a weird little loot box scratch off game that will get you cat trophies. Today's treasure chest opens up Pyrotechnics as the game of the day.

A screenshot from the Pyrotechnics page on Board Game Arena. It depicts a game of Pyrotechnics in progress.
"Watch a game in progress (195 games)."

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How far away do you think science is from prescription ice cream?

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We’re just normal men. We’re just innocent men. Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The exploration, iteration and evolution of Threed. Threed is a trick-taking slide-puzzle #boardgame that will squeeze your brains out of your ears. Designed by @rollplusfun.bsky.social and launching in early 2027.

Dozens of different images mashed together into a quilt. All of these images were prototypes or contenders for art for the board game Threed.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hello-o-o-o-o-ooo #BoardGames World! It is a great pleasure to announce that The Seahorse & The Hummingbird has signed the trick-taking game Quantum Train by Taylor Shuss ( @drawnonward.bsky.social )! I'm excited to collaborate with Taylor and usher this brain-melter into the world.

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Taylor Shuss @drawnonward.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Very excited to be joining forces with The Seahorse & The Hummingbird for Quantum Train - a trick-taking game I designed. 🪐🚀🌌 Will be sharing more as this game matures through development and into eventual release, though TSH&THB have several games ahead of mine so don't get *too* antsy.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🎆 Thanks to @boardgamersteph.bsky.social and Michael for the teach of Pyrotechnics! Watch their video to see the ins-and-outs of play. Happy Four Days After 4th of July! Product information in the comments. #boardgames

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All the Games with Steph: Pyrotechnics - Teach

YouTube video by Steph Hodge

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I just feel like life would be slightly more enjoyable on the whole if toilets were designed to sit the other way around and there were handlebars. That’s all I’m saying.

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Imagine All The Meeple @toddpatriquin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“There’s no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There’s no knowing where we’re rowing Or which way the river’s flowing…” 📸 Root: The Underworld Expansion @leder.games #boardgames

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A Man Possessed is Kickstarting Rune Rite! 🔮 @amanpossessed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you—like me—are a fan of @mistergross.bsky.social, perhaps you should check out the Kickstarter for his game Monolith! I got to play it at PAX Unplugged and it blew me away. Some *really* interesting mechanisms and decisions. #boardgames

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Roughing out the box art and production dimensions for Threed. I still have a lot of work to do on the back of the box, that's just a placeholder. The box will be roughly 4"x5.5". #boardgames 🎲✂️

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🔥 Hot! 🔥🥵 The Top 10 Single-Digit Numbers (0-9) of All Time! Check it out! You're about to experience some ⭐️ CONTENT ⭐️. Your life will be enriched. You're welcome.

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Hawk and Dove Games @hawkanddovegames.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

As we've been settling into our new lives here in Utrecht, I've had more time to devote to thinking about Hawk & Dove, its origin story, and how my experiences in gaming shape its DNA. Here are some thoughts. Please take a look if you're interested: www.hawkanddovegames.com/blog/origin-... Thanks!

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How we think about play and board games — Hawk and Dove

The introductory post from Hawk & Dove Games about our origins and the approach we take to making boardgames.

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

👀 Keep your eyes locked here for an early prototype preview of the next ultra-cozy, low-stakes tabletop experience: “Baby Bunny Bwanket Snuggoos & The Looming Threat of Global Supply Chain Collapse” Comin’ atcha Spring 2036 #boardgames #cozy

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hey. You. Yeah, you. Why don't you go ahead and treat yourself. Sprinkle a little cinnamon in the dust collector of your vacuum cleaner. Go ahead. You've earned it.

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