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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 02/10/2026

A touch of frost this morning, here in Manitoba... #FarmLife

A yellow zinnia in the foreground is covered in frost. A row of zinnias stretch away behind it; the rest of them are brown and withered.

A frosty hay bale with some frost-covered pruning shears. Some garden markers sit in a row there as well. The Awaken Herb Farm is visible in the background.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 17/09/2026

Found this little cube shelf laying around and discovered it's a great size for deckboxes! 🥰

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 29/08/2026

It's been a slow year for me, for a number of reasons, but I managed to get a prototype of this made & played yesterday...! It works! 2-player version of my cyberpunk game run/hack, using cards and dice only. Lots more playtesting and development ahead! 🎲✂️

First playtest; start of game setup. Paper cards are spread across the floor; 8 locations in the middle of the table. A 3x3 action grid to one side, and each player has a hand of Program cards and dice mod cards. There are some red, white, and black dice involved.

After the last turn; Player One has hacked through the three layers of ice at Player Two's last remaining location. Ice cards have certain dice configurations on them that are required to hack them; all three ice cards are full of dice. One of the "+/- 1" mod cards is rotated a bit, indicating that it was used during the hack.

Player two is left hanging, with one of P1's locations still holding out.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 14/08/2026

I can’t be the only one who finds the amount of storage being gobbled up by iOS to be *ridiculous*… Or is this an anomaly?

Screenshot of the iOS “Storage” screen, showing well over half of the 64GB on my phone is used up by the system.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 24/07/2026

Reminds me of this gem of a version of it

Old painting of a woman looking very fed up. Caption says “This too shall pass, but holy fuck”

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 14/07/2026

My day job is doing artwork for the mobile game Egg Inc, which turns 10 today! Lots of in-game events happening, and I made this set that turns all the buildings into cake! 🎂

A 3/4 view of the Egg Inc farm, but everything is vanilla cake with pink frosting on top. There are birthday candles on all the buildings.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 02/07/2026

Packed a lot of games into this tiny bag for our weekend road trip: - Magical Athlete - Shobu (homemade) - Radlands - Shipwreck Arcana - Shallow Regrets - Phantasmic - Dust Biters - Crownfell + Expansions - Keyforge (a few decks + the tokens) - Flip 7 - Compile

A small black grocery bag. Visible are the Magical Athlete box, and a homemade Shobu box (and a banana for scale)

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 19/06/2026

Willow and Morel scenting the wind

Two Great Pyrenees dogs in a green field, looking intently into the distance.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 18/06/2026

Sometimes you make a dumb joke about a chess card game and then actually make the game and then somehow it ends up in @senetmagazine.bsky.social … 🤯🤩 “The game is achingly stylish.“ Thank you @danthurot.bsky.social !

A photo of the full page review (shared with permission), written by Dan Thurot.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 25/05/2026

Looked in the nesting box and found the tiniest chicken egg I've ever seen...! 😍 #FarmLife

A hand holding a regular-sized egg and another egg that is less than half the size.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 21/05/2026

Out at a cafe, testing the new Grimoire expansion with the #Crownfell solo mode. It’s, uhhh… pretty spicy…! 🌶️

Crownfell is laid out on the playmat on a table with my laptop. A window shows the evening sky over The Forks in Winnipeg.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day! This is my first Mother's Day without my mom, so in honour of her, here are a few things I've learned from her:

THINGS I LEARNED FROM MY MOM

Choose joy
Following your passions is more important than making money
Sometimes that means taking risks
And sometimes THAT means failing.
Failing... is ok...
Choose JOY!
Celebrate the small things.
Appreciate the big things.
Love... your family.
There are people in the world who are DIFFERENT from you, in ways you can't see... or even imagine. THEY are your family.
EVERYONE... is your family.
Laugh often. And loudly.
Always be honest.
Things WILL NOT always work out the way you want them to;
CHOOSE. Joy.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 01/05/2026

Beautiful! I took a somewhat similar photo just now our here in the Manitoba prairie:

A blue-to-orange sunset sky gradient, over silhouetted poplar forest beside an open prairie field.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 27/04/2026

In @chrisbacke.bsky.social's latest newsletter, there was a picture of a jogger with "The 10 commandments of running" on their shirt... I rewrote it for game design 🎲✂️ bsky.app/profile/chri...

The 10 commandments of game design

1. Thou shalt not compare thyself to other designers; a game is a game.
2. Thou shalt never say, "I am not a designer". If you are making a game, you are a designer.
3. Thou shalt not covet they neighbours' awards, equipment, or skills.
4. Remember to take breaks; it's ok to set a design aside for a while.
5. Thou shalt not put thy first game design on Kickstarter.
6. Thou shalt not forget to hydrate.
7. Thou shalt playtest, playtest, playtest.
8. Thou shalt acknowledge the designers who have come before you, respect their work, and learn from their experience.
9. Thou shalt pay it forward and help new designers on their own journey.
10. Thou shalt enjoy thyself; if designing games givest thy soul grief, give it up and take up... well, anything, really.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 12/04/2026

New laptop sticker you can get one here: www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4...

A black laptop lid with a sticker that says "TRANS LIVES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN HARRY POTTER". There are some other stickers too but that's the new one.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 30/03/2026

Only a few hours left to get in on the latest Paperbag Dungeon game for the price of a latte (or a mocha, even)! www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/mi...

The Minecarts & Mochas game laid out on a table. The cards are hand-illustrated and look like they are printed on paper bags.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 25/03/2026

#Crownfell: Grimoire now has a cover! Original art by @stregawolf.art 😍 This upcoming expansion adds "rite" cards that can be cast from your hand, targeting any of your own characters, offering unique abilities at critical times.

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 22/03/2026

I dug out my comics collection from when I was a teenager. Sam Kieth was a legend and an inspiration. I don’t have a lot of his but I’m glad I have this much: