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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 28/09/2026

Color Jam has funded! We're so, so excited about making this coloring game a reality. Thanks to everyone for sharing, supporting, and helping this exist! And a major thanks to the incredible game designers Gene Koo and Joe Kell, as well as artist Erin Laue. You all made this something truly special.

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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 27/09/2026

At 3pm ET today, we're going to be live with @panda8ngel.bsky.social to play some Color Jam! Oh gosh, I still gotta pick which colors I'm going to use! 🤔🎨 Hope to see you there! www.twitch.tv/panda8ngel/

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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 22/09/2026

The Color Jam Kickstarter is now live! 🖍️ We're very excited by the design work Gene Koo and Joe Kell put into this game, along with the beautiful art by Erin Laue, and are honored we get to share it with you. We can't wait to see the incredible art you make through this cozy, puzzle-y game.

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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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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 21/09/2026

Would you follow me if I were a worm

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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 18/09/2026

It's almost time to Color Jam! This cozy, puzzle-y coloring game by @stickydoodler.bsky.social and Joe Kell launches on September 22nd. Trying to get your favorite colors in the right spots is harder than it looks! We can't wait to see your cool art. 🎨 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 17/08/2026

Maybe someone can fix this in me. Does anyone else have an aversion to taking pain killers because it feels like putting electric tape over the "CHECK ENGINE" light? Like, I know it's not, but I wait until I'm in like agonizing pain before taking even prescribed pain killers.

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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 10/08/2026

Games can be games without a hierarchical result. We must broaden traditional definitions of tabletop games to give designers the agency and opportunity to express themselves in new, exciting, and challenging ways. We should be creating new ways to explore artistic mediums, not shutting them down.

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Board Game Blitz @boardgameblitz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here it is, our final podcast episode! We recorded it live at Crystal’s in Vegas since Ambie and her family went there for vacation! We talk about Color Jam and Rosetta: Second Edition and reminisce about the podcast and our friendship. @lunarpunk.games @dvcgames.bsky.social youtu.be/-PO5fsoKyiAo

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Episode 267 - The Final Episode

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 05/08/2026

It's wild how fun Big Walk is given you're just lil guys getting lost and solving team exercises together.

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These Games Are Not For Sale @notforsalegames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

t/f if a game has no market there's no point in making it

grungy poster: "If a game can't be bought or sold, is it... (a) worthless (b) priceless?"

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 31/07/2026

Has anyone made a train game about capital using a wildly popular high speed rail project as a vehicle for transferring tax dollars to political ally contractors, ensuring the railway never finishes so they can milk it for eternity? Or are you always incentivized to actually finish the trains?

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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📣 I’m excited to announce!! 📣 I’m partnering with Unstable Games to start a sister studio to them named… ✨ Ordinary Magic!! ✨ I’m so excited to bring 3 BRAND NEW GAMES under this new studio to you this Fall!!! 🍁

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Ordinary Magic by Unstable Games - Gamefound

3 New Games, 1 Extraordinary World. Explore this visionary studio partnership between award-winning game designer Marceline Leiman and Unstable Games.

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Houdini's Last Act is a magic trick of an indie game, an investigation of medium hucksters and wavering teammates. It isn't often that we get a small game this handsome or intriguing. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/07/28/h...

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Revealing the Medium’s Secret

Houdini’s Last Act feels like a magic trick. And not only because designers Chris Zinsli and Suzanne Zinsli (no relation) (okay, maybe there’s some relation, but it’s rude to assu…

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today I discuss three paper games: one about origami, another with coins, and a third that's all about coloring by numbers. Read about them here: spacebiff.com/2026/07/24/o...

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Playing with Cellulose Fiber

Paper! Despite the meddling of the internet, it’s still everywhere. There’s a good chance you have some in your very own home. In fact, it’s probably within arm’s reach righ…

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 23/07/2026

Listening to cursed relationship drama while drinking my tea, aromantically.

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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I turned the ColorJam logo into a ColorJammable page! I love this game so much, and I'm very confident you will, too. Please follow it on Kickstarter!

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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 22/07/2026

Excited for our first book club on July 28th at 8pm EST! We'll discuss C. Thi Nguyen's "Games: Agency as Art", an excellent text about how games convey agential experiences, and the risk of losing our values to scoring systems. Hosted by @ericdittmore.bsky.social ! discord.gg/NrqwRTm4?eve...

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Board Game Blitz @boardgameblitz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I got a PnP review copy of Color Jam from @lunarpunk.games and tried it out today. Started solo but then one of my kids came and wanted to help me color, and by the end he was helping me choose the colors based on the numbers! We managed to get the picture almost how we wanted!

Finished game of Color Jam - a coloring page that looks like a paint by number type thing, colored in with 6 different colors - yellow, red, purple (the pencil looks blue and I thought it was blue until I colored my first section), green, pink, and brown.

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 10/07/2026

What is the masculine equivalent of "girlie pop"? And while we're at it, the genderless version.

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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I was thinking about a fight I had with Big Sticky and realized: arguments aren't always something you want to "win," at least, not with loved ones. That's the genius behind the game Conviction by @xoe.gay. It recognizes that quarrels can have more outcomes than just win/lose. You should try it.

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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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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 11/06/2026

Me, trying to dodge roll the FIFA World cup in my city.

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 03/06/2026

I think it's funny when things try to scare me like "Your location is exposed! VANCOUVER!!!" Oh no my vpn location oh noooo

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 01/06/2026

Happy pride like do any of you ever forget I'm a trans aroace pile of autism? Because I feel like I'm already pretty damn loud and proud about it all year round. I feel like this should be the month where the cishets deliver to us offerings to signal they have not yet folded to fascism.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"I denied your ad request on BGG because I spend my free time curing demonic possession, and also I think you shouldn't publish your game which I think you made in ignorance of the real depravity of Satan and his works" is a fucking insane thing to write in an email www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...

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From the boardgames community on Reddit: Tried advertising on Boardgamegeek and got this as a response.

Explore this post and more from the boardgames community

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 15/05/2026

Me watching Brave Little Toaster as a kid: "I will watch this VHS on repeat til it breaks, I love it!!!" Me as a young adult: "What nonsense. The toaster is emotionally responsible for a flower??" Me post transition: "High art criticism of wasteful consumer culture. Animism for western audiences."

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 06/05/2026

What do you mean "Cake by the Ocean" isn't about having cake by the ocean!?!? I swear every day I feel a little more ace.

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 29/04/2026

I'm loving the submissions we're getting for this.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ANNOUNCING: Swords Against Beginner's Box Replica Edition Coming in June, this is a reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of this 1979 game found at an estate sale in 2016, including replicas of personal effects of the former owner.

The reverse of the original box was blank, so I hope you don't mind me filling up the space with some context. In 2016, a few days after we had started Hollandspiele, Mary and I went to an estate sale and came across this box. I had never heard of it before, but I assumed based on the title it might have something to do with the Lankhmar books, or that, based on the repurposed J.R. Skelton illustration, it might have something to do with Beowulf. Both of these were things I was fairly obsessed with at this time, and the box felt fairly heavy, so I gave ten dollars to the daughter of the deceased.
The box had been sealed with heavy strapping tape. When I cut it open, I found most of the box's heft came from the previous owner's personal effects. The core rulebook was missing, as was the "Dictionary of Devils". The only piece of the original game left in the box was the adventure module – but not its dungeon map, or the answer key for its many obtuse puzzles. The game was unplayable.
I went online to try to find PDFs of the missing material, but there were none. No downloads on DriveThruRPG, no entries in databases, no forums, no remembrances on groggy blogs. It was almost like it never existed at all.
But the box was proof it did. And in those personal effects there were a few clues that enabled me to piece together the story of an RPG publisher that existed for a few months in 1979, and the novelist who wrote an adventure module that in all likelihood was played by maybe a dozen people. More than that, I learned about the person who had owned my copy, and had annotated the module book with a puzzle of their own. The box was proof they existed, too.
It occurred to me that all of this was worth preserving, and a few years ago I set about securing the necessary permissions to publish this replica edition. The original publisher, Michael Lord, was still alive – he passed only very recently – and even sent me a copy of the missing materials. I went back and forth on whet…

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tomattiea 🌱 @tomattiea.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

But what if I don't wanna >:[ #comic #cats

A digital 4 panel comic. The first panel has a white cat that says "I try to be nice to everyone". The second panel has a black cat that replies with "ok now be nice to yourself." Third panel is the white cat staring in silence, and the fourth panel the white cat's expression changed into an angry one

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I am thrilled to announce that The Seahorse & The Hummingbird has signed Sneaky Squirrels by Joe Kell! A super-fun game by a great designer. I look forward to working with Joe to bring the game to life and to market. Photos by @xoe.gay and Joe Kell. #boardgames 🎲✂️

A close-up of a prototype game of Sneaky Squirrels; square cards with leaves on them and wooden squirrel meeples. Mequirrels?
Photo by Xoe Allred.

A table of people playing Sneaky Squirrels.
Photo by Joe Kell.

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 01/04/2026

Happy trans day of invisibility. Here, enjoy this selfie.

Xoe sitting in a chair in a sensual pose, but invisible. The longer you stare where you think it is, something itches in the back of your mind. "Is it... really invisible?" You find yourself thinking. But then it clicks. There it is. Strange, disturbing, and yet, desirable. You try to look away, like you're trying to stop scrolling short form videos to put laundry away, but you can't. You're in danger. It's moving. It's behind you. You can't see it. You can't hear it. But you know it is there, watching you. Listening to you. You snap out of your daze, you're trying to hide from it. But you can feel it's prying eyes cutting into you no matter where you are. "April fools hahaha" you think, what a preposterous picture. I just need to think about something else. I just need to move on with my day. I still have so much to do. All the while you sense it's piercing sharp gaze. It's stalking presence. Until you feel something tangible. And it all ends.

Also there are some chairs and a window to a sunny green backyard.

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 29/03/2026

You think they'll let me use the carpool lane?

The passenger door of a car is opened to reveal a giant pink teddy bear strapped in with a seatbelt.

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 29/03/2026

Been a while since I girlmoded so hard. I forgot I gave my usual eye liner to a freshly hatched egg and had to improvise. And it was to go to an event mostly for dads lmao

Xoe with eyeliner, moon & star earings, a denim jacket, and a black dress with colorful math equations.

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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 26/03/2026

We are really excited about publishing Color Jam, designed by @stickydoodler.bsky.social and Joe Kell. It's a cozy, print-and-puzzle coloring game for one or for you and some friends. It's perfect for lazy summer evenings or for when you want a whisper of strategy in your coloring. 🏖️🖍️

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 23/03/2026

Isn't it cool how there are always excuses for why the price of groceries and gas has to go up, but there's never an acceptable excuse for why the price of labor must go up?

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Always Awake Games (Connor) 🔜 PaxU @connor.alwaysawake.games · 23/03/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how so much game design advice that’s available is really just business/product advice. It’s got a lot of survivorship bias and as a result, it’s homogenising and dissuading a lot of what’s possible. So…I’m making a little vlog series about it!

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Multiple Win Conditions: Welcome!

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"Down with the Patriarchy" Pasteup Spotted in New Orleans

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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 11/03/2026

Unpub is this weekend! We're exciting to play your games and share some of ours with you. Our publishing studio focuses on games where any number of players can win or lose OR games where there are no winers and losers, just various outcomes players reach. Here's what we're bringing:

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Brooks Barber @rollplusfun.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A while back, I posted about my move to the Netherlands later this year. As part of that move, my family is also venturing into the world of tabletop game publishing through Hawk and Dove. I'd be honored if you would check us out and follow along on our journey!

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Logan, doing many things @breathingstories.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Gooood morning people of Bluesky ⛅ After a heartening push from folks in my discord, I am launching a crowdfund for Season 2 of Lyrical Ludology! Season 1 launched in 2024, and I am very proud of it. Season 2 promises to be just as good 🤩 Sign up at the link 👇🏼 www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Get Ready for Lyrical Ludology Season 2!

From Logan Timmins - Get Ready for Lyrical Ludology Season 2!

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Greg Loring-Albright (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I had a great time talking with @xoe.gay about games, what they can and cannot do, and a bunch of other topics around Keep the Faith and Bloc by Bloc: Uprising. --- --- --- Our technology didn't want this transmission to get to you, but we (Xoe, really) made it happen!

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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · 25/02/2026

Me realizing the same person designed Wandersong and Chicory: "Whoa, I should follow this Greg Lobanov designer." Me then realizing he also designed Beastieball: "ODHA;OFHA; NSDHGI;SELFUSNEHGFIUAHSDFNLVI"

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Rayroads is probably the last game of what I've been jokingly calling my Dry-Erase Period. I have a couple other games in the pipeline that might use markers in a minor way but as far as "marker games", this is the last one barring some sudden inspiration. 🧵 hollandspiele.com/products/ray...

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Rayroads

Game Design: Amabel HollandHex Number: 93Duration: 120 minutesPlayers: 3-4MSRP: $50.00 Your world is dying. Soon, the last of its resources will be extracted from its husk, and it will no longer be ab...

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