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:
Cardboard Time Podcast Episode 130: GAMA Expo Ride Home
It's Cardboard Time! Episode 130 is now live (tinyurl.com/mwexx8dd). On today's episode: @peppermintfox.bsky.social and I both recount our time at GAMA Expo 2026 this year on a semi-lucid ride home episode.
@gamaofficial.bsky.social
My amazing wife, the award winning podcaster 😘
But in all seriousness, I am always in awe of you and the work you do.
LOL if you think an old white man tone policing a gen AI discussion is annoying - you should see how he tone policed discussions about race and gender in the industry awhile back. Again, I beseech the tabletop community to be better about seeing patterns in people's behavior not just in their games.
A colorful podcast cover with diagonal rainbow stripes and small white sparkles in the background. Large black text at the top reads “Proud to Gayme,” with smaller text below saying “by Tabletop Gaymers.” Two purple, meeple-shaped silhouettes wearing black headphones face each other. At the center bottom is a black, twenty-sided die-shaped microphone icon with white text reading “Episode #23” and “Marceline Leiman"
We chat with Marceline Leiman (she/her), a game designer, educator, & award winner. Marceline shares her journey from labeling herself as an ally to coming out as trans femme. We discuss the nuance among queer identities & experiences & using game design contests to challenge herself
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I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img
acefoundationict.org
Meee!!!
please sign to help retaliated union workers actionnetwork.org/letters/kick...
MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.
They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
GO DONATE.
tcpipeline.org
GAMA EXPO PANEL SCHEDULE DESIGN DIARIES AND ADVERTORIAL CONTENT CREATION Mon, March 2 | 9:00 - 9:50am | Room M111 In the tabletop industry content creation means more than just social media posts. Design diaries offer genuine engagement as fans feel part of the process and/or struggle that the designer is experiencing. Tutorials and personal stories are becoming more popular and are proving to be effective for engagement and growing your personal brand Speakers: Mondo Davis, Ami Baio, Marceline Leiman, Cole Wehrle
Will you be at GAMA EXPO next week?
I’ll be a panelist talking on design diaries with some amazing, inspiring speakers!
@gamesbymondo.bsky.social @pinktigergames.com @colewehrle.bsky.social
Come say hello to me on Sunday or Monday while I’m around! 🎲✂️
Us too! We made it through year 3 tonight ❤️
A game board with stickers creating a village with farms, homes and a river with a bridge cutting down the side.
Finally got that bridge!!!
But really, same.
Announcing Walkable City - a 2-4 player coop game published by Fowers Games and designed by me!
Build out public infrastructure as different modes of transit - Waling, Biking, Bus & Light Rail - get denizens where they want to go. Follow the project below!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...
Yay!!!! I’m glad someone picked this up!!
Head and shoulders image of a white haired man with a white goatee looking off into the distance to the right. Some buildings and a bit of water are visible behind him. Ryan Dancey, former COO of Alderac Entertainment Group.
Text from a LinkedIn post which says: Ryan Dancey Author Chief Operating Officer at Alderac Entertainment Group I have zero reason to believe that an AI couldn't "come up with Tiny Towns or Flip Seven or Cubitos". I can prompt any of several AIs RIGHT NOW and get ideas for games as good as those. The gaming industry doesn't exist because humans create otherwise unobtainable ideas. It exists because many many previous games exist, feed into the minds of designers, who produce new variants on those themes. People then apply risk capital against those ideas to see if there's a product market fit. Sometimes there is, and sometimes there is not. (In fact, much more often than not). Extremely occasionally (twice in my lifetime: D&D and Magic: the Gathering) a human has produced an all new form of gaming entertainment. Those moments are so rare and incandescent that they echo across decades. Game publishing isn't an industry of unique special ideas. It's an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things AIs are great at.
Ryan Dancey, a more than 30-year veteran of the tabletop gaming industry, has lost his COO job at publisher AEG a day after saying AI could generate game ideas as good as his company’s titles Tiny Towns and Cubitos:
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
The pro-AI, anti-game-designer nonsense Suz is quoting below is on LinkedIn, in the comments on a post by the SAME PERSON about how AI told him to *walk* to the car wash. (The cognitive dissonance is killing me!) Here's what I replied over there:
Business executives who think creatives can be replaced by AI
Will be the first to be replaced by AI
Cardboard Time Episode 129 - Reviews of The Daily Weather, Pondscape, Forage, Honeypot.
It's Cardboard Time! Episode 129 is now live (tinyurl.com/55kx5txa). On today's episode I have reviews of:
The Daily Weather: @buttonshy.bsky.social
Pondscape: @capstone-games.com
Forage: @flatoutgames.bsky.social
Honeypot: @fanfactories.bsky.social
It's valentine's day. Remember that love is temporary, yaoi is forever. Cupid takes breaks, but fujoshis never.
Arwen and Aly, two women, taking a selfie in front of Lake Crescent.
Arwen and Aly, two women, with the Chuckesme doll from Twilight Breaking Dawn pt 2
Arwen and Aly, two women, posing in front of the Forks, WA sign
Aly and Arwen, two women, in front of a pond and small waterfall
Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone, especially my lovely wife who let me drag her around Forks, WA on our honeymoon ❤️
If you want to learn about how figure skating works via the medium of incredibly charming gay anime, may I STRONGLY suggest "Yuri on Ice" (which is available free on Youtube)?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6zo...
A perfect choice! 🎉
graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle
The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!
There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!
Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
Yay!!! They have excellent taste!
Bobby Hill covering his face with his shirt
Imagine still liking harry potter in this day and age
“I don’t like Bad Bunny because I can’t understand Spanish.”
You are WEAK. Weeaboos have been jamming out to songs they don’t understand in Japanese for decades.
if you want a real easy way to be a chad do not get involved in this on any level. I dont scold people for their tastes but JK Rowling has said repeatedly she puts the revenue generated by Harry Potter right into anti trans political organizations and legislation
Launching tomorrow! #zinequest
"Spirit Swap: A Slice of Life TTRPG" is a solo journaling game designed by @noroadhome.itch.io about moving to a new magical city, befriending the people who live there, and learning how to be a full-fledged witch.
Follow the page below to get notified when we launch!
LIVE NOW: Banz joins me for our Top 10 Games of the Month! It's time for Tabletop Recall, a monthly recap of games played. What was your favorite game played last month?
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