Dave Chalker 🔜 Unpub Festival

Good people headed to the @unpub.org Festival this weekend, my Saturday is full but I've still got plenty of time available to schedule a playtest of your game and give you a consultation on a solo mode if needed. I just ask for a donation of any size to dravetfoundation.org. #GameDesign #BoardGames

Have you seen Trekkies 2 yet?

TONIGHT!!!!!

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:

Game Makers Guild Philadelphia will have a bunch of designers coming to @unpub.org!
We’ll be at table F1 all weekend. Look for the red tablecloth.
Here are just a few of our designers and their games: 🧵

Kristin received an "Inspirations" award at the GAMA Expo this year! Yay Kristin!
new.wunderland.com/2026/03/11/k...

Panel 1 is with @stickydoodler.bsky.social and others from Designed in the DMV, and is about building local tabletop ecosystems. I'll share my experience with the PNW Indie Night Market, which @connor.alwaysawake.games organized, and other PNW Tabletop things. It's at 3 on Thursday in Ballroom C.

One (one) sleep (sleep) til Unpub

It wouldn't be a Magic event with DC in the title if it weren't actually in DC 😆

Yep! Part of my day job is making PDFs accessible and every update makes it harder to do that correctly

Definitely going to grab one of these for my mom (and maybe some of the board game shirts for myself…)

When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

Probably but at least we can still play games there

Last day of work before a week off? Why not a power outage and back pain?

I'll be doing a panel on pitching your game designs to publishers this Thursday. Come check it out if you're going to Unpub!

I think Matt is still CEO, so him

I had a pretty good view of Automattic as a company until the CEO went completely bananas

DoD giving money to Anthropic which in turn gives money to class action lawsuit settlement for authors would be one of the weirder tax rebates I'd ever received

Unpub Festival 2026 Game Gallery Access all the information you need while at an Unpub event.

166 games in the @unpub.org Game Gallery so far.
unpub.softr.app/festival-202...

What are you excited to play?

Big fan of this one. One of my surprise hits of late.

Chartjunk (complimentary)

Personally it feels like an unhinged number of cheeses kind of day

If you're planning on watching Strip Law, *don't* watch this clip yet; great on its own, but even better in the context of the standout episode around it.

That said, once you've seen it, come back to the post and watch it over and over.

Man, I would love to but just cannot commit to anything there

I'm just excited to play and see what people are coming up with. Last year was my first time attending and it was such an amazing experience to see all the different games in different stages, speak to designers... who all will be there??

Unpub Festival 2026 Game Gallery Access all the information you need while at an Unpub event.

166 games in the @unpub.org Game Gallery so far.
unpub.softr.app/festival-202...

What are you excited to play?

Thunder Road: Vendetta – Maximum Chrome Crews race and shoot to be the last car standing.

One last ride down Thunder Road: Vendetta this weekend.

Everyone was on fire, flying down the highway The almost winner's fire went out, causing him to sputter one space short of the finish and he watched helplessly as the actual winner passed by.

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35... #boardgamegeek