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COYOTE Calendar: March 5-11 This week we've got nefarious tales about Vallejo's history, jazzy renditions of A Tribe Called Quest, and queer line dancing for beginners.

This week’s calendar is out! Curated by the great @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social, it features nefarious tales about Vallejo history, jazzy renditions of A Tribe Called Quest, and queer line dancing for beginners.

www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

Reposting with ALT because this kind of phenomenal disdain and disrespect from within the industry literally against two of their own titles and the designer who made them is important to recognize.

Game Market West: Spring 2026 Designer Application Date: March 22, 2026 from 10 AM to 3 PM Location: Guildhouse (San Jose, CA) Submission Deadline: Feb 23, 2026 Designers realizing their games and bringing them to life/print for the first time will b...

One week until the Game Market West designer application deadline! It's a tabletop game market for indie designers to showcase and sell their games. Chat with special guest @mattleacock.bsky.social about your designs.

Application: forms.gle/GzEWu6vbqpi8...
RSVP: luma.com/en2wexcp

#boardgames

How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.

Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.

Type Help by William Rous The Unsolvable Mystery

Please enjoy my top 10 free browser games of 2025:

1. Type Help william-rous.itch.io/type-help
2. Dragonsweeper danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper/
3. Clues by Sam cluesbysam.com
4. Stimulation Clicker neal.fun/stimulation-...
5. The Collector split82.itch.io/the-collector

Do the boxes include white crayons?

A map of the Bay Area with colorful dots on it. On the top is a green starbust that says "50+ entries" and below it says "COYOTE Guide to Bay Area Holiday Markets." In the background are lots of words of things you can find at these markets like baskets, vintage clothes, jewelry, photographs, paintings, tattoos, fiber art, ceramics and more.

Just added 10 more markets to this list so it's now 60+. Please shop locally! It genuinely makes a difference to artists. Also you'll find amazing stuff you can't get anywhere else. www.coyotemedia.org/the-coyote-g...

The COYOTE Guide to Bay Area Holiday Art Markets Fuck Amazon, shop local. Here’s where.

I compiled 40+ holiday art markets in the Bay Area just for you. And I'm getting a bunch of new submissions so I'm adding more! Go find cool shit from local artists!

Finally sharing my sizzle reel! If you're in need of video production work (or pretty much anything creative), hit me up, esp. at #PAXU!

I don't ask for this much, but if you're in the #boardgames industry and like what I do, consider sharing this! I'm looking to book up 2026!

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Conviction | Lunarpunk Games the night is for mediation . . . Conviction is a two player tabletop game about resolving a grim quarrel with your partner.

Conviction by @xoe.gay is now available.

A stable stalwart and an intrepid idealist vowed to live in harmony forever. But now, the two find themselves in a grim quarrel.

You must decide if they cooperate, separate, or one dominates the story of their lives.

The night is for mediation. 🌙

Really wonderful to see such a high-profile and thoughtful reviewer as Dan continue to cover not just big board game hotness, but small indie and even unpublished games too - there’s huge treasure to be found out there, great to see someone in major board game media take the time to check them out

Nebulae, Medusae… Crownae? Yesterday on BlueSky, Marceline Leiman asked a great question. Using only one or two extremely vague words, how would I describe the titles on offer at this year’s Indie Games Night Market? N…

Today I investigate three more indie games, all of which are ambitious and explorative of what games can accomplish. These are good'uns. spacebiff.com/2025/11/18/h...

Yeah, I'll be testing in the unpub area from 12:30-2:30 on Sunday

Paper Planes, Coupons, Stencils We’re only a few days away from the Indie Games Night Market at Pax Unplugged. Funny how time gets away from us. Don’t worry, that’s less a plaintive cry about my fading youth tha…

Today I'm covering three more upcoming Indie Games Night Market titles! Fold & Fly!, Coupon Clipper, and Paper Pencil Stencil are all tactile treats. My reviews: spacebiff.com/2025/11/17/t...

I'll be playtesting some additional content for Paper Pencil Stencil at PAXU on Sunday if you want to play it.

my extremely dumb vanity metric here is: can this project get up to 436 followers on its Kickstarter prelaunch page??

The Midnight Market is live.

The night is for indie games. 🌖
lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket

Please check out this great campaign. I'm in on Club Spooky 100% - a delightful set collection game with a light auction element that I got to play the prototype of recently.

Only two days left to back Club Spooky and That's the Spirit!, two indie games by @connor.alwaysawake.games.

Afterlives Sometimes I think about the afterlife. Not the actual afterlife. I’m suspicious about the probability of any such thing. But the afterlife as it appears across faiths and cultures, as reflect…

And if you need a little extra convincing, check out @danthurot.bsky.social ‘s review: spacebiff.com/2025/10/15/c...

What We Can Do About ICE ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.

While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

Aerial view of our local #NoKings protest

We are live! And we funded in 15 minutes! Amazing! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

Club Spooky & That's the Spirit Assemble the coolest group of ghouls in Club Spooky and find the culprit of your accidental death in That's the Spirit

Its alive!

Checkout Club Spooky & That's the Spirit on KS now!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

Hoot Owl Hoot is also great. I got Susan to sign my copy.

A top-down 3D render of the Chicken Fried Dice board game box on a table with the game's components.

Chicken Fried Dice has been simmering for a while and I think we're almost ready for plating! Learn more at get.chickenfrieddice.com

Woah! We're less than one day out from the launch of the Uh Oh, Dino! kickstarter! Are you following along? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

A banner for the Ghost Party bundle ks with the launch date of October 14th. A copy of each game is standing upright with cards from the games splayed in front.

Excited to announce that Club Spooky and That’s the Spirit are finally launching on Kickstarter next week, October 14th!

Assemble the coolest group of ghouls at Club Spooky and find the culprit of your accidental death in Thats the Spirit!

Preview page here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

text: Mushrooms of Sonoma County (free!) Mushroom season is beginning! And if you want to know where to find them, what to know about local mushrooms, and how to know whether you can eat them, check out this meeting and potluck. And if you've got mushrooms you need help identifying, bring them. THU: 10.09 sebastopol grange → 5:30PM FRI: 10.10 La Flor en Paradis First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto → 7:30PM 〰 $0-$55 “Discover the luminous world of 13th-century France through an intimate combination of voice and portative organ with vielle and percussion." Listen, do I know what that means? No. Am I interested? Yes. Meet me there?

text: EMERGENCE: LIBERATION Bebe's BBQ Crunchwrap Collab SAT: 10.11 Fluid510, Oakland → 7pM 〰️ $23.13 This show combines National Coming out Day and Oakland Style Week to present a runway spectacle of boundary-pushing looks created by local QTPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ designers. Come see what fashion can really do. Masks HIGHLY ENCOURAGED and distributed at the event. SUN: 10.12 Crunchwrap 🤝 BBQ. Come through to taste the results of this incredible act of gastronomic diplomacy and try the special brisket crunchwrap. Eat an extra for me because I can't have one please. Sfizio, Oakland → 5pm

text: MON: 10.13 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Rap Album Release Party (free!) To commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, San Jose-raised rapper Miguel Kultura is hosting a release party for his latest album, Mal Entendido. The project was mixed, mastered, and visually branded by fellow Shark City rapper and producer Rey Resurrección. Nexus, San Jose → 7pm–10pm TUES: 10.14 Lion Dance Cafe at Millennium One night only: A vegan five-course dinner from the brains and hands of C-Y and Shane of Lion Dance Cafe at Millennium. "Expect their bold, award-winning Italo-Chinese-Singaporean flavors side by side with the food you know Millennium for." Millennium, Oakland → 5pm 〰️ $125

text: WED: 10.15 Leather Roundup Crafting Class It's too late to learn leatherworking for this year's Folsom Street Fair, but if you start now you have plenty of time to get good and make your own custom getup for next year. Or, you know, make a wallet or something. "Whether you’ve been tooling leather since forever or have always dreamed of creating your first piece, we’re saving you a spot at the table." The Exchange, Vallejo → 6:30pm–8:30pm 〰️ $70 Fieldress, Glass Egg, Asha Wells I sometimes discover new bands thanks to doing research for this calendar, and I'm really digging Fieldress right now. Dreamy indie rock with lowkey special guitar playing. Check them out. Thee Stork Club, Oakland → 8pm 〰️ $10 adv/$12 door

Check out this snapshot of COYOTE's weekly calendar of hand-picked events to get you off the couch! This week we've got a free California mushroom hang, Oakland Style Week picks, a BBQ crunchwrap pop-up, and more. The full listings: www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

Where did the Fairyland dandelions go? For more than 45 years, three huge steel and bronze dandelion puffs reached for the sky outside Children’s Fairyland only to disappear without a trace. COYOTE went on a quest to find them.

For more than 45 years, three huge steel and bronze dandelion puffs reached for the sky outside Children’s Fairyland — only to disappear without a trace. COYOTE went on a quest to find them. www.coyotemedia.org/where-did-th...