There were two games at #Unpub with real buzz, from where I sat. Games I heard about from multiple vectors. Both "road" games.
• Rough Roads
• Roads with No Name (by @ianzang.bsky.social)
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Ooh, y'all in for it now. I'm gonna be runnin' my mouth about #Unpub for a solid week or two. I got fired up!
My cup? Full.
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A very messy layout of an early prototype for the board game Sinister Plots. It's on a small table behind a bar in a hotel lounge.
I got in a four-player game of Sinister Plots at #Unpub After Dark (it's not as sexy as it sounds; it was just the hotel lounge). The first amazing thing was that I put the game on a table and people just materialized. Not because Sinister Plots is so irresistible...
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#boardgames 🎲✂️
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A package from Always Awake is a welcome sight; also a thematically appropriate arrival during the weekend of #Unpub.
#boardgames
@connor.alwaysawake.games
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You’d think that after four 18-hour days of #Unpub, I’d be ready for a long break from #boardgames 🎲✂️. Quite the opposite, though. I’m more energized than ever.
Except for the fact that I’m exhausted, dehydrated and malnourished. The spirit is willing but the flesh is smelly, neglected and abused.
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A view of the unpub hall with full tables all around.
#unpub was hopping this year! Got in a bunch of great tests and played a ton of great games. Thanks to the organizers for another great year! And special thanks to @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social and @goosepoopgames.com for letting me use some time at their tables. They have great games brewing!
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Two people at a table staring at a game of Threed, confused and concerned looks on their faces.
Quote of the Con about Threed:
“The more you understand it, the more difficult it becomes.”
I might put that tagline on the box.
#boardgames 🎲✂️ #unpub
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I think I said this last year, but the only feel-bad part of #unpub is all the people I didn’t meet and all the games I didn’t play. Every moment was time wonderfully spent, but there isn’t nearly enough time to do it all.
I am reminded anew how brilliant and kind you all are.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
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Go play Djembe from @muse-and-mettle.bsky.social at table K3 at #unpub!!
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I'm not going today, so my #Unpub is over
I had a great experience and wanted to reflect on it some as a ttrpg designer
micro tests, 15-20 mins w/ feedback, really worked. Doing more of these kind of events would be cool! Big thanks to Heather of @9thlevelgames.bsky.social for organizing
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Going to have to take a day or two before I revisit all the copious notes I took during #unpub, and check out the online feedback forms. Looking forward to my pepe silvia scrawls!
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Home from #unpub Festival 2026! This was my first year, and I was completely unsure what to expect. What I got was an absolutely welcoming and funloving environment with people who love making and playing games in equal measure.
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I know someone who I have passed at least 50 times. #unpub
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How many of you have I walked past fifty times without even knowing it?
#unpub
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Graphic announcing Greg L. as a winner.
Graphic announcing Jonathan C. as a winner.
Graphic announcing Karen S. as a winner.
Congratulations to our #Unpub $1000 manufacfuring credit winners: Karen S., Jonathan C., Greg L.! Look for the vouchers in your email boxes soon. 🎉🏭
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Three cough drops.
Look at this place. I was just sitting here and @ianzang.bsky.social delivered unto me.
#unpub is the absolute best.
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Photo of table C2 at Unpub with the game Splinters on the table
I'm at #Unpub all day today at table C2 if you wanna try out a 2 player ttrpg about breaking apart your souls to escape the oubliette! Also down to chat about the Designed in the DMV collective
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#unpub you know you want this Juice! I’ll be in the ballroom from 10-2pm testing my speed poker/solitaire. Race against time and burn like a shooting star crashing through a window. Table N5 on the far side
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Somebody bring me some lozenges.
#unpub
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Had to wake up Kinda Early today to make sure I got back to #unpub on time for my morning block, so of course my body decided I needed to be up Double Early. At least it gave me time to stretch out lmao
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I played Rough Roads by @gil.hova.net at Unpub tonight and it’s fantastic.
Economic without making me do a lot of math. Train game vibes with a unique action selection mechanism. And a fun history lesson on top!
It does so many cool things.
#unpub #boardgames
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I'm at #Unpub @unpub.org ! Testing Yaga, my dexterity/ pick up and deliver/ assymeyric game! The Bone Faction has built an Ossuary which scores as long as no one knocks it over!
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I'm at #Unpub @unpub.org ! Testing Yaga, my dexterity/ pick up and deliver game! Here my Chicken Leg faction managed to build a nest. If i return and there's an egg in it they'll hatch and eat all the Reaples for points!
So far everyone's first opinion is that it's weird... but fun.
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A board game prototype set up on a table. On the board is a map of central Appalachia surrounded by various game boxes: FDA approval, drug development, evidence, illegal drug trade, and epidemic. Player boards surround the outside of the main board. Cubes, tokens, an poker chips throughout.
Painkillers on the table. It’s kind of a beast. Proud of where this one is in its development, and looking forward to seeing it out in the world eventually. #unpub 🎲✂️
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Unpub screen that says table C2, Chris S, and Splinters, GM-less ttrpg for 2 players
#Unpub folks!
I won a raffle that gave me a table for the weekend! I'll be around if anyone wants to check out a 2 player gm-less ttrpg about breaking apart your souls to escape the oubliette!
I'm at table C2!
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Me, at #Unpub:
“Oh, hi! You liked one of posts on BlueSky fourteen months ago. We’re best friends and you admire me, let’s hang out.”
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#unpub attendees! Our Prepping Your Files for Production seminar is starting in 10 minutes! Ballroom A.
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