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Dominic Crapuchettes

@dcrapuchettes.bsky.social

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Father, founder of NorthStar Studio, board game designer (Nature, Evolution, Oceans, and Wits & Wagers), plays soccer, has dogs. Interested in income inequality, justice inequality, economics, music, literature, philosophy and the long arc of history.

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · Dec 3

Hi! I’m new here. I’m leaving my X and want to introduce myself to BlueSky.

I’m a board game designer who’s sold over 4.5 million games. I started a company called North Star Games in 2003 that grew to 30 employees. We had 6 games on the shelf at Target before everything started to unravel.

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 20h

"Nature’s many improvements represents one of the best 2.0’s of a board game I’ve ever seen.... Nature brilliantly improves upon the original game in every way."

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Nature Board Game Review

Nature review: a brilliant redesign and 2.0 improvement to the classic board game, Evolution, and an excellent digital adaptation.

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats Marcie. I’m jealous. I love the brand and I love Knizia’s design aesthetics.

♥️♥️♥️

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 4d

If not, we’ll work on it together. The world needs Fat Bear.

Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 4d

Boooooooo! I want to play it when I see you next. There has got to be a dirt simple solution.

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 4d

Yep! It’s getting released on Steam, iOS, and Android. There is also a good chance it’ll get ported to the Switch in the future.

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you. It feels great. There’s already a lot of momentum, but this might help tip it over the edge.

a man with a beard wearing a nike hat and jacket

ALT: a man with a beard wearing a nike hat and jacket

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 5d

Nature Digital just announced the release date!

I can't tell you how exciting it is to have a digital game available just after our board game launch. Working in tandem with the digitsl team made balancing the game much easier.

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From the boardgames community on Reddit: Four years ago we started a risky (crazy?) experiment and started working on a digital board game before the physical board game was even developed. We're now...

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 7d

I came across this review today.

"This game has lots of depth... It might quickly have become my favorite lightweight game."

🥰 🥰 🥰

boardgamegeek.com/thread/35881...

Great game, even without expansions?! | Nature

Summary This review is for the base game with no expansions. It is a light rules, nicely themed, strategic and highly interactive game, packaged as an easily accessible family game. If you want to hav...

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 11d

Not bothersome at all! I may have planted that seed. We ran a game show at The Gathering of Friends based upon slightly revealing survey questions and it was spectacularly fun. That’s one of the frameworks I promoted for W&W events when people asked.

Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 12d

I wish I had more time. I really want to revive Wits & Wagers at some point.

boardgamegeek.com/thread/35863...

Impressions of the different editions of Wits and Wagers and why this classic trivia game is our all time favorite | Wits & Wagers Family

A short review of Wits and Wagers and why this has become our favorite I’ve always thought of Wits and Wagers as a pioneer in the modern party game scene. I’m sure many party games were published two ...

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah, that’s the same way most people seem to feel. Thanks for feedback. It’s very helpful.

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 14d

We're working on art for a Nature module called Salmon Run. This component will have a marker to keep track of the number of salmon in the river.

Which do you prefer? The left option or the right option?

Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 14d

Please give Julia a chance. I hear she inherited a fortune and needs a safe place to park her money.

Or was she the one who has a secret crypto source?

Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 14d

How's Fat Bear coming along?
@brettspiel.bsky.social

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 14d

I love their company!

Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 14d

The retail games have a paper band. Nature Big Box has 4 biodegradable stickers.

But some of the Kickstarter fulfillment companies used bubble wrap for the shipping.

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 15d

I'm looking at your last sentence. I'm not sure if you know, but everything in Nature is biodegradable. It doesn't contain any plastic. Even the center of the Size Dials are a plant based substitute to plastic (or so I'm told).

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 15d

Where do you work?

Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 15d

I didn't realise that you're in our discord community. Yep, it's a wonderful community and I'm excited about its future. One of my goals is to continue to cultivate engagement with Nature. Watching people poste excitedly is a great joy for me.

Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks for your vote of confidence. Thats nice to hear. Tell me what we're doing right. I'd love to hear.

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 15d

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 15d

Here is a new reviewer that covered Nature. They did such a great job I offered to chat with them. You should definitely check them out!
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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 29d

I had a great time chatting with Rick about Nature, the game industry, and near-death experiences captaining a fish boat in Alaska.

He's trying to get a new show off the ground and he's doing a great job. It's worth checking out.

Games and Drinks @gamesanddrinks.bsky.social · 29d

Had a great chat with Dominic @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social of @northstargames.bsky.social!

We talk about his gaming journey, the state of board gaming, and one of our new favorite games, #Nature!

youtu.be/hk_IUoPl-l4

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 15d

NorthStar will reprint of Nature Big Box for everyone who missed the original campaign. It will include everything from the first campaign at the same pre-tarrifs pricing.

boardgamegeek.com/blog/308/blo...

Reprinting the #1 Most Anticipated GenCon Release! | Following the NorthStar:

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Dominic Crapuchettes @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks for extending an invitation. It was really interesting to learn a bit about the RPG side of our TT industry. It's such a wonderfully inclusive side of the hobby.