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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged

@fanfactories.bsky.social

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Seattle board game designer/dev. Posts about game design, playtesting, art, and crowdfunding. Credits: Fantastic Factories. Flatout Games CoLab dev for Verdant, Knitting Circle, Point Galaxy, Propolis, Cascadia: Alpine Lakes. https://www.josephzchen.me/

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 21h

It's launched! The CoLab team I'm a part of have been working hard on this game for a while now. The vertical twist to Cascadia truly makes it play like a brand new game but with familiar concepts. Please check it out!!

Flatout Games @flatoutgames.bsky.social · 22h

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

Cascadia: Alpine Lakes

A standalone puzzly tile-layering follow-up to the award-winning game Cascadia, with beautiful artwork by Beth Sobel!

www.kickstarter.com

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 15h

Cascadia: Alpine Lakes!

I did development work for this one, and it's surprising how differently it plays from the original Cascadia.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

Cascadia: Alpine Lakes

A standalone puzzly tile-layering follow-up to the award-winning game Cascadia, with beautiful artwork by Beth Sobel!

www.kickstarter.com

Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you!

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Connor Wake | Always Awake Games 🔜 PaxWest @connor.alwaysawake.games · 23h

Its alive!

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

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

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

www.kickstarter.com

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 21h

Flatout Games @flatoutgames.bsky.social · 22h

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

Cascadia: Alpine Lakes

A standalone puzzly tile-layering follow-up to the award-winning game Cascadia, with beautiful artwork by Beth Sobel!

www.kickstarter.com

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 1d

Yup! Feel free to use any of the photos I post on Bluesky or my blog.

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 1d

Haha yeah I guess I had a lot of momentum from the previous market. Plus my wife said I had to put away all my dyeing vats before the Halloween party that was this past weekend so that was extra motivation.

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the offer. I'll try to jam it into a suitcase tonight. We'll see!

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 1d

Here it is in all its glory. 50 copies of Flip Stack Burger Shack ready for the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged! Let's see if they all fit in the suitcase...

Rows and rows of drawstring bags that say Flip Stack Burger Shack.

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 1d

The aftermath.

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Connor Wake | Always Awake Games 🔜 PaxWest @connor.alwaysawake.games · 1d

I’m finally launching my first KS tomorrow! 👻 Not nervous at all 😅

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

Coming soon: 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

www.kickstarter.com

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Urban Professional Games @urbanprogames.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be livestreaming and chatting with anyone interested while I assemble some copies of Flip Stack Burger Shack. Come hang out!

www.twitch.tv/fantasticfac...

FantasticFactories - Twitch

Assembling games for the indie market: Flip Stack Burger Shack!

www.twitch.tv

Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 2d

Almost ready to assemble 50 copies of Flip Stack Burger Shack for the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged!

Stacks of drawstring bags that say Flip Stack Burger Shack. Gallon ziplock bags with colorful discs. A bin of packs of cards.

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Randy Flynn 🔜 PAX Unplugged @rf-seattle.bsky.social · 2d

I'll be on stream with Amanda showing Cascadia: Alpine Lakes on Thursday! This is really MY first chance to show off this game publicly.

Streaming with Amanda is always great time. Tune in in Twitch or YouTube.

The Kickstarter campaign goes live on Tuesday.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

Amanda Panda @ Home 🐼😴🔜SDCC, Gen Con, Pax U @panda8ngel.bsky.social · 2d

It's a double dose of @flatoutgames.bsky.social and then a double dose of @devirgames.bsky.social

The next game in the Cascadia universe is coming soon to KS! I'll play it solo on Tuesday. On Thursday, @rf-seattle.bsky.social will join me to answer your questions and play a 2 player game.

Amanda Panda's Twitch Stream Schedule

Panda Solo: Cascadia: Alpine Lakes
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025
3 PM PST / 6 PM EST / 11 PM UTC
Twitch.tv/Panda8ngel
Youtube.com/@Panda8ngel

Casadia: Alpine Lakes w/ Randy
KS Preview
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025
2 PM PST / 5 PM EST / 10 PM UTC
Twitch.tv/Panda8ngel
Youtube.com/@Panda8ngel

The Panda & Phantom Show! Ep. 111
White Castle Duel
Friday, Oct. 17, 2025
12 PM PST / 3 PM EST / 8 PM UTC
Twitch.tv/Panda8ngel
Youtube.com/@Panda8ngel

FSTF: Phoenix: New Horizon
Solo Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025
12 PM PST / 3 PM EST / 8 PM UTC
Twitch.tv/Panda8ngel
Youtube.com/@Panda8ngel

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 2d

Wow that's a clean looking release from the pan.

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Ashwin Kamath 🔜 PAXUnplugged! @boardgameghee.bsky.social · 6d

Playtesting is Bumping tonight in the PNW!

If you're a designer or curious about game design, hit me up! Let's be besties! <3

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 4d

What did you end up playing?

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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 4d

Game Market West was such a great experience. So amazing seeing spicy little indie games represented in such a exciting environment.

Big thanks to @gamemarketwest.bsky.social for making this happen. Excited to see it continue to grow! 🦆✂️🎲🦆

🎥: Board Game Casual (www.youtube.com/@BoardGameCa...)

Game Market West Fall 2025 - Indie board games, designer interviews, and more!

YouTube video by Board Game Casual

www.youtube.com

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 5d

Warm up with Deep Sea Adventure and then play Ra.

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Jess_CCG wants some soup 🥣 @jessccg.bsky.social · 5d

We’re going to SPACE!! (Well, not exactly 😂) Point Galaxy from @flatoutgames.bsky.social hits our table tonight! Watch the stream and hang with us in chat!

6pm Pacific on Twitch
twitch.tv/jess_ccg

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 6d

Don't think I've anticipated a KS more than this one! Connor is a talented designer & artist. Games executed well where the art + design are by the same person are rare but guarantee a seamless & full experience. Both games are amazing. Highly recommend you check these out.

Connor Wake | Always Awake Games 🔜 PaxWest @connor.alwaysawake.games · 6d

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...

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.

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Randy Flynn 🔜 PAX Unplugged @rf-seattle.bsky.social · 7d

A new preview for Cascadia: Alpine Lakes! Check out Dwayne & Alicia's short rundown.

Dwayne breaks down the scoring perfectly. Alicia beautifully summarizes the game's complexity compared to Cascadia.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8dY...

@blackboardgaming.bsky.social @flatoutgames.bsky.social

Cascadia: Alpine Lakes Kickstarter Preview | It's Time To Revisit The Pacific Northwest

YouTube video by BlackBoardGaming

www.youtube.com

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 7d

Yes I'm familiar with the difference and have built prototypes of games using both sizes (not in the same prototype though, that would be weird).

Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 7d

When I paid creators for videos it was never paying for their audience but for the video itself. The referral links I provided confirmed that was the correct line of thought.

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 7d

Especially if you feature the videos on the campaign page. You're using it to populate your KS page. Even if people don't watch it, they know it's there.

The real thing with real rules value I believe is very important as well but hard to measure the impact.

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