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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 4d

My little pumpkins are appropriately scary now that they have started rotting from the inside

2 carved pumpkins with mold coming out of their orifices

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 5d

Maatjes are pretty underrated !

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 7d

I feel the same way about the genre. They're great as 'appetizer' games and perfectly fine in that role but they often make me want to play something crunchier afterwards.

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 15d

Excellent episode ! Thinking about game design as connecting systems between each other really resonated with me.

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Marceline Leiman 🔜 Indie Games Night Market @ PaxU @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 18d

This presentation by Jonas Tyroller absolutely applies to boardgame pitching as well. 🎲✂️

Mechanisms aren’t what sell games.

Focusing solely on “hooks” can distract you from what’s most important: making an appealing game that’s scoped appropriately (for its size/weight/gameplay, what have you)

What Sells on Steam: You Don't Need a Hook

YouTube video by Jonas Tyroller

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 16d

Battle of Hoth not Both

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 16d

I'd say go for your preferred theme / period of history. If you're not a history nerd, Battlelore 2 and Battle of Both are great too (and arguably a little more accessible).

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks for sharing so openly. I hope you keep doing videos like this that are not just about "the craft" of being a designer.

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Randy Flynn 🔜 PAX Unplugged @rf-seattle.bsky.social · 18d

This is REALLY worth a read! It avoids getting stuck on some quick surface level problems with AI art and gets to the heart of things.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 18d

A prototype, Monumental Duel, El Grande, Terrorscape. Looking forward to getting my copy of The Old King's Crown and getting it to the table !

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bonimenteurfr.bsky.social @bonimenteurfr.bsky.social · 19d

Cet extrait vient de Groland. Mais quand tu compares avec la réalité, tu ne vois presque plus de différence sur ces histoires de remaniement et de nouveau gouvernement.

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 19d

That king pawn was HUGE. Almost as tall as the Castillo. I enjoyed imagining a giant man travelling around Spain.

Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 19d

Played a classic last night

The boardgame El Grande (1995 edition) laid out on a table

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 20d

Well-deserved praises for @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social
I've had the chance to playtest the game during its development and it's a real banger.

Tom Brewster @tombrewster.bsky.social · 22d

big review!

The Old King's Crown is absolutely fabulous. A sparkling bit of design that i went a bit mad trying to capture on video.

this is a very, very special game made by people who care tremendously. check it the HECK out !!

Shut Up & Sit Down @shutupshow.bsky.social · 23d

Oh boy, if it isn’t that time of year again! Tom’s gone and gotten himself addicted to a giant, knotty board game again. Please wish him a speedy recovery.

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 22d

Any interesting conclusions for the less germanic among us ?

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 23d

a close up of a star wars death star in the middle of a galaxy .

Alt: Astronaut riding a rocky being shot into space

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 23d

Par contre du coup je préfère "voici les jeux auxquels j'ai joué" plutôt que "j'ai fait 318 parties" qui ressemble effectivement plus à un concours de b*te

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Maëlig 🔜 Essen Spiel @maelig.bsky.social · 23d

Perso je le fais pas mais je le vois comme un moyen d'engager une discussion, ça m'arrive de répondre quand je suis curieux d'avoir des retours sur un jeu en particulier.