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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con!

@puzzlekindcreative.com

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(He/him) Hey, I'm Adam, a worship tech director, escape room designer & board game designer. bicycler 🚴🏻 & gardener 🍓 Trans rights = human rights Puzzle creations and games for sale: https://ko-fi.com/ajstichter 🧩✂️ Puzzle & Escape Game Design

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · Nov 20

Thought it'd be good to do an introduction post - Hi! I'm Adam, an escape game, puzzle box, solo ttrpg, and board game designer.

The pictures are of my puzzleboxes, my solo/coop card game "My Small Garden", one of the rooms in my Air BnB game, and elements from my escape game builds.

Three large puzzle boxes on tables. One has a set of gears and a lock on it side the other has a large Circle and another one has a maze with shapes.

There are cards in a person's hand. In the background there are Black and White cards in a grid.

A parlor with a large mirror above fireplace a couch lamp pictures on the wall. In the center is a rug with a circular table on top of it. On the table there are several boxes some locks and papers.

On the edge of a large crate is a globe and Egyptian statue a Caesar Cipher wheel magnifying glass and some keys. The background is a brick wall.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 7h

I realized the names are in alphabetical order. That helps significantly.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 16th 2025) in less than 8 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 9d

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

An emotional minute as the word Democracy melts away in front of the US Capitol Building.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 1d

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 15th 2025) in less than 8 minutes
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Really tried to not take a hint on this one.

Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 2d

I could have probably gotten this one without hints if I had taken more time. Fun! 🧩
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in less than 7 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 4d

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 12th 2025) in less than 15 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 4d

Ah, just saw the X is on the board too, are you moving the rightmost card in the river in 5 to the X? Will there be fewer and fewer cards in the river?

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 4d

Quick feedback: a lot of these are much easier to associate now. 2 - Idk what A means - is there a B in the game somewhere? 5 - still wondering why the X is on this card instead of on the board, I guess?

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 5d

I just wanted to explain some of the reasons why I interpreted them as I did. I hope it wasn't too forward!

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 5d

4&5 feel like you're interacting with the same action or piece because of the X in both.

And with 6 I would offset the arrow because you're moving from one hex to another, and this feels like something happening on the same hex.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 5d

suggest actually mirroring that on the cards to set it up visually.

For 1,2,&3 i might also show something like an arrow or a plus symbol to show gaining the card. Likewise, do something to show removal of the X on 4.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 5d

Secondly, while I think that the symbols for 2 and 3 are clever, there should probably be more alike iconography on 1. You've got that bar on the top and I think that should be mirrored on the card, like what you do on 3. On the 2 tile, you have a different color space where the options are, so I'd

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 5d

So adding a 1-3 word description on the action tiles might help clear things up, especially for new players.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 5d

So I see how you're trying to communicate just with symbols and while it's cleaner-looking i think that it might also lead to players referencing the rulebook more. I think that symbols shouldn't always be on their own but help players access the state of the game board better at a quick glance.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 5d

Glad to see the Tabletop Games series at @uofmpress.bsky.social take off with @jreylee.bsky.social's book on Catan.

Clear, unambiguous writing on abstraction and gaming with regard to colonial themes.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 5d

Is it a fun series?

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 5d

My guesses without the context of the game, rules or text.
1. Attack/damage
2. No idea
3. Compare? View?
4. Trash or discard
5. Discard or trash
6. Upgrade?

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 5d

This one felt pretty good. No mistakes and one hint.
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 11th 2025) in less than 14 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

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Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 7d

No AI is used in any of my games. You can find this Human Made icon on everything I make.

Really great icon pack by Hinokodo

Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 7d

Caught up on the livecast from this week. Someone mentioned that other companies are starting to put 'no ai was used' kind of notes on their games and in rulebooks. I think y'all might be interested to know that there is a movement there and people look for that!

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the human made icons in the pack. free to use of course.

an example shown on a book. (specifically TUMULUS by Exeunt Press)

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 6d

Doing this first thing in the morning is maybe not what my brain is up for.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 10th 2025) in less than 22 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 8d

James is fun. Looking forward to watching this.

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 9d

So when you’re planning for your pitch, think not just in terms of your fun, mechanical hooks—make sure everything is working towards fulfilling the appeal of your game’s promised experience.

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Adam Stichter 🔜 Gen Con! @puzzlekindcreative.com · 10d

as a person who designs narrative-focused things, I think that staying true to the story is vitally important to escape game design - if your puzzles or mechanics aren't in service to the story pull players out of the immersion and they begin to realize themselves as frustrated players. ✂️🧩

Matthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social · 13d

In today's video I go over things I learnt from designing 3 different narrative game systems in my design career, and how other designers can think about approaching new narrative games!

Props to Dave Neale and @philwh.bsky.social for being awesome co-designers :)

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What I learned from selling millions of narrative games

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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 17d

Good morning! It's Pizzamas, and that means I can finally tell people about THIS:
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I wrote another Pizzamas Dungeons and Dragons adventure!

It's got tons of Nerdfighter references (and a few just for the LRR fans, heh heh), jokes and a message board!

Pizzamas One Shot - Part II

Did you absolutely love the first adventure? Well we’ve got a new one cooked up for you! Now with some new pre-gen characters and packed with a whole lot of excitement! Are you a DM? If you purchase t...

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Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 13d

The crowd sale for #Crownfell has been approved for November 18! Add-ons include a neoprene playmat and a solo expansion.

This 2-player asymmetric chess-like has 17 cards unique movement and abilities.

Sign up to be notified here (shares appreciated!) 🧡 www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/cr...

The Crownfell base game box, standing beside the playmat, with some cards on the mat, mid-game.

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