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@amanpossessed.bsky.social
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One middle-aged man's nascent and naive journey through #boardgames and #gamedesign. 🎲✂️

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An image of a painting of somebody who I should probably know who it is, but I don't. Tell me in the comments. There is text superimposed. "I love waterlemons. You that read wrong. You read that wrong, too. This is how you fail exams."
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Me at #PAXU, but replace music with convention static.
A comic by Cassandra Calin. Four panels of a person trying to listen to conversation, but all of the speech bubbles are obscured by musical notes. The setting seems to be a bar or a restaurant. Everybody else seems to hear and understand the conversation just fine, but the central figure can't make out anything and grows increasingly distressed. https://www.instagram.com/p/DRcmGTKDi7c/?img_index=5
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I’m going to accept this as an appropriate sign off from the convention as I make my way home. See ya next year.
#boardgames #PAXU ♥️
A person in front of me wearing a jacket that says, “Dear person behind me, the world is a better place with you in it love, the person in front of you”
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Demonstrating Match Hatchery has been a magical experience. Playtesting the game with game designers is one thing. Introducing the game to folks who just wanna have a good time is a whole other thing.
#boardgames 🎲✂️ #PAXU
A group of friends smiling and laughing while playing Match Hatchery. On the background is a banner for Origami Whale Games.
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I’m ready to Match and I’m ready to Hatch. Are you? Come ‘n’ get it! Find me at the Origami Whale demo table all day today and let’s play Match Hatchery!
#boardgames #PAXU
A fresh setup of the prototype board game, Match Hatchery. Ready to demo! The table banner for Origami Whale Games.
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I’ve been demo-ing Match Hatchery all day today and it’s been amazing! I’ll be demo-ing all day tomorrow, too; come find me at the Origami Whale Games table in the demo area. Let’s have a game! If you come during the later half of the day, you can watch my brains liquefy!
#boardgames #PAXU
A game of Match Hatchery in progress.
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Can you believe the indignity?
A bronze(?) pig statue in Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia.
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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#PAXU
A photo down one of the aisles of The Reading Terminal Market.
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The camera angle creates a neat illusion. At a glance, I was like, "Why are some of them flat on the ends?"
A screen shot of the OP's original image of a few of the four-sided dice "Yes, And; No, And; Yes, But; No, But" at an angle that makes them look like they've lost their pointed ends. But they haven't.
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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#BoardGames Night! I finally got to use an expansion deck with Agricola. Usually when bringing Agricola to the table, somebody has never played before, so I've only ever used the base deck. Fun times!

* Earth
* The White Castle
* Switchbacks
* Agricola (with Artifex Deck expansion)
* Forest Shuffle
Photographs of various board games arranged in a grid. Left-to-right then top-to-bottom: * Earth * The White Castle * Switchbacks * Agricola (with Artifex Deck expansion) * Forest Shuffle
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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It's fun to see Pyrotechnics out in the world.
#boardgames 🎲✂️
A photo from the Instagram account of tabletoptale. In the photo a woman stands behind a neatly arranged pile of board games. * Aquaria * Peak Team * Four mint tin games I can't read the titles of * Pyrotechnics * Scoundrel Bay * Underwater Cities: Data Era * Night Soil * Epona https://www.instagram.com/tabletoptale/
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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An advertisement for Taco Bell Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie and Taco Bell Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie Chiller. A can of Slurm from the show Futurama.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
amanpossessed.bsky.social
Okay, I did a quick solo playtest of Forged!. It's difficult to test solo, really, because the main drive of the game is brinksmanship. But it works. It might be too fiddly, but it works. I think. Unless it doesn't. Time to get it to the table.
#boardgames 🎲✂️
A screenshot of two cards from the Screentop prototype of the deck-building board game Forged!. The left one is labeled as, "RESOURCES!" and the right one is labeled as, "SUSPICION!" A word-logo-style treatment for the prototype board game Forged!. It says, "Forged!"
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Heyyo! If you're going to be at #PAXUnplugged, come find me on the exhibition floor at the Origami Whale Games booth where I'll be demonstrating my game, Match Hatchery!
#boardgames 🎲✂️ #paxu
A 3D rendered layout of the prototype board game Match Hatchery.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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#boardgames 🎲✂️ #noNotReally
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A three-panel vertical comic strip. Panel 1 — A young person stands in a cloudy backdrop before a long-haired man in a toga, presumably in some form of Christian Heaven. They ask, "Did I waste my life by making games?" Panel 2 — The long-haired man says, "Thousands of people play your games every day." Panel 3 — The long-haired man finishes, "You wasted thousands of lives by making games." The person who asked the question looks forlorn. Original poster and comic: https://bsky.app/profile/extrafabulous.bsky.social/post/3m52qc3xmak2x
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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An old comic book ad for Sea-Monkeys.
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Thanks! And, agreed. This was my comment on it yesterday.
A screenshot of a Discord message that says, "I don't like it," with an image of a hat monotile layout of cards.
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Work in progress. This isn't exactly the vibe I'm going for overall, but it's shaping up. Lots of tweaks and nips and tucks will get it there eventually.
#boardgames 🎲✂️
Six sets of three cards each. Each set of three creates an image. The images are abstract geometry.
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Havin' fun.
Doin' stuff.
#boardgames 🎲✂️
A 3D rendering of a bunch of octagons punched through a layer of silicone. Cyan and light blue in color with light blooming through from behind.
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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A photo of the board game Pyrotechnics in action. In the foreground, a card from the game, “Twilight Flare!”
November 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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A still frame from the movie Back To The Future. In the background, the character Biff Tannen is yelling. In the foreground, the character Marty McFly is staring in the middle distance, eyes slightly alarmed. Silver stars have been superimposed onto Marty McFly's shoulders.
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
A passage from the site linked in the original post: "If you're here, you've probably spent a few hours reading this site. I'm glad to have entertained and informed you. If I've infuriated or offended, that's an added bonus! Sometimes that's the best way to convey a message." With "If I've infuriated or offended, that's an added bonus!" highlighted.
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I haven't felt this good about a new design in a little while. Here's hopin'.

In Forged!, you play as an unscrupulous reprobate of a blacksmith. You sell mundane "treasures," passing them off as magical. How much money can you grift before the heat gets too hot?

#boardgames #gamedesign 🎲✂️
A screenshot of a Screentop.gg setup for the prototype board game for Forged! Lots of cards. A stylized word, "Forged!" as a logo for the title of the game.
November 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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A wonderful October for #boardgames.
* 5 plays of Agricola * 2 plays of Men-Nefer * 2 plays of Root * 1 play of 7 Wonders * 1 play of Azul * 1 play of Barenpark * 1 play of Can't Stop * 1 play of Darwin's Journey * 1 play of El Grande * 1 play of Fiiptoons * 1 play of The Guild of Merchant Explorers * 1 play of Isle of Night * 1 play of Let's Go to Japan * 1 play of Neom * 1 play of Next Station: London * 1 play of Pyrotechnics * 1 play of Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar
November 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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If anybody wants to know what a 58-point game of Agricola looks like, have a gander. I will never, ever reach this score again.
#boardgames
October 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM