@jfoolsguard I'm going with a slightly different content strategy for the blog - longer pieces to answer a couple of specific questions in each post. There's a website for the newsletters at https://boardgamedesign.beehiiv.com if people reading that first =)

Hey everyone, I'm starting a weekly newsletter about board game design and the board game industry. Get on the list for the first one coming out tomorrow. https://boardgamedesign.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Fascinating: https://www.fastcompany.com/90811669/momas-newest-artist-is-an-ai-trained-on-180000-works-from-warhol-to-pac-man

Scrabble keeping up with the times:

https://www.polygon.com/23467002/scrabble-dictionary-new-words-stan-jedi-subtweet

@PhilGross not offhand. Will have to reach out to some of the satisfied customers. Plenty of details on the homepage, of course =)

TabletopPublishers.com notes:
* It's all updated for PAX Unplugged - sort / search / filter by the con as you like.
* The backend now runs on the same server as the website, and not on a third-party service. New tech on the back end means a faster / stabler service that's better set up for the long term.

(ICYMI: If you're a game designer trying to pitch your games to publishers, this service is here to help you pitch your games better. Think 'sniper', not 'shotgun'. See https://tabletoppublishers.com.

@Raddu yeah TBH that sounds exhausting. I can appreciate having the ability to have multiple identities, but I'm currently trying to coalesce / redirect everything to one. I need another social media platform like I need another hole in my head, but I see this as replacing Twitter. Still third fiddle behind Facebook and lurking on Reddit.

Great real world #playtest last night - printed off the first version of Carolina (a poker-like game more about outwitting than bluffing) and Taco (gateway card game about drafting ingredients and making tacos). Great to finally get to some new games =)

@Raddu sorry, I might have misunderstood. I think I can search, say, 'dice.camp' and see a bunch of people / toots that come up in the search. I do not think you can view another server in the same way...and I think this is probably the biggest structural weakness of Mastodon - you want to feel like you're in all the groups...

@Raddu you can, it's just done through a pop-up window. You may need to copy/paste your handle in the other server so they shake hands and play nice, but you can follow and respond to anyone on other servers.

I'm making a list of potential reviewers for a game we've recently Kickstarted (with 2,000+ backers!). Naturally, many of them are in English, but the translators and I worked hard to ensure there would be a ton of languages available: Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

If you review in one of these languages, I'd love to send you a game. See noboxgames.com/spies for details =)

@BrentNewhall unsheath sword, take off backpack, and start doing a Sun Salutation (yoga sequence). Hopefully they think I'm praying to it.

First tweets are... wait, *tweets*? *Posts*? Ahh, 'toots'. Yeah, not gonna use toots, sorry.

#introduction

I'm Chris Backe (rhymes with hockey), and I make #boardgames. I also help designers make board games by creating tools and offering advice. I was an #expat / #digitalnomad from 2008-2022, and currently live in Birmingham, England.

Follow me if you're into board games / #tabletop #games.