A small educational card game company run by one designer. With the help of native speakers and many playtesters. Language-learning games from English/French to Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish, Faroese, and Mandarin (so far). Twisty Tealz is our first title.
Formerly Philyra Games. Still converting everything to the new name.
Our games aren’t exactly considered party games, but as far as educational games go, Twisty Tealz comes pretty close! It’s like Uno but with language learning. Available on The Game Crafter!
#games #spill #cards #mandarin #chinese #languages #pedagogy
Seen at Unpub yesterday: Small Steps to Stop Fascism (2-6 players). Started brainstorming a game about boycotting oligarchy during the party game workshop. Also saw a game about elections on Thursday, but sadly couldn’t find it again to playtest!
LingoLegend is a super fun language game! They just need to add contextual learning.
Some MAGFest 2026 highlights: $200 of free con merch, free Chinese & Japanese Pokémon cards, trinket trade, women of color creatives meetup, playing Wyrmspan, & leather bracer crafting workshop. #magfest #games
It was harder to sneak into the indie game section at #MAGFest for playtesting this year, and we only ran one playtest and a few demos of the Chinese zodiac prototype. But good to see some familiar designers from Break My Game and others. Liked the indie table setup better this year@lunarpunk.games
Working on a brand new prototype! Second playtest happened today. This one teaches #Mandarin #Chinese.
Most entertaining game playtested at UnPub over the weekend (not including ours): Period Party. Très drôle ! #unpub #games #cardgames
Had a fabulous time at UnPub this weekend playtesting a brand new game! It’s a French sentence-building game that is political-themed. Vive la révolution ! Vive la démocratie ! Also sold a couple prototypes of Twisty Tealz (Mandarin). Merci beaucoup to our playtesters for all the fantastic feedback!
Since we’re on both Mastodon and Bluesky, we’re trying out this app called Openvibe that allows you to crosspost to both of them at once.
Seems nice so far!
Here’s a snapshot of the Mandarin version of Twisty Tealz coming soon to appease the language gods (shénmíng 神明).
Final prototype for Twisty Tealz: Mandarin Chinese! Check it out. Will be published via The Game Crafter this month.
#games #cardgames #languages #education #pedagogy #chinese #cards
Finally got the new domain up and running! https://www.foxp2games.com/
@thedarktangent @support Hmm, I don't know. The account I was searching for was created just over a month ago; my first thought was that it was a case of extremely slow fetching... It is searchable to me now that I am following that account (mutually).
What's the timeline on this server expanding its search capabilities? I couldn't find another account on tech.lgbt server until that account followed this one.