🏳️‍⚧️💖 Alara 💖🏳️‍🌈

I am a freelance designer and developer of board games. This 🧵 lists some of my projects, in no particular order.

@lisaquestions @JinkiesJerrica @SlowpitchBitch I think there's also a dimension of tendon tension/flexibility, as pelvic tilt wouldn't change shoe size, and that can go down too (I shrunk 1 shoe size).

@TilFolkvang They brought rain back 🌧️. The moment I was halfway up a climb and it started raining and I slipped to the bottom I knew it was going to be the same needless frustrations again 🤷🏻‍♀️

Just like it’s bad form for a DM to turn the players into dialog-generating plot pawns in their scripted epic fantasy yarn, it’s also bad form for the players to turn the DM into a dispenser for personal cool and heroic moments and story and plot cues. It goes both ways.

@GailSimone Thanks! 😁🥰

@TTVoid Awesome games!

Okay, so one of the things I've really enjoyed discovering in both the tabletop and video gaming communities is that there is a growing number of women involved on every level. If you work in gaming and are a woman or non-binary person, let's shout it out below! #WomenInGaming

@Mollybdenym 🤩🤩🤩 I just finished Automata and am now looking to get my hands on the classics 🤩🤩🤩

ugly papa nier ftw

@GiftThePancake Yup (not a 100% clear, but it's definitely over 😉)

@TTVoid Did you finish it all the way?

Catching up on games, finally got through NeiR: Automata.. and Weight of the World sure hits hard when you're a trans femme living in these times... 🎶 I'm only one girl 🎶... Anyway, the game is art. Everyone should play it.

@Rin_Vixen Bucket 🤩

I’m gonna collect all the gay little idiots and neruospicy goobers on the internet and stuff em in my little follow bucket and no one’s gonna stop me 😈

@DanLovatClark As evidence, look at other game genres that don't have publisher gatekeepers. In my early surveys on Escape Rooms, almost half of escape room designers were women. In the Indie RPG industry, there's an incredible spread of ideas and diverse viewpoints.

Part of broadening the industry has to mean broadening the sort of games we print. That seems obvious: why else would we broaden the industry? Why would we expect Jane Doe's game to look like a Reiner Knizia game? We already have Knizia games.

@elizhargrave I can't wait to get into this one 🤩

The table talk over our game of Deadly Dowagers was definitely turning heads at game night. My dear Millicent won the Duke after going through 4 other husbands while managing her reputation 🗡️☠️

If i follow you it’s probably cos I think you’re hot

@wanderingdahl 😂😂😂 you win

STOP ✋️ if you're reading this, then you've reached the pokémon checkpoint. You're now obligated to share your favorite pokémon or else.

@JazzElves For bonus points, do things that fit with the property in your RPG/board game whatever that can *only* be done in your medium. That way, your game is both faithful, but also unique and brings something new to the property or world.

@JazzElves ☝🏻 this is on target 😁 Ive made a bunch of board games for IPs, and this pretty nearly sums up how we approach it. Don't replicate the IP in a new medium, extract the vibes, the feels, the narrative beats, and use the unique tools of your medium to recreate those.

This thought is too big for me right now but I need to exorcise it so I can take pain meds and try to sleep, it's getting in the way of that, so here goes. When writing, describing, or recommending your RPG, be aware you won't be able to do what the source material says you do.

Breaking: An unprecedented heat wave is striking Inuit territories in northern Canada. In some places record-breaking heat has melted all of the snowpack when it should still be 1-2 feet deep. The Inuit say they are "becoming collateral damage for unsustainable choices" 🧵

STOP ✋ if you're reading this then you've reached the pokémon checkpoint, you're now obligated to share your favorite pokémon or else

@DasBrieger @jordyadan @thunderworksgam Oh my goodness, I already love it!!!

We've had a great time working on the Cartographers series, so we got the band back together for STONESPINE ARCHITECTS, a dungeon building game by @jordyadan , published by @thunderworksgam!

@ArkAngel_Games @SenFoongLim It also doesn't replicate the kinematics of play. You don't get reaching, and picking up, and placing, happening in the organic way it does at a table. And when you're in the middle of a design (not an alpha but not dev-raady) those aspects are an important part of the test.

Playtesting virtually is so tiresome but still productive #NecessaryEvil @TTVoid