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Exciting news for Bay Area game makers and tabletop enthusiasts! Many of our groups are coming together to make a unified mega group. Let's make it easier for all of us to get together and do more for the community. Coming to @KublaCon? Visit the Protospiel room for more info.

Mini-Protospiel at GDC (March 9-13, 2026) Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual event in San Francisco that brings the game development community together to exchange ideas. Show your tabletop game! Submit by Feb 22 unpub.fillout.com/gdc2026

Been working on this game for a bit, and it’s out today! Have fun

Introducing the FINALISTS FOR THE 2025 CARDBOARD EDISON AWARD!!! cardboardedison.com/award

TTGDA is pleased to announce that Barnes & Noble @BNBuzz has stepped up and changed their site to include designer names. It may seem like a small thing, but we think it's an important step to having game designers recognized as creators by the general public.

The colors of game design: a framework for how games work and a tool to help with game development uxdesign.cc/colors-of-game…

It’s heeeere! @CbAlchemy @LukeLaurieGames Can’t wait to go through all the final bling in Andromeda’s Edge, and get it to the table!

Hedge Mage is relaunching on the 26th! The game’s come a long way since it’s Patchwork prototype back in May 2020. Its also how I met so many great people through playtesting it online in those early lockdown days. So it’s got a special place in my heart.

Bruin Theatre's Future Uncertain as Regency's Lease of Two Historic Westwood Movie Palaces Ends This Week variety.com/2024/film/news…

I hope the Bruin gets saved with the Village theatre. They were always paired together for red carpet premieres. Cameras at one red carpet would see the marquee of the other. Both theaters are part of movie history!

Kurt Vonnegut answering rules questions on his game design: "I am a professional writer, and the toughest assignment I ever had was writing the rules for this thing" In case you thought you were alone.

Happy Monday! Games are fun. Social media incentivises us to be our worst selves. It encourages reactionary dialog and aggressively bad faith replies. Be the fun you wish to see at the table. Cheers!

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VFX artist here, heres what happened: Clients continually change the brief, shot design and planning are no longer a priority, and we have a lot more work to get through in a shorter amount of time. We have and can create work better than back in the day, it just needs the right leadership team, planning, and time to make sure it happens. The average film changes a lot more during postproduction now than they used to. This means new work gets added to our plate and work we’ve already started (and sometimes even finished) gets scrapped. The “fix it in post” mentality also doesn’t help. As with everything VFX related, it’s almost always the studio/leadership team who is responsible for when things don’t get done up to scratch and never the actual artists fault.

The Tabletop Game Designers Association is live! Please check out our shiny new website to learn more, and see our broad range of resources! Thanks to everyone who helped us get to this point, particularly @elizhargrave and @SenFoongLim ttgda.org @ttgda_org

Board game friends at GDC? Let’s meet up! Who’s here this year?

I just backed Gun It - A cooperative car thriller on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/randy…

Good design is about doing a perfect rail grind along the knife’s edge between too much friction and too much handholding. But when there isn’t enough time to hit that polish level, research says you should always default to handholding. IF you’re making art that is also product.

The free official Dominion boardgame app launches today! #iOS #Android #Steam #Dominion #boardgame TempleGatesGames.com/Dominion