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Andrew Brassleay
@brass2000.bsky.social
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Writer and editor. I run The Generations Games about family tabletop games and board games, including reviews written with my daughter. Autistic. Usually found on a mini-golf course. thegenerationsgames.substack.com
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Had a good old chat with award-winning game designers Markus and Inka Brand on working with their children on new card game, Snake Charmers.
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Inka and Markus Brand: 'Our minds are always buzzing with ideas for games'
The award-winning designers on creating new release Snake Charmers with their family and never switching off from creating their next game together
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October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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We spoke to Status: A Victorian Affair creators Brittany Potter and Kyle Flowers on their worker-placement game set in historical London's high society – which features building and renovating your own miniature 19th century estate.
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Status: A Victorian Affair: build your reputation and home in this 19th-century-set tabletop game
Creators Brittany Potter and Kyle Flowers on their worker-placement game set in historical London's high society
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October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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We speak to Carcassonne creator Klaus-Jürgen Wrede on the game's new set of revised expansions.
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Klaus-Jürgen Wrede: Revised expansions bring Carcassonne into 'new era'
The creator on easing conflict and enhancing co-operation in the classic tabletop game's medieval setting, which sees the return of catapults
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October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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We speak to Carcassonne creator Klaus-Jürgen Wrede on the game's new set of revised expansions.
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Klaus-Jürgen Wrede: Revised expansions bring Carcassonne into 'new era'
The creator on easing conflict and enhancing co-operation in the classic tabletop game's medieval setting, which sees the return of catapults
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October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Latest interview: Marie and Wilfried Fort
The two-times Kinderspiel des Jahres-winning husband-and-wife game designers on new releases, why families should play together and collaborating as a married couple on board games.
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Marie and Wilfried Fort: 'Our goal? To create games that children will enjoy playing again and again'
The award-winning husband-and-wife designers on new releases, why families should play together and collaborating as a married couple on board games
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October 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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THE RESPONSIBLE PHARMACIST: (looking at the empty beer cans, sea of torn-up prescriptions and 'I heart tablets' graffiti littering the dispensary of Boots) Seriously guys, what the hell?
October 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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This week's newsletter: Caps & Stems
We speak to designer Brandon Patton about his strategic fungi-foraging tabletop game
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Caps and Stems: ‘Let's build mushrooms'
We speak to designer Brandon Patton about his strategic fungi-foraging tabletop game
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October 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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This week's newsletter: Endearment: Role-play as Jane Austen's heroines in Dux Somnium's board game
We speak to co-designer Amy Droz on the JRPG set in the world of the Regency-era novelist.
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Endearment: Role-play as Jane Austen's heroines in Dux Somnium's board game
Co-designer Amy Droz on the JRPG set in the world of the Regency-era novelist
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September 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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timclare.bsky.social Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · Sep 22
Looks like the WH are going to - in an exciting twist - blame paracetamol for autism & announce funding to see if leucovorin - mostly a chemo drug - can cure it. I hope I needn't explain that RFK Jr is a thick, spiteful crank, leading an unholy coalition of covid-denialist wingnuts & moonbats.
September 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.
September 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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This week's newsletter: Loose in the Library

We spoke with co-creator Jessica Metheringham of @dissentgames.bsky.social on pitting historically significant women against literary terrors, and dissenting through playing tabletop games.
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Loose in the Library: The card game pitting robots from Mars against Ada Lovelace
Co-creator Jessica Metheringham on pitting historically significant women against literary terrors, and dissenting through playing tabletop games
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September 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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This week's newsletter: We speak to @perryjon.bsky.social about his game Hot Streak.

Cheer anthropomorphised fish, bears and hot dogs to victory in @cmyk.games' tabletop mascot-race simulation.

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Jon Perry on Hot Streak: 'You want to see crazy, unexpected stuff'
Cheer anthropomorphised fish, bears and hot dogs to victory in the UFO 50 co-creator's tabletop game mascot-race simulation
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September 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Always a sucker for a vintage game. So we spoke to the Museum of Board Games curator and owner @tonyboydell.bsky.social about what can be found under its roof, and the plans to move to a bigger venue.
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The Museum of Board Games: 'The main reaction is nostalgic delight'
Curator Tony Boydell on collecting board gaming history and his plans for a bigger home for the exhibition
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September 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Reviewed with the kid: Meeple Circus
Run away from home to join the Big Top in Matagot's dexterity tabletop game
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Game review 98: Meeple Circus
Run away from home to join the Big Top in Matagot's dexterity tabletop game
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September 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Reviewed with the kid: Animal Chess
Battle for supremacy with various jungle-based creatures such as a lion, or, er, a domestic cat, and, er, a domestic dog.
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Game review 97: Animal Chess
It's a dog-eat-dog game
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August 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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sorry boss i’m behind on my work, most of my day was spent clicking “hide” next to the copilot icon barging its way to the top of every fucking thing i use
August 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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I’m doing victory laps in my kitchen right now!!!! 💃🏼

CGE just announced they are going to be giving away 100% of the profit from their Harry Potter game to pro-trans charities!!

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A screenshot of CGE’s instagram page: “With the above in mind, and after many heartfelt and vital discussions both internally and with members of the affected community, we have decided to donate 100% of the profit from this game to appropriate charitable organizations. We will ensure that an amount equal to our greater than the fee paid to license this product will go directly to organizations that provide support for the trans community. We evaluate profits and make charitable-giving decisions each December, and we will continue using this annual process to direct the games profits. We will listen to recommendations from the community to help guide our choices of organizations that provide support for the trans community. Or goal is to select those that offer direct, practical help to people in need — for example, services similar to the emergency hotline that was recently discontinued.”
August 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Reviewed with the kid: IQ Fit
A travel-friendly, simple brain-buster
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Game review 96: IQ Fit
A travel-friendly, simple brain-buster
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August 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Good news: I have been contacted by and am currently sharing guidelines and expectations with a representative of CGE.

Let’s hope they can make this right in their next statement. 🎲✂️
marcelineleiman.bsky.social Marceline Leiman 🔜 Indie Games Night Market @ PaxU @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · Jul 29
During Gen Con, I will have 250 of these zines with me.

The goal is to inform normies about what’s going on with CGE and a call to action to join the blacklist.

No buying, pitching, or covering CGE games until they give the community a proper apology and response on how they plan to make good. 🎲✂️
A zine printed on yellow paper with a Mr Yuk that looks like the CGE logo. The logo around it says “Yuk Yuk Says Stay Away” with the CGE letters below it. Below that, a hashtag: #BlacklistCGE
July 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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We spoke with @offthepagegames.bsky.social owner Jay Cormier about Corps of Discovery and converting comic books to the tabletop.
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Jay Cormier: turning comic books to tabletop games
The Off the Pages owner on his Corps of Discovery creation, helping game designers get organised and long-distance collaborations
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July 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Reviewed with the kid: Bugs in the Kitchen
Test your roach-catching skills in this dexterity game complete with jittery, battery-operated creepy-crawly.
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Game review 95: Bugs in the Kitchen
Test your roach-catching skills in this dexterity game complete with jittery, battery-operated creepy-crawlie
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July 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Board game Topp die Torte is this year's Kinderspiel des Jahres 2025 winner. Here's our interview from a few weeks back about the game with its creator, Wolfgang Warsch.
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Wolfgang Warsch: Topp Die Torte helps put the icing on versatile design career
We speak to the designer – and molecular biologist – about his cake-making board game's Kinderspiel Des Jahres nomination
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July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Reviewed with the kid: Bugs in the Kitchen
Test your roach-catching skills in this dexterity game complete with jittery, battery-operated creepy-crawly.
thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/game-revie...
Game review 95: Bugs in the Kitchen
Test your roach-catching skills in this dexterity game complete with jittery, battery-operated creepy-crawlie
thegenerationsgames.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM