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Cole Wehrle
@colewehrle.bsky.social
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Game designer focusing on strategy games with strong emergent narratives. Half of Wehrlegig Games. Formerly Creative Director at Leder Games. Now Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 24d
If you want to find out about our next campaign for Arcs, you can sign up below. We'll have a lot more to share about the campaign soon!
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Coming soon: Arcs: Beyond the Reach
Return to the world of Arcs with a set of expansions brimming with new strategic options and devious characters.
www.kickstarter.com
colewehrle.bsky.social
While I think this is often true, it also elides another critical point: professional designers often don't realize how smart and capable people are, espeically people who don't play games. 🧵
ericlang.bsky.social Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 16h
It cannot be overstated how much hobby gamers underestimate how unintuitive and difficult hobby games are to non-gamers.

This is perhaps even more true of professional game designers, publishers and reviewers/pundits, broadly speaking.
February 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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We've got a massive update for you all about Oath New Foundations. Normally I don't get sentimental about KS updates, but this was the first update we've released since getting all of our staff on board and each and every person on staff contributed to this thing, and I'm just so proud of the team.
Update 22: Covers, Storage Box Detail, and Pledge Manager Info! · Oath: New Foundations
Dear Backers,We have an exciting update for y’all! Over the past month, we have been busy here at Buried Giant. Though we’ve all worked together for a long time, a new company means setting up a lot o...
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February 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Hourly comics! Let's get to it

#HourlyComicDay
February 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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LIVE NOW on Twitch: @colewehrle.bsky.social joins us for our Top 10 Most Anticipated Games! It's the R&R Show! #boardgames

Watch: www.twitch.tv/rahdorunsthr...
RahdoRunsThrough - Twitch
Hey everybody! If you're looking for LIVE Rahdo boardgame stuff, this is the place!
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February 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
colewehrle.bsky.social
Keen Bean's new game, Almighty, is now up on Kickstarter, and it's worth a look if you love really thematic and playful designs. I've been a huge fan of Mal's work since I first played Roll Camera. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mal...
Almighty ⚡️ The Godliest God Game
You are a powerful and moody ancient god! Create, manipulate, and smite puny mortals to earn their belief and glory
www.kickstarter.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
colewehrle.bsky.social
Join Drew and I today at noon (central US) for Wehrlegig's annual Year Ahead stream. We'll be talking about joining Buried Giant Studios, the status of our current projects, and what we are working on next.
www.twitch.tv/wehrlegiggames
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Most people know Zach Barth as the founder of Zachtronics. But we are not most people. Today on the Space-Cast!, Zach talks about his analog designs, including The Lucky Seven, Chemistry Set, and the scratch-off puzzle pack Zach Attack! Listen here: spacebiff.com/2026/02/04/s...
Space-Cast! #53. Scratch & Listen
Most people know Zach Barth as the founder of Zachtronics, purveyor of digital playthings such as SpaceChem, Opus Magnum, and EXAPUNKS. But we are not most people. Instead, we’re here to spea…
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February 4, 2026 at 11:10 PM
colewehrle.bsky.social
I had one of those rare weekends where some friends came in town for a birthday and we just played a whole pile of games, including, among other things, three Wallace games! (Discworld: Ankh-Morpork, Aeterna, and Automobile).
February 2, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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The time has come to present the Top#1 Boardgames Chronicle Post of 2025. Review for one of my all-time favorite titles - Arcs: Conflict & Collapse in the Reach. Enjoy that material!
Link: theboardgameschronicle.com/2025/07/13/r...
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January 30, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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I don't like being this vulnerable in public but I also felt like I had to say something. youtu.be/1qlEn8ob2ns
Thoughts from a Minnesota Gamer
YouTube video by Beyond Solitaire
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January 27, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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My oldest just crafted Favor of the Foxes against my Eyrie on t4 as the Corvids. My position is devastated, and I'm brimming with pride.
January 25, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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2 days until Stellar Ventures is live! Follow the project here:
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We love Arcs from @colewehrle.bsky.social and @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social. Constant interaction, shifting incentives/alliances, big moments, room for clever play, and beautiful components.
January 25, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 12:56 AM
colewehrle.bsky.social
A letter from Saint Paul to those last few friends and family who have somehow become indifferent to ongoing campaign of terror in the Twin Cities:
I'm sending this out to the few folks I know who might support the present administration. I've done my best to be politically tolerant all my life and respect folks I disagree with. The last few weeks in the Twin Cities have shaken that tolerance to its core. All of the conservative folks I respected growing up have long abandoned the Republican party, but there are still folks I care about who have found ways to justify remaining. Usually they shrug and say something like, "We don't like him much either," and then do nothing to stop the rise of this horrible new regime. I don't care about excuses any more. This is the world you all made. I don't know how you might have been hoodwinked into your present beliefs, but you need to know they are deeply wrong and folks are getting killed because of it. The Twin Cities are an incredible place. I've lived all over this country, and I think this little corner of the Midwest represents the best of us. Within a week of moving here I knew the names of everyone on my street. Folks brought us food and helped watch our kids as we unpacked. We bonded over digging out each other's cars in the winter and comparing north shore hikes and camping grounds in the summer. If I hadn't lived here, I wouldn't have imagined a place like this could exist. Over the past month, we have been ravaged by state-sponsored terrorists. They are kidnapping folks. It's not uncommon to find an empty car, blinkers on, in the middle of the road, as if the driver had been whisked away in the Rapture. Families are being broken up, folks with ample legal protections are being locked up for days without access to their lawyers or their families. This isn't an internet rumor. It's happening outside my window and it's every bit as horrible as a page from the Diary of Anne Frank. But Minnesotans are a stalwart bunch. We've got a neighborhood patrol to protect school children from government agents. Cati has been helping coordinate groceries for folks who are afraid to leave their home. The little dish by our door where we put our keys now has a stock of whistles that we bring with us so that we can alert folks to government agents. And it's working. ICE is less effective, and more and more people and businesses are being tied into one of the most remarkable and organic grassroots efforts ever seen. All of that was on display yesterday when I went downtown with perhaps 40 or 50 thousand people to protest. The -40 degree wind chill didn't stop us. And yet, today they killed another person. In broad daylight. The video is horrible and looks like something that we'd associate with the reign of Tito or Kristallnacht. They are trying so hard to break this beautiful place. They won't do it, but the longer they try the more people are going to die senselessly. None of this would be possible without the folks who enabled this, one way or another. That's you and that's on you. This isn't an invitation to a dialogue. I'm done talking. This is a demand for accountability. Turn off your TVs and your podcasts and step out of your echo chambers. A terrible moment has arrived in America, and you carried it here on your backs.
January 24, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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amabel.bsky.social
I wanted to know who designed an old board game I loved. I found out he made over fifty games he was never credited for, in a career spanning more than three decades.

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GRAVITY IS FREE: the games of René Soriano
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
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January 23, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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I went to a boardgame night this evening at a pretty large brewery in Saint Paul. It's usually pretty quiet on Thursdays but I could barely find parking. When I got there I found out why. The place was packed with folks making protest signs for tomorrow. The atmosphere was infectious and joyful.
January 23, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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It's here! Perfect Tides was one of my favorite games I played last year and I cannot wait to see what's next.
January 22, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Hitting the bricks as The Community in game 4 of Cross Bronx Expressway.
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 AM
colewehrle.bsky.social
The past several weeks have been dominated by the work of setting up Buried Giant and completing our existing projects (Oath: NF and the WGG reprints). But, we've got an incredible team and I can already feel the schedule relaxing. Heck, I even spent a big portion of this morning working on Arcs!
January 20, 2026 at 4:34 PM
colewehrle.bsky.social
I have an important announcement. Kyle and I are going to be leaving Leder Games to start a new venture. It has been an honor to spend the past eight years working with them. We wish them all the best of luck, and cannot wait to show you what we are working on next.

ledergames.com/blogs/news/a...
A Letter from Cole Wehrle
Eight years ago I walked through the doors of a converted warehouse on the edge of Saint Paul and made my way through a back staircase to the still unfinished second floor. I wandered around a bit bef...
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January 13, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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mattmartens.bsky.social
It is time for the Championship of the Blighted Reach Arcs Tournament!
Come join us all day to see the top four players duke it out!
www.twitch.tv/spacecatspea...
SpaceCatsPeaceTurtles - Twitch
Romp: Arcs Tournament Final game!
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January 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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First 'true' play at #Arcs : 3 old people on shrooms playing briscola in an osteria while having lucid dreams of spaces interceptors and weird men with fly eyes holding blasters. Thnx @colewehrle.bsky.social and @leder.games this Is awesome!
January 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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seraphimseraphina.bsky.social
I played Molly House by @miasmacorp.bsky.social and @colewehrle.bsky.social tonight with some queer friends. From very early on, we played essentially completely cooperatively, as we struggled to bring our community joy. 1/3
January 9, 2026 at 4:39 AM
colewehrle.bsky.social
My favorite convention is coming to my favorite cities. Come join us this summer!
sdhistcon.bsky.social SDHistCon @sdhistcon.bsky.social · Jan 8
We have exciting news of our 2026 convention dates, including the all-new SDHistNorth in the Twin Cities July 11-12!

Jan. 31: SDHist Winter Quarters 2026
June 27: SDHist AmRevCon 2026
July 11-12: SDHistCon North 2026
November 6-9: SDHistCon Summit 2026

Details: sdhist.com/save-the-dat...
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January 9, 2026 at 12:32 AM