Eric Dittmore
@ericdittmore.bsky.social
Teacher
Tabletop game designer
DittmoreDesigns.com
Tabletop game designer
DittmoreDesigns.com
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Eric Dittmore
@ericdittmore.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Adulting by Eric Dittmore
A cozy card game about the mundane struggles of adulthood.
eric-dittmore.itch.io
For anyone who is interested in Adulting but didn't make it to IGNM, fear not! The PNP version is here! While I'd love to print more copies, this will have to do for now. It is pay what you want; I really just want to get this game in as many hands as possible. Let me know what you think!
It has been done! There is now an A4 size file as well. Let me know if there are any issues with it and I'll get them fixed ASAP!
January 10, 2026 at 2:06 PM
It has been done! There is now an A4 size file as well. Let me know if there are any issues with it and I'll get them fixed ASAP!
Great game night tonight! Got Pacts and Persuasion to the table. I was blown away by both designs. So fresh and fluid. What a time to be a gamer!
@xoe.gay
@hollandspiele.bsky.social
@enzyshade.bsky.social
@dvcgames.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@hollandspiele.bsky.social
@enzyshade.bsky.social
@dvcgames.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Great game night tonight! Got Pacts and Persuasion to the table. I was blown away by both designs. So fresh and fluid. What a time to be a gamer!
@xoe.gay
@hollandspiele.bsky.social
@enzyshade.bsky.social
@dvcgames.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@hollandspiele.bsky.social
@enzyshade.bsky.social
@dvcgames.bsky.social
Yes, that makes sense. I think maybe it’s because I’ve been working on a lot of games with hidden information, and I struggle to pretend like I don’t know what I know. It’s also an attention thing. I just lose attention after a turn or two and struggle to really analyze a game when I’m in this mode.
January 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Yes, that makes sense. I think maybe it’s because I’ve been working on a lot of games with hidden information, and I struggle to pretend like I don’t know what I know. It’s also an attention thing. I just lose attention after a turn or two and struggle to really analyze a game when I’m in this mode.
Sure! I’ll work on that this weekend and reply here when it’s done.
January 8, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Sure! I’ll work on that this weekend and reply here when it’s done.
I really struggle to playtest games multi-handed. I admire designers who say they are able to play as multiple different players with varying strategies.
January 7, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I really struggle to playtest games multi-handed. I admire designers who say they are able to play as multiple different players with varying strategies.
I think that when you test something new and janky, you need to be hyperaware of how the players are feeling and prepared to end the test early. I make it clear that it is an early-stage prototype and might fall apart. In a test like that, I’ve usually seen what I need to see a few turns in anyways.
January 7, 2026 at 9:43 PM
I think that when you test something new and janky, you need to be hyperaware of how the players are feeling and prepared to end the test early. I make it clear that it is an early-stage prototype and might fall apart. In a test like that, I’ve usually seen what I need to see a few turns in anyways.
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In honor of the @cardboardedison.com 🎲✂️ contest, here are my 2-min. pitch video tips:
🪝 Push the hook(s) from the beginning
🧀 Be cheesily excited about your game
🫴 Show and tell, but mostly show
😲 Highlight the emotional highs
🪝 Keep everything connected to the hook(s)
Script template below...
🪝 Push the hook(s) from the beginning
🧀 Be cheesily excited about your game
🫴 Show and tell, but mostly show
😲 Highlight the emotional highs
🪝 Keep everything connected to the hook(s)
Script template below...
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
In honor of the @cardboardedison.com 🎲✂️ contest, here are my 2-min. pitch video tips:
🪝 Push the hook(s) from the beginning
🧀 Be cheesily excited about your game
🫴 Show and tell, but mostly show
😲 Highlight the emotional highs
🪝 Keep everything connected to the hook(s)
Script template below...
🪝 Push the hook(s) from the beginning
🧀 Be cheesily excited about your game
🫴 Show and tell, but mostly show
😲 Highlight the emotional highs
🪝 Keep everything connected to the hook(s)
Script template below...
I’m excited to see what you’re cooking up! This is an exciting area of game design. I’d love to see more games that encourage the player to really think about what the mechanics mean, and to allow that to be up to interpretation.
January 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM
I’m excited to see what you’re cooking up! This is an exciting area of game design. I’d love to see more games that encourage the player to really think about what the mechanics mean, and to allow that to be up to interpretation.
Love to see Adulting paired with some self-care drinks! These folks get it.
January Drink Specials
Cappucci-Know Your Worth: chocolate tiramisu cappuccino (oat or dairy)
Tea-Center Yourself: amaretto earl grey tea topped with tiramisu oat foam (iced possible)
New Year New You Tiramisu: vanilla tiramisu steamed milk with cinnamon (oat or dairy)
TBC
Cappucci-Know Your Worth: chocolate tiramisu cappuccino (oat or dairy)
Tea-Center Yourself: amaretto earl grey tea topped with tiramisu oat foam (iced possible)
New Year New You Tiramisu: vanilla tiramisu steamed milk with cinnamon (oat or dairy)
TBC
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Love to see Adulting paired with some self-care drinks! These folks get it.
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🎆 Pyrotechnics is officially available for sale!
Start 2026 with a bang! Pyrotechnics is a two-player head-to-head card game that's quick and easy with just the right spark of strategy.
#boardgames
Start 2026 with a bang! Pyrotechnics is a two-player head-to-head card game that's quick and easy with just the right spark of strategy.
#boardgames
Pyrotechnics - The Seahorse and The Hummingbird
Pyrotechnics is a fast, two-player card duel packed with strategy and sparks—easy to learn, quick to play, and endlessly replayable.
www.seahorseandhummingbird.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:14 AM
🎆 Pyrotechnics is officially available for sale!
Start 2026 with a bang! Pyrotechnics is a two-player head-to-head card game that's quick and easy with just the right spark of strategy.
#boardgames
Start 2026 with a bang! Pyrotechnics is a two-player head-to-head card game that's quick and easy with just the right spark of strategy.
#boardgames
I highly recommend submitting a game to this contest. It was a great motivator to tighten up my rulebook for Adulting last year and resulted in some great feedback that helped me make the game what it is today. And if you subscribe to their patreon, you get 1 free game submission each year!
It’s time! SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2026 CARDBOARD EDISON AWARD ARE OPEN! Board game designers, show us what you’ve been working on! Deadline is January 31: cardboardedison.com/award
January 1, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I highly recommend submitting a game to this contest. It was a great motivator to tighten up my rulebook for Adulting last year and resulted in some great feedback that helped me make the game what it is today. And if you subscribe to their patreon, you get 1 free game submission each year!
Well worth the wait. Thanks for making such amazing games, and for working around the holidays during a time of rest so that we could get them! Very excited to play Pacts.
December 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Well worth the wait. Thanks for making such amazing games, and for working around the holidays during a time of rest so that we could get them! Very excited to play Pacts.
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It’s so awesome that the folks @cardboardherald.bsky.social are covering indie and self-published games now!!
Go support them and show them you want more of this content by watching their thing, liking the thing, subscribing to the thing—do the thing!! ✨
Go support them and show them you want more of this content by watching their thing, liking the thing, subscribing to the thing—do the thing!! ✨
This review I posted today is probably my favorite vid I’ve done in ages, exploring the world of indie small print run games through Imps, a game by Nick Brachmann. #boardgames
youtu.be/fd-JvOoB_ME
youtu.be/fd-JvOoB_ME
Imps is the coolest game you can’t buy - TCbH Review & Giveaway
YouTube video by The Cardboard Herald
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It’s so awesome that the folks @cardboardherald.bsky.social are covering indie and self-published games now!!
Go support them and show them you want more of this content by watching their thing, liking the thing, subscribing to the thing—do the thing!! ✨
Go support them and show them you want more of this content by watching their thing, liking the thing, subscribing to the thing—do the thing!! ✨
It’s really blowing my mind to see Adulting listed alongside games by @xoe.gay and @connor.alwaysawake.games. Since when did my game design idols become my peers? Unreal.
December 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It’s really blowing my mind to see Adulting listed alongside games by @xoe.gay and @connor.alwaysawake.games. Since when did my game design idols become my peers? Unreal.
What an amazing list of games! I’ve had the pleasure of playing most of these titles and am honored to see Adulting amongst such esteemed company.
Today is the fifth day of Best Week! Did you know that 2025 contained an unusually high number of games about human relationships? An unusually high number of *good* games about human relationships? Now you do! Read about them here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/29/b...
Best Week 2025! The D.T.R.!
Do people still D.T.R.? When I was a youngling, the acronym stood for Define The Relationship, that belly-clenching moment when two people would sit across from one another, lock eyes, and hold a s…
spacebiff.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
What an amazing list of games! I’ve had the pleasure of playing most of these titles and am honored to see Adulting amongst such esteemed company.
Reposted by Eric Dittmore
Hey board game designers! Just SIX DAYS left until submissions for next year's Cardboard Edison Award open! Get your pitches and prototypes ready! cardboardedison.com/award
December 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hey board game designers! Just SIX DAYS left until submissions for next year's Cardboard Edison Award open! Get your pitches and prototypes ready! cardboardedison.com/award
So excited for my copy to arrive! My wife and I are gonna play the heck out of this game.
December 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
So excited for my copy to arrive! My wife and I are gonna play the heck out of this game.
Thanks Bobby, I’m glad you liked it!
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Thanks Bobby, I’m glad you liked it!
So cool to see Adulting being played by the DVC Games crew! And side-by-side with a Taylor Shuss game no less. Someone pinch me!
Playing IGNM games today by @drawnonward.bsky.social and @ericdittmore.bsky.social !
Adulting + Fold and Fly!
Adulting + Fold and Fly!
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
So cool to see Adulting being played by the DVC Games crew! And side-by-side with a Taylor Shuss game no less. Someone pinch me!
I’m glad to see the “socialize” card resonated with you. I generally tried to be inclusive, but that card really gives away that this game was made by an introvert.
December 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I’m glad to see the “socialize” card resonated with you. I generally tried to be inclusive, but that card really gives away that this game was made by an introvert.
This was a big lesson I learned while designing Adulting. I got a lot of feedback that chores were boring and needed to be made more distinct from self-care. But I wanted chores to be boring! That’s the point! After I tuned some other knobs in the game I stopped getting that feedback.
December 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This was a big lesson I learned while designing Adulting. I got a lot of feedback that chores were boring and needed to be made more distinct from self-care. But I wanted chores to be boring! That’s the point! After I tuned some other knobs in the game I stopped getting that feedback.
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Adulting and Chasing Shadows, both great games by fellow IGNM alums @ericdittmore.bsky.social and @vawcer.bsky.social. So much fun!
December 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Adulting and Chasing Shadows, both great games by fellow IGNM alums @ericdittmore.bsky.social and @vawcer.bsky.social. So much fun!
Great to see it on the table, thanks for posting! And hang in there, I believe you can become your ideal self!
December 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Great to see it on the table, thanks for posting! And hang in there, I believe you can become your ideal self!