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Dominik Schönleben
@nerdmeetsyou.bsky.social
🌱 Designing the cooperative card game NEON HOPE
🤗 Community Manager & Storyteller
🎲 Analog Gaming Fanatic
🧐 Nerd-in-Chief
(he/him)

Check out my game: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hopefulgames/neon-hope-cyberpunk-meets-solarpunk?ref=dmh0ca
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Dystopia is looming! 😎
Are you ready to fight back? 💪

In this strategic card game, you get to play people who are fighting against cyberpunk's grim vision of the future.

Coming to Kickstarter on April 8th!

Trailer voiced by @vanessagarciavo.bsky.social
#solarpunk #cyberpunk #boardgames
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Soon to go down the drain.
Discord filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to a rapidly growing pipeline of venture capital-backed tech listings. bloom.bg/4plpBlz

📷: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
January 7, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Just so you know... Stoneblade Games will make their games with AI Slob now, too.
justingarydesign.substack.com/p/the-ethics...
Upstream Art in the Age of AI
The ethical case for hybrid human–AI tools
justingarydesign.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Is this working?
youtu.be/2yJgwwDcgV8?...
Nyan Cat! [Official]
YouTube video by NyanCat
youtu.be
January 6, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Can anyone recommend a cheap social media tool for a small organization with just a handfull of accounts?

I am using know Buffer (but am not super happy with their data fuctions) and am wondering if there is anything better?
January 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Es sind schwere Zeiten im Internet.
January 2, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Best Week continues! On this our hallowed second day, we're celebrating the best board games of 2025 that stare into the abyss. Read the full list here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/27/b...
Best Week 2025! Heart of Darkness!
This will surprise absolutely nobody, but I am sometimes accused of being a big old bummer. A downer. A morose feel-bad baby. Nietzsche said that if you stare into the abyss it’ll gaze back, …
spacebiff.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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My first video looking back at 2025 - this one focussed on the state of the board game industry and what it means for designers.

A very happy holiday season to everyone!

youtu.be/XH4o2alaNoA

🎲✂️
The state of the board game industry for designers in 2025
YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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NEON HOPE will not come to retail any time soon! But you can still Late Pledge until January 31st. The game will be shipped to you in June 2027.
#boardgame #cyberpunk #solarpunk #kickstarter #crowdfunding
December 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I have no idea why we're talking about game design again
December 27, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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In 2025, I reviewed these 45 games: 1860, Ayar, The Bears and the Bees, Biathlon Blast, Boitas, boop, Booted, Cat in the Box, Club of Cthulhu, Creature Caravan, Crimson Keep, Death Valley: Highs & Lows, Disney Villainous, Doomlings: Imaginary Ends, Doomlings: Legends of Enderas, D.O.T, …
December 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Gamers. It’s time
December 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Meet Matthéo M'Baye, the final character from the A Hopeful Cause expansion.
#boardgames #cyberpunk #solarpunk #gaming #detective
December 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Are you ready for NEON HOPE's ultimate detective?

He has worked for the system long enough... now it's time to turn the tables and investigate those in power instead!

#cyberpunk #detective #illustrations #artworks #boardgames
December 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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it's crazy to use AI in CONCEPT ART bcuz it will never be able to CREATE its own CONCEPTS. so not only are you saying you're too lazy to pay someone or to do the work yourself, you're also saying your okay with building all of your shit on unoriginal ideas and almagamation of existing work.
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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For our German followers!
NEON HOPE Designer @nerdmeetsyou.bsky.social war zu Gast beim Koop Kartell #Podcast. Er spricht darüber, wie das Spiel entwickelt wurde – und wo wir aktuell stehen mit der Fertigstellung. Hört rein, es lohnt sich! 🎧 #brettspiele
letscast.fm/sites/koop-k...
Abonnieren | Koop Kartell
Wir sind Kai und Lars, gemeinsam bilden wir das Koop Kartell – einen Podcast, der sich ganz den kooperativen Brettspielen widmet. Nach einigen hitzig diskutierten Nächten haben wir unsere Leidenschaft...
letscast.fm
December 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Wenn du dir während den Feiertagen Zeit für einen Podcast nehmen willst, dann ist diese Episode perfekt. Ich spreche darin knapp zwei Stunden über die Entwicklung von NEON HOPE – und wo wir aktuell stehen.💚 #brettspiele #gamedesign

Reinhören lohnt sich! 🎧
letscast.fm/sites/koop-k...
Abonnieren | Koop Kartell
Wir sind Kai und Lars, gemeinsam bilden wir das Koop Kartell – einen Podcast, der sich ganz den kooperativen Brettspielen widmet. Nach einigen hitzig diskutierten Nächten haben wir unsere Leidenschaft...
letscast.fm
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
AI ist ein Paradigmen-Wechsel⁉️
Ja, aber nicht so wie #AIBooster denken...🙄
Die Wahrheit wird ihnen gar nicht gefallen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUuw...

Ich schaue jetzt schon seit 10 Jahren @ultralativ.bsky.social und was die heute rausgehauen haben, ist aus meiner Sicht das beste Video bisher! 🤯😍
Künstliche Intelligenz: Für euch reicht’s
YouTube video by Ultralativ
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Game designers who "can't draw" but want art for prototypes... beyond the wealth of public domain stuff available (there's lots) there are artists who make stuff that's VERY affordable and Itch has a ton on sale right now. #NoGenAI

itch.io/game-assets/...
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Time to escalate my calls: I think something is rotten at Meta, and they are in trouble
December 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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What can the corp do to stop you? ⛔ They might send their »Ruthless Contractor« or just another »Reskilled Manager«. 🥲 Sometimes budgets are tight! 😅
#cyberpunk #solarpunk #coop #cardgame #illustrations
December 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Fantastic video by Pam Walls on the increasing use of AI in board games, and the need (more than ever) to support artists, illustrators and graphic designers in the industry.

youtu.be/Ci5pOjyJknI?...
We need to talk about AI slop in board games
YouTube video by Pam Walls Game Design
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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From information superhighway to fake "information" and no highways.
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The game's title is suddenly very ironic.
Root and Arcs publisher Leder Games has axed its next Kickstarter campaign just a few weeks before its expected launch, after the game’s creator abruptly left the publisher and took his design with him:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
December 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Uhhh @chiptheorygames.bsky.social ... you ok, buddy? 😲
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM