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Dominik Schönleben
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🌱 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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Dominik Schönleben @nerdmeetsyou.bsky.social · Mar 18
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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itomarhernandez.bsky.social
Soon to go down the drain.
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d
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
nerdmeetsyou.bsky.social
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
nerdmeetsyou.bsky.social
Is this working?
youtu.be/2yJgwwDcgV8?...
Nyan Cat! [Official]
YouTube video by NyanCat
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January 6, 2026 at 9:26 PM
nerdmeetsyou.bsky.social
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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vschoenleben.bsky.social
Es sind schwere Zeiten im Internet.
January 2, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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danthurot.bsky.social
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
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December 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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hopefulgames.bsky.social
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
What is a man meme, but text reads Game design? What is game design?... A miserable pile of scope creep
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, …
1860: Railways on the Isle of Wight, Ayar: Children of the Sun, The Bears and the Bees, Biathlon Blast, Boitas, boop., Booted!, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Club of Cthulhu, Creature Caravan: Deluxe Edition, Crimson Keep, Death Valley: Highs & Lows, Disney Villainous: The Worst Takes it All, Doomlings: Imaginary Ends, Doomlings: Legends of Enderas, D.O.T, The Druids of Edora, Duck & Cover, Escape the Dark Castle, Fetching Feathers, Fled, General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, A Gentle Rain, Godzilla: Tokyo Clash, Heroes of Timeline, Hickory Dickory, Horrified, Isle of Night, Katmai: The Bears of Brooks River, Loose In The Library, Malum Hortus, Mars Expedition: SOL43, Molly House, NEON HOPE, The Night Cage, Ofrenda, Pueblo, Radlands, Senjutsu: Battle For Japan, Star Wars Villainous: Power of the Dark Side, Tranquility: The Descent, Trick of the Rails, Umami, Wyrmspan, Yokai Septet
December 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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redderbeanpaste.bsky.social
Gamers. It’s time
Almost Christmas means it wasn’t Christmas
December 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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hopefulgames.bsky.social
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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hopefulgames.bsky.social
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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hopefulgames.bsky.social
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
nerdmeetsyou.bsky.social
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
nerdmeetsyou.bsky.social
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
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December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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425suzanne.bsky.social
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/...
screenshot of itch.io game dev assets on sale showing a variety of listings including "forest nature pack" and "skeletons character pack" in a variety of graphic styles.
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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edzitron.com
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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matthewdunstan.bsky.social
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
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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.
boardgamewire.bsky.social BoardGameWire @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 26d
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...
Cartoon-like illustration of four people in a getaway card, three inside and one on the roof. They are being pursued at a distance by a police car. The word TAKE is visible in large white letters in the top left, below much smaller text which says 'from the studio that brought you ROOT and ARCS'. Illustration for Take, the planned Kickstarter from Leder Games which has now been cancelled. Head and upper body photograph of a man with light blonde/ginger hair and short ginger beard, smiling at the camera. He is wearing a red zip-up hoodie, where the logo for Leder Games is visible. Copied of Leder Games board game titles including Root and Vast are visible on shelves in the background. Ted Caya, designer of the heist board game Take.
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
Time person of the year cover for 2025
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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425suzanne.bsky.social
Uhhh @chiptheorygames.bsky.social ... you ok, buddy? 😲
*Jump Masters! is not a collectible card game (or a collectible game at all, for that matter), despite the fact that, if you’re here, you likely have a collectible promo card sitting in front of you at this very moment. These promo cards do not offer any additional gameplay value, they are just really shiny and cool. We think cool and shiny things are…pretty cool…so we’ve decided to make these promos collectible and randomly include them in all sorts of Chip Theory orders. This is not the first step toward a CCCG (Collectible Cool Card Game) but it is a CCC (Collection of Cool Cards). It is also not the first step toward a CDG (Collectible Dice Game) but it is being promoted by CTG (Chip Theory Games). Ultimately, it’s just some cool and shiny promo cards, okay? Please do not submit a ticket asking how to get a complete set of these promo cards, because you can’t. Also, no, you cannot purchase packs of the promo cards separately. Also, do not eat Jump Masters! cards. On the one hand, it's understandable: the punchiness of the game's title sounds rather delicious as it rolls off the tongue. Jump. Masters. Jolly. Ranchers. Mmmf. But don't do it, though. These cards are PVC, they're not even paper! Digesting trees is one thing, but polyvinyl chloride?! That's a synthetic plastic polymer made from the polymerization of vinyl chloride monomers! Not advisable to put in the belly! Although, come to think of it, a small number of the promo cards are actually made of dual-layered cardboard. And an even smaller number of the promo cards are made of metal. Still, if it's me, I'm not eating 'em. Though, strangely, metal inside your body is essential to human life. Iron. Zinc. Magnesium. Copper. Calcium! Calcium is a metal. Did you know that? I always thought calcium was just bones. And I think I have enough of those, too many in fact. And furthermore, everyone's always all "make sure you buy the multivitamins with iron in them! Do you feel chronically tired? Eat some iron!" And isn't it ironic? Consider for a second, an iron sword through your belly. Lethal. But! Iron in your belly? People pay $25 for a 60 day supply! Outrageous pricing for basically a safer way to ingest a sword! Buuuut, you just gotta do it! Gotta do it... Hey - please be advised that Jump Masters! promo cards should not be used as actual jumping implements. They cannot reliably support human weight. The name is merely suggestive of the gameplay mechanics you'll experience while playing. Although... stacking a significant amount of them together would actually result in an incredibly stable structure if you could somehow prevent the slippage of cards. Have you ever seen those videos of high-powered rifles shooting through various objects and materials? It turns out that densely packed pages in a book are actually quite effective at stopping bullets. Stacks of Jump Master! cards are kind of like books in this way! Good luck collecting enough of these to stop a bullet, though. No, really! Good luck! Additionally, the term "Masters" in Jump Masters! does not imply that playing this game will result in the mastery of any meaningful real-world skills. Any correlation between gameplay success and real-life achievement is entirely coincidental and quite surprising to us, actually. These are not for resale... cause how can you sell your achievements? Strictly for fun... the cards I mean. If we see these cards listed on eBay, here's what's going to happen: we're going to buy them all back. And while, sure, you may be rewarded with a shortsighted financial gain, we will be rewarded with the deeply personal satisfaction of dashing the hopes and dreams of those individuals who would seek to greedily gobble these up like some kind of fetid, squealing piggy and attempt to assemble them into a "complete collection." It's these very "gotta have it all" consumer dynamics that are ultimately eroding customers' goodwill in our industry. FOMO is ruining this industry! Can't you just enjoy a promo card without needing to have every single numbered and incredibly rare card that we've ever printed?! What foul, insatiable lust of man has overcome and dominated your will? Can't you bear to spend one single moment in time, comfortable in the complete and utter silence of your own mind, without needing to fill that desecrated void with the comically fleeting dopamine rush of collectible games or the crushing weight of the world's ceaseless problems algorithmically drip-fed to you through a backlit screen while your finger limply doomscrolls? Might you merely look at this card in front of you and simply enjoy it? Alone? Forever?
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM