Robin David
@robindavid.bsky.social
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Making games is a LOT easier than getting eyeballs on them, lemme tell ya!
Speaking of... our weird bird deckbuilder has a great new free playtest build out:
🦜 Daily flights!
🦩 Tutorial!
🦚 2 playstyles!
🦆 So… many… birds!!!
Join us! Or tell a friend!
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
Speaking of... our weird bird deckbuilder has a great new free playtest build out:
🦜 Daily flights!
🦩 Tutorial!
🦚 2 playstyles!
🦆 So… many… birds!!!
Join us! Or tell a friend!
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
Sparrow Warfare on Steam
Free the birds in fierce strategic deckbuilder SPARROW WARFARE! Combine sets of tiles to progress. Unlock wildtiles to make crazy combos. And lead your magnificent bird army to freedom!
store.steampowered.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Making games is a LOT easier than getting eyeballs on them, lemme tell ya!
Speaking of... our weird bird deckbuilder has a great new free playtest build out:
🦜 Daily flights!
🦩 Tutorial!
🦚 2 playstyles!
🦆 So… many… birds!!!
Join us! Or tell a friend!
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
Speaking of... our weird bird deckbuilder has a great new free playtest build out:
🦜 Daily flights!
🦩 Tutorial!
🦚 2 playstyles!
🦆 So… many… birds!!!
Join us! Or tell a friend!
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
We played Beyond the Sun, which is a favourite of mine. This was a really weird session, with loads of automation and no blue technologies. By the end of the game, which took a fair bit longer than normal, all players had maxed out their automation tracks.
January 4, 2026 at 9:41 AM
We played Beyond the Sun, which is a favourite of mine. This was a really weird session, with loads of automation and no blue technologies. By the end of the game, which took a fair bit longer than normal, all players had maxed out their automation tracks.
Alexandros is a fantastic old-school game. All players decide how Alexander moves around the region, dividing it into regions as he moves. And then we fight for control of those regions.
One of the players asked to buy my copy when we finished!
One of the players asked to buy my copy when we finished!
January 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Alexandros is a fantastic old-school game. All players decide how Alexander moves around the region, dividing it into regions as he moves. And then we fight for control of those regions.
One of the players asked to buy my copy when we finished!
One of the players asked to buy my copy when we finished!
I taught The King is Dead to two new players yesterday. Fun all around - the French invaded!
I've so much respect for how much this game does with so few rules.
I've so much respect for how much this game does with so few rules.
January 4, 2026 at 8:57 AM
I taught The King is Dead to two new players yesterday. Fun all around - the French invaded!
I've so much respect for how much this game does with so few rules.
I've so much respect for how much this game does with so few rules.
C'mon - just one more rating to get ranked on BGG!
January 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
C'mon - just one more rating to get ranked on BGG!
My TTRPG chat group does not appreciate how much time I, a busy professional grownup, spend finding the perfect reaction gifs for their bullshit.
December 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
My TTRPG chat group does not appreciate how much time I, a busy professional grownup, spend finding the perfect reaction gifs for their bullshit.
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TIBERPUNK
1) The system that tracks illegal activity (which is most stuff players do) causes these police drones to spawn and get more powerful. There is a viable way to play where you ignore missions, but spec your character to be a drone fighter!
2) There is a prelaunch page!
2) There is a prelaunch page!
Coming soon: Tiberpunk: Streets of Rome
A strategy board game for 2–4 players, set in cyberpunk Rome. Plan your moves and take risks through missions and intense encounters.
www.kickstarter.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
TIBERPUNK
A preview of one of my upcoming games (codesigned with @chrisbacke.bsky.social and published by idVenture). In Tiberpunk, be a hacker, or a bounty hunter, or a revolutionary; stay hidden from the law, or burn bright! All in about an hour!
December 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
A preview of one of my upcoming games (codesigned with @chrisbacke.bsky.social and published by idVenture). In Tiberpunk, be a hacker, or a bounty hunter, or a revolutionary; stay hidden from the law, or burn bright! All in about an hour!
I've taught a good number of game design workshops, and one of the activities I often set is for students to take a game they didn't like and fix it. (This is how I designed Letterpress)
Well, I recently saw an upcoming game which I think does this, but based on one of my own games. Ouch - karma!
Well, I recently saw an upcoming game which I think does this, but based on one of my own games. Ouch - karma!
December 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I've taught a good number of game design workshops, and one of the activities I often set is for students to take a game they didn't like and fix it. (This is how I designed Letterpress)
Well, I recently saw an upcoming game which I think does this, but based on one of my own games. Ouch - karma!
Well, I recently saw an upcoming game which I think does this, but based on one of my own games. Ouch - karma!
An oldie but a goodie - had a blast playing the imaginatively named Trains.
December 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
An oldie but a goodie - had a blast playing the imaginatively named Trains.
If you want to make your own copy of the fast and nasty buy-and-sell game of Invaluable, here are the PNP files.
robindavid.itch.io/invaluable
robindavid.itch.io/invaluable
Invaluable by RobinDavid
A game of shady museum dealings
robindavid.itch.io
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
If you want to make your own copy of the fast and nasty buy-and-sell game of Invaluable, here are the PNP files.
robindavid.itch.io/invaluable
robindavid.itch.io/invaluable
This was a problem for future Robin, but now I am future Robin.
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This was a problem for future Robin, but now I am future Robin.
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Saw an amazing little exhibition at the new Petri archaeology museum in Berlin - "degenerate" art confiscated by the Nazis and excavated in 2010 during construction of a metro station.
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Saw an amazing little exhibition at the new Petri archaeology museum in Berlin - "degenerate" art confiscated by the Nazis and excavated in 2010 during construction of a metro station.
Galen's mint tin games, including Verdant Arizona, are only $12 for the next few days! www.galensgames.com/store
Store — Galen's Games
www.galensgames.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Galen's mint tin games, including Verdant Arizona, are only $12 for the next few days! www.galensgames.com/store
Just look at this!!
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Just look at this!!
Ho ho! It's a new game from me! This time co-designed with @chrisbacke.bsky.social. Cyberpunk in ancient Rome! idventure.de/games/tiberp...
Tiberpunk: Streets of Rome – Strategy Board Game
idventure.de
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Ho ho! It's a new game from me! This time co-designed with @chrisbacke.bsky.social. Cyberpunk in ancient Rome! idventure.de/games/tiberp...
Reposted by Robin David
Daina Taimina, a Cornell University mathematician uses crochet to demonstrate Hyperbolic Geometry #womensart
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Daina Taimina, a Cornell University mathematician uses crochet to demonstrate Hyperbolic Geometry #womensart
Lovely review of @galens-games.bsky.social mint tin games, including Verdant Arizona! www.tiktok.com/@tabletoptik...
Here are all 4 games in the Min Tin Series of games from Galen Games! These games are small, portable, quick to learn, and a lot of game in a small package. The cards are so durable and really fun to ...
TikTok video by Jamie, TabletopTikTok
www.tiktok.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Lovely review of @galens-games.bsky.social mint tin games, including Verdant Arizona! www.tiktok.com/@tabletoptik...
My little collection of moments when designers break the fourth-wall to tell specific players to stop being annoying.
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My little collection of moments when designers break the fourth-wall to tell specific players to stop being annoying.
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These beautiful fanart pieces, including Fianna Vs War Wolf, were created by Brocó Ó Diolúin, or @badgerkingtattoo on Instagram! Many thanks to him for allowing us to share his work 🙂 #trenchcrusade #fanart
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
These beautiful fanart pieces, including Fianna Vs War Wolf, were created by Brocó Ó Diolúin, or @badgerkingtattoo on Instagram! Many thanks to him for allowing us to share his work 🙂 #trenchcrusade #fanart
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technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive
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I spent my night cutting, folding, and packing my first 20 sets of Heavenly Bodies!! 🪐✨ the card game I’ll have for sale at Indie Games Night Market during Pax Unplugged this year!
After this, I’ll only have 30 more sets to go!!
Here’s a thread of my process! 🎲✂️
After this, I’ll only have 30 more sets to go!!
Here’s a thread of my process! 🎲✂️
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I spent my night cutting, folding, and packing my first 20 sets of Heavenly Bodies!! 🪐✨ the card game I’ll have for sale at Indie Games Night Market during Pax Unplugged this year!
After this, I’ll only have 30 more sets to go!!
Here’s a thread of my process! 🎲✂️
After this, I’ll only have 30 more sets to go!!
Here’s a thread of my process! 🎲✂️
A lovely review of Verdant Arizona! boardgamegeek.com/thread/36063...
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A lovely review of Verdant Arizona! boardgamegeek.com/thread/36063...
Had an interesting conversation today about "fiddly" games. A valid point that A Feast for Odin, despite being a huge game with hundreds of pieces, isn't fiddly. Pieces are placed and stay where they are - that significantly reduces cognitive load and fiddliness.
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Had an interesting conversation today about "fiddly" games. A valid point that A Feast for Odin, despite being a huge game with hundreds of pieces, isn't fiddly. Pieces are placed and stay where they are - that significantly reduces cognitive load and fiddliness.
Reach out to creators and tell them you like their stuff! Sometimes it can feel like you spend time making something and it just vanishes into the void...
OMG - Just got my 1st email from someone who has actually been playing De Agricultura I (as opposed to the not even prototyped yet De Agricultura II) w/ their game group online. Made my freakin' week! The idea that some interested history gamers could voluntarily play 1 of my protos -- so neat! 1/
Jeremiah’s History Game Prototypes
I’m going to start collecting my prototype files here for interested people to see. Some are useful in class already, others not yet, etc. Please, please, please give me constructive feedback…
gamingthepast.net
November 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reach out to creators and tell them you like their stuff! Sometimes it can feel like you spend time making something and it just vanishes into the void...