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sirlin.bsky.social
@sirlin.bsky.social
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Game designer. I wrote Playing to Win and created the Fantasy Strike world. http://patreon.com/sirlin
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My son & I have been playing #Yomi2 almost every day—he loves it!

He’s been wanting to teach big sister Yomi 2 all week!

(deep breath) letting him teach her the game and work on his patient teaching skills while she works on her patient learning skills🙏🏼

Let them build skills💕
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September 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
sirlin.bsky.social
Hey everyone, the tabletop version of Yomi 2, my fighting card game, releases 11/21 but we have an advanced shipment of first three products on the store page. Ships in 1-2 days if your order this week! (While supplies last.) www.sirlingames.com/shop-yomi
October 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
If you missed the Yomi 2 campaign, late pledge is available for a limited time now. It's a card game about fighting games and it has really nice presentation, years of development refining the strategy and balance, and even has a solo mode.
#crowdfunding #indiegames
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Yomi 2 by Sirlin Games
Yomi 2 is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. It’s a strategic, turn-based card battler that lets you experience the nuances of fig...
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March 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
This is the LAST day of the Yomi 2 (fighting card game) crowdfunding campaign. About 6 years of development and testing went into it, beautiful art and presentation, quick to play, appropriate for casual and competitive players. Pledge now: gamefound.com/en/projects/...
#indiegames #tabletop
Yomi 2 by Sirlin Games
Yomi 2 is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. It’s a strategic, turn-based card battler that lets you experience the nuances of fig...
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February 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
This video about the Yomi 2 fighting card game covers the solo and 2-player co-op mode's design. Pledge now on Gamefound if you're interested, only 2 days left!
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#boardgames #tabletopgames #gamefound
The Design of Yomi 2: Fighting Card Game -- Part 5: Solo / Co-op Mode
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February 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
This video about the Yomi 2 card game covers all the characters—all 22 of them! The same Fantasy Strike characters have appeared in several of my other games.
Pledge now on Gamefound if you're interested.
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#boardgames #tabletopgames #gamefound
The Design of Yomi 2: Fighting Card Game -- Part 4: Characters
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February 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
This video about the Yomi 2 card game covers the mechanics (as opposed to fighting game theme, covered in a previous video) and how those mechanics give rise to strategy. Pledge now on Gamefound if you're interested.
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#boardgames #tabletopgames #gamefound
The Design of Yomi 2: Fighting Card Game -- Part 3: Mechanics
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January 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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This shows a runthrough of the solo mode in Yomi 2, a fighting card game. There's a series of automated opponents, each harder and with a different gameplay gimmick. Yomi 2 is crowdfunding right now on Gamefound.
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#boardgames #tabletopgames #soloplay
Yomi 2's Solo Mode Playthrough (crowdfunding now!)
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January 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
Here a video about the "gems" customization system in Yomi 2, a fighting card game. Is a lot or little customization better? How does it affect casual vs hardcore players?
Yomi 2 is crowdfunding right now on Gamefound, by the way.
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#crowdfunding #gamefound
The Design of Yomi 2: Fighting Card Game -- Part 2: Gems
YouTube video by Sirlin on Design
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January 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
Fyi, Yomi 2 (fighting game themed card game) has a Free Weekend on Steam right now. Every character and every gem are free. You can play against friends, the CPU, the extensive single player career mode, whatever you want. Try it out. Tabletop version is funding on Gamefound now.
Yomi 2 on Steam
A fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. Strategic, turn-based card battling that lets you experience the nuances of fighting games like...
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January 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
Here, I talk about the fighting game theme of the card game Yomi 2 from a design perspective. Theme isn't just a surface thing, it should really inform a design fully. Yomi 2 is crowdfunding right now on Gamefound, by the way.
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#crowdfunding #gamefound
The Design of Yomi 2: Fighting Card Game -- Part 1: Theme
YouTube video by Sirlin on Design
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January 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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phokal.bsky.social
Sirlin makes consistently great games. I’ve got zero doubt this one will be good, too.

If you want something cheaper: you can snag just a couple decks. Or pick up a copy of Flash Duel.
sirlin.bsky.social sirlin.bsky.social @sirlin.bsky.social · Jan 14
My crowdfunding for Yomi 2, a "fighting card game," is now live on Gamefound. If you like the idea of a fighting game in card form, check it out. Many years in the making, high production values, great unboxing experience too.
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
#Yomi2 #crowdfunding
Yomi 2 by Sirlin Games
Yomi 2 is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. It’s a strategic, turn-based card battler that lets you experience the nuances of fig...
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January 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
sirlin.bsky.social
My crowdfunding for Yomi 2, a "fighting card game," is now live on Gamefound. If you like the idea of a fighting game in card form, check it out. Many years in the making, high production values, great unboxing experience too.
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
#Yomi2 #crowdfunding
Yomi 2 by Sirlin Games
Yomi 2 is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. It’s a strategic, turn-based card battler that lets you experience the nuances of fig...
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January 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
It's a bit nerve-wracking to have worked on a game for so many years (in this case, tabletop Yomi 2 has had 5 or 6 years of development) and to be launching a Gamefound crowdfuning for it in a couple weeks. This is my 6th crowdfund, but it's still very stressful. I bet other devs can relate.
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
This new "fighting card game" Yomi 2 will be crowdfunding in a couple weeks. If you click the "follow" button, you'll get a free gift of overpowered gold versions of all the characters. There's solo and 2p co-op modes in addition to the usual 1v1.
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Yomi 2 by Sirlin Games
Yomi 2 is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. It’s a strategic, turn-based card battler that lets you experience the nuances of fig...
gamefound.com
January 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
Asymmetric games (like #StreetFighter, #MarvelRivals etc) are pretty great. This video is about their virtues, from a game design perspective, and about how much (or little!) players have to learn to play them.
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#gamedev #indiegames #indiegamedev #AAAgames
The Joys of Asymmetric Games
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December 16, 2024 at 10:17 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
Game balancing is way less about math than you'd think, and I'm not the first person working in the field to say that. This video explains why. youtu.be/Gx0Q3SD_6GI #youtube #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign #gamebalancing
Don't Use Math in Balancing Games (usually...)
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November 18, 2024 at 9:28 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
There are some incredible strategic moves from players on The Devil's Plan (a Netflix reality game show). In this video, I analyze what went on in Season 1 and show you the (amazing) highlights.
youtu.be/q4ugfqPG0wU #youtube #gamedev #indiedev #TheDevilsPlan #gamedesign
The Surprising Twists in The Devil's Plan
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October 28, 2024 at 9:10 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
Any youtubers interested in looking over Yomi 2? It's a card game in the theme of fighting games. We can send you pre-release materials for it. Campaign is here: gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Tag your favorite creators if you'd like them to cover it.
#Youtube #gamefound #fgc #tabletop
Yomi 2 by Sirlin Games
Yomi 2 is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent's tendencies. It’s a strategic, turn-based card battler that lets you experience the nuances of fig...
gamefound.com
October 27, 2024 at 11:53 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
Monster Hunter and Diablo have opposite approaches to randomness in loot. This video contrasts the game design of each.
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#youtube #gamedeve #AAAgames #gamedesign #diablo4 #MonsterHunterWilds
Monster Hunter vs Diablo: Opposite Takes on Random Loot
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October 7, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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The Netflix show The Devil's Plan is an excellent reality game show full of game design flourishes. This video covers the incredible strategies players used in "The Virus Game" on that show.
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#youtube #gamedev #indiedev #TheDevilsPlan #gamedesign
A Game Designer Explains Netflix's "Devil's Plan" (Virus Game)
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September 9, 2024 at 8:39 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
Here's two cases where players played to lose on purpose. The 1st's rules were so crazy that it was the "natural" result! The 2nd's rules were too ripe for cheating. An entertaining reminder to make good tournament rules.
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#PlayingToWin #PlayingToLose
Playing to Lose!
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August 19, 2024 at 8:56 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
This video covers a system ("Dramatica") for mapping out characters in stories that has been super useful to me. You'll probably see this pattern everywhere in fiction once you know it.
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#storywriting #dramatica #youtube #gamedev #indiedev
The Dramatic Theory of Story
The Dramatic Theory of Story is a way of thinking about stories and how to design them. The idea is that a story is analogous to a human mind that's trying t...
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July 29, 2024 at 9:00 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
Thoughts on the game design of Elden Ring's DLC, including why the "scadutree blessing" system was implemented at all, and a bit of a secret about the size of the DLC world.
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#ELDENRING #ShadowoftheErdtree #youtube #gamedev
Game Design Thoughts about Elden Ring's DLC -- Shadow of the Erdtree
Elden Ring's expansion is massive in scope and the bulk of it is pretty amazing. I discuss why the "scadutree fragments" system is what it is, thoughts about...
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July 1, 2024 at 9:45 PM
sirlin.bsky.social
The Netflix show The Trust has some interesting game design and, uh, "interesting" strategies from players. This video has game design / strategy analysis of it all.
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#NewYoutuber #youtube #gamedev #indiedev #thetrust #gamedesign
A Game Designer Explains Netflix's "The Trust"
The Trust is a Netflix reality game show where players can vote each other off or split the prize money. The game design of the show's rules is pretty great. The way players actually played the game and their beliefs about how it works and competition leave a lot to be desired. I compare their thoughts to the actual forces at work in the game and propose one or two possible strategies. 0:00 intro 0:33 How it works 2:33 Beliefs from the players 7:51 "Integrity" 14:55 "Deserving" 19:01 The forces of voting 23:38 Creating mistrust 24:36 How I would / wouldn't play this 33:05 Many bad decisions 39:37 Interesting rule design 40:29 Lying in Pandante 40:50 Like & Subscribe BUY STUFF I MADE ▸ MY TABLETOP GAMES (AND WALL ART): https://www.sirlingames.com/ ▸ YOMI 2: FIGHTING CARD GAME (DIGITAL): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022230/Yomi_2/ ▸ FANTASY STRIKE FIGHTING GAME (free but please buy the Core Pack, thanks): https://store.steampowered.com/app/390560/Fantasy_Strike/ ▸ SUPPORT ME (AND MY TEAM) ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/sirlin ▸ MY BOOK (PLAYING TO WIN): https://amzn.to/47fnqau MY GEAR: CAMERA, LENS, BACKDROP ▸ Camera: https://amzn.to/3Sp03qZ ▸ “Dummy” battery for camera: https://amzn.to/3SvQZAu ▸ 35mm lens: https://amzn.to/49wYVb9 ▸ Retractable backdrop: https://amzn.to/3SofBve VIDEO CAPTURE AND EDITING ▸ Camlink 4K (to use HDMI from camera to computer): https://amzn.to/49lTlYI ▸ Descript (breakthrough new kind of video editor): https://www.descript.com?lmref=XxwYPw LIGHTS (These particular lights can all be controlled, color-changed together in the Sidus Link app!) Awesome key light: https://amzn.to/3tVP12r Softbox for key light: https://amzn.to/45T0ddf Tube lights (get two): https://amzn.to/3sfYtNp Single bulb (“practical light”): https://amzn.to/3FIklnR Strip lights: https://amzn.to/49k7NjX All-purpose extra light: https://amzn.to/40lrEey AUDIO ▸ Mic: https://amzn.to/3sngqtp ▸ Another really great mic: https://amzn.to/3QpyaMO ▸ Audio interface that the above mics need: https://amzn.to/3FHNiQI LET’S CONNECT ▸ EMAIL LIST (UPDATES & NEW PRODUCT NEWS): https://www.sirlingames.com/newsletter ▸ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Sirlin ▸ Discord: https://discord.gg/SirlinGames Some of these links are affiliate links, which means I get a % if you purchase anything through my link, without it costing you extra. It will help me make more videos for you, so thank you!
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June 12, 2024 at 9:11 PM