YoYoni
@yoyoni.bsky.social
Playing history. Filmmaker and Designer of “Chicago 68” and “The Nights of King Ludd”
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YoYoni
@yoyoni.bsky.social
· Apr 27
So excited to finally have a copy of CHICAGO’68! Last week I had a chance to lay it all out and run one last round of usability checks before we go to print. Pleased as punch with the results:
#boardgames #design
#boardgames #design
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I can sympathize with @hypatian.org knowing and understanding the history, it is a lot. particularly in a modern context where the echoes of histories ignored still cause harm. but that's the reason I felt it important to bring it to the table. to feel those feels and reflect. thanks for playing.
We played Cross Bronx Expressway tonight. @hypatian.org found it challenging because, already understanding the history and politics she found it depressing to “have her nose rubbed in it”
February 3, 2026 at 12:02 PM
I can sympathize with @hypatian.org knowing and understanding the history, it is a lot. particularly in a modern context where the echoes of histories ignored still cause harm. but that's the reason I felt it important to bring it to the table. to feel those feels and reflect. thanks for playing.
Excited to try the Glasgow Train Robbery. Did you outwit the sentient monopoly board chasing you around the flat?
February 2, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Excited to try the Glasgow Train Robbery. Did you outwit the sentient monopoly board chasing you around the flat?
Out 1 (1971) | Directed by Jacques Rivette
January 31, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Out 1 (1971) | Directed by Jacques Rivette
Here we go again chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...
Chicago vying to host either the 2028 or 2032 Democratic National Convention
A 2028 Chicago convention could help Gov. JB Pritzker's nomination prospects in what is expected to be a crowded field of primary presidential challengers.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Here we go again chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...
I REQUIRE A TUG
January 30, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I REQUIRE A TUG
A friend sends me this passage from “The Movement of the Free Spirit” by
Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem
January 29, 2026 at 4:30 PM
A friend sends me this passage from “The Movement of the Free Spirit” by
Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem
It’s not fair, I suppose, that I’m always measuring these films against Dreyer’s Joan
a black and white photo of a woman 's face with a hulu logo in the lower right corner .
ALT: a black and white photo of a woman 's face with a hulu logo in the lower right corner .
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January 29, 2026 at 7:10 AM
It’s not fair, I suppose, that I’m always measuring these films against Dreyer’s Joan
That’s a great observation! I appreciated how - in the second half of the film - the American frontier incubated all these esoteric religions, while also harboring profound violence and repression. I just wish there was a bit more depth and nuance to Ann’s (and the Shakers) convictions…
January 29, 2026 at 7:05 AM
That’s a great observation! I appreciated how - in the second half of the film - the American frontier incubated all these esoteric religions, while also harboring profound violence and repression. I just wish there was a bit more depth and nuance to Ann’s (and the Shakers) convictions…
I wasn’t sold on her religious ecstasy but the choreography (and that woodwork!) was dazzling. My partner grew up singing those shaker songs and we frequently spend holidays at the shaker village (now a heritage site).
January 29, 2026 at 6:21 AM
I wasn’t sold on her religious ecstasy but the choreography (and that woodwork!) was dazzling. My partner grew up singing those shaker songs and we frequently spend holidays at the shaker village (now a heritage site).
That’s … not a bad idea
January 28, 2026 at 11:39 PM
That’s … not a bad idea
Yeeeah, a friend went “all-in” on the extras. The metal coins are even more useless than their cardboard predecessors. The modules themselves introduce a few more points of tension, but the overall experience is still fundamentally Inis: migration and integration with the other.
January 26, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Yeeeah, a friend went “all-in” on the extras. The metal coins are even more useless than their cardboard predecessors. The modules themselves introduce a few more points of tension, but the overall experience is still fundamentally Inis: migration and integration with the other.
Played the new Inis expansion. I wasn’t expecting much from the new modules but the extra actions / deeds are pretty seamless. The metal pieces are ridiculous tho.
January 26, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Played the new Inis expansion. I wasn’t expecting much from the new modules but the extra actions / deeds are pretty seamless. The metal pieces are ridiculous tho.
Once again, Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars by @mropla.bsky.social, with guns blazing through Rivoli!
#boardgames #wargame
#boardgames #wargame
January 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Once again, Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars by @mropla.bsky.social, with guns blazing through Rivoli!
#boardgames #wargame
#boardgames #wargame
So jarring to read old board game rule books with only male pronouns. And by “old” I mean “2016” 🤮
January 17, 2026 at 2:42 AM
So jarring to read old board game rule books with only male pronouns. And by “old” I mean “2016” 🤮
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Every time i stumble over some leftover cards of the Sim City TCG, Im amazed tgat someone thought this was the right art direction
January 16, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Every time i stumble over some leftover cards of the Sim City TCG, Im amazed tgat someone thought this was the right art direction
It’s a daily larp for me
January 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM
It’s a daily larp for me
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Then don't make the game. It's a simple as that.
If a game needs to use a plagiarism machine to exist, it doesn't need to exist.
If a game needs to use a plagiarism machine to exist, it doesn't need to exist.
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Then don't make the game. It's a simple as that.
If a game needs to use a plagiarism machine to exist, it doesn't need to exist.
If a game needs to use a plagiarism machine to exist, it doesn't need to exist.
After years of playing #beyondthesun, we finally attempted the advanced factions. It’s true that this module is not precisely balanced, but what it offers is a more rewarding chain of actions. Perhaps a bit too linear in this beautifully rhizomatic decision space, but still a welcome variant!
January 15, 2026 at 4:15 PM
After years of playing #beyondthesun, we finally attempted the advanced factions. It’s true that this module is not precisely balanced, but what it offers is a more rewarding chain of actions. Perhaps a bit too linear in this beautifully rhizomatic decision space, but still a welcome variant!
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Keep the Faith is a hybrid tabletop/roleplaying game by @gregisonthego.bsky.social that explores a religion in transition. As if there were any other kind! My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/13/k...
Faith in Crisis/Transition/Expansion
It’s hard, maybe impossible, to not put yourself into Keep the Faith, the latest board game by Greg Loring-Albright. Going in, I always tell myself the same thing. This time, I say, the relig…
spacebiff.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Keep the Faith is a hybrid tabletop/roleplaying game by @gregisonthego.bsky.social that explores a religion in transition. As if there were any other kind! My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/13/k...
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Your regular reminder that you can in fact tackle sensitive and thorny political and societal issues with board games and they can even be fun to play, only thing is you need to actually give it some thought, care and attention
January 13, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Your regular reminder that you can in fact tackle sensitive and thorny political and societal issues with board games and they can even be fun to play, only thing is you need to actually give it some thought, care and attention
Congratulations on this new chapter!
January 13, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Congratulations on this new chapter!
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I have an important announcement. Kyle and I are going to be leaving Leder Games to start a new venture. It has been an honor to spend the past eight years working with them. We wish them all the best of luck, and cannot wait to show you what we are working on next.
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ledergames.com/blogs/news/a...
A Letter from Cole Wehrle
Eight years ago I walked through the doors of a converted warehouse on the edge of Saint Paul and made my way through a back staircase to the still unfinished second floor. I wandered around a bit bef...
ledergames.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I have an important announcement. Kyle and I are going to be leaving Leder Games to start a new venture. It has been an honor to spend the past eight years working with them. We wish them all the best of luck, and cannot wait to show you what we are working on next.
ledergames.com/blogs/news/a...
ledergames.com/blogs/news/a...
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me: (makes videos about the compromises of art under capitalism & how it chills radical art & speech to serve the interest of those who own the "means of production" and steal "surplus value of labor")
commenter: this person has obviously never read an economics book
commenter: this person has obviously never read an economics book
January 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
me: (makes videos about the compromises of art under capitalism & how it chills radical art & speech to serve the interest of those who own the "means of production" and steal "surplus value of labor")
commenter: this person has obviously never read an economics book
commenter: this person has obviously never read an economics book