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amanpossessed.bsky.social
Katz 🔜 PAXU
@amanpossessed.bsky.social
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One middle-aged man's nascent and naive journey through #boardgames and #gamedesign. 🎲✂️

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An advertisement for Taco Bell Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie and Taco Bell Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie Chiller. A can of Slurm from the show Futurama.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Okay, I did a quick solo playtest of Forged!. It's difficult to test solo, really, because the main drive of the game is brinksmanship. But it works. It might be too fiddly, but it works. I think. Unless it doesn't. Time to get it to the table.
#boardgames 🎲✂️
A screenshot of two cards from the Screentop prototype of the deck-building board game Forged!. The left one is labeled as, "RESOURCES!" and the right one is labeled as, "SUSPICION!" A word-logo-style treatment for the prototype board game Forged!. It says, "Forged!"
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Heyyo! If you're going to be at #PAXUnplugged, come find me on the exhibition floor at the Origami Whale Games booth where I'll be demonstrating my game, Match Hatchery!
#boardgames 🎲✂️ #paxu
A 3D rendered layout of the prototype board game Match Hatchery.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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#boardgames 🎲✂️ #noNotReally
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A three-panel vertical comic strip. Panel 1 — A young person stands in a cloudy backdrop before a long-haired man in a toga, presumably in some form of Christian Heaven. They ask, "Did I waste my life by making games?" Panel 2 — The long-haired man says, "Thousands of people play your games every day." Panel 3 — The long-haired man finishes, "You wasted thousands of lives by making games." The person who asked the question looks forlorn. Original poster and comic: https://bsky.app/profile/extrafabulous.bsky.social/post/3m52qc3xmak2x
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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An old comic book ad for Sea-Monkeys.
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Thanks! And, agreed. This was my comment on it yesterday.
A screenshot of a Discord message that says, "I don't like it," with an image of a hat monotile layout of cards.
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Work in progress. This isn't exactly the vibe I'm going for overall, but it's shaping up. Lots of tweaks and nips and tucks will get it there eventually.
#boardgames 🎲✂️
Six sets of three cards each. Each set of three creates an image. The images are abstract geometry.
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Havin' fun.
Doin' stuff.
#boardgames 🎲✂️
A 3D rendering of a bunch of octagons punched through a layer of silicone. Cyan and light blue in color with light blooming through from behind.
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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A photo of the board game Pyrotechnics in action. In the foreground, a card from the game, “Twilight Flare!”
November 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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A still frame from the movie Back To The Future. In the background, the character Biff Tannen is yelling. In the foreground, the character Marty McFly is staring in the middle distance, eyes slightly alarmed. Silver stars have been superimposed onto Marty McFly's shoulders.
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
A passage from the site linked in the original post: "If you're here, you've probably spent a few hours reading this site. I'm glad to have entertained and informed you. If I've infuriated or offended, that's an added bonus! Sometimes that's the best way to convey a message." With "If I've infuriated or offended, that's an added bonus!" highlighted.
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I haven't felt this good about a new design in a little while. Here's hopin'.

In Forged!, you play as an unscrupulous reprobate of a blacksmith. You sell mundane "treasures," passing them off as magical. How much money can you grift before the heat gets too hot?

#boardgames #gamedesign 🎲✂️
A screenshot of a Screentop.gg setup for the prototype board game for Forged! Lots of cards. A stylized word, "Forged!" as a logo for the title of the game.
November 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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A wonderful October for #boardgames.
* 5 plays of Agricola * 2 plays of Men-Nefer * 2 plays of Root * 1 play of 7 Wonders * 1 play of Azul * 1 play of Barenpark * 1 play of Can't Stop * 1 play of Darwin's Journey * 1 play of El Grande * 1 play of Fiiptoons * 1 play of The Guild of Merchant Explorers * 1 play of Isle of Night * 1 play of Let's Go to Japan * 1 play of Neom * 1 play of Next Station: London * 1 play of Pyrotechnics * 1 play of Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar
November 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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If anybody wants to know what a 58-point game of Agricola looks like, have a gander. I will never, ever reach this score again.
#boardgames
October 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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A partial screenshot of the box cover for Kabuto Sumo.
October 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Stylizing some game cards for a thing. I don't know if this is the correct path, but I'm having a good time doing it. I feel like it's going to be a very distinctive (pray, striking) design set.
#boardgames #gamedesign 🎲✂️
A poker-sized playing card, green in color, with a 4 in each color and an out of focus, soft-gel treatment of four chained spheres in the middle.
October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Mark Knopfler of The Dire Straights in the music video Money For Nothing. He is wearing a glowing headband and there are hand-drawn lines around his profile and the microphone he's singing into. Screenshot from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A screenshot of the OP with the next post being, “welcome to bluesky, the dying in debtor’s prison of social media”.
October 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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October 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I'm gettin' up to stuff. I think... maybe... I have a good idea. I don't know. We'll see.
#boardgames 🎲✂️
Hey! Thanks for joining me in the Alt Text! In Forged!, you play an honorless scalywag of a blacksmith in some kind of high-fantasy setting. Various adventurers pass through town, and you're kitting them out with powerful magical weapons. Here's the hitch: You don't know magic, and you don't know anybody who knows magic. You're selling mundane weaponry and passing it off as magical. How much money can you make before the heat gets too hot? Forged! is meant to be a deck building and resource management game. The general idea is that the more stuff you do, the more junk cards (suspicion) you put into your deck. I want to make it so that you really need to put suspicion into your deck to win, but too much will be problematic. Ride that line. It's super new, I'm working on it, I don't know. Thanks for joining me in the Alt Text!
October 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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The crayon drawing of Sully and Boo from the movie Monsters, Inc.
October 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I made it to Big Game Bash. Now is the part of the con where I haunt the perimeter and drum up the courage to engage.
#boardgames
The Big Game Bash game room in Fort Myers, Florida.
October 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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100 copies of the board game Pyrotechnics, laid out like brickwork. Sign up for a launch notification today! https://www.seahorseandhummingbird.com/shop/pyrotechnics-board-game/
October 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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It has been too long, old friend. Let us dance to our favorite tune.
#boardgames 🎲✂️
Some uncut prototype components for the board game S’Morse Code. It all sits atop a paper cutter.
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The Flying Dutchman and the Neptune face off as the Kraken lurks. Cardboard punchout models from the game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31053/pirates-of-the-caribbean-pocketmodel-game
October 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM