Becoming a father has changed my shopping behaviour at Essen Spiel considerably. This baby boar from @lookoutgames.bsky.social was my biggest purchase.

I spotted L'Oaf in the wild for the first time yesterday! Always a magical moment when an idea I've worked on for years is suddenly an actual thing people can buy and play. Goblin Laundromat and Medievallons are awesome games as well, definitely worth checking out at Wulfhorn Games' Essen booth!

🎲✂️ Exactly five years ago, I playtested a very first version of what was going to be Soap Box Race. This might be the longest I've worked on one design, though much of that time I spent going around in circles because I was a novice designer. What's the design you've been working on longest?

🎲✂️ So I decided to join this years Hippodice competition with my design Soap Box Race. It's a game that tries to capture the childhood excitement and imagination of building the awesomest soap box car and racing it down a hill (and probably crashing it in the process)

It's the Amsterdam Pride canal parade today, and backers of the Amsterdam Board Game Design - Season 2 will receive a set Pride promo cards for each of the three games to celebrate. Here's the ones for L'Oaf:

I'll be at UKGE next week! Friday afternoon I will be demoing my upcoming game L'Oaf at the playtest zone. See you there?

The artist (Jason Gamber) and graphic designer (Ruud Nederpelt) are working hard to bring my next game L'Oaf to life. Its such an amazing process to see them take my ugly prototype and turn it into something so pretty. And this isn't even its final form!