Anyone else at Geekway to the West?

Thanks @unpub.bsky.social for organizing another great event!

So I was at a regatta yesterday (my wife is in a rowing club) and I was talking to another attendee about how some of the crews seemed to be taking a longer route to the starting area than they needed to. The AI "assistant" on my phone overhead, and responded with this:

Pretty sweet double rainbow from my back deck today

Spent the weekend in Knoxville at a small local con (Knoxville Board Game Days) and I might have actually gotten more playtests done than I would have at a more designer-focused event, because the crowd there just happened to be really interested in unpublished games.

Heading home from Origins 2024 now. I feel really lucky to have made friends at every con I've been to this year, and this one was no exception. Big thanks to the @unpub.bsky.social team for hosting another excellent Unpub event.

Make a game milder: Sleeping Dogs

Look who thinks he's coming to #ProtoATL with me.

🎲✂️ Two days after Unpub; I finally feel fully recovered. Thanks to the @unpub.bsky.social team for my first Unpub prime experience. It was great and I'll be back next year. I especially enjoyed getting to hang out with @roscoschock.bsky.social and @harbthehuman.bsky.social in person.

@mitchwgames.bsky.social my wife and I played Art Society at a local coffee shop yesterday. It's exactly the right level of thinkyness (thinky enough for me, simple enough for her) that we both really liked it! That's really an achievement. Great work, Mitch!

@isaacshalev.bsky.social I've been thinking a lot about the game you played with me at TantrumCon (Grim Tide) since that weekend. The design had been feeling stagnant and now I'm excited about it again. I can't thank you enough for that

okay @mitchwgames.bsky.social and @stoichamster.bsky.social, you convinced me. I'm going to @unpub.bsky.social 2024!

Happy to wake up in my own bed after a great PAXU. It seemed like the biggest crowd of any year so far (on Saturday anyway). I was really glad to see (at least make eye contact and wave) a lot of folks I hoped to see. But I kinda wonder if I would have had a better time at a smaller con.

I just saw a post from X embedded in a news story, and I had this trained reflex to try to close it by tapping the "X" logo in the upper right corner of the post. It hadn't occurred to me before how bad a design decision it was to put that logo there. Also, I like how that reflex had the right idea.

Last weekend I made these tiny pebble stacked stone shrines for a game about forest animals worshipping the four winds. I'm excited to test it at PAXU. 🎲✂️

getting ready to fight the man