Cirque
@cirquegame.bsky.social
Indie eurogame about the circus! Target Kickstarter launch Q1-Q2 2026.
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📍Washington, DC
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📍Washington, DC
Playtested a boatload this week with some amazing people. A lot of good insights and good times!
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Playtested a boatload this week with some amazing people. A lot of good insights and good times!
Happy Halloween! 🎪💀🎪
Newsletter dropping imminently...
Newsletter dropping imminently...
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎪💀🎪
Newsletter dropping imminently...
Newsletter dropping imminently...
As always, you can feel free to follow along with the progress dashboard here! It has many things to click on. www.social-intellect.com/pages/cirque...
October 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
As always, you can feel free to follow along with the progress dashboard here! It has many things to click on. www.social-intellect.com/pages/cirque...
As usual, I like to give a breakdown of completed card art by discipline. Clowns are now halfway, lots more animals, and games of chance are DONE!
September 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
As usual, I like to give a breakdown of completed card art by discipline. Clowns are now halfway, lots more animals, and games of chance are DONE!
Also, as a treat, have a couple new cards 🤡
September 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Also, as a treat, have a couple new cards 🤡
New and improved dashboard. We're almost 75% done with the card art, and about to turn to board and box art next! 🎪🎪🎪
September 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New and improved dashboard. We're almost 75% done with the card art, and about to turn to board and box art next! 🎪🎪🎪
September Newsletter drops tomorrow -- sign up here if you haven't already! mailchi.mp/social-intel...
August 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
September Newsletter drops tomorrow -- sign up here if you haven't already! mailchi.mp/social-intel...
Spent the end of the week drafting Ringleader cards, finally implementing some asymmetricality into the game. I'm comfortable enough with the game core to move into this next step, which I think adds a very important layer to the experience
August 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Spent the end of the week drafting Ringleader cards, finally implementing some asymmetricality into the game. I'm comfortable enough with the game core to move into this next step, which I think adds a very important layer to the experience
Been a little quiet, but still making significant progress! Here's a new card, as a treat 🎪
August 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Been a little quiet, but still making significant progress! Here's a new card, as a treat 🎪
Latest batch of updated playtest cards is ready for trimming!
Current count: 156 / 180
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Current count: 156 / 180
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August 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Latest batch of updated playtest cards is ready for trimming!
Current count: 156 / 180
🎪🎪🎪
Current count: 156 / 180
🎪🎪🎪
Folks, after weeks of agonizing, I believe we have found The Font for card text 🙏
August 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Folks, after weeks of agonizing, I believe we have found The Font for card text 🙏
Aristotle and Phyllis vibes
August 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Aristotle and Phyllis vibes
August development update newsletter drops on Friday.
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July 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
August development update newsletter drops on Friday.
If you want it in your inbox, sign up here! mailchi.mp/social-intel...
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Also a good reminder of the historical ethos of the circus. Making this game has in no small part been about navigating this history carefully and responsibly.
July 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Also a good reminder of the historical ethos of the circus. Making this game has in no small part been about navigating this history carefully and responsibly.
Spent some of the day meandering the US National History Museum and came across this magnificent artifact
Circus poster, 1923
Circus poster, 1923
July 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Spent some of the day meandering the US National History Museum and came across this magnificent artifact
Circus poster, 1923
Circus poster, 1923
Spent most of today working out the rudiments of Solo Mode. The irony is that I don't tend to play a lot of board games solo, but have been studying solo design to implement in Cirque and...it's apparently pretty fun!
July 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Spent most of today working out the rudiments of Solo Mode. The irony is that I don't tend to play a lot of board games solo, but have been studying solo design to implement in Cirque and...it's apparently pretty fun!
We're on a much-needed vacation, but here's an excellent piece of card art to tide you over
Card: "Sword Balancing"
Card: "Sword Balancing"
July 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
We're on a much-needed vacation, but here's an excellent piece of card art to tide you over
Card: "Sword Balancing"
Card: "Sword Balancing"
Sketch video of the Hair Hanging performer from the artist 🤸
July 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Sketch video of the Hair Hanging performer from the artist 🤸
One benefit of spending time on the dashboard is that I can track progress by lots of categories. We've made huge progress on acrobats and games of chance, and have basically not touched the animals at all yet!
July 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
One benefit of spending time on the dashboard is that I can track progress by lots of categories. We've made huge progress on acrobats and games of chance, and have basically not touched the animals at all yet!
Some excellent art rolling in this week 🎪🎪🎪
July 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Some excellent art rolling in this week 🎪🎪🎪
I put together a dashboard for keeping track of game balance and art completion rate 🎪🎪🎪
July 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I put together a dashboard for keeping track of game balance and art completion rate 🎪🎪🎪
Spent the day working on some new cards based on what players seem to be reaching for in playtesting. When I drafted the full 1.0 prototype, I left somewhere between 30-40 cards as slack for just such an occasion. It's nice when plans work out like you expect!
July 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Spent the day working on some new cards based on what players seem to be reaching for in playtesting. When I drafted the full 1.0 prototype, I left somewhere between 30-40 cards as slack for just such an occasion. It's nice when plans work out like you expect!
Cirque is a competitive modern Euro-style game where players build and manage their circus by hiring performers, improving its reputation, staging performances, and more. It's still very much in development, and we can't wait to share it with the world in due time 🎪🎪🎪
July 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Cirque is a competitive modern Euro-style game where players build and manage their circus by hiring performers, improving its reputation, staging performances, and more. It's still very much in development, and we can't wait to share it with the world in due time 🎪🎪🎪