City Square Studios 🎲🃏♟️
@citysquarestudios.bsky.social
duo creating new original tabletop games every month from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Our games use stuff you already own!
32+ original games on Patreon part of the 52 Pickup zine series https://www.patreon.com/CitySquareStudios
Our games use stuff you already own!
32+ original games on Patreon part of the 52 Pickup zine series https://www.patreon.com/CitySquareStudios
One of the great things about zine tabletop games is they are really easy to take camping or travelling.
All of our games are played with standard components, like playing cards, dice, chess sets, and coins, so they're really easy to take with you on the go.
#boardgame #cardgame #tabletop #zine
All of our games are played with standard components, like playing cards, dice, chess sets, and coins, so they're really easy to take with you on the go.
#boardgame #cardgame #tabletop #zine
December 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
One of the great things about zine tabletop games is they are really easy to take camping or travelling.
All of our games are played with standard components, like playing cards, dice, chess sets, and coins, so they're really easy to take with you on the go.
#boardgame #cardgame #tabletop #zine
All of our games are played with standard components, like playing cards, dice, chess sets, and coins, so they're really easy to take with you on the go.
#boardgame #cardgame #tabletop #zine
Guinea Pig Baseball is our latest release and is free for a limited time!
It's a casual game with easy to learn rules, plays with just a few six sided dice, paper or tokens, and who doesn't love guinea pigs?
Link below 🔗👇
#boardgame #tabletop #indiegame
It's a casual game with easy to learn rules, plays with just a few six sided dice, paper or tokens, and who doesn't love guinea pigs?
Link below 🔗👇
#boardgame #tabletop #indiegame
December 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Guinea Pig Baseball is our latest release and is free for a limited time!
It's a casual game with easy to learn rules, plays with just a few six sided dice, paper or tokens, and who doesn't love guinea pigs?
Link below 🔗👇
#boardgame #tabletop #indiegame
It's a casual game with easy to learn rules, plays with just a few six sided dice, paper or tokens, and who doesn't love guinea pigs?
Link below 🔗👇
#boardgame #tabletop #indiegame
Have your say on what standard components we use in our upcoming releases! From playing cards, dice, or something experimental, it is in your hands.
🔗 patreon.com/posts/poll-game-145173884
#tabletop #boardgames #ttrpg
🔗 patreon.com/posts/poll-game-145173884
#tabletop #boardgames #ttrpg
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Have your say on what standard components we use in our upcoming releases! From playing cards, dice, or something experimental, it is in your hands.
🔗 patreon.com/posts/poll-game-145173884
#tabletop #boardgames #ttrpg
🔗 patreon.com/posts/poll-game-145173884
#tabletop #boardgames #ttrpg
And the second one is a game that reuses a chess set called Escape the Fluffy Black Cat!
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-102951722
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-102951722
December 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
And the second one is a game that reuses a chess set called Escape the Fluffy Black Cat!
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-102951722
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-102951722
For those wondering what games they are playing the first one is a playing card game called Guinea Pig Racing
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-90950591
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-90950591
December 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
For those wondering what games they are playing the first one is a playing card game called Guinea Pig Racing
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-90950591
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-90950591
We often use ... unorthodox ... play testers here at City Square Studios for our tabletop games
#cats #guineapig #boardgames #tabletop
#cats #guineapig #boardgames #tabletop
December 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We often use ... unorthodox ... play testers here at City Square Studios for our tabletop games
#cats #guineapig #boardgames #tabletop
#cats #guineapig #boardgames #tabletop
A zine folding time lapse of issue 16 of 52 Pickup which contains 2 playing card games, Black Spot and Captain Seven's Doubloons.
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-108587697
#zine #cardgame #boardgame #tabletop
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-108587697
#zine #cardgame #boardgame #tabletop
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A zine folding time lapse of issue 16 of 52 Pickup which contains 2 playing card games, Black Spot and Captain Seven's Doubloons.
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-108587697
#zine #cardgame #boardgame #tabletop
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-108587697
#zine #cardgame #boardgame #tabletop
It was Guinea Pig Baseball, so 50% right!
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It was Guinea Pig Baseball, so 50% right!
Guinea Pig Baseball is out now!
A chaotic 2–4 player dice-and-paper game where every guinea pig bats at once. Outsmart the pitcher, sprint around the bases, and get six pigs back to the hutch to win.
Free download, link below! ⚾️🥕👇
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-144647797
#boardgame #indiegame
A chaotic 2–4 player dice-and-paper game where every guinea pig bats at once. Outsmart the pitcher, sprint around the bases, and get six pigs back to the hutch to win.
Free download, link below! ⚾️🥕👇
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-144647797
#boardgame #indiegame
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Guinea Pig Baseball is out now!
A chaotic 2–4 player dice-and-paper game where every guinea pig bats at once. Outsmart the pitcher, sprint around the bases, and get six pigs back to the hutch to win.
Free download, link below! ⚾️🥕👇
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-144647797
#boardgame #indiegame
A chaotic 2–4 player dice-and-paper game where every guinea pig bats at once. Outsmart the pitcher, sprint around the bases, and get six pigs back to the hutch to win.
Free download, link below! ⚾️🥕👇
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-144647797
#boardgame #indiegame
Still love how cozy Busy Busy Game Cafe looks on the table
patreon.com/posts/designer-notes-105219236
#boardgame #sologame
patreon.com/posts/designer-notes-105219236
#boardgame #sologame
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Still love how cozy Busy Busy Game Cafe looks on the table
patreon.com/posts/designer-notes-105219236
#boardgame #sologame
patreon.com/posts/designer-notes-105219236
#boardgame #sologame
Had the opportunity to go in the new library in Christchurch New Zealand the other day, and they have an ongoing design a board series, how cool!
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November 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Had the opportunity to go in the new library in Christchurch New Zealand the other day, and they have an ongoing design a board series, how cool!
🎲✂️
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Frontline Grind is only free for one more week!
A horror grim dark TTRPG where you play a village of conscripts in an endless struggle, use playing cards to make your skill checks.
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-142462243
#ttrpg #rpg #indiegame
A horror grim dark TTRPG where you play a village of conscripts in an endless struggle, use playing cards to make your skill checks.
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-142462243
#ttrpg #rpg #indiegame
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Frontline Grind is only free for one more week!
A horror grim dark TTRPG where you play a village of conscripts in an endless struggle, use playing cards to make your skill checks.
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-142462243
#ttrpg #rpg #indiegame
A horror grim dark TTRPG where you play a village of conscripts in an endless struggle, use playing cards to make your skill checks.
patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-142462243
#ttrpg #rpg #indiegame
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Latest round of play testing for the new game went well, adjustments seem to have done the trick to address the issues from the earlier rounds.
Please enjoy this (very early) concept image, feel free to guess what the next game will be about!
🎲✂️ #indiedev
Please enjoy this (very early) concept image, feel free to guess what the next game will be about!
🎲✂️ #indiedev
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Latest round of play testing for the new game went well, adjustments seem to have done the trick to address the issues from the earlier rounds.
Please enjoy this (very early) concept image, feel free to guess what the next game will be about!
🎲✂️ #indiedev
Please enjoy this (very early) concept image, feel free to guess what the next game will be about!
🎲✂️ #indiedev
Got a sweet 2nd place (out of 5) in the Gaslands death race. The main take away was we were all mainly concerned with the "death" and not the "race", close to 10 wrecks!
Full Car build:
- Sponsor: Mishkin
- Weapon: Thumper
- Upgrades: Experimental Teleporter
- Perks: Whizband, Gyroscope
#tabletop
Full Car build:
- Sponsor: Mishkin
- Weapon: Thumper
- Upgrades: Experimental Teleporter
- Perks: Whizband, Gyroscope
#tabletop
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Got a sweet 2nd place (out of 5) in the Gaslands death race. The main take away was we were all mainly concerned with the "death" and not the "race", close to 10 wrecks!
Full Car build:
- Sponsor: Mishkin
- Weapon: Thumper
- Upgrades: Experimental Teleporter
- Perks: Whizband, Gyroscope
#tabletop
Full Car build:
- Sponsor: Mishkin
- Weapon: Thumper
- Upgrades: Experimental Teleporter
- Perks: Whizband, Gyroscope
#tabletop
They’re for a few prototypes for upcoming releases, so you may be able to draw the same little maps soon :)
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
They’re for a few prototypes for upcoming releases, so you may be able to draw the same little maps soon :)
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
All I'm thinking about
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
All I'm thinking about
An observation from our experience with selling our board games and TTRPG zines both online and at conventions.
We've recently started doing polls of our online community, and comparing to that from what we sold at the four day event Armageddon Expo in New Zealand (1/4)
🎲✂️ #ttrpgdesign #indiedev
We've recently started doing polls of our online community, and comparing to that from what we sold at the four day event Armageddon Expo in New Zealand (1/4)
🎲✂️ #ttrpgdesign #indiedev
November 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
An observation from our experience with selling our board games and TTRPG zines both online and at conventions.
We've recently started doing polls of our online community, and comparing to that from what we sold at the four day event Armageddon Expo in New Zealand (1/4)
🎲✂️ #ttrpgdesign #indiedev
We've recently started doing polls of our online community, and comparing to that from what we sold at the four day event Armageddon Expo in New Zealand (1/4)
🎲✂️ #ttrpgdesign #indiedev
Turn Crisis is only free for a few more days!
A solo or two player co-op game of hand management, coordination, and being an action packed secret agent.
#boardgame #tabletop #indiegame #chess
A solo or two player co-op game of hand management, coordination, and being an action packed secret agent.
#boardgame #tabletop #indiegame #chess
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Turn Crisis is only free for a few more days!
A solo or two player co-op game of hand management, coordination, and being an action packed secret agent.
#boardgame #tabletop #indiegame #chess
A solo or two player co-op game of hand management, coordination, and being an action packed secret agent.
#boardgame #tabletop #indiegame #chess
The view from the other side
October 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The view from the other side
It got better
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
It got better
The setup begins…
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The setup begins…
We’re going to be at Armageddon Expo, starting tomorrow evening and going all long weekend in Auckland New Zealand.
Come over and check out our game zines!
#boardgames #ttrpg #newzealand
Come over and check out our game zines!
#boardgames #ttrpg #newzealand
October 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
We’re going to be at Armageddon Expo, starting tomorrow evening and going all long weekend in Auckland New Zealand.
Come over and check out our game zines!
#boardgames #ttrpg #newzealand
Come over and check out our game zines!
#boardgames #ttrpg #newzealand