jbuergel
@fiverandomsongs.com
Board game designer (Fox in the Forest, Hocus, Foresight) and terrible music blogger (fiverandomsongs.com). (He/him)
Shades of this famous letter.
January 8, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Shades of this famous letter.
My random campaign generator just produced a couple bangers for names.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
My random campaign generator just produced a couple bangers for names.
(deleted and reposted because I forgot alt text)
(deleted and reposted because I forgot alt text)
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Eight Cheeses
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Eight Cheeses
Time to do the second half of this project: the creation of a gazetteer PDF to go along with the map. Been working on the title page. ("Enthusiastic Man" is a randomly generated name which is just a random adjective and random noun.) (repost because I forgot the alt text last time)
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Time to do the second half of this project: the creation of a gazetteer PDF to go along with the map. Been working on the title page. ("Enthusiastic Man" is a randomly generated name which is just a random adjective and random noun.) (repost because I forgot the alt text last time)
Rivers are now no longer perfect 60 degree turns. (The butts remain.)
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Rivers are now no longer perfect 60 degree turns. (The butts remain.)
Well, this dumb thing now has points of interest - towns, cities, all kinds of stuff.
October 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Well, this dumb thing now has points of interest - towns, cities, all kinds of stuff.
I added deserts to my map generator. Underlying this is a crude climate model (along with an elevation model).
October 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I added deserts to my map generator. Underlying this is a crude climate model (along with an elevation model).
Uh-oh. I seem to have created floods by accident.
October 5, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Uh-oh. I seem to have created floods by accident.
While I anxiously watch the Mariners game, I also added forests into this thing.
October 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
While I anxiously watch the Mariners game, I also added forests into this thing.
Well, latest version adds volcanos, which is fun. Also, cleaned up some things with river generation, although it's still not quite where I want it. Oh, and I added some hex numbers.
October 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Well, latest version adds volcanos, which is fun. Also, cleaned up some things with river generation, although it's still not quite where I want it. Oh, and I added some hex numbers.
Introducing: ugly lakes. This map generator is getting more and more map like (after you adjust for the ugly/butt-tastic "artwork" that I put together).
September 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Introducing: ugly lakes. This map generator is getting more and more map like (after you adjust for the ugly/butt-tastic "artwork" that I put together).
Well, rivers are working. Ugly, but working. Next step, probably lakes, and then probably making the terrain types more sophisticated.
September 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Well, rivers are working. Ugly, but working. Next step, probably lakes, and then probably making the terrain types more sophisticated.
Can't tell if the categorization on my list app got this one extremely wrong or extremely right.
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Can't tell if the categorization on my list app got this one extremely wrong or extremely right.
Working on a new project.
September 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Working on a new project.
Fixing the dino panel bot is going great.
September 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Fixing the dino panel bot is going great.
The hack I used to get a random comic for my DInosaur Comics bot broke (Go Comics has removed their random page), so I'm going to have to go directly to qwantz.com to get my comic. Fine, whatever. It did, however, lead to a delight in inspecting the page.
September 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The hack I used to get a random comic for my DInosaur Comics bot broke (Go Comics has removed their random page), so I'm going to have to go directly to qwantz.com to get my comic. Fine, whatever. It did, however, lead to a delight in inspecting the page.
I'm sorting through my playtest junk bin and came across these cards from an early version of Fox in the Forest. The top row was from a version that included a mana economy and spells. The others are from when it still had Cribbage DNA in it (these modified the scoring rules each hand).
September 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I'm sorting through my playtest junk bin and came across these cards from an early version of Fox in the Forest. The top row was from a version that included a mana economy and spells. The others are from when it still had Cribbage DNA in it (these modified the scoring rules each hand).
Honestly, I don't know why I look at this.
August 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Honestly, I don't know why I look at this.
All right, I rounded up a little. But as promised, royalties from Fox in the Forest to The Trevor Project this quarter. @czechgames.com, how are you going to make it right?
August 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
All right, I rounded up a little. But as promised, royalties from Fox in the Forest to The Trevor Project this quarter. @czechgames.com, how are you going to make it right?
Working on a new game.
June 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Working on a new game.
My kid shared this phylogenetic diagram that a classmate generated with me and it hasn't left my brain.
June 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My kid shared this phylogenetic diagram that a classmate generated with me and it hasn't left my brain.
