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Gem Room Games
@gemroomgames.bsky.social
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Award-winning tabletop game design team @itsdanphipps.bsky.social & @helloitskali.bsky.social
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Gettin' some games packaged up, yeah yeahhh

We need a new furnace, so every game you buy right now goes directly to the keeping us warm in the winter fund.

Plus, you might get a lovingly rendered carnival mallet or one-eyed cat or various onomatopoeia on your package. Win-win!
a stack of brown kraft mailers decorated with gems, weapons, and onomatopoeia like "thud!" in jewel-toned sharpie sitting on a gray desk.
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Worm! Worm! Worm! Worm!

(wow this thing is heavy)
a hand holds a hardcover copy of His Majesty the Worm. On the cover, in silver, a serpent faces off against a figure with a drawn sword.
September 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Gem Room status update:

- Tired
- Still enjoying little package doodles when we send out games
two brown kraft paper mailers on a red background. Each is decorated with little red ink doodles of stars and gems and phrases like "QUACK QUACK" and more phrases like "MEOOOW" in black on kraft tape
September 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Dropping a few DUKK BÖRG fulfillment stragglers at the post office seems like a fine time to review why Kali loves EcoEnclose's kraft flatback tape.
We swear there's no paid endorsement here, it's just really good tape (the brown stuff in the picture) and there's a story about why she loves it.
a short stack of DUKK BÖRG kickstarter fulfillment mailers beside a red bag on a beige countertop. The brown mailers are decorated with a large duck sticker and enthusiastic phrases scrawled in red on brown tape. The top one says "woo-oo-oo!"
June 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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GORM LOVE

gemroomgames.itch.io/gorm
Screenshot of an itch.io review of GORM, showing 5 stars and the text "LOVE GORM VERY MUCH, GOOD GAME, ONLY WINS HERE."
June 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Today is the Second Annual #PaidRPGDay!

As Gem Friend @kenlowery.bsky.social says, they're as free to buy as they are to make!

What a wonderful day to support indie rpg makers by giving them money to support for their beautiful, creative labor.
Purple and black text on a light purple background announces "The Second Annual #PaidRPGDay. Shop.gemroomgames.com." Five games are in a horizontal row, adorned with pink stars featuring dollar prices, as follows: 9 Lives to Valhalla ($15) - "DEATH METAL VIKING CATS BATTLING TO VALHALLA WITH DEATH BY THEIR SIDE!" The Wreck of the Murderous ($10) - "CONQUER WHERE YOU CRASH ON YOUR WAY TO VALHALLA IN THIS 9 LIVES ADVENTURE" DUKK BÖRG ($25) - "LIFE IS LIKE A HURRICANE, HERE IN DUKK BÖRG: WHERE MÖRK BORG MEETS SATURDAY MORNING" Letters to Sandra ($15) - "EARN OR BETRAY SANDRA’S TRUST IN THIS GUT PUNCHING SOLO LETTER WRITING GAME" The Weaver's Observatory ($20) - JOURNEY THROUGH THE TOWER OF FATE TO CHANGE YOUR OWN IN THIS 2 PLAYER ADVENTURE"
June 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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lol
June 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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If you see this post a knight

(this lil' guy is from 9 Lives to Valhalla; a more noble knight you'll surely never meet)
crop of a page from ttrpg 9 Lives to Valhalla. A mouse knight with upper body armor and a holstered sword is depicted in cream lines with gray and red details on a black background. It stands upright on its hind paws, perhaps sniffing the air for those in need of aid.
May 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Super pleased that Letters to Sandra has been nominated for Best Setting in the @igdn-official.bsky.social Indie Groundbreaker Awards! It's really truly honestly an honor to be nominated.

Check all the awesome nominees here: www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers
A stack of copies of Letters to Sandra. The cream covers feature a variety of different pens lined up horizontally around text reading "Letters to Sandra. A solo letter writing game by Gem Room Games." Around the copies are an envelope and letter addressed to Miss Sandra Blank, a black and white photo of a group of smiling people, an open pen, holographic gem stickers, and a variety of six sided dice.
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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A HURRICANE DESCENDS
IT IS FULL OF DUCKS

DUKK BÖRG IS HERE! DUKK BÖRG IS FOR SALE FOR EVERYONE!

shop.gemroomgames.com/product/dukk...
gemroomgames.itch.io/dukkborg
Copies of DUKK BÖRG rest on a moth-eaten red, blue, and green tartan. The cover features armed cartoon ducks waging battle over treasure. Around the books are a duck skull, sticker of a ghost duck, assorted dice, and holographic gem stickers.
January 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Made some new photos for the shop ❤️

You can snag copies of 9 Lives to Valhalla and The Weaver's Observatory direct from us or from @ipr.bsky.social.
3 copies of 9 Lives to Valhalla lay on a red scarf bunched on gray-stained wood. White and red line drawings of yowling warrior cats following DEATH adorn the covers. The books are surrounded by a cat skull, fossil, small rocks, assorted dice, and holographic gem stickers. 3 copies of The Weaver's Observatory sit on hand-woven cream cloth, weaving imperfections visible. The cover features a gray stone tower alone on a gray stone island in a gray ocean; colorful threads stream out from the top of the tower. Around the books are weaving tools, balls of colorful yarn, assorted dice, and holographic gem stickers.
January 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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You know what's cool about @plusoneexp.bsky.social having the first 50 publicly available copies of DUKK BÖRG at PaxU (IN BOOTH 4142)?
Tony was the person to convince us to expand the game & assemble this crack team in the first place. He was there at idea launch & now he's here at book launch! Woo!
Several logos combine to read "DUKK BÖRG at PAX Unplugged with Plus One Exp, Booth 4142." The logos squeeze around a map of the Expo Hall. Booth 4142 is circled in hot pink. A rough-looking Woodchuck Ranger duck from DUKK BÖRG points to the circle.
December 4, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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"Can I find any other Gem Room Games games at Pax U?"
Yes, yes you can!
@ipr.bsky.social has almost every game we've got in print at Booth 3421! Plus a literal 273(!) additional awesome games in stock. It's basically a required stop.
A map of the Pax U hall with booth 3421 circled. Above it is a sentence strung together with logos, reading "Gem Room Games available through Indie Press Revolution at Pax Unplugged, Booth U3421." To the right are two angled columns of zine games: Letters to Sandra, 9 Lives to Valhalla, The Wreck of the Murderous, and The Weaver's Observatory.
December 3, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Going to PAXU?
Guess what, so is DUKK BÖRG!!

The brand new expanded print edition is going to be available to the public for the first! time! ever! shepherded by DUKK BÖRG contributor @plusoneexp.bsky.social in Booth 4142!

Say hi to Tony & snag yours on the Corpse Crawl this weekend, woo-oo-oo!
Several logos combine to read "DUKK BÖRG at PAX Unplugged with Plus One Exp, Booth 4142." The logos squeeze around a map of the Expo Hall. Booth 4142 is circled in hot pink. A rough-looking Woodchuck Ranger duck from DUKK BÖRG points to the circle.
December 2, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Make duck puns, get dukk signatures
A copy of DUKK BÖRG open to the credits page, signed in silver pen by Dan Phipps, Kali Lawrie, and Rob Hebert. Rob's signature is in a word bubble being gasped by a duck who is being actively decapitated by a flying sword.
November 27, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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A couple trips and a few carts later, first wave fulfillment of DUKK BÖRG is all out!
Digital fulfillment to follow, after we catch our breath. Those boxes get heavy.
The sun shines on a USPS mail cart (beige canvas in a metal grid frame on wheels) filled with DUKK BÖRG envelopes.
November 18, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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And they're off! (Well, the first 15 boxes, anyhow.)
Flying south - and east - and north - and west, like little chaos ducks.
A view into the back of a large car with the back seats down. The interior is filled with cardboard boxes, which are filled with rigid mailers. It's not apparent but they're full of DUKK BÖRG.
November 18, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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We're about to release DUKK BÖRG - in which doom metal apocalypse meets Saturday morning cartoons. After that, Project Catch Our Breath For a Minute before a multidimensional minis game inspired by roller derby & hoverboards.
Four copies of DUKK BÖRG displayed on a moth-eaten tartan, surrounded by a duck skull, dice, and stickers. The covers feature cartoon adventurer ducks doing battle over treasure.
November 13, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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Assembly line day 3/? here at Gem Room Headquarters
A desk scene showing different steps of assembling Gem Room Games' teeny catalogs. A long arm stapler is next to a paper cutter, on which rests whole sheets printed with catalog pages, those sheets cut into page spreads, those spreads stapled together, and those stapled spreads folded into teeny catalogs.
November 13, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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ONE! WEEK! LEFT! for DUKK BÖRG preorders!
The preorder shop is closing on Nov. 4 so you have until then to get an order in if you want a copy of DUKK BÖRG in 2024 & want it to come with a cool glow in the dark ghost duck sticker:
dukk-borg.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
A stack of copies of DUKK BÖRG. The cover features the title in scratchy hand drawn text above a scene of cartoon adventurer ducks battling each other for treasure. Around the books is a moth-eaten tartan, a duck skull, a die cut sticker of a ghost duck, several holographic gem logo stickers, and a variety of dice.
October 28, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Hey new followers!
We're @helloitskali.bsky.social and @itsdanphipps.bsky.social aka Gem Room Games!
We're about to release DUKK BÖRG but you may also know our other games, such as solo-play emotions-punch Letters to Sandra or death metal viking cat romp 9 Lives to Valhalla!
It's Dan and Kali! Dan's a white guy with dark hair and a mustache in a purple t-shirt, with a huge grin. Kali's a white woman with pink hair and glasses, in a black t-shirt and a crooked smile. A stack of copies of DUKK BÖRG. The cover features the title in scratchy hand drawn text above a scene of cartoon adventurer ducks battling each other for treasure. Around the books is a moth-eaten tartan, a duck skull, a die cut sticker of a ghost duck, several holographic gem logo stickers, and a variety of dice. A stack of copies of Letters to Sandra. The cover features a column of horizontal pens, all different styles and colors. Between them, handwriting and typewriter style fonts read "Letters to Sandra, a solo letter writing game by Gem Room Games." Around the zines are a small pen and pen cap, an antique photo of a group of smiling people, an antique handwritten letter, an envelope addressed to Miss Sandra Blank with a postmark from 1955, several holographic gem logo stickers, and a variety of six sided dice. A small stack of copies of 9 Lives to Valhalla. The black zine cover features the title text in a red font reminiscent of old heavy metal albums, above a parade of yowling upright warrior cats following a red-haloed cat skeleton. Around the zines are holographic gem logo stickers, white rectangular stickers with a snippet of text from the game, and a variety of dice.
October 25, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Not only that - it'll come in a mailer from one of THESE boxes!
... ok maybe not as cool as Johan's art but at this point we're excited about all of it
A tower of cardboard boxes full of shipping supplies and surprise goodies, ready to be filled with copies of DUKK BÖRG
October 25, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Mailing supplies are now present and ready for DUKK BÖRG fulfillment! Here we go!!
A tower of 15 cardboard boxes in 3 columns. They're still closed but are full of packaging supplies and goodies.
October 24, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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Busting out the carving tools for DUKK BÖRG backers
A partially carved linoleum block for printing sits next to a carving tool and pile of linoleum shavings. The design being carved is a decorative ¢ sign.
September 24, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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We've got DUKK BÖRG proofs!

We've also got an update about them: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gem...
A stack of DUKK BÖRG proofs fanned on their side to show their spines with one copy upright on top to show the cartoon ducks in battle on the cover. The pile rests against dark green cloth and a moth-eaten red tartan.
September 4, 2024 at 7:39 PM