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🌸 Johannes 🌸
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He/him. Analog game designer based in Copenhagen
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The Last Door is the first that comes to mind. It's like 10 years old I think

Also Death Trash looks absolutely amazing, tho I haven't played it - not really my kind of game
Screen shot from The Last Door. It's a bed room with an open window and a cross on the wall and two people there. The pixel art is blocky, a person's head is 2-3 'pixels' big Screen shot from Death Trash. It's a big robot thing with a flesh arm standing in a desert environment. There's also a few people, their heads looks like they are around 5-6 'pixels' wide
March 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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This weekend my biggest and dummeste game got closer to realization.

We delivered the rules to the judges of Fastaval 2025, and now mostly just have to produce the dumb thing (and maybe tweak a few numbers).

Looking forward to see it in action, and being able to work on smaller stuff again✨

🎲✂️
A resource overview in icon form. First column on the left shows the raw resources, ranging from sticks to uranium. And the next three columns shows processed resources and what it takes to do each of them. They are title 'Furnace', 'Refinery' and 'Mixer, and are divided in several levels
March 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Getting slightly distracted by this mural painting that's going on outside
The side of a small apartment block with some graffiti on it and a sketch of a man holding a futball. In front of it is a lift, and you can just see they have started painting in the sketch
January 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Meet Henry Marantha my newest plant friend
A small-ish sized Maratha plant in a turquoise pot.
January 21, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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Read this. Good stuff. Really liked the characters
The comic book Nimona by Noelle Stevenson. The cover shows three characters with Nimona in the front.
January 17, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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Got to play Amalfi. Worker placement where your workers also are used to count for resources. Sooo pretty ✨
A little funky to wrap your head around what is smart to do. But I really want to play it again.
The cover for Amalfi: renaissance A player board with pretty lil ship and lighthouse meeples. The board with a few ships and lighthouses on it. It shows the Mediterranean sea.
January 8, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Went to Sweden and visited a friend for new years. Hung out with a bunch of good ppl and played games and drank tea and went for walks. Met a cat and some dogs.
Good start✨
A 3 floor yellow wooden house in the last hours of sunlight. Two cups of tea and a metal tea pot. There is a bit of Christmas tree in the background. Selfie of me with a yellow headband with the house and forest in the background. Cat! Close up of a very fluffy cat that is looking at you. It wants pets.
January 3, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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Got to see the sun today! What a nice surprise ☀️

More pls
A street in Copenhagen. A lot of sky is visible and the sun is shining through some misty looking clouds. The street looks wet and dark, but a lot of the sky is still blue.
December 21, 2023 at 4:19 PM
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Went to the open board game night at Bastard yesterday. Played All Roads, which I really liked, tho did miss a little bit of hidden info. Tsuro, which I didn't really click with.
Also Skull and Innovation. And Innovation is growing on me tbh
A small map made of hex tiles. They have roads and green areas on them. In the center is a city depicted. On top of the tiles are wooden cubes, houses and cylinders in red and yellow. A board almost full with square tiles. The tiles have paths that waves in and out of each other. Four player pieces are on the board at the edge of some of the tiles.
December 19, 2023 at 3:19 PM
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Played around with a simple idea for a blue sky logo.
A few variations of a cloud inside a square on different colored backgrounds (white, blue, black and orange).
December 16, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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Playtesting me and Mads Emil s game for Fastaval. Again😊
Paper prototype of a board with big hexes. On it is a fair bunch of cubes
December 13, 2023 at 4:56 PM
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Playing Arkham Horror with my brother tonight 🐙✨
A road with cars and a temporarily sign reading "ROAD CLOSED - COSMIC HORROR"
December 11, 2023 at 3:29 PM
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When the sun sets 3.30pm
A very angry and disappointed looking cat with the text: "Why so much night? Angry cat emoji."
December 8, 2023 at 9:33 PM
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Slowly getting into drawing again. Quite enjoy it so that's nice
A bit rough pen drawing of a hand holding a die with three fingers.
December 6, 2023 at 11:56 PM
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Got to play a few games yesterday with a good friend. Queen Domino, Kabuto Sumo and (not pictured) Key Flow.
A finished kingdom in Queendomino made out of dominoes with terrains on them. On top of them are some small wooden towers and some tiny tiny soldier meeples. A hand is pushing on a blue wooden horn-thing into a bunch of discs on a small cardboard plateau. The discs are different sizes and in-between them are two Beatle pieces in different player colors.
December 5, 2023 at 11:36 PM
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A design I'm working on with my friend Mads Emil have selected for Fastaval '24 (this was a while ago lol)

It is shaping up nicely and we are mostly happy with the game play. The final setting/theme is still undecided. Rn it is generic fantasy and we find that a bit too boring
A paper prototype of a large board with large hexes and a bunch of cubes in different colors on it. In the middle of it there's a few dice.
November 28, 2023 at 11:25 PM
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Got to play Innovation and Ave Caesar for the first time today.

Had a bit hard time wrapping my head around what was a good play in Innovation. I imagine that changes with a few plays.

On the other hand Ave Caesar seemed a bit too straight forward?

Had good fun, would play either again:)
A hand holding three cards from the game Ave Caesar that are thoroughly used. To a degree where some of the print has come of. In the background the track and chariot pieces are visible.
November 28, 2023 at 1:00 AM
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Did a second playtest of a fairly simple drafting game today. It is fine, but I'm not quite sold on it. So will write down the current rules and archive it for now
A table from above with a lot of regular playing cards and some orange cubes.
November 23, 2023 at 1:21 AM
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The first part of restarting a campaign game is to deduct where you made it to last time
Close up of a card named "Clarity of mind". The card imagine is of a woman concentrating with closed eyes.
November 20, 2023 at 4:42 PM
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Had a good evening playing games with my friend. Played several we haven't played before among them Elfenland. Which I haven't played since I was a tiny human, and I don't think we ever played it correctly

Have always loved the map tho✨
Slightly blurry selfie of me and my friend at a table with a board game. She has purple hair and is smiling. I'm smiling too, but am only half in frame. A board game on a table. It is a fantasy map with mountains, forest and desert. In the cities are pieces in blue and red.
November 15, 2023 at 10:47 PM
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Got to playtest the stock game yesterday. Getting along quite fine
A coffee table with a prototype take up basically all the space.
November 8, 2023 at 3:04 PM
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Going to my first Protospiel this weekend in Malmö.

Any tips to showing games or what to expect?
(Besides lots of prototypes I guess)
Simple diagonal graphic saying "Malmö Protospiel 2023" with some pictures of prototypes behind it.
November 2, 2023 at 1:41 PM
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Just got back from playtesting. Got a real time area control game and a wonky stock market game to the table.

They are both kinda silly games. Luckily they are also ok fun.

The first is for Fastaval and the other for a line of pnp games I'm working on
A paper board with big hexes. Some are green, and some are orange. All over the board are shattered lots of cubes in three different player colors and some houses and discs. In the center space are some dice with stickers on. And if you look closely you'll spot some odd pieces: a white boat token on land, a biiig green pawn and a big clear crystal. Thee pieces of paper each with a grid on it. There are orange cubes forming graphs on them and a die under a playing card suit. Under the die it says 'stability'.
November 1, 2023 at 10:55 PM
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Wednesday is playtestday. Got two new prototypes to the table today.

📈
First one is a weird stock market game. The idea came from adding dice to form the graph as you buy/sell stocks. Never made such a game before but it worked surprisingly well.
Three pieces of paper with grids on them on a white table. There are colorful dice on the grids and there are numbers along one axis. It is hard to see from this angle, but the dice form a graph of the games stock proces. Two A4 forms a board. It has a hex grind, and at each side are cubes and a few disks lined up, as if two armies facing each other. At the far side can be seen a player board and a die.
October 25, 2023 at 9:31 PM
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Went and danced some swing this evening 🕺

Only second time after I broke my arm, and it was really good. Still very much a beginner, but it was great fun and I could relax a bit better this time.
Arm still gets exhausted tho

Also I got to test out my new rain jacket, it works like a charm
Night time. Selfie of me in a very wet rain coat with a red nose. In the background is a wet street with blurry traffic lights reflecting in the water
October 24, 2023 at 10:24 PM