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Nico Straccia 🌸
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🧉 🇦🇷 💚 🏳️‍⚧️ 🚩🏴 in 🇩🇪 • Game Design 🛠🎲 • Language 🗣 • Music 🎼 • 日本語の勉強をしています!
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For sending out prototypes I mostly use old game or expansion boxes, which are overall sturdier than the mailer boxes, usually wrapped and with some kind of cover image.
Frontal view of two game prototype boxes, one labeled "Flamingo" and the other one with a cover image rhat reads "Goat herders". At the bottom of the image, the hand holding up the boxes is visible. In the backgroud is a shelf full of white A4 mailer boxes with white labels as well as some colorful folders.
October 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I mostly use these A4 mailer boxes as little drawers because they can fit a lot of components as well as rules print-outs and playtesting notes. I don't use them to actually mail prototypes out, though, because they're not as sturdy in the middle.
Frontal view of a shelf full with white A4 mailer boxes with white labels and a green folder on top of the upper row of boxes. To the right of the image, part of a similar shelf can be seen.
October 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Grabbed that version while in Luxembourg! 🌷
View of the box front of the card game "Bellevue" (a version of the cardgame "Grachtenpand" by Zack Hoekstra, published by Wulfhorn Games and Gigamic), the box being placed on a wooden table.
August 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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BerlinCon Tag 1 läuft! 😊 #berlincon #brettspiele #flinta
Panoramic view of the FLINTA*stisch stand at BerlinCon 2025. There's people participating at the stand's activities and some people walking by.
August 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I'm at the BerlinCon! Come say hi 😀

I'll be at the FLINTA*stisch stand flintastisch.de - find us right by the main exhibition hall 🏳️‍🌈
Panoramic view of the FLINTA*stisch stand in a hallway at BerlinCon 2025. Some people are behind the counter and some gathered before the stand.
August 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Not from an event, and not from this year, but I can say that they're indeed pretty nifty little pin badges! ^_^
A round, brown pin badge with a table-shaped logo in white, and three lines of text below it, also in white: 1) Tabletop Games Blog; 2) ALL THINGS TABLETOP GAMES; 2) tabletopgamesblog.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Probably the quickest game of Bandido I've ever played, and we won! : D

A nifty card game by Martin Nedergaard Andersen with @helvetiq.bsky.social, illustrated by Odile Sageat and Lucas Guidetti Perez.

This is the mini version from the gacha machine at @sugorokuya.bsky.social !
View of a finished game of the cooperative card game "Bandido" played on a table with a busy flowery tablecloth. It is the mini version of the game. The players have won!
June 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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cf.geekdo-images.com/UpJTj48Vm3A4... 👀😁
Cover of the boardgame Piccolo (a version of the boardgame Halli Galli)
May 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Side view of the Burj Al-Arab in Dubai
February 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Today on "games sleeping in my shelves I definitely didn't expect to see in my feed" 😀 - I was really intrigued by the setting and worldbuilding when I got this one, but after reading the rules I've still haven't really played it (the curse of >3 player games sometimes) 1/
Front view of the box of the board game Kalahen. It depicts a nighttime scene: a castle and landscape in the background and characters in the foreground in a high fantasy setting (wizard, cavalry knight), a dragon flies in the sky. Cebtered on top, the name of the game in insular celtic-styled typography.
February 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I'm likely going to be posting more during 2025, but let's start like last year ^_^

@ Nürnberg Toy Fair!
A view of the front area of the Nürnberg Messe hall on a sunny day
February 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Dragones del mar!!! 🌊🐉

We just got it, looking forward to playing it soon ^_^
Foreground: a box of the boardgame Sea Dragons (in the original Spanish version, Dragones del mar) standing upright to show the cover. Background: a shelf full of boardgames.
March 24, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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Lands of Galzyr does something similar for character skill markers cf.geekdo-images.com/SxT9j6p3LADM...
February 25, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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New year, new fair 🎲👀

@ Nürnberg International Toy Fair
A landscape view of the front of the Nürnberg Messe grounds, where the International Toy Fair takes place. It's a rainy, foggy morning.
February 1, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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I got one at Essen and I'm looking forward to antagonizing some anemones soon! 🐙 👀
A copy of the card game Enemy Anemone (by Daniel newman at New Mill Industries) being held close to the camera. In the background, a bit out of focus, a hall at the SPIEL board games convention in Essen, Germany.
October 14, 2023 at 5:07 PM
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A bunch of people are playing Forest Shuffle, and some Tipperary
A view of a group of tables with people sitting, playing the card game Forest Shuffle A close-up view of a table with people sitting, only their hands visible, playing the card game Forest Shuffle A close-up view of a table with people sitting, only their hands visible, playing the tile-laying game Tipperary
October 5, 2023 at 9:00 AM
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I'm here! Come say hi! 👋🏻😀 6-D102
Nico standing in front of a booth at Essen Spiel
October 5, 2023 at 8:30 AM