Peter McPherson ⏭️ PAX Unplugged
@peterlmcpherson.bsky.social
Board game designer: Tiny Towns, Wormholes, and Fit to Print. Rulebook writer.
He/him - Upstate NY
Upcoming releases:
Hotel Greene
In progress designs:
Letterlands
Voyage
petermcpherson.com
Discord playtest server: https://discord.gg/hvSuTk3XJF
He/him - Upstate NY
Upcoming releases:
Hotel Greene
In progress designs:
Letterlands
Voyage
petermcpherson.com
Discord playtest server: https://discord.gg/hvSuTk3XJF
Tiny Towns is officially out on BGA today! Right now you can play with the base game cards in Master Builder, Town Hall, or Solo modes, but the expansions are on their way as well!
August 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Tiny Towns is officially out on BGA today! Right now you can play with the base game cards in Master Builder, Town Hall, or Solo modes, but the expansions are on their way as well!
In case you missed the news from @alderaceg.bsky.social, Tiny Towns: Underground is coming to Kickstarter this August, along with a bunch of other expansions for AEG games!
July 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
In case you missed the news from @alderaceg.bsky.social, Tiny Towns: Underground is coming to Kickstarter this August, along with a bunch of other expansions for AEG games!
Tiny Towns is in beta on BGA!
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June 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Tiny Towns is in beta on BGA!
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My first news update since January brings details on Tiny Towns on BGA, as well as updates on some fresh designs!
www.petermcpherson.com/news#h.5cqmx...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My first news update since January brings details on Tiny Towns on BGA, as well as updates on some fresh designs!
www.petermcpherson.com/news#h.5cqmx...
www.petermcpherson.com/news#h.5cqmx...
Soon! We've spent the past few months testing the base game and all expansions on BGA. Thanks for the kind words!
May 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Soon! We've spent the past few months testing the base game and all expansions on BGA. Thanks for the kind words!
Tiny Towns is in Alpha on BGA 🎉
Seeing a digital version of this game has been a dream of mine for years, and the developers and the team at @alderaceg.bsky.social put in so much work to test all 116 buildings.
All expansions will be in the full release—couldn't be more excited!
#tinytowns
Seeing a digital version of this game has been a dream of mine for years, and the developers and the team at @alderaceg.bsky.social put in so much work to test all 116 buildings.
All expansions will be in the full release—couldn't be more excited!
#tinytowns
May 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Tiny Towns is in Alpha on BGA 🎉
Seeing a digital version of this game has been a dream of mine for years, and the developers and the team at @alderaceg.bsky.social put in so much work to test all 116 buildings.
All expansions will be in the full release—couldn't be more excited!
#tinytowns
Seeing a digital version of this game has been a dream of mine for years, and the developers and the team at @alderaceg.bsky.social put in so much work to test all 116 buildings.
All expansions will be in the full release—couldn't be more excited!
#tinytowns
It's honestly a very easy hobby, just following directions. I picked it up last summer. Here's the 2nd piece I ever did. You can start with any color and really begin anywhere you want, and fixing mistakes is simple. I love it.
April 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It's honestly a very easy hobby, just following directions. I picked it up last summer. Here's the 2nd piece I ever did. You can start with any color and really begin anywhere you want, and fixing mistakes is simple. I love it.
There's one more for the Hobbit but this is the set so far. I got the patterns here: lavky.com/art-and-coll...
April 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
There's one more for the Hobbit but this is the set so far. I got the patterns here: lavky.com/art-and-coll...
I finished the 4th piece in the Lord of the Rings cross stitch book mark set I've been working on! I love how much this one captures.
April 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I finished the 4th piece in the Lord of the Rings cross stitch book mark set I've been working on! I love how much this one captures.
I recently had a chance to play @drawnonward.bsky.social's amazing game Walkable City again. It's a cooperative game about providing people with alternatives to cars with asymmetric player roles. I was the light rail player and Taylor was the bike path player. Love watching our network grow.
March 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I recently had a chance to play @drawnonward.bsky.social's amazing game Walkable City again. It's a cooperative game about providing people with alternatives to cars with asymmetric player roles. I was the light rail player and Taylor was the bike path player. Love watching our network grow.
Though I'm super happy with how it looks, this prototype was relatively quick and easy to make. Designing the board and assembling it took 3 hours and cost maybe $14, and that includes the 80 nickels I sandwiched between foam core and chipboard so pegs wouldn't lift the board constantly.
March 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Though I'm super happy with how it looks, this prototype was relatively quick and easy to make. Designing the board and assembling it took 3 hours and cost maybe $14, and that includes the 80 nickels I sandwiched between foam core and chipboard so pegs wouldn't lift the board constantly.
Who likes Cribbage and is going to Unpub?
Indiana and I have designed a little combo-building game we're calling Voyage, and we're so excited to playtest it with folks in Baltimore!
Indiana and I have designed a little combo-building game we're calling Voyage, and we're so excited to playtest it with folks in Baltimore!
March 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Who likes Cribbage and is going to Unpub?
Indiana and I have designed a little combo-building game we're calling Voyage, and we're so excited to playtest it with folks in Baltimore!
Indiana and I have designed a little combo-building game we're calling Voyage, and we're so excited to playtest it with folks in Baltimore!
@sirjoshwood.bsky.social and I are working on a spatial puzzle game that features polyominoes with no consistent unit scale or placement rules. It's gonna be WONKY.
March 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
@sirjoshwood.bsky.social and I are working on a spatial puzzle game that features polyominoes with no consistent unit scale or placement rules. It's gonna be WONKY.
Took a trip to my public library wearing @danielsolis.bsky.social's incredible t-shirt!
Can confirm the extra soft option really is EXTRA soft danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/publ...
Can confirm the extra soft option really is EXTRA soft danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/publ...
March 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Took a trip to my public library wearing @danielsolis.bsky.social's incredible t-shirt!
Can confirm the extra soft option really is EXTRA soft danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/publ...
Can confirm the extra soft option really is EXTRA soft danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/publ...
I just submitted Voyage for my @unpub.bsky.social table—what has me really excited about this game is that it's my first co-design with Indiana! We adore cribbage and wanted to make a version with no limits and unreasonable combos. Indiana holds the record for highest scoring hand at 56 points!
March 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I just submitted Voyage for my @unpub.bsky.social table—what has me really excited about this game is that it's my first co-design with Indiana! We adore cribbage and wanted to make a version with no limits and unreasonable combos. Indiana holds the record for highest scoring hand at 56 points!
My first physical playtest of Antiques in over a year and I pulled off my most satisfying stack yet—the blue upside-down-U piece resting on the orange piece and a stack of two pieces in the window.
March 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My first physical playtest of Antiques in over a year and I pulled off my most satisfying stack yet—the blue upside-down-U piece resting on the orange piece and a stack of two pieces in the window.
Cross stitch! It's become my favorite "turn my brain off" hobby and gives me something to do with my hands while I watch shows, which is the only way I watch anything. Here's a bookmark I made for Indi.
February 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Cross stitch! It's become my favorite "turn my brain off" hobby and gives me something to do with my hands while I watch shows, which is the only way I watch anything. Here's a bookmark I made for Indi.
This is actually a chill and cozy puzzle game, I promise! The game is Antiques, in which players run competing antique shops. I'm laying out the sheets I'll eventually print on sticker paper and put on chipboard to cut up for a prototype.
February 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is actually a chill and cozy puzzle game, I promise! The game is Antiques, in which players run competing antique shops. I'm laying out the sheets I'll eventually print on sticker paper and put on chipboard to cut up for a prototype.
Oh yeah I'm spatial puzzle puzzling.
February 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Oh yeah I'm spatial puzzle puzzling.
Done in an hour and 45 minutes! It was not nearly as difficult as I thought. I threw out about 1/3rd of the prototypes and put the rest in labelled bags or boxes. Almost all of the prototypes are in this image.
February 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Done in an hour and 45 minutes! It was not nearly as difficult as I thought. I threw out about 1/3rd of the prototypes and put the rest in labelled bags or boxes. Almost all of the prototypes are in this image.
I'm spending the afternoon going through old prototypes and iterations to archive those worth maybe returning to and chucking the rest. Pictured here: 51 prototypes.
How long do you hang on to old prototypes? Do you have a system for preserving them so you can return to them later? 🎲✂️
How long do you hang on to old prototypes? Do you have a system for preserving them so you can return to them later? 🎲✂️
February 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'm spending the afternoon going through old prototypes and iterations to archive those worth maybe returning to and chucking the rest. Pictured here: 51 prototypes.
How long do you hang on to old prototypes? Do you have a system for preserving them so you can return to them later? 🎲✂️
How long do you hang on to old prototypes? Do you have a system for preserving them so you can return to them later? 🎲✂️
I overhauled a design I've been trying to crack for ages called "Letterlands." The whole game is just placing word-polyominoes determined by the dice and overlapping them when you can, and it just works.
My hope is to come up with several themes to fit into one box, maybe 10 to 15.
My hope is to come up with several themes to fit into one box, maybe 10 to 15.
January 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I overhauled a design I've been trying to crack for ages called "Letterlands." The whole game is just placing word-polyominoes determined by the dice and overlapping them when you can, and it just works.
My hope is to come up with several themes to fit into one box, maybe 10 to 15.
My hope is to come up with several themes to fit into one box, maybe 10 to 15.
Ha—love it. I just got into cross-stitch last year and it's become one of my favorite ways to spend a cozy evening. Usually with Deep Space 9 on. I finished this one about a month ago.
January 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Ha—love it. I just got into cross-stitch last year and it's become one of my favorite ways to spend a cozy evening. Usually with Deep Space 9 on. I finished this one about a month ago.
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
January 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
I bumped up the completion percentages of a few games since my last update in October. Six games at 100% with two games that should hit the mark soon.
January 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I bumped up the completion percentages of a few games since my last update in October. Six games at 100% with two games that should hit the mark soon.