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@roscoschock.bsky.social
💪 Introspection is a superpower! 💪 He/Him No Hate Allowed: #BLM #StopAsianHate #Inclusion #Diversity .. Check out all my card and board game designs here: http://shockrock.games
At Battlefront: Dayton for the first public demos of The Golden Blade .. Surreal to see your game design now available as swag 😀
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
At Battlefront: Dayton for the first public demos of The Golden Blade .. Surreal to see your game design now available as swag 😀
At an awesome design retreat this weekend and got to test 2 new designs:
Pickup Artist: a small box cards only pick up and deliver game where you deliver art to museums
Magnificent 7: A super gamer roll n write with an approachable Yahtzee inspired base 🎲✂️
Pickup Artist: a small box cards only pick up and deliver game where you deliver art to museums
Magnificent 7: A super gamer roll n write with an approachable Yahtzee inspired base 🎲✂️
October 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
At an awesome design retreat this weekend and got to test 2 new designs:
Pickup Artist: a small box cards only pick up and deliver game where you deliver art to museums
Magnificent 7: A super gamer roll n write with an approachable Yahtzee inspired base 🎲✂️
Pickup Artist: a small box cards only pick up and deliver game where you deliver art to museums
Magnificent 7: A super gamer roll n write with an approachable Yahtzee inspired base 🎲✂️
Had a great playtest of Londonium on Sunday .. Really happy with everything about this game, just need to test at. some other player counts 🎲✂️
July 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Had a great playtest of Londonium on Sunday .. Really happy with everything about this game, just need to test at. some other player counts 🎲✂️
Got some new designs tested last night .. KY Blackjack, which is a bidding and bluffing game; went great just need to figure out the end game condition .. Londonium, which is kinda a speed version of Puerto Rico (apparently); didn’t have enough tension but I have some ideas to iterate on 🎲✂️
June 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Got some new designs tested last night .. KY Blackjack, which is a bidding and bluffing game; went great just need to figure out the end game condition .. Londonium, which is kinda a speed version of Puerto Rico (apparently); didn’t have enough tension but I have some ideas to iterate on 🎲✂️
Tested out a new resource acquisition system tor Mouse Pad that uses mazes .. It worked really well, just need to clean up some UI .. Also, tried a new filler called 5th Street which a drafting and score builder in the vein of Arboretum but more approachable 🎲✂️
April 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Tested out a new resource acquisition system tor Mouse Pad that uses mazes .. It worked really well, just need to clean up some UI .. Also, tried a new filler called 5th Street which a drafting and score builder in the vein of Arboretum but more approachable 🎲✂️
On the way to @unpub.bsky.social the other week, I designed a game called Mouse Pad where you are a mouse decorating your pad and your player board is a mouse pad 😀 It is also my first tetromino design .. Got it to the table and things mostly worked but need to adjust the economy and recipe costs 🎲✂️
April 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
On the way to @unpub.bsky.social the other week, I designed a game called Mouse Pad where you are a mouse decorating your pad and your player board is a mouse pad 😀 It is also my first tetromino design .. Got it to the table and things mostly worked but need to adjust the economy and recipe costs 🎲✂️
Ran Do Robots Dream? last with a group of friends that never played social deduction before .. They immediately asked to play again!! .. This game is sooo fun !! 🎲✂️
April 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Ran Do Robots Dream? last with a group of friends that never played social deduction before .. They immediately asked to play again!! .. This game is sooo fun !! 🎲✂️
Some post Unpub content: Some more good tests of 12 For A Penny and managed to wrangle a group together to try a new social deduction concept called Are We The Baddies? 🎲✂️
April 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Some post Unpub content: Some more good tests of 12 For A Penny and managed to wrangle a group together to try a new social deduction concept called Are We The Baddies? 🎲✂️
First 5p game of Backdraft!! Everyone enjoyed it and two different strategies ended up only 6 points apart .. (162-156) 🎲✂️ Thanks for the inspiration @tonytran.bsky.social !!
March 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
First 5p game of Backdraft!! Everyone enjoyed it and two different strategies ended up only 6 points apart .. (162-156) 🎲✂️ Thanks for the inspiration @tonytran.bsky.social !!
Happy to have 2 groups willing to try Maiku .. Really happy to see people’s reaction to it.. Also got a late night test of a brand new Set Theory .. Mostly worked and some great ideas to make it hum 🎲✂️
March 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Happy to have 2 groups willing to try Maiku .. Really happy to see people’s reaction to it.. Also got a late night test of a brand new Set Theory .. Mostly worked and some great ideas to make it hum 🎲✂️
If you are coming to @unpub.bsky.social this weekend, hmu to try a new experimental mini and *victorless* game concept called Maiku .. I’m bringing 30 copies and you get to keep one if you want 🎲✂️
March 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you are coming to @unpub.bsky.social this weekend, hmu to try a new experimental mini and *victorless* game concept called Maiku .. I’m bringing 30 copies and you get to keep one if you want 🎲✂️
Got another playtest of Backdraft with the DC crew .. New tiles cleaned up all UI issues .. Also played an amazing game from @jacktose.bsky.social called Under The Wire .. Beg him to play it this weekend at @unpub.bsky.social, you won’t be sorry (but you may explode 🤷♀️) 🎲✂️
March 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Got another playtest of Backdraft with the DC crew .. New tiles cleaned up all UI issues .. Also played an amazing game from @jacktose.bsky.social called Under The Wire .. Beg him to play it this weekend at @unpub.bsky.social, you won’t be sorry (but you may explode 🤷♀️) 🎲✂️
Some more testing this week .. 12 for $0.01 has players joining a BMG style tape club only to be forced to later buy overpriced tapes .. Worked really well just need to tweak the economy a bit .. Harmonia is about hiring a nymph army using a bump draft; goal cards need completely rebuilt 🎲✂️
March 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Some more testing this week .. 12 for $0.01 has players joining a BMG style tape club only to be forced to later buy overpriced tapes .. Worked really well just need to tweak the economy a bit .. Harmonia is about hiring a nymph army using a bump draft; goal cards need completely rebuilt 🎲✂️
Got some Sunday play testing in .. Limbo continues to be a banger .. Merchant Sailors crashed hard 🤣 Now to rebuild it 🎲✂️
March 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Got some Sunday play testing in .. Limbo continues to be a banger .. Merchant Sailors crashed hard 🤣 Now to rebuild it 🎲✂️
Two new games are ready for testing 😀 twist on pickup-n-deliver Merchant Sailors and drafting + set collection 22 for a $0.01 (iykyk 🤣) 🎲✂️
March 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Two new games are ready for testing 😀 twist on pickup-n-deliver Merchant Sailors and drafting + set collection 22 for a $0.01 (iykyk 🤣) 🎲✂️
Got to run a 5p game of Domination!! .. I got wrecked; people kept Sabotaging me even though I wasn’t in the lead 🤣 🎲✂️
March 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Got to run a 5p game of Domination!! .. I got wrecked; people kept Sabotaging me even though I wasn’t in the lead 🤣 🎲✂️
Another great test of Backdraft .. Players really enjoyed the multi-layer puzzle and had a suggestion to make it more brain burnery 😀 🎲✂️
March 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Another great test of Backdraft .. Players really enjoyed the multi-layer puzzle and had a suggestion to make it more brain burnery 😀 🎲✂️
Play test night again, this time Mega City and Cauldron Bubble .. I need to adjust the numbers on the cards of Cauldron but it presents a really interesting puzzle to solve 🎲✂️
February 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Play test night again, this time Mega City and Cauldron Bubble .. I need to adjust the numbers on the cards of Cauldron but it presents a really interesting puzzle to solve 🎲✂️
Ran some older designs back again .. Animal Farm and New Dice City are still bangers! .. I need to get collateral ready for pitch season 🎲✂️
February 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Ran some older designs back again .. Animal Farm and New Dice City are still bangers! .. I need to get collateral ready for pitch season 🎲✂️
Finally got to test Red Riichi !! .. We didn’t use all the rules as the testers were new to Mahjong .. It is doing what I wanted it to do with one exception that I need to think more about .. Also squeezed in a quick game of 5 Star Fusion that has been tweaked to be Family weight 🎲✂️
February 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Finally got to test Red Riichi !! .. We didn’t use all the rules as the testers were new to Mahjong .. It is doing what I wanted it to do with one exception that I need to think more about .. Also squeezed in a quick game of 5 Star Fusion that has been tweaked to be Family weight 🎲✂️
Sumo Dice concept is ready to be tested. Players use their smaller dice to move the opponents Sumo wrestler out of the ring. 🎲✂️
January 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Sumo Dice concept is ready to be tested. Players use their smaller dice to move the opponents Sumo wrestler out of the ring. 🎲✂️
Play test of an updated Quantum Loop. A trick taking game based on the movie Source Code. Players cooperatively try to solve a murder, slowly gaining more information each loop. 🎲✂️ First approach failed but we played again and solved it this time around!!
January 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Play test of an updated Quantum Loop. A trick taking game based on the movie Source Code. Players cooperatively try to solve a murder, slowly gaining more information each loop. 🎲✂️ First approach failed but we played again and solved it this time around!!
Play testing recap: Tweaks to Backdraft went well; happy with where it’s at .. 3p only drafting tricker The Sign of 3 was very interesting and needs more plays .. Players asked to end with Yuansu again; sooo much fun! .. Jokes led to breaking out Numberwang to close the night 🤣🤣 🎲✂️
January 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Play testing recap: Tweaks to Backdraft went well; happy with where it’s at .. 3p only drafting tricker The Sign of 3 was very interesting and needs more plays .. Players asked to end with Yuansu again; sooo much fun! .. Jokes led to breaking out Numberwang to close the night 🤣🤣 🎲✂️
Finally got play testing started again in 2025 .. Yuansu continues to just be lot of fun!! .. First test of Backdraft (domino drafting and set collection) went really well .. Need to redo some drafting boards and re-color the bonus dominoes for clarity .. Excited to run it again next week!! 🎲✂️
January 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Finally got play testing started again in 2025 .. Yuansu continues to just be lot of fun!! .. First test of Backdraft (domino drafting and set collection) went really well .. Need to redo some drafting boards and re-color the bonus dominoes for clarity .. Excited to run it again next week!! 🎲✂️