Zach Sockol
@zesock.bsky.social
Board game designer, currently making wearable games. Always discussing board games and my current designs at: https://discord.gg/eUqpux7CsQ
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Zach Sockol
@zesock.bsky.social
· Jan 20
LGBTQA+ friends, the gender you identify as is valid. Your choice in partner(s) is valid. YOU are vaild.
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I'm excited to chat with Xoe and Matt on Wednesday night!
Join us over on discord!
Join us over on discord!
On December 3rd at 9pm EST, Xoe and Matthew will chat with
@junkfoodgames.bsky.social about melding elements of board games and TTRPGs, creating play without an exact destination, and how to use victorless conditions to break boundaries within game design.
Find us on discord: discord.gg/pxZduDfKNZ
@junkfoodgames.bsky.social about melding elements of board games and TTRPGs, creating play without an exact destination, and how to use victorless conditions to break boundaries within game design.
Find us on discord: discord.gg/pxZduDfKNZ
December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm excited to chat with Xoe and Matt on Wednesday night!
Join us over on discord!
Join us over on discord!
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November 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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BMG is hosting a game jam! Make a game using 3 unique mechanics, one of which is voted on by the community. Be sure to join the Discord to vote on which mechanic you wanna see! 🎃
www.eventbrite.com/e/break-my-g...
www.eventbrite.com/e/break-my-g...
October 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
BMG is hosting a game jam! Make a game using 3 unique mechanics, one of which is voted on by the community. Be sure to join the Discord to vote on which mechanic you wanna see! 🎃
www.eventbrite.com/e/break-my-g...
www.eventbrite.com/e/break-my-g...
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The crowd sale for #Crownfell has been approved for November 18! Add-ons include a neoprene playmat and a solo expansion.
This 2-player asymmetric chess-like has 17 cards unique movement and abilities.
Sign up to be notified here (shares appreciated!) 🧡 www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/cr...
This 2-player asymmetric chess-like has 17 cards unique movement and abilities.
Sign up to be notified here (shares appreciated!) 🧡 www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/cr...
October 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The crowd sale for #Crownfell has been approved for November 18! Add-ons include a neoprene playmat and a solo expansion.
This 2-player asymmetric chess-like has 17 cards unique movement and abilities.
Sign up to be notified here (shares appreciated!) 🧡 www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/cr...
This 2-player asymmetric chess-like has 17 cards unique movement and abilities.
Sign up to be notified here (shares appreciated!) 🧡 www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/cr...
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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The Midnight Market shall offer games from worlds unknown, starting on November 7th, at 11:59 pm EST.
It will feature f̴i̴v̴e̴ four amazing games made by indie creators. After that, who knows if you'll be able to discover these games again . . .
Follow along here: www.lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket
It will feature f̴i̴v̴e̴ four amazing games made by indie creators. After that, who knows if you'll be able to discover these games again . . .
Follow along here: www.lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket
September 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Midnight Market shall offer games from worlds unknown, starting on November 7th, at 11:59 pm EST.
It will feature f̴i̴v̴e̴ four amazing games made by indie creators. After that, who knows if you'll be able to discover these games again . . .
Follow along here: www.lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket
It will feature f̴i̴v̴e̴ four amazing games made by indie creators. After that, who knows if you'll be able to discover these games again . . .
Follow along here: www.lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket
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In about 2 hours, I'll be talking with Jamie, and Tanner about digital prototyping for @protospielo.bsky.social 's Panelspiel!
If you've been on the fence about playtesting online, or you're not sure where to start, check it out! Join us and ask us questions in chat!
www.twitch.tv/protospielo
🎲✂️
If you've been on the fence about playtesting online, or you're not sure where to start, check it out! Join us and ask us questions in chat!
www.twitch.tv/protospielo
🎲✂️
July 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
In about 2 hours, I'll be talking with Jamie, and Tanner about digital prototyping for @protospielo.bsky.social 's Panelspiel!
If you've been on the fence about playtesting online, or you're not sure where to start, check it out! Join us and ask us questions in chat!
www.twitch.tv/protospielo
🎲✂️
If you've been on the fence about playtesting online, or you're not sure where to start, check it out! Join us and ask us questions in chat!
www.twitch.tv/protospielo
🎲✂️
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Awaken Realms forgot to hide their AI again. They boast how many artists they have on staff then just force them to pump out generative nonsense in the name of efficiency above all else. Yet won't even own up to it when pressed. There's no art in it, just content. Another publisher on my blacklist.
April 11, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Awaken Realms forgot to hide their AI again. They boast how many artists they have on staff then just force them to pump out generative nonsense in the name of efficiency above all else. Yet won't even own up to it when pressed. There's no art in it, just content. Another publisher on my blacklist.
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Guess we gotta keep up the sentiment that GenAI sucks so that more companies start to feel it.
May 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Guess we gotta keep up the sentiment that GenAI sucks so that more companies start to feel it.
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May 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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For those outside the US, or for the arts and crafters, we've made the print and play for Vibes available.
Included is the option to print cards with blank pages so you can personalize your copy with your own artwork!
www.lunarpunk.games/vibes
🎲✂️
Included is the option to print cards with blank pages so you can personalize your copy with your own artwork!
www.lunarpunk.games/vibes
🎲✂️
May 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
For those outside the US, or for the arts and crafters, we've made the print and play for Vibes available.
Included is the option to print cards with blank pages so you can personalize your copy with your own artwork!
www.lunarpunk.games/vibes
🎲✂️
Included is the option to print cards with blank pages so you can personalize your copy with your own artwork!
www.lunarpunk.games/vibes
🎲✂️
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Our interview with @rollplusfun.bsky.social is now on Youtube!
We chat about Brook's experience designing unranked games in the historical space, and how games dance with reality.
youtu.be/2_F_fxCEffA
Make sure to check out his unranked game Sykes-Picot!
hollandspiele.com/products/syk...
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We chat about Brook's experience designing unranked games in the historical space, and how games dance with reality.
youtu.be/2_F_fxCEffA
Make sure to check out his unranked game Sykes-Picot!
hollandspiele.com/products/syk...
🎲✂️
Breaching the Veil - Dialogues at Dusk
YouTube video by Lunarpunk Games
youtu.be
May 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Our interview with @rollplusfun.bsky.social is now on Youtube!
We chat about Brook's experience designing unranked games in the historical space, and how games dance with reality.
youtu.be/2_F_fxCEffA
Make sure to check out his unranked game Sykes-Picot!
hollandspiele.com/products/syk...
🎲✂️
We chat about Brook's experience designing unranked games in the historical space, and how games dance with reality.
youtu.be/2_F_fxCEffA
Make sure to check out his unranked game Sykes-Picot!
hollandspiele.com/products/syk...
🎲✂️
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This is tonight. See you there! 🌑🌘🌗🌖🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑
On May 13th at 11:59pm EST, we'll be having a Dialogue at Dusk with @rollplusfun.bsky.social about games modeling and shaping reality, historical games, and other ways games breach the veil . . .
Particularly unranked games.
Join the conversation in our discord!
discord.gg/HjHStPkg?eve...
Particularly unranked games.
Join the conversation in our discord!
discord.gg/HjHStPkg?eve...
May 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is tonight. See you there! 🌑🌘🌗🌖🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑
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Did you know BMG hosts around 750 playtesting events a year (in-person and online combined)?
That's a lotta playtesting! Since our events are generally 3 hours, that's about 2,250 hours of playtesting every year!
You can find our event schedule to join right on our website at breakmygame.com
That's a lotta playtesting! Since our events are generally 3 hours, that's about 2,250 hours of playtesting every year!
You can find our event schedule to join right on our website at breakmygame.com
Community | Break My Game
Break My Game provides a variety of playtesting opportunities in person and virtually on a monthly basis ranging in games in the early prototype phase all the way to games ready-for-market. Our large ...
breakmygame.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Did you know BMG hosts around 750 playtesting events a year (in-person and online combined)?
That's a lotta playtesting! Since our events are generally 3 hours, that's about 2,250 hours of playtesting every year!
You can find our event schedule to join right on our website at breakmygame.com
That's a lotta playtesting! Since our events are generally 3 hours, that's about 2,250 hours of playtesting every year!
You can find our event schedule to join right on our website at breakmygame.com
Decided to retheme my multivictor game to be about feeding friendly faeries fuji apples and frankfurters.
April 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Decided to retheme my multivictor game to be about feeding friendly faeries fuji apples and frankfurters.
If you could have one wearable accessory double as a board game, that is playable while worn. Which accessory would you choose? ( necklaces, rings, watches, etc) I'll say for arguments sake rings can go up to 4, and earings can go up to whatever the average is ( I don't know how many is average)
March 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If you could have one wearable accessory double as a board game, that is playable while worn. Which accessory would you choose? ( necklaces, rings, watches, etc) I'll say for arguments sake rings can go up to 4, and earings can go up to whatever the average is ( I don't know how many is average)
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🎲✂️ I created 3 sell sheet templates in Google Slides for anyone to copy and make their own. This is based on providing very similar feedback repeatedly when helping fellow designers improve their sell sheets: bigger images + fewer words + focus on hooks. docs.google.com/presentation...
Sell Sheet Templates
Title of Game 20’ 1-5 8+ Components Component 1 Component 2 Component 3 Component 4 Component 5 Full Name (Email) [Image of Game] [Image of Game] 4-9 word hook 4-9 word hook Tagline or Attributes or C...
docs.google.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
🎲✂️ I created 3 sell sheet templates in Google Slides for anyone to copy and make their own. This is based on providing very similar feedback repeatedly when helping fellow designers improve their sell sheets: bigger images + fewer words + focus on hooks. docs.google.com/presentation...
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Hey folks!
Did you know I released a new solo game earlier this week??
I'm very proud of it and you should check it out.
Did you know I released a new solo game earlier this week??
I'm very proud of it and you should check it out.
Moon Rings is out now!
This is a solo journaling game made for the Below a Bad Moon Jam.
Venture into the underground labyrinth, find the hidden Moon Rings, and cast a ritual to change the cursed blood moon!
Sharing is greatly appreciated!
junkfoodgames.itch.io/moon-rings
This is a solo journaling game made for the Below a Bad Moon Jam.
Venture into the underground labyrinth, find the hidden Moon Rings, and cast a ritual to change the cursed blood moon!
Sharing is greatly appreciated!
junkfoodgames.itch.io/moon-rings
Moon Rings by Junk Food Games
a solo journaling game about a casting a ritual on the cursed blood moon
junkfoodgames.itch.io
March 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hey folks!
Did you know I released a new solo game earlier this week??
I'm very proud of it and you should check it out.
Did you know I released a new solo game earlier this week??
I'm very proud of it and you should check it out.
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Moon Rings is out now!
This is a solo journaling game made for the Below a Bad Moon Jam.
Venture into the underground labyrinth, find the hidden Moon Rings, and cast a ritual to change the cursed blood moon!
Sharing is greatly appreciated!
junkfoodgames.itch.io/moon-rings
This is a solo journaling game made for the Below a Bad Moon Jam.
Venture into the underground labyrinth, find the hidden Moon Rings, and cast a ritual to change the cursed blood moon!
Sharing is greatly appreciated!
junkfoodgames.itch.io/moon-rings
Moon Rings by Junk Food Games
a solo journaling game about a casting a ritual on the cursed blood moon
junkfoodgames.itch.io
March 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Moon Rings is out now!
This is a solo journaling game made for the Below a Bad Moon Jam.
Venture into the underground labyrinth, find the hidden Moon Rings, and cast a ritual to change the cursed blood moon!
Sharing is greatly appreciated!
junkfoodgames.itch.io/moon-rings
This is a solo journaling game made for the Below a Bad Moon Jam.
Venture into the underground labyrinth, find the hidden Moon Rings, and cast a ritual to change the cursed blood moon!
Sharing is greatly appreciated!
junkfoodgames.itch.io/moon-rings
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We have these guides we've written up! For a reader friendly version you can find a PDF here.
drive.google.com/file/d/15gyV...
This multivictor guide goes into much more detail if you're interested!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
drive.google.com/file/d/15gyV...
This multivictor guide goes into much more detail if you're interested!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We have these guides we've written up! For a reader friendly version you can find a PDF here.
drive.google.com/file/d/15gyV...
This multivictor guide goes into much more detail if you're interested!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
drive.google.com/file/d/15gyV...
This multivictor guide goes into much more detail if you're interested!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I did a small printrun of Vibes, a game about helping art students find a group they vibe with, and I'm looking to see who I ought to send review copies too. I've never sought out reviewers before and I don't want to go on Facebook which is where everyone tells me to go.
youtu.be/hbL-UC327rQ
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youtu.be/hbL-UC327rQ
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Vibes: Help your students find a group they vibe with!
YouTube video by Knife Bunny
youtu.be
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I did a small printrun of Vibes, a game about helping art students find a group they vibe with, and I'm looking to see who I ought to send review copies too. I've never sought out reviewers before and I don't want to go on Facebook which is where everyone tells me to go.
youtu.be/hbL-UC327rQ
🎲✂️
youtu.be/hbL-UC327rQ
🎲✂️
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I've been working on a publishing venture with @coo.games and Maia, specifically for unranked games called Lunarpunk Games! Follow along for game updates, as well as tips, tricks, and insights for making your own unranked games!
What are unranked games? Check out this thread.
What are unranked games? Check out this thread.
Good evening . . .
We're conjuring some unranked games—games uninterested in ranking the players and their performance. For example:
• Multivictor games where players pursue their own goals in a messy social space.
• Victorless games that defy the concept of winning with narrative outcomes.
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We're conjuring some unranked games—games uninterested in ranking the players and their performance. For example:
• Multivictor games where players pursue their own goals in a messy social space.
• Victorless games that defy the concept of winning with narrative outcomes.
1/🧵
February 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I've been working on a publishing venture with @coo.games and Maia, specifically for unranked games called Lunarpunk Games! Follow along for game updates, as well as tips, tricks, and insights for making your own unranked games!
What are unranked games? Check out this thread.
What are unranked games? Check out this thread.
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Pssst! Want to learn all my pitching secrets? 🎲✂️
New workshop for February 4th at 8 PM EST: Pitch Online and Get Signed - with @jeffgrisenthwaite.bsky.social
You can attend simply by joining the discord at: discord.gg/breakmygame and following the event! Then join "BMG Live" at showtime to watch and listen in.
You can attend simply by joining the discord at: discord.gg/breakmygame and following the event! Then join "BMG Live" at showtime to watch and listen in.
February 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Pssst! Want to learn all my pitching secrets? 🎲✂️
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I wanna see weirder tabletop games that cost more money with "worse" art and fewer compromises for marketability that defy and challenge conventional game design wisdom.
It feels like the industry has been trying to min/max making games for commercial success and it's exhausting!
It feels like the industry has been trying to min/max making games for commercial success and it's exhausting!
January 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I wanna see weirder tabletop games that cost more money with "worse" art and fewer compromises for marketability that defy and challenge conventional game design wisdom.
It feels like the industry has been trying to min/max making games for commercial success and it's exhausting!
It feels like the industry has been trying to min/max making games for commercial success and it's exhausting!