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Kickstarter has named Exploding Kittens Inc’s senior sales manager Maggie Clayton as its new head of games, as the crowdfunding giant continues its battle against tabletop-focused competitors Gamefound and BackerKit: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Gaming giant Hasbro has named long-serving Blizzard senior exec John Hight as its new president of Wizards of the Coast and digital gaming, three months after the resignation of former incumbent Cynthia Williams: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Gonna write an article about the evils of AI art in board games. Any artist I know wanna throw their two cents at me?

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Africa's longest-running board games convention has returned to Kickstarter after two years of self-financing, as soaring inflation in its home country of Nigeria weighs heavily on the event's finances: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Part III: Here's an attempt to filter the list of all Gen Con releases to all the women and non-binary designers. I probably missed some, let us know. Give these games a thumbs up, & help signal boost these designers!! (And check out Undergrove -- please and thank you ❤️🍄)

Gen Con 2024 Previewboardgamegeek.com Gen Con is the largest and longest-running game convention in the U.S., and this preview highlights new games being demoed or sold.

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Part II: Help some hot boardgame women get even hotter --Check out these games on the BGG preview of Gen Con releases and give them some thumbs! 🧵👇

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Wanna help some hot boardgame women get even hotter? Check out these games on the BGG preview of Gen Con releases and give them some thumbs! 🧵👇

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“The ride here wasn’t without its bumps:” Heat: Pedal to the Metal co-designer Asger Harding Granerud on his journey from board game distributor and retailer to BGG Top 40 designer This and more news, features, design advice and jobs in our free newsletter boardgamewire.substack.com/p/the-ride-h...

Board game research projects in line for up to €20,000 each through Asmodee-backed Game In Lab programme: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Helping others is what makes the board game community great! I got a chance to share some of my lessons learned for @boardgamewire.bsky.social : boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... #boardgame #crowdfunding #tabletopgames

Small is beautiful: Fight in a Box’s Seppy Yoon on succeeding with small-scale crowdfunds, managing convention maths, and keeping up with the competition -boardgamewire.com Bigger money crowdfunding projects inevitably take up the lion's share of discussion in board game circles, but the vast majority of projects inevitably run on a smaller scale - and with smaller margi...

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Small is beautiful: Fight in a Box’s Seppy Yoon on succeeding with small-scale board game crowdfunds, managing convention maths, and keeping up with the competition: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... @fightinabox.bsky.social

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If you're thinking about being a vendor at Indie Games Night Market at PAXU this Fall, go ahead and submit an application! You don't have to have all of the details worked out yet, as long as you know what game you want to sell and have a brief description of it. www.newmillindustries.com/ignm

Indie Games Night Market — New Mill Industrieswww.newmillindustries.com Nothing currently exists in the United States as an in-person marketplace for small batch, unique games in the same vein as Tokyo Game Market. The US game industry landscape doesn’t currently support the innovation and curiosity that arises when designers have a low-risk way to produce their ideas and offer them up to the public.

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Origins seals record post-Covid attendance, hopes to attract back larger publishers for 50th anniversary next year: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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2 things here that both jump out of this article, each given a separate post thread for people to riff off of

Origins seals record post-Covid attendance, hopes to attract back larger publishers for 50th anniversary next year: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Some great commentary in here of what some publishers see as the reasons to booth or not booth at Origins. Lots of big names did not attend this year, some echoes of E3 in the rationale in that running a booth is expensive.

Origins seals record post-Covid attendance, hopes to attract back larger publishers for 50th anniversary next year: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Board game design (and general) mentorship advice: I know a middle-aged dude assigned to mentor two young women designing games. He thoughtfully asked if I had any advice, wondering about blind spots. I posed his Q to a group of women and I thought they had some really good advice. 🧵👇 🎲✂️

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Struggling Cthulhu Wars maker Petersen Games has been bailed out by newly-launched US board game maker Quimbley’s Toys & Games: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Multiple board game publishers fall prey to scammers impersonating 80,000 member board game Facebook group: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Struggling Cthulhu Wars maker Petersen Games has been bailed out by newly-launched US board game maker Quimbley’s Toys & Games: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Multiple board game publishers fall prey to scammers impersonating 80,000 member board game Facebook group: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Why not… I took a stab at making a #boardgame Starter Pack. Suz’s thread of folks to follow was a big help to me when I got here so I was inspired to try this. go.bsky.app/BqLf8yS

merely rachel's boardgame starterpackbsky.app Join the conversation

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Spinning plates: How a one-person publisher is bringing Imperial Borders, the latest giant game from legendary Axis & Allies designer Larry Harris, to the table (Sponsored by Nightingale Games): boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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GAMA’s annual diversity drive opens offering $1,000 grants, convention support to fledgling board game publishers, retailers: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...