Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy

Playing Hundred Acre Wood Fluxx. Such an ingenious idea.

So, you may be wondering how I got here… #deathmaydieboardgame

Zelenskyy: "When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. Many people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. It's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.

What does the Dark Tower have in store for us?

First play of the Sharks & Reefs expansion for Finspan. Thought I was killing it only to lose in a tiebreaker 😂 Loved the extra crunch it added, especially breaking up schools! @stonemaiergames.com

Finspan with Sharks & Reefs Expansion Solo Playthrough (Level 2 Difficulty) youtu.be/sFpVw-8elAI This is such a fintastic game! The Nautoma is simple to manage allowing you to be focused on your gameplay and decisions. Join me at the table and let’s play! @stonemaiergames.com

Ik heb mijn shoptegoed ingewisseld voor Finspan en heb ondertussen het spel gespeeld. Is het spel het aankopen waard? denagames.nl/analoog/fins...

cw: slight dubcon reference maybe?? I saw this shark-focused expansion for the Wingspan spin-off Finspan and knew what I had to do. I imagine this is how everyone reacts to me wanting them to learn a new board game to play with me too. #radiostatic #radiosilence #voxal

🎙️ Ep. CIII is live! We’re back on track! We chat a couple of special crowdfunding projects, new video‑game obsessions, board games, and wrap with a “Rules We Always Forget” Game Pie! 💻 youtu.be/WFyYQfyDuZ0 🎧 saltandsass.riverside.com 🌟 Clip: Suzanne talks about a rule she often forgets. 😵‍💫

The dumb thing I worked on and wanted to show is here!! 😆 MediaOCD gift card designs!

Just ordered this! I’ve known Pia and Ian since I wrote and published comics back in the ‘90s. I’m sure it’s amazing.

Finspan #boardgame Designed by David Gordon and Michael O'Connell, published by @stonemaiergames.com More games and session reports here: homeofmark.com/more-tableto... More pictures of this session here: www.instagram.com/p/DcB1wRVD7U...

This week on the pod, I had a blast talking about solo game design with Morten Monrad Pedersen, the man behind the Automa Factory. Check it out! youtu.be/87ka6TZRTww

My review of the Finspan expansion (Sharks and Reefs) by @stonemaiergames.com is up! therewillbe.games/articles-boa...

Did you check out our latest episode with Deco-stop on deep-sea-inspired #boardgames? @anarchytabletop.bsky.social, the co-designer of #Finspan, shares how the game developed such a #deepsea focus. Listen to the whole episode here: www.deepseapod.com/episodes/dec...

This is how you do it!

J beat me with the tie-goes-to-the-attacker rule in our first game of Duel of Meloch. I did manage to win one game of Wingspan Pocket, though. (We played a few.) #stonemaiergames #duelofmeloch #wingspanpocket

We have a game in here. Hope to see you there!

I don’t really have anything to add to this on the topic.

The promo video for this looks super cool. store.steampowered.com/app/3339080/...

I’m finally going to have a game at an indie night market. My son, Jason, and I designed Red Spiral, and we’re printing a few dozen copies of it to sell at PAX West. www.alwaysawake.games/pnw-tabletop...

www.deepseapod.com/episodes/dec... This was fun to be on!

It's #CraftWednesday! Do you have a game-related crafting project in progress? It could be a prototype, print and play, upgrading the components of a favourite game, making an accessory or even something larger like a table or games room. Share a picture and join in! Please RP!

Wingspan Pocket! This smaller, swifter, and streamlined version of Wingspan gives each player a single row of cards to create and activate every turn. There’s also a new type of power, green (ongoing) benefits. Join me at 10:00 Central on YouTube to chat about it: www.youtube.com/live/6JCCSCG...

Yendor ONLY teaches solo rules. He won’t let you play multiplayer.

www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n... NOAA information has been invaluable in the development of Finspan.

Finspan: Sharks & Reefs Brings Coral Reefs and Sharks #BoardGames #Finspan #Wingspan #Stonemaier #BackseatGamer

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This touches on some of the problems with AI that I find most troubling. Similar problems exist in how we anthropomorphize corporations and social media platforms. Decades of pretending that aggregate representations of thought ARE thought have conditioned us to believe nonsense.

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World Ocean Day, marked globally on 8 June, is a reminder that the ocean is a living system, full of movement, beauty, danger and delicate balance. It’s also, rather wonderfully, the setting for one of the most elegant nature-inspired boardgames on the table right now: Finspan. Finspan casts…

Counterpoint is live on Kickstarter! 2 years ago I had a silly idea to mix two of my favorite things (classical music and games) and here we are after countless hours of prototyping, testing, simplifying, and reworking. Excited to hear your music! 💛🎻🎶 www.kickstarter.com/projects/squ...

Here are some photos about how to organize Euphoria Essential and the Finspan expansion. Please note that the Finspan expansion tray fits in the game box next to the original tray—keep both so the box can hold the maximum number of cards! There's extra space in the Euphoria box for sleeved cards.

Launch day is here for Finspan: Sharks & Reefs and Euphoria Essential Edition! Our fulfillment centers are ready to start shipping these products early next week. store.stonemaiergames.com

🌊🐟 A new adventure is making waves in Color-A-Cube! To celebrate the arrival of Finspan: Sharks & Reefs, we’re bringing 4 FREE Finspan-inspired models to Color-A-Cube, a relaxing voxel coloring game available on Meta Quest (VR), PICO (VR), and Steam (PC). @stonemaiergames.com

The sound of this is amazing.

I talk with Jamey Stegmaier about the first Finspansion: www.youtube.com/live/esxYCwM...

So glad this is becoming available.

@anarchytabletop.bsky.social We're discussing Finspan on the Outside is Overrated podcast tomorrow! The episode will drop May 1.

Imagine experiencing an underwater world of exploration, research and collection through a board game. Finspan, the latest title from Stonemaier Games, is now available in South Africa and it does exactly that. It immerses players in the rich ecosystems of the ocean where they get to discover fish…

Demoing Finspan with the first expansion in the Geek Dad area of GameStorm last weekend. #gamestorm

It's live!! The game I designed, Honeypot, just launched on Kickstarter! Two years of loving work. Would be grateful if you checked it out & considered backing! It's an "I stack, you choose" game where you play as secret agent bears setting and avoding traps! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

youtu.be/m0iYCOToMfc?... This person really delves into the decisions that we made to make onboarding much easier with Finspan (compared to Wingspan). It was cool to see.