David

David

@ddavidd.bsky.social

I mostly post about board game design and parenting my 3 awesome kids. Co-founder of Grumpy Spider Games. www.grumpyspider.com Romans 5:7-8

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THIS JUST IN: SH&HB 100% confirmed* they will be producing a GLOWING BOX for their next release, Threed! Rumor** has it, they will accomplish this by incorporating PLUTONIUM into the packaging!

The Seahorse & The Hummingbird@thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social

If you liked the Rune Rite hype spam, you're going to LOVE the Threed hype spam in early 2027. #BoardGames #IndieBoardGames

Finally finished a personal design project I've been working on almost exclusively for the past few months. Not sure what to do with myself now... #boardgamedesign

It's been a long and winding road for this one, but I'm absolutely here for it!

The Seahorse & The Hummingbird@thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social

🔮 A long time in the coming. Rune Rite is the build-your-own-polyomino flip-and-write game and it's coming to Witchstarter on October 13th! Follow the prelaunch for a notification on 10/13. Backers will get: • $5 off the $25 retail price • A free copy of The Grimoire Mini-Expansion #boardgames

I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm lovin' it. Originally these were just for fun, but of course I've come up with a #boardgamedesign I might try these on!

Meet my latest game idea: Memaw's Cookie Jar So far play tests have gone fantastic! It's not a kid's game, but my 5 & 6 year old both really like it (probably in part because of the toy cookies). And yes, that is a Pringles can substituting for a cookie jar. :) #boardgamedesign

Still thinking about our realtor who got less and less responsive until she fully ghosted us on the house we ended up buying, which was also at the top of our budget. Literally the diamond mines meme.

For the record, I do not recommend fulfilling a Kickstarter, moving to a new city, and taking care of a new born all at the same time. #exhausted

Tried a new game idea with the kids yesterday. It was a weird middle ground between adult game and kids game that ended up not being great for either. The kids loved it anyway! They've never spent as much time playtesting a design as they did with this one. #boardgamedesign

To anyone who thinks they hate ginger ale, please try something other than Seagrams, Schweppes or Canada Dry, they’re all F-tier ginger ales. To anyone who has and still hates it, you are dead to me.

The whole family watch My Neighbor Totoro last night. It was our first Ghibli film. The kids loved it! My wife really enjoyed it to which I was concerned about. A big hit all around!

This was an image in one of my day job's training modules, presumably reviewed and approved by an actual human™ before sending it out to employees at large. There's a lesson in there somewhere....

This was harder than I expected! 1. Breath of the Wild 2/3. Majora's Mask 2/3. Ocarina of Time 4. Wind Waker? 5. Original NES Zelda?

Ben Bertoli 🫜@radishgames.com

Saw some folks doing their top 5 Zeldas yesterday because of the 40th anniversary. Here’s mine: 1. Wind Waker 2. Breath of the Wild 3. Ocarina of Time 4. Link Between Worlds 5. Minish Cap What are your picks?

This is a great under-the-hood look at game design! My design process usually goes like this:

Peter McPherson ⏭️ PAX U@peterlmcpherson.bsky.social

I started a new design and have a playable version and clear next steps—I'm going to walk through my process here 🎲✂️ Step 1: Quick brainstorming in a digital note. Core gameplay is that each player creates runs of cards in front of them to play "ability" cards, which are also points. ~1 hour.

1. Think of an idea. ~10 min 2. Think about it more. ~10 hrs 3. Think of how to fix it. ~20 hrs 4. Make a quick prototype. ~5 hrs 5. Hate it. ~15 min 6. Think about fixing it. ~50 hrs 7. Work on artwork. ~15 hrs 8. Post artwork on Social Media. ~5 min 9. Abandon the idea for 2 years. ~2 yrs

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🎉 I am beyond thrilled to announce that my game Evenglow (née Potion Patch) will debut at GenCon '26 with The Op, with art by Clémentine Campardou (who you might know as the artist behind Wyrmspan, Floriferous, Origin Story and more). This is it, folks. The dream, come true. #boardgames 🎲✂️

Here's my workflow: For every one (1) project I *almost* finish, I get to start two (2) new projects! I call it "the road to endless possibilities"!

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I have a light game about being international monkey spies that are trying to collect as much of their target fruit as possible without their secret identity being blown. Which of these names do you like best? • Primate Directive • Mission: Impeelable • Something else (comment) #boardgamedesign

We got a lot of packages leading up to Christmas, so my daughter and I decided to cut out and paint a little fireplace out of two of them. We had a lot of fun and may just have to do "Cardboard Christmas" again next year!

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For me, I think it’s Gold/Silver. It had some of the best pokemon and I loved the day/night cycle as well. Being able to go back to the Gen1 region was also a big surprise to me!

You’re telling me the 5 flavors are sweet, salty, sour, bitter and UMAMI? What even is UMAMI? The fact that it has 2 extra syllables let’s me know it’s a FAKE flavor!

So crazy. If you were to tell someone from a hundred years ago that we can buy 1 terabyte drives for less than a hundred dollars, they’d say, “… What’s a terabyte?”

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Hi there! My name is Real Human and I just so happened to see your crowd funding campaign. wow! I must say it’s is very creative and brave. I have helped hundreds of projects like yours raise millions of doll hairs and I think you could be one of them. Please let me know if you’d like to connect.