🎲📐Marcus Ross ⚡️🚗

How do you like your candle scents? Food, flowers or feelings?

Alright procrastinators, now's your time to shine

A whole house in Florida and no one went to even look into the man’s face for how long exactly?

I got a message this morning. Someone bought "But Then She Came Back", played it, and said it made them realize they were being abused and leave that relationship. I am profoundly moved that something I made helped someone in that way. Been sobbing since I got the message.

These Games Are Not For Sale celebrates artful games made for the sake of it. This one-day festival inside PAX Unplugged will spotlight games that money can’t buy. Come experience games, not buy them: 🚫🪙🚫🪙🚫 🎲✂️ 🪙🚫🪙🚫🪙 🗺️ Pennsylvania Convention Center 📍 Terrace Ballroom 🗓️ Saturday, Dec 5 🕙 10am-10pm

Announcing the newest peer-reviewed series for Carnegie Mellon University Press: games! This week during @meaningfulplay.bsky.social, we're launching our first-ever CFG (call for games) for Promptuary, a playable anthology. www.cmu.edu/university-p... #boardgames #tabletopgaming #stayanalog

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Just backed! Rainbow Blvd. - Board Game www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...

Wells Fargo has been my primary checking account since college and they’ve ABSOLUTELY NEVER offered me a mortgage on *any* terms and I’m in *software development*. I don’t know which of these racists to be madder at.

Omaha Gaming Convention is returning in 2027! Join us July 9th-11th, 2027, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Omaha Downtown Old Market, featuring more convention space, and more room for events and #boardgames! Let's get it! Buy your badge EARLY for a discount: tabletop.events/conventions/...

OCT 31 == DEC 25 so honestly this new Halloween expansion for my Christmas game makes total sense. chriscouch.games/products/jin...

Getting hype for the week’s news

Mattel rabbit hole has led me to previously unknown depths of Scrabble-ing. Words fail to describe word game man. Understanding the rules <<< Playing the game youtu.be/p94DqHv3xk8?...

There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other.

Apropos of nothing in particular, here’s how you freeze your credit with all the major reporting agencies www.experian.com/blogs/ask-ex...

In 1990, an elementary school teacher won $16,500 on a game show, and used her winnings to publish a board game about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. This is her story. youtu.be/r1g7C0o9Oqc

Vote with your dollars / Scream into the void (tip jar at Spielbound)

Games are art Make games for the sake of art Celebrate artful games this December at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia Follow for more details coming soon

For Natalie I’ll make an exception: *PLEASE* use AI to write your terrible letters. Mine poor eyes had to read and mine brain… comprehend? The thoughts are all dog water, but the struggle is real. Just Bad. Bad bad bad.

Currently playing Obsession with friends and I can’t help wondering what it would be like reskinned with Klingon events and houses.

Whenever someone asks how to make a comedian laugh this will be my go to example. youtube.com/shorts/ovypV...

HIDE! HIDE! HIDE!

“This is a time to be disciplined, focused, and clear about why a game deserves to exist”: board game industry veteran Scott Morris on launching new publisher Steelwing Games: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... Thanks so much for the interview @critshappen.bsky.social, best of luck with Steelwing!

I’m real danger of buying cosmetics for the packaging. profusioncosmetics.com/products/tmn...

Sometimes I daydream about what I could make if I were able to write and design games full-time.