Adam Stichter 🔜 PaxU

Thought it'd be good to do an introduction post - Hi! I'm Adam, an escape game, puzzle box, solo ttrpg, and board game designer. The pictures are of my puzzleboxes, my solo/coop card game "My Small Garden", one of the rooms in my Air BnB game, and elements from my escape game builds.

A makerspace I'm a part of is doing a soldering workshop! #BloomingtonIN

Go give the Ladder Lad demo a spin and leave a review!

Tickets bought - I'm going to PaxU in December! Anything I should make sure that I do while there?

I finally did it! Got through all of lok digital without looking up solutions online. (I will admit i used the hints for some of the harder ones). Can thoroughly recommend! @draknek.bsky.social @letibus.bsky.social @raindrinker.bsky.social thanks, y'all!

I'm giving myself the weekend to look over options then I'll need to make a decision.

This is a fantastic game. heartily endorse.

I'm looking for a textbook for the Board Game Design class I'll be teaching this spring. The class will be a combo of both game design majors and students who presumably have no experience in game dev. The contenders are Building Blocks of Game Design & Game Design Workshop. Am I missing an option?

Puzzle People! This has to already exist. Let me know. 🎲✂️ ✏️🧩

Zack Strebeck of Legal Moves Law Firm is putting on a free workshop: 🗓️ Thu Oct 15 🕗 8pm ET "I'm putting a full game publishing agreement on screen and marking it up live. For each problem clause, I'll explain what it does to you and what I'd ask the publisher to change." speedrun.legal/teardown/

I always loved the idea of a gritty cyberpunk monocity setting, but if anyone ever ventured out and got over the horizon… they’d find a cosy little farming game homesteading as nature reclaims the wasteland.. and let the players just… find it.

You know what's satisfying? The Base 3 alphabet. ✂️🧩

There is still a few days to submit to the symposium on alt.controls, MAACS 2027. www.maacs.net

Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate

Can someone remind me that I need to find my copy of Atari's ET to show my class tomorrow? it's buried somewhere in a box of decorations because of course I can't (won't) play it.

I don't offer a pnp for one of my games, because the physicality of the game needs the cards to be like standard playing cards, not sleeved or homemade. I could have gotten a bit more money by offering pnp but it wouldn't have been the same game.

This is the project I've been working on for ages now! A two player engine building card and dice game inspired by real life robotics!

Board game designers: Our 2026 reports on publishing contracts are out! Industry standards to know before signing: 💵 Part 1: advances, credit, creative control 🎲 Part 2: royalties, designer copies, promotion 🌏 Part 3: co-publishing, extra royalties, rights reversion cardboardedison.com/reports

I think that I'm going to have to start telling more boring bedtime stories. 🙄

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Really fun stream from my favorite podcast @neverpo.st - doing band camp roulette! (Come listen!) Twitch.tv/theneverpost

Get yourself into a community where people say things like:

@neverpo.st I would love more of an explainer on this whole ecosystem and if there's a chance that it could actually be the way of social media in the future. Seems like the kind of thing you might already be working on, tbh.

You know what's satisfying? The Base 3 alphabet. ✂️🧩

I give the same advice for the exact same reason. Build understanding, empathy AND your skills at social interaction, sales and marketing, and, thus, pitching! Key point: for a lower stress but more fruitful time, work a booth where your own games aren’t being sold.

Carl DiNardo (@redfish-brewfish.bsky.social) & I are excited to announce a call for proposals for a Gaming in Libraries issue of Library Trends! Details here: forms.gle/ZWfQp3EbPTRv... Proposals due Sept 21, 2026. Don't ask us topic questions here, please! See the call for info on how to do that!

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

I always cut corners when prototyping... metaphorically speaking :P You might say a consistent corner I cut is to leave my cards corner cut-less.

someone tells me they're cutting corners on their prototype card game and I'm thinking dang why are you putting yourself through all that extra work!? 🎲✂️

What's the #GenCon2026 Game you are most interested in picking up? Going to browse the trade floor in a couple hours and am interested to know what booths I should hit!

Demoing today at 2321 & hanging out in booth 171 later today - come find me and say hi!

Oh, this is really cool. I could see this becoming somewhat standard as a way to differentiate colors/player pieces.

Listening to The Score: How To Stop Playing Someone Else's Game by @add-hawk.bsky.social and this phrase from the 1st ch "The very clarity in universal comprehensability of metrics seduce us into value capture, even when it makes us miserable" makes me very interested in where it's going next.

You betcha this is going on my schedule.

Can AI play journaling games? Spoilers: no. But the interesting question is, why not, and what that tells us about how your human creativity differs from AI slop youtu.be/iBEp-HWVTps

Well, that was delightful.

Well, this is exciting. Happy Birthday indeed.

Has anyone tried Two Sides to the Coin? A RPG with personal goals and a winner seems like a fun concept but also one that could be the opposite of "telling a fun story together". So we'd like to hear some experiences. www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/two-sides...

Next month will be the 50th anniversary of the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC. In 1976, Japan gifted many precious bonsai to the United States for our bicentennial. It was a remarkable gift just 41 years after the end of World War II.

If someone wants to pay me to write more in this universe, I'd be extremely interested. ajstichter.itch.io/a-brochure-i...

Spirit Island set for new publisher as designer declines Flat River Group renewal, plans complete art overhaul: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...