Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪

Here is a video version of the keynote I gave recently. It's about the oppressive nature of our games' mechanics, and some propositions to move the conversation forward. I reference cozy games of dominance, the oppression of metrics, and multi-victor design. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTKf... 🎲✂️

The Color Jam campaign is in its final 24 hours today. Designed by @stickydoodler.bsky.social and Joe Kell, with art by Erin Laue, we're incredibly proud of the work put in to make this game something special. We hope you'll check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...

Color Jam has funded! We're so, so excited about making this coloring game a reality. Thanks to everyone for sharing, supporting, and helping this exist! And a major thanks to the incredible game designers Gene Koo and Joe Kell, as well as artist Erin Laue. You all made this something truly special.

At 3pm ET today, we're going to be live with @panda8ngel.bsky.social to play some Color Jam! Oh gosh, I still gotta pick which colors I'm going to use! 🤔🎨 Hope to see you there! www.twitch.tv/panda8ngel/

Tomorrow~ @lunarpunk.games

The Color Jam Kickstarter is now live! 🖍️ We're very excited by the design work Gene Koo and Joe Kell put into this game, along with the beautiful art by Erin Laue, and are honored we get to share it with you. We can't wait to see the incredible art you make through this cozy, puzzle-y game.

Would you follow me if I were a worm

It's almost time to Color Jam! This cozy, puzzle-y coloring game by @stickydoodler.bsky.social and Joe Kell launches on September 22nd. Trying to get your favorite colors in the right spots is harder than it looks! We can't wait to see your cool art. 🎨 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...

Maybe someone can fix this in me. Does anyone else have an aversion to taking pain killers because it feels like putting electric tape over the "CHECK ENGINE" light? Like, I know it's not, but I wait until I'm in like agonizing pain before taking even prescribed pain killers.

Games can be games without a hierarchical result. We must broaden traditional definitions of tabletop games to give designers the agency and opportunity to express themselves in new, exciting, and challenging ways. We should be creating new ways to explore artistic mediums, not shutting them down.

Here it is, our final podcast episode! We recorded it live at Crystal’s in Vegas since Ambie and her family went there for vacation! We talk about Color Jam and Rosetta: Second Edition and reminisce about the podcast and our friendship. @lunarpunk.games @dvcgames.bsky.social youtu.be/-PO5fsoKyiAo

It's wild how fun Big Walk is given you're just lil guys getting lost and solving team exercises together.

t/f if a game has no market there's no point in making it

📣 I’m excited to announce!! 📣 I’m partnering with Unstable Games to start a sister studio to them named… ✨ Ordinary Magic!! ✨ I’m so excited to bring 3 BRAND NEW GAMES under this new studio to you this Fall!!! 🍁

Houdini's Last Act is a magic trick of an indie game, an investigation of medium hucksters and wavering teammates. It isn't often that we get a small game this handsome or intriguing. My review: spacebiff.com/2026/07/28/h...

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

Today I discuss three paper games: one about origami, another with coins, and a third that's all about coloring by numbers. Read about them here: spacebiff.com/2026/07/24/o...

Listening to cursed relationship drama while drinking my tea, aromantically.

I turned the ColorJam logo into a ColorJammable page! I love this game so much, and I'm very confident you will, too. Please follow it on Kickstarter!

Excited for our first book club on July 28th at 8pm EST! We'll discuss C. Thi Nguyen's "Games: Agency as Art", an excellent text about how games convey agential experiences, and the risk of losing our values to scoring systems. Hosted by @ericdittmore.bsky.social ! discord.gg/NrqwRTm4?eve...

I got a PnP review copy of Color Jam from @lunarpunk.games and tried it out today. Started solo but then one of my kids came and wanted to help me color, and by the end he was helping me choose the colors based on the numbers! We managed to get the picture almost how we wanted!

What is the masculine equivalent of "girlie pop"? And while we're at it, the genderless version.

I was thinking about a fight I had with Big Sticky and realized: arguments aren't always something you want to "win," at least, not with loved ones. That's the genius behind the game Conviction by @xoe.gay. It recognizes that quarrels can have more outcomes than just win/lose. You should try it.

Make your next work of art in Color Jam, a cozy, print-and-puzzle coloring game launching on Kickstarter later this year. Grab your favorite crayons and play solo or with friends. Follow along here for when the project goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun... The night is for creativity. 🖍️

Happy pride youtu.be/uAkNYJsL3wA

Me, trying to dodge roll the FIFA World cup in my city.

I think it's funny when things try to scare me like "Your location is exposed! VANCOUVER!!!" Oh no my vpn location oh noooo

Happy pride like do any of you ever forget I'm a trans aroace pile of autism? Because I feel like I'm already pretty damn loud and proud about it all year round. I feel like this should be the month where the cishets deliver to us offerings to signal they have not yet folded to fascism.

"I denied your ad request on BGG because I spend my free time curing demonic possession, and also I think you shouldn't publish your game which I think you made in ignorance of the real depravity of Satan and his works" is a fucking insane thing to write in an email www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...

Me watching Brave Little Toaster as a kid: "I will watch this VHS on repeat til it breaks, I love it!!!" Me as a young adult: "What nonsense. The toaster is emotionally responsible for a flower??" Me post transition: "High art criticism of wasteful consumer culture. Animism for western audiences."

What do you mean "Cake by the Ocean" isn't about having cake by the ocean!?!? I swear every day I feel a little more ace.

I'm loving the submissions we're getting for this.

ANNOUNCING: Swords Against Beginner's Box Replica Edition Coming in June, this is a reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of this 1979 game found at an estate sale in 2016, including replicas of personal effects of the former owner.

WE'RE LIVE!! 🔥🎉💃🏼 Learn more about #LyricalLudology, check out the pledge levels, and let's get Season 2 in the road! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

But what if I don't wanna >:[ #comic #cats

I am thrilled to announce that The Seahorse & The Hummingbird has signed Sneaky Squirrels by Joe Kell! A super-fun game by a great designer. I look forward to working with Joe to bring the game to life and to market. Photos by @xoe.gay and Joe Kell. #boardgames 🎲✂️

Happy trans day of invisibility. Here, enjoy this selfie.

You think they'll let me use the carpool lane?

Been a while since I girlmoded so hard. I forgot I gave my usual eye liner to a freshly hatched egg and had to improvise. And it was to go to an event mostly for dads lmao

We are really excited about publishing Color Jam, designed by @stickydoodler.bsky.social and Joe Kell. It's a cozy, print-and-puzzle coloring game for one or for you and some friends. It's perfect for lazy summer evenings or for when you want a whisper of strategy in your coloring. 🏖️🖍️

Isn't it cool how there are always excuses for why the price of groceries and gas has to go up, but there's never an acceptable excuse for why the price of labor must go up?

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how so much game design advice that’s available is really just business/product advice. It’s got a lot of survivorship bias and as a result, it’s homogenising and dissuading a lot of what’s possible. So…I’m making a little vlog series about it!

"Down with the Patriarchy" Pasteup Spotted in New Orleans

Unpub is this weekend! We're exciting to play your games and share some of ours with you. Our publishing studio focuses on games where any number of players can win or lose OR games where there are no winers and losers, just various outcomes players reach. Here's what we're bringing:

A while back, I posted about my move to the Netherlands later this year. As part of that move, my family is also venturing into the world of tabletop game publishing through Hawk and Dove. I'd be honored if you would check us out and follow along on our journey!