Co-designing Payload: a tabletop game on the theme of rockets 🚀

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Seeking playtesters to playtest a rocket-themed tabletop game, Payload. The game is a fun 1-5 player card game where you build rockets, bid for payload contracts, and race to launch two payloads first. BGG complexity: ~2.25 Pl comment if interested. We use Discord to play.
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As a game dev, there’s something so satisfying about guessing the game engine instantly just by looking at the lighting and overall rendering.
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🚨 INDIE GAME SHOWCASE TIME 🚨 Devs, show us what you’re building 👇 🎮 Game Title Genre 🔥 Drop your BEST clip or screenshot Let’s discover hidden indie gems and support each other 💙 #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #Gamedev #DemoMonday
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Seeking playtesters to playtest a rocket-themed tabletop game, Payload. The game is a fun 1-5 player card game where you build rockets, bid for payload contracts, and race to launch two payloads first. BGG complexity: ~2.25 Pl comment if interested. We use Discord to play.
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The country needs an educated PM
CUET exam centre visuals from Varanasi. Students being told that the server is not functioning…
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VIDEO | Chandigarh: AAP workers celebrate after party's victory in Municipal Corporation elections. AAP leader Manish Sisodia, says, "First of all, I would like to sincerely thank the people of Punjab for once again showing such great trust in Arvind Kejriwal ji and Bhagwant Mann sahib, including in the municipal corporation elections. At the same time, I am also happy that the people of Punjab have given a strong response to one of the country’s biggest problems... the ED-driven politics of fear and hatred. The people of Punjab believe in the politics of work, love, and mutual respect. Politics of betrayal will not succeed in Punjab.” #ChandigarhMunicipalCorporation #AAP (Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
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Game dev question of the day What makes a game replayable?
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Probado Galactic Cruise con @vazkez_javi y con @massnue Lo saca @MalditoGamesES en Español. Es un Juegazo. Euro duro. El lunes en “El rincón de pensar” os lo cuento con @javiercalvo
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Replying to @EagleGryphon
Andromeda's Edge (sorry, I do like EGG components in games like On Mars and Weather Machine, too, but I feel as though I have to use AE to answer your question!)
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First solo play of Andromeda's Edge published in France by @LuckyDuckFR. The Unity (Bot) wins 107 VPs with only 70 VPs on my side...🤔. Obviously room for improvement here. A great 4X SF eurogame with many intriguing mechanics. #boardgames #sciencefiction #4xgames
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21 Mar 2025
Playing some Dragons #boardgame Kinda like #Dune Imperium #gdc
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Played Dune Imperium uprising with 6 players today. This is a big change from the normal rules. The game is really designed for 3 or 4 players, several pages of additional rules are required for 1, 2 or 6 (and 5 is impossible). So the 6 player game is really a team game of 3 vs. 3. One player on each team is a Leader. I played as Muad'dib (Paul Atreides) and the player directly opposite me was the Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV. The players either side of me were my enemies - allied to the Emperor. The players either side of the Emperor were allied to me. The game still proceeds with clockwise turn order, so effectively it is alternating between the two sides. I will caveat all this by saying that only me and the Emperor player had ever played Dune Imperium before, so there was a lot of learning involved for everyone. In particular, the rules for what you can and can't share between players on the same team caused a few rules checks. And specifically how the Leaders interact with their Allies. But we still had a fun time. The game came down to a decisive battle between Gurney Halleck and Feyd-Rautha, involving sandworms and lots of troops. The entire game was decided by this battle, and my side ended up losing by 1 point: 22 to 21. So, very close and very tense. I think if everyone played again they would have a much firmer grasp of what to do. But this experience has showed me a lot about how new players experience games. Especially how they feel constrained. Lots of conversations went like this: "Can I do this?" "No, you don't have a card with the matching symbol." "Can I do this?" "No, you don't have enough resources." "Can I do this?" "You could, but it technically won't benefit you in any way because of X, Y and Z." "So what should I do?" "Just do this - that's what I would do. At least you'll get something." This is not specific to Dune, but it seemed to be prevalent because there are so many options and so many constraints that newer players just get totally overwhelmed and ask "what can I actually do?" But this is still an extremely solid design. It's one of those games where you get near the end and want to totally rethink how you've been playing this whole time because all the layers of strategy finally align in your mind. The deck building aspect is something I've barely scratched the surface of - I'm still trying to figure out how to win conflicts and use my agents most efficiently. Will we all play again? Hard to say. This group normally plays Axis and Allies Global 1940 or Twilight Imperium, and honestly Dune Imperium just doesn't compare to those in terms of table presence and intuitiveness of mechanics. But worth it to try at least once.
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Nailed it 🔥 True 💯
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CELEBRATES ❌️ BOOTLICKERS ✅️ — Petrol price is skyrocketing : ₹110/Liter — Indian Rupee keeps falling : 1$ = ₹96 Back in 2014, the Outrage was loud. BuT today, it's just SILENT MODE ON.
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COCKROACH JANATA PARTY GOES INTERNATIONAL 🔥 FRANCE 24: Even Cristiano Ronaldo did not get this kind of growth this fast. CJP picked up 23 million followers in 9 days. ABHIJEET 🎯: It started as satire. But today it has become a youth movement in India.
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महँगाई डायन खाये जात है 46 डिग्री- उत्तर प्रदेश
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The cockroach just won’t die. #CockroachJantaParty
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