MCM, Dragonmeet, and DragonCon take a stance against AI, but the UK’s biggest board game con stays silent - despite pushback from attendees.
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Tabletop Gaymers interviews Chrys Sellers (she/her, @hecticelectron.bsky.social) of Hectic Electron Games about transitioning later in life, creating Defy the Gods, crowdfunding lessons, mentorship, and centering queer experiences in game design. Learn more at hecticelectron.com.
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Great write up from Oliver here about the Spiel des Jahres, and how its history and founding principles still guide how it crowns the prize winners each year (and why so many people end up wide of the mark trying to guess the winners 😅)
Oh awesome, Ben’s a good friend of mine! And an outstanding board game designer to boot - definitely tune in and check this out!
Hey you! Yeah, you! Have you been waiting for the application to be a vendor at the 2026 Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged? Well, it's been up for over a week! It'll be up until August 1. Go submit your game, maybe you'll get picked?
www.newmillindustries.com/ignm-app
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Out of interest (& this is a genuine, non-loaded question) what visible impact have any of the higher ed courses teaching variations of game design had on tabletop game design? Can we point to actual things that have emerged from these courses? Ideas, coherent schools of thought, movements? In the…