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Gary Kacmarcik
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The Kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zer...
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Board game designer (Shinjuku). Seattle(-ish). he/him
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Gary Kacmarcik
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The Kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zer...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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This is a fun little puzzly game that packs a lot of thinkiness into a small box. Slide one of your dice horizontally as far as you want (or until it bonks into an opponent's die). Dice in a column score if the sum of all the dice in that column equals the number at the top.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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I wish I could find Vernors that tastes like it used to when I was growing up. 😢
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Blue
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This huge Arthropleura plush is all finished and ready to head home to her owner! Over three feet in length and meticulously handmade with soft minky.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Always a good sign when the bookstore has an exact match for the board game you're working on.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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I love these little guys.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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View of Mount Hood from the Japanese Gardens in Portland.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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I'm at El Gaucho in Portland and the musician just performed a traditional Brazilian version of Stairway to Heaven.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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This is really interesting. Thank you for keeping track and sharing the summary!
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Jonathan Dresner
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Americans mostly think that the rest of the world has immigration policies that are pretty similar to what they *think* US immigration policies are like: open to almost anyone, with special dispensation for refugees. We haven't been that country ... maybe ever, but we think we're the norm.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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SpaceBiff review of first edition:
spacebiff.com/2024/02/13/n...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Original Twitter link:
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Gary Kacmarcik
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A second edition of Nawalli is on Kickstarter for a few more days. This is a highly rated lane battler that uses animals and spirits from Aztec mythology (drawn by Gonzalo Alvarez).
www.kickstarter.com/projects/naw...
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Jack Lynch
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SUMERIAN HAS A FRUSTRATIVE MOOD If English had a frustrative mood I think I’d speak in nothing else.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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IIUC, Biden could have Seal Team 6 assassinate Supreme Court justices and the SC would be ok with that.
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James Downie
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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Shinjuku at #8 on the Boardgamer top 10 sales list, dropping from #5 last week.
It's now out of stock (品切れ中), and restock plans are not decided (再入荷は未定です)
x.com/bodoge_hoobb...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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That sounds great! Good luck with your game pitches!
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Also of interest is what they're not looking for.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Ravensburger is having their Game Inventor Days from 12-13 July 2024. If you're interested, you need to submit *before* then to get an assigned slot.
But even if you're not interested in submitting, their site describes the sort of games they're looking for.
www.ravensburger.de/de-DE/entdec...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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I'm so glad Suz posted this because I missed last year and would have missed this year.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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This tweet caused Shinjuku to be out of stock everywhere online:
x.com/eiitirou/sta...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Link to Opinionated Gamers post:
opinionatedgamers.com/2024/06/19/o...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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This prompted me to start writing an exploration of the rule complexity for some of these games.
boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/162...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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The Opinionated Gamers had a post last week about Spiel des Jahres winners that they didn't click with, and in the ensuing conversation the topic came around to the relative complexity of the SdJ winners between 1999 (Tikal) and 2002 (not Puerto Rico).
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Shinjuku is #5 on another top 10 sales ranking chart in Japan. This time for sales last week at ボドゲーマ (Boardgamer).
Source:
x.com/bodoge_hoobb...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Post from the board game cafe LittleCave新宿南口店 (Little Cave Shinjuku South Exit Store).
Shortened to Little Cave Shinjuku Store ("ten" = store) since there aren't (yet) any games called "South Exit" to add in between.
Source:
x.com/NAMAElittle/...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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"This game is great and reminds me of my time living in Shinjuku. The card play allows you to plan ahead and the wildcard mechanics make it very flexible. Kudos to the designers for bringing it all together so well."
😍
x.com/monkefuu/sta...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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I love how much room there is to walk around the tables. Often, the tables are a bit too close together to get around comfortably.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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I feel seen...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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For reference #1-4 are: 1: "Monster Eater ~Dungeon Meal Board Game~" 2: "Black and White Sea Route" 3: "New Act: Duel in the Age of Falling Cherry Blossoms: Kira Card Collection" 4: "Birth of a Guru - I will save you with the oracle that has just come down to me."
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Source: twitter.com/chibagame/st...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Yellow Submarine releases a weekly list of "board game best sellers" based on the sales in all their stores in Japan. Shinjuku ranked #5 this week!
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Context: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18011...
(or direct x.com/rnaudbertran...)
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Problem: No one pays attention to French politics. France: I have an idea...
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This is the first time in a long time that "imagine a guy who is kinda hurt by this" has not been sufficient standing. Keep shitting on SCOTUS, everyone. It's working.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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🎉
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Gary Kacmarcik
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TIL that "ChatGPT", when pronounced in French, is "Chat, j'ai pété" (= "cat, I farted") and now I'm gonna say it that way all the time.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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🤬 Good luck dealing with this.
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Asher Elbein
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Here it is, the piece that — along with its sequel — is far and away the most popular thing I’ve ever written. They will engrave this on my tombstone probably
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Gary Kacmarcik
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I think they call those eye trucks. Using a toe truck would be silly.
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Colin McMillen
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i stand by the Posting that got me on his show though
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Are you sure about the culprit? I know my dogs would still be licking that floor long after the last cod piece (hehe) was gone.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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This site decided to provide a Japanese pronunciation for my name as: G.カクマルシク (= kakumarushiku, which is not too far off). Apparently, my first name was too frightening to attempt.
tgiw.info/2024/06/shin...
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Gary Kacmarcik
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Not a problem! In school, I learned to pay attention to when the teacher got near the "K"s and wait for the "Gary... <pause>" so I could respond "Here!" and save them embarrassment. I pronounce it like kaz-mar-sik (so each "c" is pronounced differently! ha!)
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Gary Kacmarcik
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How did you like Madori-ism+? I picked it up at TGM, but haven't yet had a chance to play it.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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I love this idea. This Spring's Game Market also had a Ziplock Alley (チャック横丁 Chakku Yokochou) where the entire game had to fit in a ziplock bag. It's nice how the TGM format encourages designers just getting started. Please let me know if you need any help with organizing or running this.
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Gary Kacmarcik
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That's... not what cathedrals look like. (From the "Rebirth" Kickstarter campaign)
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The internet being full of bullshit-on-purpose satirical humor killing AI because it can't distinguish between the satire and fact feels just like the cold virus killing the aliens in WAR OF THE WORLDS
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Gary Kacmarcik
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"A Jest of Robin Hood"? I can tell already I'm going to be very bad at this game.
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