pax – Ink Tippler

January 30, 2026

Tabletop Game and Card Devving #2: The Bricking

I’d made plans to post last week and share a couple of images from my updates for the game. Instead, I foolishly agreed to update my iPad to iOS 26. Long story short, Apple’s precious attempt to fix what was never broken ended up breaking my post-warranty iPad. Several attempts to update via iTunes and…

January 16, 2026

Tabletop Game and Card Devving #1

Header: A desk covered in zine supplies: washi tape rolls, scissors, printer paper, markers, and tape. On the zine is a line drawing of a mushroom. In the lower right corner is the title, I See You.

There’s been a lot going on recently, and I’m amazed that my efforts to develop a tabletop game haven’t gone to pot. How many months has it been since I decided I wanted to make a game and have it play tested at Unpub? It’s less than two months away, and I’m still going. I’m…

November 1, 2025

Finding My Game

A header image featuring a part of the exterior of The Strong. Giant Scrabble pieces spell out PLAY and a red dragon looms over a garden. Accompanying text reads, Rochester, NY. This is the farthest up north I've ever been in my life. On the east coast, anyway.

I could go into excruciating detail about my first conference trip, but most of it’s pretty academic and therefore sand-blastingly dry—trust me, you don’t want the blow by blow—but Board Game Academics was possibly the best first conference I ever could have had. Considering I was the only librarian/information type person among 75 people, I…