Vietnam’s Road to Essen board game design contest back for second year, with longer runway aimed at turning publisher interest into deals
Road to Essen, a competition designed to showcase Vietnam’s burgeoning tabletop design scene at the world’s biggest board game fair, has returned for its second year – with organisers changing things up in the hope of helping turn publisher interest…
Sure, I’ll Play Monopoly
by Justin Bell A few weeks ago, my wife sent me a link to an article on Slate titled “Have We Been Playing Monopoly Wrong All Along?” written by Luke Winkie. It was a great read, in part because there…
Designer Diary: Countryball Cards
by Jakov J What’s This?Countryball Cards is a chaotic card game in which you attack your friends with the British navy, Swedish vikings or the Polish winged hussars, then build Romanian forts, Chinese factories or even heal your team with…
Gutenberg Times: Gutenberg Changelog #134 – Gutenberg 23.7, 23.8, WordPress 7.1 and more
In this 134th episode of the Gutenberg Changelog Podcast, Birgit Pauli-Haack hosts Jessica Lyschik , senior developer at Greyd, to discuss recent Gutenberg and WordPress developments. The conversation centers on the releases of Gutenberg 23.7, 23.8, and WordPress 7.1 (“Mary…
Gutenberg Times: Icons, Tabs, and responsive styles: the community gets to work on WordPress 7.1 — Weekend Edition 374
Howdy, It has been another evenful week for sure! WordCamp US came to an end and WordPress 7.1 was released. Your WordPress profile now has a shortcut w.org/@[yourusername]. If you want to check out mine w.org/@bph (don’t forget the @…
Design Diary – Pintó
by fernando marecos I’m Fernando Marecos, an industrial designer, teacher, illustrator, and for the past few years, also a board game designer. In 2025, I published Pintó, the game of drawing bad. A party game where whoever draws the worst…
After successful debut, Middle East’s first major tabletop games con faces new challenge securing publishers amid US-Iran war
Fledgling Dubai board game convention tabletop.me is facing a very different challenge as it prepares for its second year: persuading overseas publishers the commercial opportunity of reaching the Gulf’s growing tabletop market is worth pursuing amid safety concerns around the…
Open Channels FM: Signal – AI Insights, Open Source Guidance and Commentaries.
A focus on guiding new contributors in open source, discussing AI’s impact, and adding insightful commentary. Sorry, You're not allowed to submit vote ! Total 0 Votes 0 0 Tell us how can we improve this post? Captcha: + =…
How to Connect Claude or ChatGPT to WordPress With MCP (Step by Step)
Learn what MCP is in plain English, then connect Claude or ChatGPT to your WordPress site step by step, with the safety settings that keep you in control. The post How to Connect Claude or ChatGPT to WordPress With MCP…
Matt: Homework from WordCamp
A few times during the WordCamp US keynote, I asked for a show of hands and got mostly blank stares back, especially on the AI questions. That’s not a criticism — it’s a reading list. If the future is going…
