Through his company Asmadi Games, Chris Cieslik - however you might choose to pronounce it - has either published or designed some of my favorite games. A lot of people might be familiar with We Didn't Playtest This At All, but between Innovation, Red7, and especially One Deck Dungeon he's just associated with a lot of all timers. His next one, which will be at Gen Con, has the potential to be another Uno in my opinion. If you see him there, ask him for The New Shit.

Why Games Need to be Unfair

by Chris Cieslik, 

Owner & Lead Designer, 

Asmadi Games

I really wanted somebody to tell me what videocard to upgrade to, and when I saw that GamersNexus was following me on the Tweetzorz I shuddered with delight. Steve got back to me "weirdly fast" and since then we bother each other on occasion. He starts shit when shit needs to get started, which I appreciate. I asked him if he had anything he wanted to discuss, and luckily a bee was already firmly lodged in his bonnet. Thanks, dude.

The Block Market, or

Bail Me Out: I've Committed a Felony

Every block looks the same to the people voting on video game laws.

I decided I wanted to try and get back to doing some more traditional artwork rather than just digital. It’s been decades since I took drawing with pencil and ink seriously and so I am pretty rusty. I still find myself reaching for the undo button and trying to zoom in constantly. I’m having a lot of fun though and I have given myself the challenge of eventually drawing one of the monthly bonus Club PA comics traditionally. I’m not ready for that yet but I’ve been posting some of my practice/learning drawings over on my Bluesky and I wanted to share them here as well.

Rex Ready continues to unravel a global conspiracy. Will this time-travelling secret agent dinosaur be able to dismantle this dark machinery in time?

I'm going somewhere for a little while, so we looked at our list of quote unquote treasured, underutilized characters from our ancient past and decided to take Rex Ready for a spin. It seems like it ended up being topical.

There is a very famous video during the console war of 2013 where Microsoft said a bunch of weird shit about DRM and watermarking games to your console and controlling software purchases after the fact. This video referenced above may be the most malevolent assault since Sega did what Nintendidn't. Just… blood everywhere. Gandalf suggested that a wizard is never late, nor are they early - they arrive precisely when they mean to. Microsoft's doom is that they are perpetually late, except when they're so early people don't even understand what the fuck they're talking about.

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