Adam Blinkinsop (he/they)

@blinks.itch.io

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Game designer, musician, software engineer. https://blinks.github.io/

Marengo: Morning Defeat, Afternoon Victory.
Kanban: Automotive Revolution
El Grande in play.
BG Stats 2025 Plays: 443 H-index: 8 Games: 166 New: 90 Players: 105 Locations: 12 Hours: 517 Days: 116 The Gang: 75 Echo from the Dark: 27 Viticulture: 27 Crokinole: 16 Iqishiqi: 13 Atlantic Chase: 10 The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game: 10 Innovation Ultimate: 8 Similo: 8 190 designers: Reiner Knizia: 4% (Uncredited): 3% David Thompson (I): 2% Wolfgang Warsch: 2% Dean Essig: 1%.
Substation sign.
Trunk full of synth and controllers -- Keystep Pro on top.
A modular synthesizer, wired up.
Midwinter valley, green and brown grasses, cloud cover.
View from a conference today into fog over the Puget Sound.
An early game of Cross Bronx Expressway, designed by NBSP, published by GMT Games.
BG Stats: 6048 plays in 1656 games.
Sunset out a plane window.
Echo from the Dark, final game state.
BG Stats Oct 2025 Plays: 32 H-index: 2 Games: 19 New: 8 Players: 12 Locations: 3 Hours: 36 Days: 6 A Victory Lost Maria Echo from the Dark Vantage Sniper Elite: The Board Game Age of Steam Guards of Atlantis II Bohnanza A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) 21 designers: Jamey Stegmaier: 10% (Uncredited): 5% Adam Blinkinsop: 5% Alan Stone: 5% Christian T. Petersen: 5%.
Part way into a 3v1 of Space Empires: 4x, with all expansions. Yellow, Green, and Red are teamed up to play against a super powered Blue.
BG Stats Aug 2025 Plays: 15 H-index: 2 Games: 8 New: 2 Players: 8 Locations: 3 Hours: 14 Days: 6 The Gang The Crew: Mission Deep Sea The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship Viticulture Patience Echo from the Dark Civolution Dice of Madness 10 designers: (Uncredited): 12% Adam Blinkinsop: 12% Alan Stone: 12% Jamey Stegmaier: 12% John Cooper: 12%.
A black and white cat sprawling over the counter sheets for Fields of Fire.
A "Stanley" organizer, full of game components.
A complex but beautiful dice tower from Fate of the Fellowship that looks like the tower of Mordor.
2007 October: The Orange Box 2008 November: Hinterland and The Settlers VI: Gold 2009 October: Torchlight 2009 November: Evil Genius
A 20 on a 20-sided die, in a box.
Yellow & Yangtze
BG Stats May 2025 Plays: 78 H-index: 4 Games: 27 New: 6 Players: 16 Locations: 3 Hours: 53 Days: 11 The Gang Crokinole Similo Echo from the Dark Viticulture Hot Streak Flip 7 Heat: Pedal to the Metal Bohnanza 35 designers: Alan Stone: 7% Jamey Stegmaier: 7% (Uncredited): 3% Adam Blinkinsop: 3% André Santos: 3%.
Caylus!
Two pieces of trail mix on a quickly sketched RPG map.
Roast lamb.
The three E. Guigal "La Las" — syrah from the Northern Rhône valley, some co-fermented with viognier.
Two copies of Shinjuku on the table, one with a new Osaka map. Playing with three players on each map, with a kind of bughouse "airports" ruleset.
BG Stats Apr 2025 Plays: 15 H-index: 2 Games: 11 New: 4 Players: 11 Locations: 3 Hours: 15 Days: 7 The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game Echo from the Dark The Gang Dune: The Dice Game Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game Shinjuku The Search for UAPs The Quacks of Quedlinburg Dracula vs Van Helsing 13 designers: Wolfgang Warsch: 18% Adam Blinkinsop: 9% Bryan Bornmueller: 9% Corey Andalora: 9% Donnie Coleman: 9%.
The Dice Must Flow, an old dice version of Dune.
Kaiju and associated card for the Shinjuku board game, Supernova edition.
A copy of Shinjuku's European printing, found at Stratagemma in Florence.
Shinjuku: Osaka edition. End of game.
Shinjuku: Osaka edition.
Start of a game of Echo from the Dark, setting up for an attempt where the resource rules have been removed.
Darby winery in Woodinville, Washington, a warehouse full of barrels.
BG Stats Mar 2025 Plays: 61 H-index: 4 Games: 25 New: 12 Players: 33 Locations: 6 Hours: 53 Days: 14 Iqishiqi Innovation Ultimate Echo from the Dark The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game Crokinole Woven Xenon Profiteer Dominion (Second Edition) Super Mega Lucky Box 37 designers: (Uncredited): 4% Adam Blinkinsop: 4% Anthony Perone: 4% Bill Taylor: 4% Bryan Bornmueller: 4%.
A sea of clouds out an airplane window.
Dreams in Darkness, a kriegsspiel where the prototype used a chess set and a tarot deck.
End state of the third demo game of Echo from the Dark, Sunday. Asteria Collective (red) has built themselves a technocracy out of the ashes of the Empire (blue). The Guild (yellow) was ascendant until a series of conflicts late game, and the Swords of the Metallic Star (green) was in the process of moving out when the end came.
Iqishiqi, mid game.
Three German tanks have taken a town, but light mortar barrage and incoming fire has taken far more of a toll on the defenders than they were able to dish out.
The introductory "Scenario 0" of Fighting Formations: US 29th Infantry Division. Trying to take a German-held town somewhere in France after the Normandy beach landings.
Early prototype of Woven v4 (I think)?
BG Stats Feb 2025 Plays: 38 H-index: 2 Games: 27 New: 12 Players: 25 Locations: 6 Hours: 48 Days: 14 Echo from the Dark Cascadia: Rolling Rivers Spades 6 nimmt! Alliance Trick 100 Civolution 1822PNW SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 33 designers: Gary Kacmarcik: 7% Grant Dalgliesh: 7% (Uncredited): 3% Adam Blinkinsop: 3% Alan R. Moon: 3%.
Alpha Centauri, a star sector for Echo from the Dark.
Nine prototype technology cards for Echo from the Dark, on a 3 by 3 PDF page.
A couple hours into a game of SETI.
Troops stationed in Quebec at the start of the 1755 scenario.
Red has three leaders split between Sol and the Remains of the Forge asteroid field, while blue has a starbase on a salt mine in Sol and four fleets split (not including fleets and starbases across several other sectors shown).
A random Catan-shaped layout for Echo from the Dark, with blue Empire pieces controlling Sol and surrounding sectors, yellow Tech Ascension leader meeples searching for a safe place, green Guild bolstering the central sector with fleet cubes under their prism-shaped starbase, and red Swords of the Metallic Star forces building influence in Sol and a few rim world sectors.
Operational Conflict Series: Korea. The OCS system cares about supply more than almost anything else, and needs a good teacher. You quickly get to the point of just playing in the history and being frustrated at how much your grand attack is actually going to cost.