Mike Mullins

@bluedevilduke.bsky.social

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Solo tabletop game designer and developer. He/him https://mikemullins.me/ PFP by Momo (https://www.heyheymomo.com/) Banner is a screen from Donut County BGA: mullins014

People in a sports bar watching France versus Morocco on a big screen
No Kings featuring a crossed out crown on a yellow background
An image of the Hotness list on BGG, with Deep Regrets #1, and Shallow Regrets #2. Shallow Regrets is the pocket-sized version that Judson Cowan designed for Button Shy.
The rear doors of a packed Uhaul van are open to reveal boxes and a dolly.
Jason Tagmire placing a tile on the Rebirth board.
Selfie of my wife Sarah and I on the beach. She's got a windbreaker on and I have a zip-up hoodie because it's not really warm enough for the beach yet.
My knees, both of which have electrodes connected to a TENS unit (electrical stimulation for pain relief) and an iced knee sleeve.
Mostly black and white illustration with 5 of the characters from LOK in front of a metal structure. The text reads "Congratulations for 100% completing LOK Digital! We hope you had a good time with our game and we hope you stay curious on your path forward. - Letibus designs, Icedrop Games, Draknek & Friends"
Screenshot of a BGG blog post. The text above reads, "I thought I was doing well 2 rounds in. The additional bouquet cards Demon received in round 3 though... they combined beautifully and a 6 point swing meant I lost by 4." The image shows a stuffed demon serving as the opponent in a solo game of Tussie Mussie, with beautifully illustrated flower cards distributed on the table. The text below reads, "Demon smug with his 6 card hand that did for me in round 3. The forces of darkness don't play by the rules. Or rather they do, thanks to a pact with Mike Mullins."
The box cover of Jokkmokk, featuring colorful storybook art of a winter scene in Sweden. The bottom left corner says Designed by Henrik Larsson, Illustrated by Christina Hägerfors, and Visit the famous Swedish folk market!
Player board is a 4x4 grid of squares, with a snowy alpine scene covering the entire thing. Beneath the board are several of the square species cards: snowy owl, emperor goose, Canada lynx, woodland caribou, snowshoe hare and northwestern gray wolf. The animals are beautifully illustrated, with icons indicating their habitats and additional details.
5 action tiles surround a Yeti tile, and two are flipped to their yellow solo-only side. Two blue player cylinders are on the tiles. The scenario book is open to the scenario I'm playing. Several cards fill my player area, and the backs show my clan. Fish tokens, the famous tomato/apple tokens, and some meeples are placed on the cards.
The game box, with a bright moon overhead shining on a circular tablet with Diné paintings in front of a fire. Rocky buttes line the background. Red and green cloth draw bags containing pieces for the game are next to the box.
The cloth central mat has a row of achievement cards (two face up for solo), a common villager deck, a guardian card deck, a forest spirit deck with three wooden juniper tokens on it, and a row of 5 face up common villagers. There is a supply of square building tiles (3 types: farm, forge, shrine), and a supply of resources (scrolls, barley, offering bowls, prayer bells, and gold).
Photo taken from a car window of a large beaver statue
The full setup: 6 rows of 3 cards each, next to their respective decks on the left edge of the board. A colorful map board with scoring objectives, three exploration tracks with a player piece and several solo tokens on each, and many towns (action spaces) with the relevant resources stacked nearby. Below the main board is a small player board with three sections to place resources and 3 house tokens that unlock abilities once placed. A white draw bag contains the action tokens.
The main board has colorful art representing the continent, a score track around the outside, the "borderlands" area in the top left where creatures come into play, the sun track (game timer) on the top right, 8 branched paths dotted with rewards your villagers can collect, 6 resource tracks which players generate and share (you score for unused resources you create), and 4 season tracks for bonus scoring.
View of my legs from the waist down as I lie on the couch with a blanket over my legs. A black and brindled Plott hound is tucked behind my knees, with his chin resting on my legs. He's probably thinking dog thoughts like, "The snow makes my toe beans cold and now I can never go outside again."
Home board is a square island. 3 ship tiles (contracts to be fulfilled) line each coast. 4 boulder tiles (obstacles/scoring goals) are in each corner. 5 basket tiles (that you slide to collect resources) form a quincunx in the center.
The box cover is upright on the game table, with shelves filled with games in the background. The box is black with a silver Celtic knot style circle and Oak written in the center. Very minimalist but striking.
Closeup of the map of Peacemakers, Horrors or War. Orange ocelot meeples in rubber bases are facing off against one remaining red bird. Three Adventurers (player pieces) are also on the map. Several pink discs represent damage taken by the units.
Hannah as Vi from Arcane/League of Legends, with red hair, a neck tattoo, red leather jacket & black hoodie, plus handmade Vander's Gauntlets.
Handmade gauntlets and various tools used to craft them, including tin snips and a drill.
Part of the Arkham Horror board, showing locations like Rivertown, Graveyard, Black Cave and General Store. Two locations have an Elder Sign token meaning they are sealed (protected). Two cardboard standees (both white bearded academics) and a handful of custom dice are on the board.
A picture of the components described in the post. A tray of iridescent blue swirl tokens represent madness, black beads are added to the clear and blue (player color) beads to track insights on a circular board with three sections. The nightmare cards are tarot sized cards, and the patients are poker sized. Two cards have translucent plastic overlays that add features to the cards. There is a square token that looks like it's straight out of Evil Dead, with two mini-euro cards tucked under it as the required publication materials. Finally, there's the pet board with the illustration of a sleeping dog, several rows of abilities, and a dog-shaped wooden tracker piece. You need something to keep you sane when facing all this darkness!
In the foreground I'm holding 4 large sheets that serve as an icon glossary. The "Routine Client Effects" and "Case-Study Client Effects" sheets have 12 rows explaining icons. The two "Icons" sheets have 50+ icon definitions. The background of the photo is my game table with a blue playmat and several game boards, cards, tokens, etc
This is a phone screenshot of the ShinePhone app. There is a picture of a solar panel array and many statistics describing the power generation of the solar panels. The installation date is listed as 2024-10-22.
4 silicone bit trays with sword, apple and mineral cardboard tokens, and wooden scroll tokens. Two reminder cards about the phases of the game, two cards used for solo, and the player board. It's got pink, yellow, and blue regions corresponding to paths on the board, each with 3 trading houses that can be built to grant abilities. 4 favor tokens in the player colors are next to the board.
I am wearing a Boston Celtics hat, black hoodie and blue T-shirt (with art by Ali Martin), and my wife Sarah is wearing a blue windbreaker. We're sitting in front of a bed of pink flowers.
The main board of Stephens, with a row of professions cards at the top, several professions with player tokens around the edges, a row of contract cards on the left of the board, and a row of investment cards on the right. The board itself features 4 small factories (spaces for cubes), 4 Stephens factories (spaces for translucent glassworks cubes), and a scoring track that doubles as a time tracker.
Large and medium barn-shaped boards filled with small building tiles, a cottage-shaped board filled with large building tiles, a resource board with two wheels and several resources tokens, and the estate board where you place your buildings.
Wooden shelf with four boxes copies of Hanabi Deluxe II and one copy of the Hanabi card game.
Sarah and Hannah walking over rocky terrain towards a wooden sign marking the summit. Fog obscures almost everything else.
Card title: Determinism Card effect: This card has no function and can neither be played nor discarded. Flavor text: The proposition that every event, including human cognition and behavior, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences i.e we have no free will. "A man can do what he wants, but not what he wants." (Schopenhauer)
The Boon Lake game board is on the table, depicting a winding river through lots of hex territories, scoring and income tracks around the outside edge, and a handful of tokens on the board.
I'm sitting at a table on the deck with a game of Opus Dei set up. There are cards representing scientists and philosophers laid out waiting to be drafted. My shirt is one of my favorites, a stylized version of an animal cell.
Round cake with the black and red Dungeons and Dragons logo printed in frosting.
See description in previous post
The left 1/3 of a mural covering the outer wall of the brewery, featuring a meteor speeding towards a T-Rex, a War of the Worlds style robot, UFO's abducting turtles and a heron, a giant crab with a fisherman in it's claw, and a sea monster attacking boats.
Photo from a balcony, the beach in the background . Mike's feet up on a table, plus crackers, cheese & beer.
The middle of a game of The Gods Will Have Blood is shown, including a playmat, cards, cubes, pawns and draw bag. The box is also visible, with the box art featuring a guillotine.
Mike dressed as Jesus Quintana from the Big Lebowski. Purple shirt with "Jesus" on the breast, durag, and a bowling glove
End game of Flip Town; a western-themed player board with different several sections marked with a dry erase marker and several cards from a poker deck used to determine the actions each round.
Mobius (Owen Wilson) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) seated at a table eating pie, in a room filled with pies.
Player mat at the end of a game of Solani.
Fort player boards, cards, and tokens set up for a 3 player game.