City Hare Studio

@cityhare.studio

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The official bluesky account for my little tabletop game studio. Only harebrained games! Part-time game designer. Mainly specialising in print-and-play games. Publishers get in touch! Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️‍⚧️ https://cityhare.studio

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A set of five ankle bones sourced from sheep. Historically, these have been used both as dice for games, as jacks, and for cleromancy.
In order, we played Backgammon, Feya's Swamp, Race to the Bottom, Pink Lemonade, Lepidoptery, Greasy Spoon, Nougat, Bunny Kingdom Town, Cribbage, Rivals for Catan, LotR: Duels for Middle-Earth, Quacks: Duel
Climbing shedding game played with a Pairs deck
It's a Casio DBC-32D-1AES. It's got a calculator, built in phone book, currency converter, alarms and more!
The Game Changers by Tim Clare Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga Games: Agency as Art by C. Thi Nguyen
Whether in play settings or courts of law, throwing dice has always been an implicit form of cleromancy: 'mancy', a suffix from the Greek manteia meaning 'the power of prophecy', and 'clero', from the Greek klêros, meaning 'lot' or 'the casting of lots' - that is, throwing dice, knucklebones, pebbles or straws, and reading portents in how they fall. Klêros is the root of the word 'cleric'. A cleric is a dice-thrower.
Don't forget to always play board games like an animal :)
Race to the Bottom, a deck shedding game played with standard decks. Each player uses their own deck. Can be scaled to any player count (though it may get slow after 4)
The six dice I made being rolled in the video. They have a satisfying sound when they rattle in the hand. In the background you see some of the bone still left to be carved into things. Fun fact: the dishwasher is shockingly good at removing oils and sinew from the bones!
A game board made up of hand drawn cards with simple illustrations, using a chess set for the player pieces
Card fronts have all sorts of different rollable combinations, while the card backs all have the same one: The superstar!
A game of Cimo in progress
The initial scribbles leading to Joti
The cheapo board I ended up buying off of Amazon. Bamboo board with wooden marbles
This one is Laporo. Played on a chess board. Both players use the same colour checkers. The board spaces determine ownership. The aim is to capture and convert your opponent's pieces
Elden ring, Bloodborne, Dark Souls 2 (yes 2, fight me), Beyond Good and Evil, Pandemonium, and four Zeldas: Wind Waker, Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, and a Link to the Past
City Hare tile next to a regular Xiangqi Mahjong tile
All the tiles as they came in the box from England
The full tile set, which includes Xiangqi Mahjong in the top left, regular playing cards in the top right (with picture cards among the other two quadrants) and domino tiles along the bottom. The dominoes and picture cards are designed by Jacob Landrum
The package I received from the company
Two sets of new in box precision backgammon dice
Image depicts a card with a cat sleeping on a rooftop balcony overlooking a small village. There are three seagulls soaring in the distance
11 Playing cards in three suits lined up from low to high. One joker representing zero, then Ace, 2, 3 of Spades; 4, 5, 6 of Diamonds; 7, 8, 9 of Clubs, and a joker representing 10