Always Awake Games (Connor) 🔜 Pax West

@connor.alwaysawake.games

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Board game designer, illustrator and indie publisher Store: https://www.alwaysawake.games/

The logo for this years PNW Tabletop Game Market. A evergreen forest at night with my ranier behind it and a pawn and dice peeking out from the trees.
The Kickstarter preview page for Out of Sorts 2e showing 97 people following the campaign
A review for Out of Sorts on BGG that says: “Thoughts: This game was absolutely fascinating. Co-op, Real time, symbol sorting. I kind of hated it and it stressed me out BUT I also Could. Not. Stop. Thinking About. It. We spent about an hour discussing it and I had already messaged someone to buy it by the time I got home bc I wanted to try it again. I don’t even know if it’s more of an experience than a game but something about the absurdity of trying to order these symbols and describe them is really unique. Supposedly it’s similar to Wilmot's Warehouse but I haven’t played that as I am, generally, not a fan of memory games. (4/4/26)”
A freshly stamped teal shirt with the Always Awake Games logo. Hand dyed and stamped by me. The stamps are sitting next to the logo.
The Always Awake Games vendor page on the PaxWest site
A grid of cards from a custom illustrated deck in a grid shot from an angle
A jacket sleeve with four eyes stamped on going from shoulder to wrist. The rubber stamp I used is sitting next to it and there are tape marks on the sleeve for where the stamp needed to line up.
A video showing me unboxing and going through my custom deck of playing cards. The cards all have filigree swirls around the suit icons.
A test setup on my dining room table of a booth display table. There’s a three tiered display with game components and games on it as well as two upright peg boards with shelves with more games and components displayed on those
A behind the scenes shot of an unboxing video. Three rulers are placed to frame what is in and out of bounds of the camera. The game components are strewn inside that frame.
A stained mahogany three tier display shelf with cards from That’s the Spirit standing upright in a little diorama
A 3d printed insert for the board game Club Spooky. It’s got little trays for each of the player tokens neatly organised.
Test layouts of KS game explanation. Everything is teal or white. The cards, text, background, everything.
Draft of a cover for my game prototype Lost Controls. Done in a vaguely art deco style, a big yellow alien is pressing buttons on a wall while watching a robot stack some dice through a window. All done in shades of yellow, black and white
A tub of tote bags in a teal dye bath
Ted looking confused as he stares at what the other players are doing over his hand of cards
A stack of boxes full of small box board games tucked in the corner. Each box holds 24 games. If condensed, it takes up about as much space as a large armchair
Video of a game component that tracks how many times you’ve messed up. It works by having a book token slowly lower in front of a judgmental aliens face. The more you mess up, the more they stare at you
A factory sample of a custom playing card deck called Filigree and Follies (covered in filigree) next to a stack of factory samples of Out of Sorts
Very early sketch of a cover for a board game called Lost Controls. The it’s all black, yellow and white. There’s an alien about to press a button on a wall of buttons while a robot is about to grab some dice.
A picture of the game Roads & Boats in progress focused on my area of the map. A number of little wooden planes and donkeys are carrying good chits around.
An 8ft background banner with the always awake games logo (archway with an eye in it) on top of a hill with a verdigris sky behind it.
The store entry for That’s the Spirit bird game. “A game of deduction, second guessing, and unfortunate ghosts”
A deck of cards spread across the table with the box standing on top. The box says "Filigree & Follies" and it and the cards are covered in colourful filigree swirls on a white background.
A photo of four games from Always Awake Games with drawings of characters from those games interacting with the boxes
A black cat climbing into a shipping box
A table with packing supplies for two games I’m doing the fulfilment for
The king cards from a custom deck of playing cards. They all have filigree around them in different styles based on the suit.
A pile of open shipping boxes with copies of Out of Sorts
A ghost looking shocked. The ghost is a white blob with stick arms and a basic line and two dots for mouth and eyes
The Out of Sorts cover with “sorts” crossed out and replaced with “stock” so it says “out of stock”
The ks tracker showing it crossing 100% funded
Progress tracker for the ks. $4280/4500 funded
Cards from Club Spooky with speech bubble tokens on them. Taken by Kovray
A banner for the Ghost Party bundle ks with the launch date of October 14th. A copy of each game is standing upright with cards from the games splayed in front.
Closeup of some cards on a table. The category cards from Out of Sorts are in the background and some new out of sorts cards are in the foreground.
A ghost slouched down in a green armchair sliding onto the floor. There’s a glow coming from in front
A crowd of people walking past tables where indie publishers are selling their games
A time lapse of a digital painting of a creature with a mouth of big tombstone teeth wearing a jacket
A black cat sitting upright behind the games components displayed for a photo shoot. She really wanted to be part of the picture.
A closeup of the cards from That’s the Spirit. Lots of unfortunate ghosts on them.
A closeup of the creature cards from Club Spooky. Lots of different monsters shown.
A stack of copies of The Crossword Factory on top of a box full of more copies.
A spiral bound book with the title The Crossword Factory and a sporadically filled in crossword on the cover. There are little stick figures working in a letter factory in the blocks of the crossword.
Prototype copy of Club Spooky with a stack of cards and Talking Point tokens that are in the shape of little speech bubbles.
A Kallax cubby of ~60 stacked copies of Out of Sorts
A grid of cards from That’s the Spirit. The grid is offset and slightly tilted. The cards show ghosts in various unfortunate situations.
A stack of copies of Hedge Mage on my office floor
A stack of copies of Out of Sorts that have a bit of damage to their boxes.
A copy of Out of Sorts sitting on a shelf below the small game best seller list.
A copy of Club Spooky board game with some cards from it arranged in front on a teal backdrop. A black cat is poking her head in from the side to sniff the box.
A single ghost sitting on top of a hedge in a maze staring up into a dark sky. The maze fades off into the darkness halfway up the image and above that is all black.
A stapled together booklet of the prototype for The Crossword Factory. There’s a crossword grid with some filled in letters. In the blocks are little stick figures passing letters around and whatnot as if they’re in a letter factory.