Kevin Hovdestad

@hovdestad.ca

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Director, Brand Development at CATAN Studio

Me and Brian!
the apparently horrifying Saskatchewan pizza
I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m NOT KIDDING
Picture of the new CATAN On the Road packaging
Six year old showing off her iPad case, freshly adorned with new stickers.
Crunch is ready to play CATAN!
a banner showing the Minnesota Timberwolves and CATAN logos
PCH bar in San Francisco
Image announcing Twitch Plays CATAN, taking place September 9 and 10 on twitch.tv, sponsored by Charles Schwab.
Team CATAN on the hot streets of New Orleans!
Sansa, a long-haired miniature dachshund
Dinner at a German winery with the CATAN folks!
Setting up several heckin CATAN games
Group dinner selfie
several fuckin’ nerds
Screenshot from the Flighty app, showing that I've been on 45 flights totaling 77,114 km spanning 5 days, 5 hours in the air - all since late June of 2024.
two magazine covers comparing Hugh Jackman’s presentation for a men’s magazine (shirtless, overly muscular) vs. a women’s magazine (smiling, wearing a simple long sleeve shirt)
HOT POT HOT POT
Some of the new CATAN 6E game credits.
New CATAN game fully set up.
New CATAN game components.
Opened box of CATAN.
Photo of the exterior of the new CATAN box.
Fast Company Most Innovative Companies 2025
Canada goose poised to beat a bald eagle’s ass
That’s what politics is — the way we distribute pain. It’s not a sport or a fraternity or a game. It’s how we determine who gets medication and who dies young, who learns in a class of twenty kids and who learns in a class of thirty, whose school has a counselor that’s trained to look for signs of sexual abuse and who doesn’t.
Barney Stinson
meme showing Neopets as a tiny domino eventually toppling modern democracy as a huge domino
two people both looking at computers; next to one it says, "Tired of looking at BAD SCREEN" and next to the other it says, "Can't wait to get home and look at GOOD SCREEN" - all of which is the learned helplessness of a generation incapable of making effective choices about the ways in which they spend their time. You know - you KNOW! - that you are being manipulated by systems designed in a lab to screw up your ability to regulate your own consumption or behavior, and instead of ever stopping to interrogate your intentions, you just move aimlessly from one screen to the next, annoyed by the interruptions of an actual existence that surround you. Millions of years of evolution to bring us to the peak of conceivable existence and instead of experiencing the life all of that produced for you to live, you're watching another fucking Instagram Reel. Now you're reading this! Go touch grass. Hell, don't just touch it - pick it up. Observe it. Study it. SMELL IT. Allow the enduring complexity of the boundless number of things you cannot and will not ever know or understand to wash over you as you come to terms with the reality that there are things about the single blade of grass betwixt your fingers that confound you in ways you don't even realize you aren't aware of. That's not existential dread - that's the joyous freedom of separating your incessant need for control and learned helplessness from the fundamental truth of existence. You are not a machine built to optimize or be optimized, and this experience has value you cannot measure or weigh or monetize. Now you're alive. What you do next is up to you. Become ungovernable.
Hey, it looks like you’re waiting for ideal conditions to do that thing you’ve been wanting to do. Need I remind you that ideal conditions do not exist and will never happen? 🔵 I’m aware 🔵 Wow, rude
three pillows, one just happens to look like a dog…
The new cover art for CATAN sixth edition.
same picture, but Dr. Manhattan is minecrafting a dude with “you have to take MY wild interpretation of your post very seriously!!!!!” on him, with no in big letters just above the good doctor’s blue tushy
two dudes at a bar
questionable selfie
Miniature dachshund sitting on stairs
miniature dachshund asleep on the couch
Our miniature long-haired dachshund, Sansa, laying on a staircase (notably, instead of on her dog beds, or the couch, or…)
miniature red-haired dachshund that is committed to laying on stiff, unpleasant stairs instead of soft, comfortable couch
Photo of me and a CATAN fan in a cosplay dress at Gen Con 2024.
A map showing the countries that used the death penalty consistently from 2018 to 2022, including the US, Iraq, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Egypt, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Vietnam.
Kevin Hovdestad Freedom From the Torment Nexus, 2024 Acrylic on canvas Free https://twitter.com/settings/deactivate
Job posting note that contradicts itself, saying, “This is a remote position; however, candidates must reside in the [REDACTED] region - you must be within an hour commute from [REDACTED].”
Calvin and Hobbes comic. Calvin's mom asks him to get into the bathtub. He says, "I obey the letter of the law, if not the spirit." From downstairs, his mom yells, "LET'S HEAR SOME WATER RUNNING!" Calvin gets out of the tub, still fully clothed and dirty, saying, "...Nuts."
Sonic the Hedgehog meme saying, "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding"
Photo of my wife and I standing in front of the house we are about to close on.
muted words list
Image from the 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War showing King T’Challa telling Bruce Banner, who is attempting to bow to the king, “We don’t do that here.”