Practical Tim

@practicalpeng.bsky.social

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Tim Mierzejewski: Board game designer (Aetherspire), web dev, not a penguin. My game design portfolio: https://mierz.carrd.co/

Korean Instagram post of "The Birth of the Post"
A circle divided into five parts. Tiny Towns is labeled with hands receiving different amounts of money. Terraforming Mars is labeled with a hand truck containing boxes. Everdell is marked with a tower silhouetted with a person in front. Zendo is marked with a stick figure pointing at a whiteboard while three stick figures look. Bohnanza is marked with hands giving an apple.
A game prototype with cards being stacked on top of each other using dice as pillars
i love to work i love to run i love to play real hard i love to steal little things from the grocery store like a piece of bubble gum or sometimes i just stick my thumb in a peach and leave it there
Tim's Game Den: How a joke almost broke this CCG
Tim's Game Den presents: Redemption and the Haman's Plot problem
Scoring Figments score something when they match the Dreamer. (Figments score a little something extra if their concepts get used?) Dreamer scores something too. Maybe some multidimensional track between peaceful wakeup and nightmare wakeup? 0=++XX> nightmare =++XX*> ++XX**> +XX**! XX**! X**! **! *! v good dream Could this track also have segments that change things up slightly? Reveal some information, add extra opportunities, etc?
A Google Sheets screenshot labeled "Aethestspire" containing a grid of element combinations, like Air + Earth = Sandstorm
A colorful card stating “Your future is so bright you’re gonna need shades!”
Table of contents for The Martian Chronicles, with events starting in the year 2030
The standings at the top of a LearnedLeague rundle, with me in first place.
Bob Barker standing in front of a giant price tag with a gold 3D "The Price is Right" logo, floating in the dark void above a gray grid, casting a shadow on it.
Three people laughing at a table filled with colorful slips
A bunch of colorful shield-shaped and circular tokens on a square grid
Character cards and resources from Fellowships of Fate
An array of cards that are mostly monochrome but with one color element each
A screenshot of a Tiermaker ranking of Vlaada Chvatil games. S tier has Through the Ages, Galaxy Trucker, and Space Alert.
A BGG poll showing that the 5-player Graenaland is rated as "best" by 8 people, "Recommended" by 7, and "Not recommended" by 6.
A drill with a droopy bit
The BoardGameGeek entry for "TseuQuesT", originally sold as Heroquest 25th anniversary edition
A collage of various art from cooperative games
A list of played games, with "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game" topping the list at 7
Quarterback Davis Mills
Mage Knight Board Game box, next to the text "Players: 1-5, Time: Eternity, Complexity: 4.65"
A college of characters associated with cooperative games, on a backdrop from Daybreak
Ana Ng Birdhouse In Your Soul Let's Get This Over With Subliminal Experimental Film I'm Impressed Everything Right Is Wrong Again Erase Bangs You're On Fire Can't Keep Johnny Down The Communists Have the Music Dig My Grave Apophenia Alphabet of Nations Fibber Island Science is Real S-E-X-X-Y Oh You Did Drinkin' Jackie the Clipper Synopsis for Latecomers Back in Los Angeles Zeroes
Quibli on the MATRX rulebook
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Rules from Beasts giving examples of what you could say
"I just took the Jeopardy! giveaway test!"
A transparent card with numbers and text being placed on top of opaque cards
A jumble of colored boxes
A cookbook “The Best of IRISH COUNTRY COOKING”, with all text in a light Futura
A ten day forecast starting at 77 degrees and sunny and just getting worse over time, at worst a 34 degree day
An overweight bearded man in a Browns hat near a pile of snow
Ore Processor: Processing ore
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A thumbnail for a YouTube video featuring text such as "Ideal for the student, serviceman, active-minded senior citizen, or hospital patient" and "on this ever-shrinking earth, unless all peoples learn to play the important games cooperatively so that all can win, all will certainly lose."
Three books laid out on a table: The New Games Book, The Cooperative Sports & Games Book, and Beyond Competition
the box cover for Graenaland, depicting a Viking in front of a boat
A church bulletin advertising a Mardi Gras event focusing on green purple and gold, but printed in grayscale
Tom Kennedy, some numbers, and some brown stuff that may be shag wall
Cover art for the CD single "Scatman & Hatman" by Scatman John and Lou Bega
A dad and two kids around a table holding a game board and various tokens and minis on it
A screenshot from Caves of Qud showing a character "salty bloody Ham, legendary gutsmonger"
Screenshot of a mobile game including the text “hyena: x2 vs targets with whom our hp is co-prime”
A screenshot of the Dominion app
6 Easy Steps to the Perfect Pie The ingredients for the perfect pie crust: 1 tsp salt, ⅔ c lard, and 2 c flour and cold water. Cut lard into flour and salt mixture with a fork or pastry blender until crumbs are coarse and granular. Add 3 to 6 tbsp cold water a little at a time. Mix quickly and evenly through the flour until dough just holds in a ball. Roll half the dough to about ⅛ inch thickness. Lift edge of pastry cloth and roll crust onto rolling pin. Line pie pan, allowing ½ inch crust to extend over edge. Add filling. Roll out top crust, making several gashes to allow steam to escape. Put top crust over filling. Overlap lower crust. Fold top crust under the bottom crust and crimp edges. Bake in 425° oven that has been preheated, for 35 minutes.
Four papers, each with multiple grids of letters and scores used to deduce a mystery word
Eight black bags, each with single-color designs on them such as a radioactive sign, and atom, and an eagle with a star on it.
a woman in a park gives a thumbs up near a completed game of Blokus Duo, which has blocky purple and orange shapes strewn about
three young men playing a game at a table. one holds a cookie, one holds a clue board, one holds an hourglass
A convoluted-looking card summary player aid.
The same devastating graph as the last post, but going further down
A dweeb holding a trophy. The dweeb is me.
A chart showing that user MierzejewskiTim has gone from top of the division to near the bottom.
Steam Replay 2025 top games: Slay the Spire, Caves of Qud, Tales of Maj’Eyal, Hades II, Outer Wilds
A board with blue, white and red rectangular prism-shaped buildings on it