The Seahorse & The Hummingbird

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The Seahorse & The Hummingbird is a board game publisher with an upcoming catalog of games that challenge the mind and lighten the heart. #boardgames #gamedesign 🎲✂️ https://www.seahorseandhummingbird.com/

Player aid cards for the board game Threed.
A 3D rendering of a proposed box for the board game Threed.
Four prototype boxes of the board game Pyrotechnics in a 2x2 grid. In the upper-left, an early prototype in a plastic clamshell deck holder. Didn't even have its own tuckbox. In the upper-right, an Inkjet print on cardstock to mock up the dimensions for a potential box. In the lower-left, a prototype copy from Launch Tabletop. https://launchtabletop.com/ In the lower-right, a prototype copy from the final manufacturer, BangWee. http://www.bangweegames.com/
Twelve cards in a 4x3 grid. The left column of cards has a drawing of a sock in the colors puce, chartreuse and taupe. The column of cards to the right of that has a drawing of a shirt in the same colors, but this one has an icon of a spider on it. The next column is pants with two spider icons. The right column is underpants ("underpants are wild!") with three spider icons.
The very first iteration of Rune Rite, then called Poly•oly•omino.
The famous Zach Galifianakis math meme from The Hangover with complex equations floating around Zach's head. At the bottom, the question, "Is it too soon or too late for art?" is superimposed over it.
A visual explanation of the gameplay of Rune Rite. Place a card atop some other cards in different orientations to generate various polyominoes.
A game box of Rune Rite tipped onto a corner on a reflective surface.
The box top for the prototype board game Rune Rite with cards from the game scattered around it and a player sheet off to the right.
A 3D rendering of the prototype board game Rune Rite.
A screenshot of Board Game Geek on the GoldenGeek Awards for 2025 with the nomination pane for Pyrotechnics open.
A close-up of a prototype game of Sneaky Squirrels; square cards with leaves on them and wooden squirrel meeples. Mequirrels? Photo by Xoe Allred.
Two people at a table staring at a game of Threed, confused and concerned looks on their faces.
A Screentop.gg prototype of the board game Threed. Four hands of cards with ten cards each and a 4x4 grid of art cards in the center.
A 3D rendering of magenta and cyan spheres arranged in a geometric pattern.
A screenshot of a portion of a photograph of a t-shirt that shows a stylized band name, "Cognitive Load."
Nine purple cards, numbered one through nine, with purple hexagons arranged for the art.
An almost-cube of 500 units of the board game Pyrotechnics.
A screenshot from the map page of: https://www.vesselfinder.com
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Pyrotechnics launches tomorrow! December 31st, 2025 at 11:59pm EST
A screenshot of an overlay covering the website for The Seahorse & The Hummingbird. It says: "CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS I'm in the process of reskinnning WordPress with a custom theme, and let me tell you what... YIKES ON BIKES If you need to contact me, you can message me via any of these platforms:" Followed by icons for BlueSky, Facebook and Instagram.
A screenshot of the new website build for The Seahorse & The Hummingbird; the whole site from top to bottom. From header to footer.
The silhouette of a seahorse over the silhouette of a hummingbird over the outline of a circle. All of it washed in a gradient from green to blue to purple.
An image that reads on the left, in bold red, "NO FOMO," and to the left of that in thin red, "FEAR OF MISSING OUT". On the right it reads, in bold gradient green to purple, "MO' JOMO," and to the right of that in thin gradient, "JOY OF MISSING OUT".
The word THREED in 3D lettering with a color gradient and a soft gel type of texture.
A sample copy of the board game Pyrotechnics, splayed out, on a desk at the manufacturer.
A stack of one-hundred punch token sheets, punched (mostly).
A stack of board game tuck boxes for the game Pyrotechnics. In front of the stack is a pile of rulebooks and a stack of unpunced token boards. Each box needs a rulebook, a reference guide and 36 tokens.
A 3D rendered layout of the board game Pyrotechnics.
100 copies of the board game Pyrotechnics, laid out like brickwork.
A screenshot of a Launch Tabletop order confirmation. "Projects in Order Pyrotechnics (copy 2025-08-07 / 04:28:49) Number of Units 100"
A screenshot of the Screentop prototype of the board game Enemy Lines.
Copies of The Book of Wandering at a booth for Goosepoop Games. https://www.seahorseandhummingbird.com/shop/the-book-of-wandering-traveling-journal/
The box cover for the board game The Game Makers by Bezier Games. It has a magenta box overlaid to focus the eye. The next image is a zoomed in version of that magenta box.
A finished game of Rune Rite.
A 3D rendered scene of the board game Rune Rite set up on a rocky surface and surrounded by glowing crystals.
A photo of me holding a prototype tuckbox of the game Pyrotechnics.
Six prototype copies of the board game Pyrotechnics, ready to be sent out for unguided testing.
Six plastic deck boxes, each with a full compliment of tokens for the board game Pyrotechnics. Behind them is a pair of scissors resting on a large pile of cuttings.
Two people playing a prototype of the Pyrotechnics board game at a game convention.
A much larger and nicer storage unit with a shelf of games nestled inside.
A photo of a storage locker. It is four feet off the ground. How am I supposed to get in there?
A layout of the art cards from the board game Triptych.
18 cards from the upcoming board game Pyrotechnics.
A man having a panic attack and breathing into a paper bag. Or huffing paint, I can't be sure.
The table stand for Pyrotechnics.
A Rune Rite standee on a demo table.
A flat-lay arrangement of game components from the board games Pyrotechnics and Rune Rite. All splayed out and squared off in a pleasing layout.
A screenshot of a fake online product. The picture is a man holding his face in his hand with a wry, embarrassed smile. The category tag is, "Schadenfreude." The product name is, "I'll Tell You a Really Embarrassing Secret About Myself." The price is one dollar.