I made my own colorblind-friendly player tokens :3 ! currently calling these guys "penny lumps" but if you have a better name I'm all ears.

edit: ooh, how about "pennyfigs" as in minifigs = minifigures

these would be used for games like Spree from Cheapass Games. Spree is a game about ransacking a mall after dark, racking up points by completing your shopping list, and then "banking" it by hauling it all back to your parked car before anyone else steals it back from you. It uses two pawns per player (one for your shopping wagon and the other for your parked car). I've always thought it's nice to have a third matching pawn just to put in front of the player. Icehouse pyramids work nicely for this, but they're all the same shape. The penny lumps were chosen to have a variety of shapes (and also to look vaguely like my friends' fursonae!).

Cheapass Games (by James Ernest) made their name by writing short, funny games, and selling them as "kits" with a black and white board and rulebook, which you need to supplement with your own dice and pawns. These days you can get most of their games pay-what-you-want from the archive at Crab Fragment Labs.

https://crabfragmentlabs.com/game-preserve

#boardgames #photo #papercraft #2dprinting #lomp #icehouse #cheapassgames

Boiler Plate Special

https://macintoshgarden.org/games/boiler-plate-special

Digtial Eel’s finest games are now available for Mac OSX in the Boiler Plate Special! Sufficiently modernized Mac users can finally play Dr. Blob’s Organism, Digital Eel’s Big Box of Blox, and Strange

#macgarden #gamecompilations #2004 #cheapassgames #digitaleel

Every time that song comes on, I just think of a group of friends (or a couple young folks falling in love) who are so engrossed in this game they just never head home for the evening.
https://youtu.be/CCHdMIEGaaM

#KillDoctorLucky #CheapassGames #GetLucky #DaftPunk #PharellWilliams #Music

Internet lore tells us the story of Cheapass Games, founded by prolific gamemaker James Ernest in 1996 ...

JHarris (@rodneylives) posts about Ernest's new (2020) Crab Fragment Labs, "offering an array of both pay-what-you-want-to-print and paid-for physical products: card games, board games, quick-playing and easy-to-learn pub games, solitaire games and a wide assortment of the best of the old Cheapass Games in Cheapassic Park."

https://www.metafilter.com/198947/Welcome-to-Crab-Fragment-Cay

#Boardgames #CardGames #CheapAssGames #CrabFragmentGames #games #JamesErnest #PayWhatYouWant #PrintOnDemand #PubGames

#introduction post:

Hello from Crab Fragment Labs! 🦀

We'd love to connect with #tabletop #gamers and folks interested in #gamedesign.

Crab Fragment is the new outlet for game designer #JamesErnest, known for creating #CheapassGames.

James is constantly writing new #games, and we have titles both new and old available for free download on our website, including a big catalog of old Cheapass favorites in our "Cheapassic Park" section.

We've also got essays and videos on game design and #prototyping, as well as some new #fiction from James.

Please follow us here for news and conversation!

https://crabfragmentlabs.com/

The latest from Crab Fragment Labs - previously known as #CheapassGames - a quiet corner of the internet where you can always find game design content, and nifty #tabletopgames free for download (donations optional, but gratefully accepted😁).

Come enjoy the balmy virtual weather on Crab Cay! 🦀🏝

James' latest blog post: https://crabfragmentlabs.com/blog-1/orcacon-2023

Our latest newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e2dc94c5f630/2023-a-season-of-pairs?e=2cc7748046

#games #tabletop #JamesErnest