City Square Studios 🎲🃏♟️
duo creating new original tabletop games every month from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Our games use stuff you already own!
34+ original games on Patreon part of the 52 Pickup zine series patreon.com/CitySquareStudios
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- Our Bluesky followers and Patreon members are neck and neck at the moment!
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- Monthly Physical Zines Set 📮 This week we sent out the latest batches of physical 52 Pickup mini-zine rulebooks containing original tabletop games like ‘Tavern Ship’ and ‘Nickname’.
- Appreciate everyone who gives us feedback on our games, it helps us improve in the future, and because of how we release them we may be able to update and publish new stuff for them quickly!
- Strategy thinking after the first game: - steel helms: hold objectives or enemies, not much else - cavaliers: throw at the big threat - cannon: maybe does something - marshal: support, pick off unsupported targets early, be more aggressive late game #aos #ageofsigmar #tabletop
- First game done! Only lost by 1 point after being tied going into the last round, I'm assured this is a close game #tabletop #aos #miniatures
- Let's talk about there's a '+' in our "34+ original games...". We publish games monthly as part of the 52 Pickup zine series, the 34 number is the (current as of Jan 2026) number of mainline issues there are. Hey that's easy, 34 means 34 game zines! Well not quite... 🧵1/5 #boardgame #indiegame
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- @takataapui.bsky.social of Oru Games and I made a little game for the 48 word TTRPG jam. Play as an ocean current carrying animals and things across the seas. It was so lovely collaborating with Riwhi. 🐋🐟🐬💙 Please check it out. sleepy-badger-games.itch.io/the-moving-t... #ttrpg #indiettrpg
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- I don't mean to be that person, but big things coming soon, watch this space...
- Our latest tabletop game just dropped! ‘Nickname’ is a pen and paper social deduction game about giving your friends whacky nicknames and skilfully splitting the room. The game is available now, FREE for the first month! patreon.com/posts/52-pickup-issue-149542022 #boardgame #indiegame #tabletop
- First game done! Only lost by 1 point after being tied going into the last round, I'm assured this is a close game #tabletop #aos #miniatures
- Pleased to meet you... Hope you guessed my name. The next issue of the 52 Pickup tabletop game series is coming very soon! patreon.com/posts/sneak-peek-52-34-149229054 #indiegame #boardgame
- Doing our planning for our next months of releases! Hope you'll enjoy all the great board games, TTRPGs, and solo games we're lining up (some with new collaborations which we're very excited about). #boardgame #ttrpg
- I'm torn by the fact that: 1. I want to design games where you roll massive amounts of dice 2. I want to design games that don't alienate players that don't own massive amounts of dice #gamedev 🎲✂️
- Issue #33 of 52 Pickup, “Tavern Ship”, is FREE for just ONE MORE WEEK! Free-tier members can access the rules. Paid members get bonus rules plus full access to 33+ (and counting) original tabletop games designed to be played with stuff you’ll have around the house! #indiegame #sologame #boardgame
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- Hey you 🫵 yeah you 🫵 You can make that game! You can start to make that game! You can! #gamedev #indiedev #ttrpgdev #boardgamedesign
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- We've done 33 games for 52 Pickup! So here's 3 of our games in 3 sentences: - Atomic Family: GM-less TTRPG where you run a sitcom - Primary Systems GO!: Mech creating and fighting game on a chess set with playing cards - Goblin Dungeon 2: Solo game about defending your dungeon from adventurers
- games games everywhere but not the time to play Maybe this week!
- I’m currently more in a “writing down concepts ideas to develop” phase, when I should really be in a “develop concepts into first draft” phase. Wish there was a weather forecast for game dev phases my brain will be in so I can plan around 🤷♂️
- Shout-out to Matthew Morris (@squingus_squench), who we worked with to design the original cover art for issue #33 of 52 Pickup. It's our first time working with this New Zealand artist, and looking forward to working with new artists and game designers in 2026! #art #artist #boardgame #indiegame
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- Doing some model building tonight
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- Always got the craving... #boardgames #tabletop
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- Thinking about writing another one of these longer form game design posts, anyone got any topics or questions they’d like covered? #gamedesign #indiedev
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- This time last year I was looking at the board game props in Hobbiton trying to work out if they were real games or not #boardgames
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- Interested in game design? Curious about the process of designing and publishing a new tabletop game every month? Check out the latest designer notes for Tavern Ship and hit us up in the chat if you have any questions :) patreon.com/posts/designer-notes-147829740 🎲✂️ #gamedesign #indiedev #gamedev
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