Lunarpunk Games

The Color Jam Kickstarter is now live! 🖍️ We're very excited by the design work Gene Koo and Joe Kell put into this game, along with the beautiful art by Erin Laue, and are honored we get to share it with you. We can't wait to see the incredible art you make through this cozy, puzzle-y game.

One of our favorite things about this game is seeing the results. Thanks for sharing Phil, this looks great!

Hello all, this year's Midnight Market is almost upon us. On November 27-29, we'll be selling limited, hand-assembled indie games designed by Chris Lawrence, Marceline Leiman, Zach Sockol, Jaela Horton, and Eric Dittmore. Be sure to "market" on your calendar. The Night is for Indie Games. 🌙

The Color Jam campaign is in its final 24 hours today. Designed by @stickydoodler.bsky.social and Joe Kell, with art by Erin Laue, we're incredibly proud of the work put in to make this game something special. We hope you'll check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...

These Games Are Not For Sale celebrates artful games made for the sake of it. This one-day festival inside PAX Unplugged will spotlight games that money can’t buy. Come experience games, not buy them: 🚫🪙🚫🪙🚫 🎲✂️ 🪙🚫🪙🚫🪙 🗺️ Pennsylvania Convention Center 📍 Terrace Ballroom 🗓️ Saturday, Dec 5 🕙 10am-10pm

Listen to my full conversation with Liz; she's a warm and natural interviewer: bsky.app/profile/beyo...

Y'all I'm tired. Sleepy eepy. Tuckered out. Honk Shoo. Anyway back to your regularly scheduled program.

Next Saturday*, you can find me alongside my favorite local designers at ♦️🎲 PeopleCon 3 🎲♦️ the DMV's premiere festival of locally-crafted independent games 📅 Sat, Oct 17 🕛 12pm-5pm 📍 @peoplesbooktakoma.com

Had a great time repping the Harrisburg Board Game Alliance at the Stuff to Do Fair. Talked about our events, other game meet ups, what modern hobby games are, local designers, and played a round of Color Jam. So many people!

Daniel had a chance to check out an advance version of Color Jam courtesy of @lunarpunk.games, live now on Kickstarter. It elevates the art form to explore a spectrum of improvised creativity and surprisingly strategic puzzling, allowing the player to find their own sense of satisfaction and victory

On this week's podcast I have impressions of -Color Jam and it's playful innovation on player goals and victory -Island Off Outer Dancing, a free stand alone sequel to one of my games of the year, experimenting with standards of storytelling and rhythm

This was such a great and comfy chat! Thanks for having us Arwen!!

Color Jam has funded! We're so, so excited about making this coloring game a reality. Thanks to everyone for sharing, supporting, and helping this exist! And a major thanks to the incredible game designers Gene Koo and Joe Kell, as well as artist Erin Laue. You all made this something truly special.

Color Jam (I got a review copy from @lunarpunk.games) is live on Kickstarter now and I got some glitter markers for my kids bday party so I decided to try a page with those markers! Some were already running out (after being used by kids) but they were really pretty when they worked well!

At 3pm ET today, we're going to be live with @panda8ngel.bsky.social to play some Color Jam! Oh gosh, I still gotta pick which colors I'm going to use! 🤔🎨 Hope to see you there! www.twitch.tv/panda8ngel/

That's a lot of 9s! Only $1 dollar to go and we're officially (color) jamming!

This is absolutely incredible.

First rainy night of fall so cozied up with some solo Color Jam and a bowl of cheezies. It's surprisingly tricky to play strategically and you soon find yourself having to improvise and stretch reality to fill the gap both colorfully and narratively.

Tomorrow~ @lunarpunk.games

Jamming with color @lunarpunk.games My daughter and I burned through all the pages for Color It so it's perfect timing for a new coloring challenge.

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Life is a lot of different things. It's beautiful, tough, challenging, wholesome, stressful, peaceful, thoughtful, magical, mundane, absurd, chaotic, familiar, strange, and everything in between. We hope you're finding joy where you can. Never forget, you are incredible. Thanks for being you.

It's almost time to Color Jam! This cozy, puzzle-y coloring game by @stickydoodler.bsky.social and Joe Kell launches on September 22nd. Trying to get your favorite colors in the right spots is harder than it looks! We can't wait to see your cool art. 🎨 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...

Color Jam goes live on Kickstarter in just 11 days! Find your next creative cozy game that you can play with friends or by yourself. It's a surprisingly challenging, authentic coloring experience. Link after the jump...

We are pleased to recognize the top five scoring publishers (alphabetically): @25thcentury.games @firesidegames.bsky.social @lunarpunk.games @plaidhatgames.bsky.social UP Games

If you look back at how we used the word "game" historically, it wasn't until recently that the definition narrowed to hierarchical win/lose conditions. In fact, outside the hobby it's still common to use "game" as a playful activity. (Many song lyrics still use the term that way.)

Love this!!!

Games can be games without a hierarchical result. We must broaden traditional definitions of tabletop games to give designers the agency and opportunity to express themselves in new, exciting, and challenging ways. We should be creating new ways to explore artistic mediums, not shutting them down.

I know we've been sharing a lot of Color Jam stuff recently, but it always brings us back to an exciting question for other designs which is: "What are players creating through play?" It's not always a tangible thing like a picture. Sometimes it's a conversation, feeling, or a special memory.

Here it is, our final podcast episode! We recorded it live at Crystal’s in Vegas since Ambie and her family went there for vacation! We talk about Color Jam and Rosetta: Second Edition and reminisce about the podcast and our friendship. @lunarpunk.games @dvcgames.bsky.social youtu.be/-PO5fsoKyiAo

Too interested to wait, I wrote some numbers haphazardly on one of my kids’ colouring sheets and tried a samizdat game of @lunarpunk.games’s Color Jam. Even playing my unofficial version, I found it thought provoking. (Mini 🧵)

Turns out Color Jam is good for travel too! I brought some midliners and just played a solo game in the hotel. It’s fun and relaxing to just color stuff in, and it’s neat going for mini goals (like trying to get a rainbow thing going in the waterfall area)! @lunarpunk.games

These Midnight Market games we've been cooking up for this year are reeeeeeeeeeaaaaally cool. Y'all are gonna love 'em.

I got the chance to try Color Jam for a bit and genuinely, I think it should be getting way more attention. It has the potential to open the doors of hobby board games to so, so many more people.

Today I discuss three paper games: one about origami, another with coins, and a third that's all about coloring by numbers. Read about them here: spacebiff.com/2026/07/24/o...

I turned the ColorJam logo into a ColorJammable page! I love this game so much, and I'm very confident you will, too. Please follow it on Kickstarter!

Excited for our first book club on July 28th at 8pm EST! We'll discuss C. Thi Nguyen's "Games: Agency as Art", an excellent text about how games convey agential experiences, and the risk of losing our values to scoring systems. Hosted by @ericdittmore.bsky.social ! discord.gg/NrqwRTm4?eve...

We love this! What a great result, too. Collaborative play is our jam. 😎

We get asked a lot, what does Lunarpunk Games stand for? Well, it's simple: Listen, Unranked Nomenclature Around Rigorous Playtesting Utilizes Nuanced Kindness, Giving All More Ephemeral Spectacle. jk I made that up just now sorrryyyyyy

make more non-binary games

Our latest Dialogue at Dusk is now on Youtube! We chat with thelast19digitsofpi about his game Ornithocracy, and how unranked games are particularly powerful for games of negotiation and diplomacy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGK...