Bad Cat Media

Thank you, Boston! We had an amazing time at PAX East! The energy was incredible and we had the very best partners in

Took some time this week to clean out the old garage to make room for 7 pallets worth of For All Mankind! 🚀🪐🎉 According to the shipping company, the container is arriving TODAY in Tacoma and the games will be delivered to our house sometime in the next couple of weeks!! It’s all happening!!! Stay tuned for updates if you’re waiting on your copy - we’ll email you as soon as we have an actual expected arrival date for you!

In an effort to manifest a peaceful 2025, we offer our final recommendation of the gift guide…Dorfromantik! Based on a highly scientific survey of the two people writing this gift guide, this game is the perfect gift for parents of a new baby! We know, this sounds crazy. So here’s the evidence: 1. It takes 20-30 minutes to play a round (so, excellent for 2 or 3 plays during a single nap time) 2. It’s cozy and cooperative (because nobody needs more intensity in this fragile time), and 3. The game increases in complexity over the course of a campaign by adding tricky new rules and pieces (unlike having a baby, it starts you on Easy Mode!) Disclaimer: No, you don’t have to have a baby to play it, but for us, it will always hold a special place in our hearts because of this particular life phase it carried us through.

2-4 players, cooperative. Takes 15 minutes to learn, then 20-30 minutes per round. One campaign takes a dozen or so rounds – we did it over the course of a few weeks.

Day 5 is another awesome space game: Terraforming Mars! For the person who always does the most on a group project and wishes that would mean they “won.” You and your “teammates” are working to make the planet Mars liveable for humans. You win by “contributing” more than those dodos! Anecdotally, this game is a BIG HIT among med school students at Penn (truly, how do they find the time?!)

2-4 players, takes a while to learn, but the payoff is excellent!