July Meetup

July 27th, 2023 - 7-10pm

Last Stand Brewing 7601 S Congress Ave Building 6, Austin, TX 78745

We're going south y'all! Our July meetup will feature all indie tabletop games developed right here in Austin 🎲♟️🃏🧩

Let's hang inside, cool down with some AC, and play some games! We'll have 5 tables run by our guest developers and 1 table for open play. Prior to the event you will receive an email where you can choose which games and which sessions you want to join.

Games Y'all

Games Y’all is a monthly meetup presented by Fantastic Arcade for indie devs, digital artists, and games fans. We showcase indie games and digital art projects from our local community and beyond. You can come to our meetups to play games, experience digital art, and connect with the local Austin games community.

Fantastic Arcade

Fantastic Arcade celebrates, amplifies, and supports the unique and underrepresented within indie games and beyond.

Games This Month

Tiny Minotaur PVP

Tiny Minotaur PVP Combat is a guerilla style fast-paced Player vs. Player FANTASY TTPRG based on the Combat Systems of the immersive Tiny Minotaur Fantasy World! Created by Dana Mcknight and used in the Tiny Minotaur's live-action Quests (www.tinyminotaur.com), Tiny Minotaur PvP Combat is an underground phenomenon, encouraging players to meet IRL in local bars on full moons to duke it out for FANTASY BATTLE DOMINANCE

Developer: Tiny Minotaur

@thetinyminotaur

Turf Wars

It’s neighborhood rivalry run amok! Turf War is a strategy card game where players duel their next-door nemesis to prove that they're the best on the block. Build the perfect yard, win over your neighbors, and do whatever it takes to come out on top of this zany backyard battle. 2–4 Players. 30 Min. Ages 14+.

Developer: Gadabout Games

Voyage

Set sail! VOYAGE is a map-making game of stories on the sea. Roll dice, draw cards, and answer prompts to create the story of your ship and its crew on its journey. Catch the wind, make discoveries, and draw your map as you chart your voyage. Will you discover an uncharted island? Dangerous pirates? Haunted treasure? A big whale?

VOYAGE is written to be played either on your own or with any number of your friends, and works well as a standalone game or as a side game in the middle of an ongoing campaign. Based on the Alone Among the Stars ruleset and created by Brendan McLeod, a professional video game developer and hobbyist tabletop developer with too many projects and not enough time.

Developer: Sulcata

@_sulcata

Chek

Chek is a 2 or 4-player pass'n play board game that is also available for the Playdate! The game is designed to sit between checkers and chess in terms of strategy - quite simple to learn but deep in interaction. A game of Chek often swings between careful movement of groups of allied pieces, followed by a bloodbath of combat.

Developer: Ledbetter Games

ORC BORG x DUNGENERATOR

ORC BORG is a zine-length standalone RPG about orcs in space with beautiful, brutal art on every page. ORC BORG is a collaboration between Grant Howitt (Spire, Heart, Honey Heist, Goblin Quest) and ROLLINKUNZ! It's powered by the MÖRK BORG engine - so it's fast, cruel, and obsessed with the apocalypse.

THE DUNGENERATOR is a deck of cards that generates inky, organic dungeons! Each Series features 60+ pieces of hand-inked art by ROLLINKUNZ! on 52 double-sided cards, a simple and unique dungeon-generation algorithm, and a PDF of detail prompt tables for each room.

Developer: ROLLINKUNZ!

@rollinkunz

Kingdom Eighties

Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion to the award-winning Kingdom series: A single player adventure of micro-strategy and base building, inspired by the neon lights of the eighties.

You play as The Leader, a young camp counselor who will have to defend their town and family from the relentless attack of the mysterious Greed. What are these monsters, and why are they trying to steal their family legacy, the Crown of Creation?