Brainwaves Episode 142 – Unions Unite

Jamie is on tour around the islands of Scotland so it falls to Oliver and Iain to bring you episode 142 of Brainwaves. They look at the finances of CMON, support for designers in the US and UK, and cover some interesting programmes from the folk behind the Spiel des Jahres. 

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News Digest 142

Headlines

CMON sales

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56802/cmon-sales-flat-2023

Tabletop Games Designers Association

https://www.ttgda.org

IWBG Union welcomes tabletop members

https://iwgb.org.uk/en/post/iwgb-tabletop-workers

Updates

Mythic review email

News

Spiel des Jahres Support Programme

https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/foerderprogramm-2024-73-000-euro-fuer-spielerische-projekte

Deutsche Spiele Preis

https://spiel-essen.de/de/programm/dsp#abstimmen

Black Lotus beats the One Ring 

https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/magic-the-gathering-game/news/magic-the-gathering-pristine-black-lotus-sold-at-3-million-dollar-auction

Biggest card tournament

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56813/largest-tcg-tournament-ever

Jobs, Opportunities, and Events

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TabletopJobs

Fallcon game award

https://fallcon.com/CGDA/Rules

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James Naylor

https://naylorgames.com

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Iain McAllister

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