Crate Digging: December 2025 (Stocking Stuffer Remix)
4 Small Creator Finds from Folks in My Network
👕 Doghouse Reilly Thanks to our clever friend Tim — who sets rap lyrics on tees with simple, striking type solutions — one of Breakup Gaming Society’s favorite Guru lines from the immortal “DWYCK” track featuring Nice & Smooth is now on a T-shirt that you can order and wear. (Check out the rest of the Doghouse offerings, including his Lego treatments of Run the Jewels iconography.)
🎲 Resilience Daybreak was probably the biggest recent title that let players confront real problems with fist full of agency. Greg Loring-Albright brings that proposition down to the street level, to your friends, even your refrigerator, to get his point across in playable and teachable moments. His Resilience print-and-play lets 2-4 players team up and place dice to prep a neighborhood for crisis.
🎲 Twisted Trumpets A tile-laying design debut from Matt Rodela, who used to gig as a trumpeter. Here you’ll be competing to build a fanciful labyrinthine instrument in response to the oft-changing whimsy of a royal family. Can you bend that brass to fit royal specs, both public and personal goals, and even accommodate birds nesting in the instrument?
🎲 TerraClash The boys behind this one reached out to me about this Kickstarter effort; they’re promising a roguelite deckbuilder and dicechucker that runs co-op, solo, or in full backstab mode for up to six players. Oh, and you can go long campaign if you like the action and want that persistent RPG feel with one of eight characters. Looks like they’re banking on brisk action and boundless replayability here.