Milkman is live on Kickstarter

  • April 25, 2023 11:16 AM

Milkman, designed by Josh Mills and published by Dice Hate Me Games, is now live on Kickstarter.

It's the fabulous '50s in America. Hometown pride is in full swing, everybody likes Ike, and the baby boom is exploding all over. What those growing families need is something fresh, something local, and something healthy, and you've got just the thing - milk!



In Milkman, you'll take on the role of a local dairy farmer, doing your best to manage your farm, keep the cows happy, process and deliver whole, skim, and chocolate milk, and persuade local customers that your milk is definitely the freshest and tastiest around. Each round, all players roll a certain number of custom dice with all the actions available to do what's mentioned above. They may press their luck and re-roll those dice a couple of times, or match up sets to get the result they want. The active player will have a few more dice to work with which, unfortunately, can't be re-rolled, but can be manipulated with cash on hand.

Dairy Farm board with customer cards in each neighborhood.

Throughout the game, players will have to decide how best to manage their time, either expanding the farm for more flexibility and output, grabbing valuable customers before others can, or shipping out that delicious milk to customers for pride and reputation.

Close-up of Customer cards. Every card is unique, with house illustrations by Marlies Barends appropriate to mid-century American architecture.

Milkman plays quickly, is easy to teach, and comes with great components like custom dice, personal farming and neighborhood boards, cow meeples, and much more.

Milkman is a game for 2-4 players, ages 10+, and plays in about an hour (about 15 minutes per player).


Unpub Prime 2023

  • March 13, 2023 11:57 PM
  • CONVENTIONS

Heading to Unpub Prime this weekend? This is where you can find us!

Quentin Burleson will be at table L5 Saturday 12pm-4pm.

  • Fright Falls: A co-operative game about trying to escape a summer camp while being chased by an axe wielding serial killer.
  • Toyline: A competitive game about being Toy Manufacturers attempting to release the next hottest toy.
  • Trick Force: A one versus many trick taking game about a group of heroes taking down an evil villain.

Mark McGee will be at table K5 Friday 5pm-9pm and Saturday 12pm-4pm.

  • Tether: Astronauts love floating in space, but not all by themselves. Tether them together so they don’t drift through the galaxy alone.
  • Towers and the Things Between Them: Build paths to connect your tower to important places and "important" places. Make other towers while you're at it, and move your influence along the paths you build.

Mark will also be on the "How Many Dollars Does it Take to Start a Publishing Company" panel Friday 10am-11am in Salon E.

Fun bonus! Mark will be running "Maximize Gameplay - Giant game of Just One!" Saturday 9:30pm-11pm in Salon C.

Josh Mills will be at table J1 for the entire weekend.

  • Milkman: You'll take on the role of a local dairy farmer, doing your best to manage your farm, keep the cows happy, process and deliver whole, skim, and chocolate milk, and persuade local customers that your milk is definitely the freshest and tastiest around. Each round, all players roll a certain number of custom dice with all the actions available to do what's mentioned above. They may press their luck and re-roll those dice a couple of times, or match up sets to get the result they want. The active player will have a few more dice to work with which, unfortunately, can't be re-rolled, but can be manipulated with cash on hand.

Joel Salda will be at table J7 Saturday from 3pm-7pm.

  • Please Hold: A cooperative, hidden information game about resolving angry callers in a call center.
  • WordCraft: A cooperative story game and dungeon crawler where players use letters and words to uncover and solve the puzzles.

Clarence Simpson will be at table L3 on Friday from 5pm-7pm, and at table C5 Saturday from 12-4.

  • VNTYPLTS: A party game about creating vanity license plates.
  • Horns of Harlem: Manage a jazz band during the Harlem Renaissance, competing to gain the most fame. Hire Musicians, Busk, Network, Play Gigs, and hit the Recording Studio. Tableau building, worker placement, and contract fulfillment.

Clarence will also be on the "Pitching Lessons Learned from Designers" panel on Friday from 11am-noon in Salon D.

Matt Wolfe will be at table E5 Saturday 10am-2pm and Sunday 10am-2pm.

  • Henhouse: Arrange chickens carefully in your henhouse to make the chickens happy. Certain chickens want to be next to other chickens, while others want to be on a specific level of the henhouse. Where you place the chicken determines what card you add to your hand from the market. And sometimes you'll want to build a roof on your henhouse, too. Whoever best manages their henhouse will win!
  • The Politics of Dragons: You're a dragon politician running for office in a modern dragon society. Hold campaign events, give landmark speeches, earn endorsements, and spend political favor all in an effort to convince the voters you're the best candidate for their pet issue. Issues like Princess Relations or Fire. The politician with the most votes by the end of the election will win!
  • Substitute Art Teacher: The regular art teacher is sick today and you're the only substitute teacher available. You agree to cover the class, but there's a problem: You don't know anything about art. You normally teach gym class. Can you convince the students that you really do know what you're talking about? 


TantrumCon 2023

  • February 21, 2023 5:45 PM
  • CONVENTIONS

Several members will be attending TantrumCon in Charlotte, NC from February 24-26. Come check out our latest prototypes! You can indicate your interest on the prototype list.

Nate Bivins will be around somewhere.
  • Papers Please Stamp Me

John Jewell will be in the Camp Prototype area Friday 4:30-7:30pm.
  • Anatolia: Help the Sultan rebuild the Ottoman Empire. Mid-weight engine builder with a unique double-use dice mechanic.
  • Footsie: Cooperative game of hidden information and foot-based communication where you organize each group of similar cards together into a player’s hand.
  • Four Forests: Set collection game where you make secret votes to determine how each set is scored.
  • Fruit Fingers: You and the other monkeys have taken over Bangkok’s floating market. Steal fruit without capsizing the boat. Frantic silly dexterity game.
  • Is It Food?: You're early humans who have left the safety of your cave, but you don't know if these plants are food or not! Exploration & negotiation game - try to avoid starving or getting violently ill.
  • Neighborhoods: Negotiation and hand management where you organize a street of ‘houses’ (cards) so your ladies, tigers, colors, and dragons are grouped with their neighbors who share common interests and attitudes.

David Lanier will be in the Camp Prototype area Friday 9:30am-12:30pm.
  • Spacewrecked!: An exciting, social, 2-8 player competitive asymmetrical team game in space. Each team is battling for limited food and technology to see who will live to fight another day!

Jon Lowman will be at the Lowtek Games booth Friday and Saturday.
  • Miniature Adventures: A lightweight adventure card game inspired by 16-bit RPG classics.

Mark McGee will be at the How to Steam Broccoli booth all weekend. 
  •  Tether: A "mirror deck" card game for 2 players/teams about connecting astronauts together.

Julio Nazario will be around somewhere.
  • Free Hand: Party game coming from Stronghold Games later this year.

Aaron Scott-Hodgin will be in the Camp Prototype area on Friday from 1-4pm.
  • Mall Crawl Paper Doll:  A 2-4 player family-weight game that blurs the line between role playing and engine-building strategy. Players will work together to complete a series of absurd scenarios in stores throughout the mall, but only one player will win the costume contest at the end.

Clarence Simpson will be in the Camp Prototype area on Saturday from 1-4pm. He'll also be running demos of The Wolves and Chomp.
  • Horns of Harlem: Manage a jazz band during the Harlem Renaissance.
  • VNTYPLTS: Party game about creating vanity license plates

Kevin Ude will be in the Camp Prototype area on Friday from 1-4pm, and can also be found at the How to Steam Broccoli booth.
  • The Great Victorian RPS Monster Confrontation
  • Ninja Death Party
  • Poisoners’ Soirée: You literally are scooping ingredients from a bowl using a spoon, then using the scoop as a sort of I-pick-you-choose with another player. Every turn is a double-sided negotiation, I want you to give away a bit of your secret in return for a bit of my secret. I set the terms (to the best of my scooping ability), but you decide whether we’re hinting at information or acting on what we already know. This is no game of memorization where you’re trying to trick people or force their hand. This is a civilized contest of deducing your opponents desires and ruining them through gifts. All that while scooping cubes with a spoon, & killing husbands.

Matt Wolfe will be in the Camp Prototype area Saturday 9:30am-12:30pm.
  • Holiday Horror: Protect your precious orphan children from the holiday mythological creatures arriving throughout the game.
  • Politics of Dragons: Play cards with 2 events to share with another player as you run for office in a fantasy dragon society.
  • Substitute Art Teacher:  A party game where you attempt to convince the other students you know something about art. Use picture frames to highlight a section of artwork that you think conveys 1 of 6 ridiculous feelings on display. Get the students to correctly guess to win (and save your job)!




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