Mid-September Catch-Up - A Day In The Life Of A Board Game Designer / Publisher

Catching up after a way too busy mid-September.

Sep 22, 2026

I have so much to catch up on here, and the first of all is my groove. I talked about this before but I had a good evening groove going, then switched to mornings and realized my mornings are hell. Meetings, UK/EU team wraps up their day, half of our office is gone by like 12-1, and then any appointments… it’s all a mess until the afternoon when things are dead - and I can finally catch up on my work. So my blog time is all out of whack. I think I need to get back to evenings, and of course tonight I’m away from home and not getting back until late. But there’s so much going on that I want to make a proof of life update, then get back to the norm right away.

Here are a few Button Shy / board game-adjacent things that are worth sharing.

Pokemon Museum in Chicago

I was lucky enough to get out to the Field Museum for their Pokemon exhibit last weekend and it was super cool. I’ve been a fan of the card game since like 1998 (and I have quite a collection going since back then), so this was very special to me. Everyone gets a promo card, and there’s a little original 3 Pokemon card display on the way in, but otherwise it’s all fossils, which is equally as cool. Here are a few photos.

Bamboo Bricks made a Lego ROVE Jr and it’s awesome

This popped up on discord and it was super cool. It might be one of the first in depth Button Shy Lego builds? I don’t think we have a ton of game elements that would translate to Lego (although I’m sure you will all prove me wrong), so this was very surprising to see. Alongside Pokemon, I’m a big Lego collector, and now I’m a mess with them releasing like 100 Pokemon sets last month…

Anyway this is so cool.

The instructions are uploaded to our discord, so I’ll share a link to the message just incase you want to build your own. I know I do.

https://discord.com/channels/460790190672183296/1470497468583116984/1550314577655242782