This is the kind of energy I wanna see at my tables! Go hard, test the limits of your holodeck until you find the walls, then break out of them.
This is the kind of energy I wanna see at my tables! Go hard, test the limits of your holodeck until you find the walls, then break out of them.
I canβt look at a file without singing βI am a file and you put documents in me!β
Canβt wait for a whole new slew of ear worms.
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes βI love struggling, it makes me feel aliveβ is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
Brandon Sanderson had a pretty good take on this recently, especially in the context of games and literature as art.
www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/a...
It should come as no surprise that people who choose to play physical games at a table with other humans care that they are supporting actual game designers and not whatever soulless solution the c-suite thinks they will consume.
Friendly reminder that just because LinkedIn is an insane cesspool of AI-written posts glorifying AI doesnβt mean the rest of the world wants to follow suit.
Cue the Nelson βHa Ha!β
Im sure heβll land a similar position at another publisher once the furor has calmed down, but the messaging from the community that it wonβt accept AI in its creative space is always heartening. Itβs a counterbalance to constant LinkedIn slop that we all need right now.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeareβs Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Completely lost it at Slap Mandel and never got it back!
Twelve people enter... twelve people leave π
#gladlands
A major glitch has emerged in the regime's plan to send Tom Homan to Minneapolis
Still dying from these @dimension20.bsky.social Chili Cook off Contestants
Slap mandel
Dorothy Suzuki
Otto von skid
Bean can
Palma egress
Wandy scrapes
Splat the eye kisser
Twit ogalvy
The Fetted molar
Friedrick lube
Mancalpoly!
It's free and was designed in mind for those who faced the loss of a job, a whole career trajectory, or a struggling to handle the transition to this absolutely bonkers time we are living in.
Please pass it on to anyone you think it would help!
Rend Repair Purpose is finally up!
Drawing from the art forms of Kintsugi and Blastover tattoos, itβs a journaling game about creating space to grieve then reconstructing yourself to face the world with boldness.
staubington.itch.io/rend-repair-...
ITβS HERE πππ After a superbly fun weekend at @magfest meeting all you lovely, sparkly gamers, OUR STEAM PAGE IS LIVE! Add us to your WISHLIST!!
#GloxiniaGame #MAGFest2026 #DanceGame #IndieGame #Coding #GamePlay #RhythmGame #Unity #CSharp #FMV #AfterEffects #Steam #SteamWishlist
Snorlax woke up in a rave! #magfest
For anyone at #magfest make sure to check out my very good friendsβ booth in the Indie room!
Queer Rhythm Game Fever Dream! Space Channel Five but itβs Town at 3 am
Booth 67!
Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hat, I know you're the one
Which is straight up Stanford prison excitement as art.
Itβs frustrating that in so many βgamingβ spaces best practices from one well-practiced part of the community donβt permeate to people coming at it from a tangential discipline (βartβ). I wasnβt onboarded right into Counting Sheepβ either.
The creator of this was a keynote speaker at NASAGA this year and had no experience with games before this. He hopped right from doing theatre to finding a Warhammer designer to make the skipped the part in the middle about what happens when you pull in real people and assign them a role.
i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun
If youβre naming me in the same breath as TTRPG studies then you should be following and listening to and citing Professor Torner who has done more for analog game infrastructure than any one person can comprehend. (Any number of us shine from reflecting Evanβs light)
Imagine someone stole all your shit and then you give them a billion dollars.
Such a fun sourcebook to play around with! We have a riot sneaking in as many historical anachronisms as possible.
Flagbearer is a rad, queer-friendly organization that does great educational work!
Canβt wait for the Ken Burns documentary of our times where all of the celebrity-read letters have Minecraft or Subway Surfers in the background.
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Get a write-up in @rascal.news
My thought experiment on what a TTRPG expirience based on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald would look like got covered!
Wasnβt expecting this honor but definitely something to check off from my bucket list.
www.rascal.news/the-gales-of...
Super cool that Affinity has stopped allowing you to buy their software around the same time my free trial expired.
Was trying to avoid paying a subscription fee for InDesign, much less reformat the projects I was working on, but here we are.