King's Field (1994) is an action RPG by FromSoftware for the Sony PlayStation in Japan. An ancient sanctuary has become infested with evil, and the King has tasked your father to cleanse it. Now it is up to you to take up your sword when your father goes missing within... (a launch dungeon thread)
Finally setting down some thoughts on #emergencymanagement and #wargames. Wanted to outline the various barriers EM has over the typical topics wargaming approaches.
Or basically i'm just going to advertise John Curry's work, I guess.
I’ve been to HICSS 3 times! Always in Maui though.
Have a couple papers at #chi2026.
Crossed the 10 paper line which is neat as my advisor has 0 and didn’t think it was possible.
Still haven’t been to the conference, though.
Had meant to go to Hawaii but COVID, then Japan but got busy.
Then decided to leave academia and won’t ever go. Weird
One of my last MS students won runner up in a research competition today. Super proud of her!
I think about the Marvelous Land of Oz sometimes, especially the Interpreter Scene between Pumpkinhead and the Scarecrow.
oz.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mar...
No real reason i'm thinking about this scene.
...indicative of something we've kind of lost in #ttrpg experimentation wherein we think about entirely different approaches to play and are instead focusing on what we are playing.
In my head at the moment, I keep thinking about a "Player Representative" or "ActionKeeper" to interact with the DM.
I have found myself thinking about the intersection of #wargames and #ttrpgs again.
Specifically, i've been thinking about the use of the caller role in early #dnd as a way to streamline play and help ease the anxiety of folks too shy or too anxious to speak or act publicly.
This device is...
After a brief stint with glass pens only, I've since figured things out. Am now at the, "Hmm, maybe I need a victorian writing slope" part of stationary and pendom.
I spilled a whole bottle of ink when i began using converters.
That was a mess…until I did it again later that week.
I am bad at learning, I guess.
I keep wanting to write a paper about unintended consequences being usurped and branded by tech firms but I’d have to read a bunch of Merton...again.
Still, giving it its old fidelity of ignorance, error, immediate interest, basic values, and self-defeating prophecy again would be nice.
Found myself pulling out modes of existence from Latour again. Need to finish part 2. So dense!
As I get ready to leave academia, theres a slow realization I no longer have to dumb down theory for technologists.
No more reviews saying I need a “native speaker” to edit my heavy theory sections.
Design ideas are hydras and each head is another design idea and also another hydra.
- Greg
“Oh, AI can help us hand wave away that problem in a way that gets everyone to talk about AI rather than the actual issue Of being out of touch we have.”
Sometimes I’m asking because I also exhibit the mess being dealt with and I’d like some pointers on how to mask it better (which won’t work, but still).
You take back what you said about Highlander: the search for vengeance.
youtu.be/KLGuDW1FUKQ?...
Anyway, apologies.
Been on a journey lately about game design individual members of groups.
Your game and dank and dark from @philipjreed.bsky.social and ultraviolet grasslands have me thinking about it all for different reasons.
In your game you mention, “ the player group chooses which mighty one to back…Beyond that, the group creates a back story that…”
And I think about the diversity of improv and roleplaying comfort. Can go south but a caller as “the rep of the group” might help the flow of the group / dm interaction.
It is, once again, pierogi making day. Only 11 dozen this time!
Prolly actually 12 but there are sticky fingers about.
Reading this, I had a weird question (weird because how hard it is to get folks together now).
Have been really thinking about the old caller/mapper roles in 1e dnd.
Have you ever used these roles? And, is there a place for them in games made in the present contexts?
I am sad I missed a chance to get this in print!
Bought a copy on DTRPG
4.7.3 Are the "sciences" cold? Rigorous? Inhumane? Objective? Boring? Apolitical? Modern? These unattainable qualities have simply been attributed to them by their enemies who thereby hoped to stigmatize them (Interlude VI).
I was walking around a toy store the other day and saw a crossover I did not expect but also was ok with.
Wonder if we’ll ever get Dick Tracy x Fraggle Rock
For a while id tell students that Nintendo works on defining what a videogame is while Sony & Microsoft work on defining game fandom and what a gamer is.
It was an easy way to try and get into generalizations and fandom boundary maintenance, but also what drove the students to want to make games.
