I'm back in cyberspace, thanks to this recorded conversation with Dave Eng from University XP. The talk circles around player experiences, a technique for unpacking player values, and coherence in game design.
Tune your inter-tube devices: www.universityxp.com/podcast/152
"Quando dou comida aos pobres, chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres, chamam-me de comunista."
"When I give food to the poor, they call me holy. When I ask them why they are poor, they call me a communist"
- Archbishop Hélder Pessoa Câmara
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Today's historical weather, from Lynch's almanac
You can always remember.
(as long as the server gods provide their blessings)
At times like this when feeling helpless to do any good in the world - I still remember what my dad told me as a kid:
Every day, lift up five people who can do nothing for you in return.
Every day.
It’s a practice, not a goal
A portion of the mapsheet for Rayroads.
A player's personal display from Rayroads, depicting storage areas and technologies to be researched.
After 2+ years in development, Rayroads should finally be out this year.
Your world is dying. Drain the life from your sun to propel your trains through the void, crack open new planets to exploit their precious minerals, and increase your company’s value to shareholders as all of you go extinct.
I made a video about Of Promises and Paper Airplanes by @rmbananas.bsky.social !!
It's a TTRPG about the Beloved, who is leaving, and the Lover, who is being left behind, and the promises they made to each other. And its layout is like no other.
youtu.be/qWWKTaYiFUs?...
The true punks and the rebels are the ones who care about the disenfranchised in their community.
Anyone who claims to otherwise while calling themselves rebels are dang poseurs.
Reminding myself that sometimes the fun part of game development is manual data collection and analysis. Is it more fun than the game? Hmmm
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
All I have to add, is beauty
📰BREAKING NEWS: I made a new game
The New York Times Simulator
Select the news, edit the headlines, gain the approval of powerful friends, add new subscribers!
Free | for browser | ~10 minutes
molleindustria.itch.io/the-new-york...
A 1558 book on left, CD on top-right, and 3.5" floppy disk bottom-right.
I'm not a Luddite or technophobe. I just know that after 466 years the thing on the left can be read fine. The thing top-right is 15 years old & uses tech that already no longer comes standard on computers. And the 30-yr-old thing bottom-right needs specialized antique hardware & software to read.
Thanks! Largely games for organisations, grant projects, or live events. My hobby designs are PnP or PoD as they are a way for me to noodle around on ideas. Last two big games were Z-Energy’s sexily named “Supply chain game,” and UoA’s “Hohi 1816,”
Here! As in, NZ Boardgame creator here!
This scene from Real Genius (1985) featured a university lecture playing on tape to an empty lecture hall full of tape recorders. The modern equivalent might be profs using ChatGPT to grade student papers written with ChatGPT.