The top of a Wikipedia page for "List of games that Buddha would not play". "The Buddhist games list is a list of games that Gautama Buddha is reputed to have said that he would not play and that his disciples should likewise not play, because he believed them to be a 'cause for negligence'.[1] This list dates from the 6th or 5th century BC and is the earliest known list of games.[2] There is some debate about the translation of some of the games mentioned, and the list given here is based on the translation by T. W. Rhys Davids of the Brahmajāla Sutta and is in the same order given in the original.[3] The list is duplicated in a number of other early Buddhist texts, including the Vinaya Pitaka.[2][4]"

Another screenshot of Wikipedia, outlining said list. Games on boards with 8 or 10 rows. This is thought to refer to ashtapada and dasapada respectively; however, later Sinhala commentaries refer to these boards also being used with games involving dice.[2] The same games played on imaginary boards. Akasam astapadam was an ashtapada variant played with no board, literally "astapadam played in the sky". A correspondent in the American Chess Bulletin identifies this as likely the earliest literary mention of a blindfold chess variant.[5] Games of marking diagrams on the floor such that the player can only walk on certain places. This is described in the Vinaya Pitaka as "having drawn a circle with various lines on the ground, there they play avoiding the line to be avoided". Rhys Davids suggests that it may refer to parihāra-patham, a form of hop-scotch. Games where players either remove pieces from a pile or add pieces to it, with the loser being the one who causes the heap to shake (similar to the modern game pick-up sticks). Games of throwing dice. Dipping the hand with the fingers stretched out in lac, or red dye, or flour-water, and striking the wet hand on the ground or on a wall, calling out "What shall it be?" and showing the form required—elephants, horses, etc.. Ball games. Blowing through a pat-kulal, a toy pipe made of leaves. Ploughing with a toy plough. Playing with toy windmills made from palm leaves. Playing with toy measures made from palm leaves. Playing with toy carts. Playing with toy bows. Guessing at letters traced with the finger in the air or on a friend's back. (letters in the Brahmi script) Guessing a friend's thoughts. Imitating deformities.

game jam idea

Is this winning?

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

being featured in the London Game Festival Steam event, maybe?

"bsky users blame every problem on vibe coding"

yeah, dude. if you got a dog to code this website i wouldn't be wasting time asking which of you was the source of each new bug

this is the way, but also if you're lucky you'll have an editor afterwards who can sit you down and ask "okay so what did you mean to say?"

drinkager cheeseburble

A blurred child removes a jenga block from a tall but intact tower

A bulldozer with a pincer arm sets an enormous jenga block into place on a tower of jenga blocks. It's unclear how the bulldozer pushes piece out of the tower, tho

editing a novel // editing a narrative game

Truly, if you folks have never played a Cosmo D game, this is your plan for this weekend

Mandrake's Steam page, showing a banner for London Games Festival.

It starts! @londongamesfest.bsky.social's Steam showcase is up, come and have a browse.

Curses and Consequences || Mandrake Rural Life Sim YouTube video by Failbetter Games

So why can't people grow things in Mandrake, and what happens when they do?

Let's talk about Curses and Consequences.

crazy that they put boss baby on this list 10 times

crazy that they put boss baby on this list 10 times

non-dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? are they stupid?

dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? am I stupid?

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

happy easter, i forgot my hayfever meds and now i'm just a paper bag full of snot

Mandrake - Announce Trailer — Derek Lieu Creative - Game Trailer Editor A year before this announcement is when we started thinking about the trailer for Mandrake, which helped the team prioritize art assets and start thinking about how they’d reveal the game to the world...

I wrote a case study for the Mandrake announce trailer!

@itshannahflynn.bsky.social and @failbettergames.com contacted me a full year before we made the trailer to ask what art assets and animations they’d need to prioritize for the announcement.

Lots of tidbits about VO script writing, too!

[youth pastor voice] You know who else exfiled successfuly despite being knocked

100%, i've only been able to play solo and it's terrifying (complimentary)

marathon is a pvp imsim not really an extraction shooter

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

let's go I've been excited about this for so long

Guy who’s only seen one animal:

Unfair Flips - THE FLIPS ARE FAIR NOW. - Steam News HEADS. HEADS. HEADS. HEADS. HEADS. HEADS. Gamers, I have heard your pain. I have listened to each and every one of your pleas. Your conspiracies that Unfair Flips is too unfair, too capricious. And fr...

UNFAIR FLIPS UPDATE: THE FLIPS ARE FAIR NOW.

For the next 24 hours, YOU can test your TRUE mettle in coin flipping. No more probability, just pure skill.

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this is how i remember april fool's exists

this is a) very funny; b) an excellent summary in several sentences of my chapter in Procedural Storytelling in Game Design; c) one of the few good April Fools jokes I will accept

Honk the horn. Do it.

Hairy Heart is excited to be entering the publishing scene with the irrefutable, belligerent, and downright perverted Anthology of the Killer.

We're bringing thecatamites' award-winning cult classic murderfest to Nintendo Switch and PS5 in the very near future.

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you don't understand i need to put the auto mode on so that my computer can keep having storytime while i go to the shops

The next upcoming thinky puzzle game published by Draknek & Friends is @danga.games's He Who Watches.

A first person puzzle game about walking on walls, manipulating gravity, and discovering secrets.

Check out the trailer and wishlist now on Steam

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