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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 28m

what is he plotting

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 33m

ridiculous creature

a potato shaped tabby cat with a white bib and booties lies on his back and looks coyly at the camera. his front paws are curled on his chest

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 58m

every so often, reddit is like "do you want to see a solo/new/inexperienced dev asking for help with their massively overscoped rpg/action/online multiplayer game". stop asking. clearly i do.

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 59m

damn, these are beautiful!

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 7h

About this second principle, which is VERY important:

I often find myself designing and tweaking to pre-empt the complaints that I have internalised after years of community management. But when you do that, you're designing for the wrong person. Design it for the sicko who gets you completely

Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 8h

Playtesting Is Play is one I bang on about a lot but that’s maybe not so obviously applicable. Maybe “Don’t make the game for people who won’t like it”. Call it “sickos only” or “every game it’s player”.

Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 11h

What's your number one personal game design principle? And even better - does it have a cool name?

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 8h

early on, i got up the courage to ask my boss to use this method, and it saved me so much stress over the years

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Inkgrid | Edel-Art @inkgrid.bsky.social · 18d

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 11h

"lots of marines have skull and crossbones tattoos so i didn't think anything of it" is definitely something you say amidst multiple studies sounding the alarm on white nationalism in the armed forces in the us and canada haha wow

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Jul 22

True meaning of Transness

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 22h

acing my rorschach tests because i can name every little guy on those cards. that's inside out spongebob. cyclops bart simpson. soft serve smaug. clearly tall tamagotchi. that's my mom

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 23h

i need my girlies to make the lestat fancams set to "killed by br8k spider"

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Boo! bo @boboispost.ing · 1d

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 23h

if we think of lestat, through the lens of vriska, what do we learn?

(this is very good framing!!)

Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · Aug 4

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes
I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen
the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are
Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me.
"Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation
to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque
to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines.
We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes.
It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn
by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes it does! sometimes it's an exercise in frustration prototyping a bare bones loop, and reminding people testing that I am one person with limited coding skills, and can't make the physics/mechanics/heavily art based thing they seem to want

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 1d

am i stupid? is the person playing my game stupid? is the game engine stupid? some combination of all of the above? let's spin the wheel and find out.

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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes being a solo dev is the pits. not because of the usual challenges (though there are those too!) but because if you've got perfectionist or people pleasing traits, it becomes really hard to judge when you need to stand on your convictions and when feedback is correct