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This. I've worked with many people over the years who could be considered experts in their respective fields, who either left the game industry after burning out, or were affected by layoffs and never returned. And their expertise? Went out the door with them, with no passing of the torch.

Hi Bluesky! Polaris Game Design Retreat is an annual event where game designers tackle tough problems together, then write reports on their discoveries. If you're looking for our reports, start here: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

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As a Norwegian game designer living and working abroad, I'm a bit of a rare unicorn, but whenever I go back home, I do game design the same way as other Norwegian designers: Uphill both ways, in the snow, wearing skiis, while chased across frozen fjords by polar bears and herds of meese. #gamedesign

The best way to get a lot of game design is to start with 0 game design and then subtract 1 to cause an underflow, giving you the maximum possible amount of game design. This assumes the game design is unsigned, of course. #bigbrain #gamedesign

Kind Games: Designing for Prosocial Multiplayer is a game design report exploring "multiplayer games designed from the start with systems that deliberately promote prosocial behaviour".

Come for the charts, stay for the design patterns to use in your own games: polarisgamedesign.com/2022/kind-ga...

Ok, so

I don’t think I know what other game designers mean when they say “ludologist” as a school/style of game design thought.

I know the dictionary definition, and the etymology, but not it’s meaning as a specific design aesthetic

Does… anyone else know?

Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title

Tom Clancy’s The Little Mermaid

Home-made waffles on a late Sunday afternoon ❤️

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."

#mildlyinteresting This is a bottle of Urge that shipped from Norway to Singapore for my birthday. To my knowledge, not available anywhere in Asia, maybe outside online shops with worldwide shipping. Tastes much better than the (discontinued?) "Surge" drink it preceded🙃Definitely a buy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Have seen the exact same designs attached to a differently named store, and if it seems too good to be true, it probably is because it's all AI generated, from shirt designs to models wearing them etc.

"The best part about back integration is when you get to back integrate your back integrated changes from the current branch _to_ the current branch, because a copy-up took place immediately after your initial back integration, rendering said back integration null and void."
- Marcus Aurelius, maybe

First thoughts I had while looking through your portfolio: Looks good 👍🏻, but maybe lacks a bit focus on what _you_ have done as a designer, rather than what your teams have done. "We decided", "we wanted", "we had an idea". You're not selling your team with a portfolio, you're selling yourself 😉

The 0 in front of 1 is pointless and a bit infuriating, because they're using 24-hour format, so there's already no way to confuse 1am with 13 :∆

I've visited Norway multiple times 👀 and I still don't know what the (first set of) numbers mean.

Turn limits in Matrix should be unknown at the start of each battle, then be revealed along the way to trigger a panicked rush to get to the closest phone before the turn limit/smiths arrive.

have you tried opening a whole bunch of tabs to see if that helps

if you're thinking you tried that is it a possibility that you just haven't opened enough tabs yet maybe more tabs would fix it

What a sad state of affairs :/

Second longest thread I've ever seen (today), but I agree; OoT is still a great game today, despite some dated elements. In fact, it's almost as good as ALttP! :P