Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美
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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美
@halfrobot.com
Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
Jenny you can come by and shoot a day ## delulu video anytime and we'll all stand behind you and scream or w/e
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
“It’s an interactive artwork from Switzerland!” I explain with assistive nervousness, as 6-year-olds help digest and expel anonymous crowd figures.

6-year-old #2: How do you knooow they’re kids?!?

6-year-old #1: BECAUSE THE GAME IS CALLED “KIDS” SILLY
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Update: I must report with some degree of [ untranslatable term that combines regret, trepidation, irony and wonder ] that KIDS has now become a schoolyard phenomenon during my local 1st grade dropoff… a socially gravitational vortex of its own, to some parents’ curious consternation.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Directing is, in part, the process of seeing your work transformed unexpectedly and positively by performance, and then reacting to that in a way that builds on what you find. If you’re not doing that, then you’re only giving orders to cater to your imagination, and that abandons much of directing.
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
now you can count to 10,000,000,000!
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Yeah at age 4, maybe 5 if he's an older kid, this means "he can count to 100." Really good basis to decide the trajectory of your kid's life
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The game KIDS:
playkids.ch
KIDS
A game of crowds.
playkids.ch
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Definitely B when I've seen it, with A as a positive side-effect.
The vibe I get is "actually when i think about it B is just fine for me. I like ( game without hyper-real UE5 raytraced graphics ) and ( game that is only 10 hours long ) so yeah, MORE OF THAT"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This year we're proud to present STILL TOP SEKRIT new games from:
* Julián Cordero (@despelote.game)
* @alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social‬ (of the OCTOPAD, hint hint)
* Jana Romanova ( janaromanova.com )
* @nicole.pizza (The Crush House) + @okremiok.bsky.social (Pikuniku)
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It all culminates in NO QUARTER, our annual exhibition of games!
bsky.app/profile/half...
Finally, as if a week of events wasn't enough:
SATURDAY NOV 22 at 7PM NYC's pile of weirdo/artsy/indie game-makers hosts the 14th annual NO QUARTER exhibition of games, with four never-before-seen works of play at a big party.
RSVP for a free ticket WHILE THEY LAST: noquarter2025.eventbrite.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Want even MORE free game dev events from the wild & brilliant indie community of NYC?! The very next night, GAME DESIGN DAYS begins, a series of free pop-ups across the city
bsky.app/profile/half...
Then, STARTING FRIDAY NIGHT across NYC it's the week of Game Design Days, a series of free pop-up community game events at Wonderville, the Game of 1000 Boxes, Women in Games NYC, Twenty-Sided Store, BumbleBear Games and many more spaces!

Check out the full calendar+map:
game-design-days.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
There are many forms of CEO attention-seeking that simultaneously self-glorify and self-victimize. I have witnessed several of them personally. However, I really have to hand it to Karp -- "ME!! You're going to burn ME alive as a human sacrifice!!" is a new twist
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Apparently the CR is a separate thing and doesn't involve reconciliation with the house version, so I'm unclear where the dangerous language is at right now
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Thanks for the update
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
My bad, missed that aspect
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Yes that's correct, see second post in thread and linked post. Reconciliation has yet to occur
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM