Tomorrow! Come join us!

I've been organizing CCNY Digital Game Development’s first official lecture event with Demetri Detsaridis! The topic is “Gaming Business Models: Why Everything Feels Like a Live Service Now”. Join us this Thursday at 7PM on the CCNY campus (details in link)!

www.eventbrite.com/e/gaming-pat...

this is my game, I Don’t Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again. to play, you log it every time you kill an insect. this is also available as a web app @transwron.gs made with me. people tell me it changed their behavior- they think twice about hurting insects when they remember the rules.

Speaking of said winner and other winners I would take it as a personal favor if you would try out excellent games made by former students, such as:
CONSUME ME
store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

DESPELOTE
store.steampowered.com/app/2367820/...

BABY STEPS
store.steampowered.com/app/1281040/...

a friend of mine who's worked on a somewhat recent free multiplayer game says this about player feedback that I feel like is very astute

hearing the feedback is frequently important but responding to it well almost never means just doing what the players say they want

My wife asked me to compose a still life for her to paint

we're running a 48-HOUR TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING GAME JAM this weekend at @boshis.place! it starts this saturday at noon—boshi's doors will be open for much of the weekend! come make an RPG with us!

I got into birds this year

I have discovered: the ocean has wet pigeons with bright orange feet

I got them to stop building houses inside houses, and even gave them some friends, but this house obsession just isn't ending

San Diego birds from last night! A Ridgeway's Rail eating a crab and a Caspian Tern

Taking another shot at my Terrarium game, an idea somewhere between The Sims, Dwarf Fortress, and Disco Elysium. This draft starts the characters off with nothing, where they have to build their little community from scratch. It's going pretty well so far, right?

🚨 New Blog Post: Blog Challenge: New (Year’s) Resolution Mechanic 🎊
A brand new TTRPG resolution mechanic, and a challenge for all designers in 2024!
www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/new-yea...

Violence in the Space Station game should cause as many problems as it solves, and I want to keep it as mechanics-light and emergence-heavy as possible. Most fights should end with one player briefly KOed, with actual weapons both highly effective and likely to cause collateral damage.

One of my students has been talking about his and a friend's attempt at remaking Goonstation, and it's reminding me of my own long-standing designs on taking on that white whale of game dev. I have a decade old design doc and a simple MUD engine I threw together a few years ago--let's fuck around

Bandit, after catching a mouse

Bandit, chewing