Frank Lantz
@flantz.bsky.social
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this player's guide to going infinite on the medic is pure madness and i love it
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Medic Overnight Shift... fun :)
Hey so Overnight Shift is pretty unique, it’s the only node in the game that doesn’t have a limit to how many times it can be triggered….. Or a limit to how many times it can be DEPLETED. This brings ...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dpn6ndKD_uGRGq8NiNMphEk5Weo8wOxNiwybg2MofIQ/edit?tab=t.0
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An Introduction to Donkeyspace
What is this substack about?
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/an-introduction-to-donkeyspace?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Robert Makes Games
22 days ago
The game of the year winner for “Accurately Parodies My Job in a way that Highlights its Absurdity” is: “Q-up” by Everybody House Games What’s it like being a ranked and competitive systems designer? This game knows. Thanks
@flantz.bsky.social
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
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Save 25% on Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/QUP/
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Announcing The Hacker Update. A brand-new hero with their own unique way of playing Q-UP. Help the Hacker escape the game before being deleted by QA! Steal skills from the other heroes!! Misspell common English words!!! Also: Q-UP IS ON SALE FOR 25% OFF
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
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Q-UP now available at the Humble Store. Do good by playing bad! Now you can buy Q-UP and Horses at the same time to confuse Ian Bogost!
www.humblebundle.com/store/qup
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Buy Q-UP from the Humble Store
From the twisted minds that brought you Universal Paperclips and Babble Royale comes a timeless tale about numbers going up and going down, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, reverse merge...
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/qup
about 1 month ago
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Bell's Inequality - Guide and Walkthrough
Version: 1.01 | Updated: 11/28/25
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/bells-inequality-guide-and-walkthrough?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios
about 1 month ago
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Galen Wilson
about 2 months ago
Q-UP might be game of the decade.
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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS!
2 months ago
I AM BECOME PACHINKO, THE TAMER OF FATE
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Tabby
2 months ago
q-up is my game of the year
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our players are rediscovering Cantor's continuum hypothesis
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Just because you can't see Legolas doesn't mean he can't see you.
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
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Douglas Wilson
2 months ago
Oooh just tried Q-UP, here are my two takes: 1. Lots of projects chasing Balatro these days, but I reckon this is the most interesting post-Balatro game I've seen so far 2. I'll play any game with a good D&B soundtrack
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what even is this game
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\\remora
2 months ago
waking up in the middle of the night, sweating, frantically googling "are there Q-UP speedruns"
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Jeff Gerstmann
2 months ago
Q side is rigged, I'm never making it out of Silver 3
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The biggest day in esports has arrived. Q-UP is out.
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
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Save 10% on Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/QUP/
2 months ago
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Damien Crawford
3 months ago
This game comes out in 24 hours, and I'm calling it now, this is going to be the big multiplayer game for the rest of the year
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Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/QUP/
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Honor Duels
A deep dive into hardslop
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/honor-duels?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美
4 months ago
GONE GONE THE AGE OF SKILL STRATEGY THE THINKLAD'S SWILL LABOR GAMES YE'LL NEVER "WIN" THE ERA OF THE COIN BEGINS
add a skeleton here at some point
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Heather Flowers
4 months ago
THE ERA OF THE COIN BEGINS
add a skeleton here at some point
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We made a new game. It’s called Q-UP. It’s a coin flipping eSport. There’s a free demo!
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
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Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/QUP/
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JuniperTheory
7 months ago
years ago, some flash developer came up with the single coolest idea for a tactics game ever and made a game for the Lego Website called Spybotics: The Nightfall Incident Today, 23 fucking years later, an indie dev has FINALLY MADE A SUCCESSOR AND I GET TO PLAY IT ON STREAM!!!!!!
bimbo.city
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Chris Plante
7 months ago
Video games are useful for making sense of all the AI bullshit
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What we have in common with world-ending AI
A chat with the creator of the game every AI skeptic and fanatic should play
https://postgame.substack.com/p/what-we-have-in-common-with-world
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Fractal Block World
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Video Games Again
https://franklantz.substack.com/p/fractal-block-world
12 months ago
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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS!
about 1 year ago
I also tried a bunch of things to address my other big challenge, ensuring everyone participates in class discussions and critiques. One approach was assigning roles to authorize students to be more critical instead of just praising. Anyway, most of the material is here:
mycours.es/playfultheory/
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Artt in the Age of Artifficial Intelligence
That which we call progress is this storm
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/artt-in-the-age-of-artifficial-intelligence?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios
about 1 year ago
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This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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868-BACK
The sequel to 868-HACK. A cyberpunk roguelike adventure.
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/michael-brough/868-back
about 1 year ago
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v buckenham
about 1 year ago
yeah fair
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Are Games Good?
Or what?
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/are-games-good?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios
over 1 year ago
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Bridge
Notes on a game that is too hard for me.
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/bridge?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios
over 1 year ago
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How to Play a Game
It may be harder than we think.
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/how-to-play-a-game?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios
over 1 year ago
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Playing Balatro
Is Like Being Elon Musk on Ketamine
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/playing-balatro?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios
almost 2 years ago
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merritt
almost 2 years ago
Can I come on your podcast to talk about my LAN party book and whatever else also please thank you
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Behold the World
GeoGuessr is my new favorite eSport
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/behold-the-world?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios
almost 2 years ago
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Affect is Protocol
When you have hammers for hands everything looks like a fingernail.
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/affect-is-protocol?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
almost 2 years ago
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The World as Data
What is it like to be a human?
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/the-world-as-data?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
almost 2 years ago
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Miguel Sicart
about 2 years ago
Enjoying
@flantz.bsky.social
's The Beauty of Games. I like the idea of games as the art form of instrumental reason. I'd add: they are also a moral form of instrumental reason, keeping it in check, eluding totalling worldviews, and rooting rules in pleasure and voluntary agency.
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Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Donkeyspace
What is best in life?
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/ladies-and-gentlemen-we-are-floating?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
about 2 years ago
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Deep Play
Notes on the SBF verdict
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/deep-play?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
about 2 years ago
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Business Model Determinism
The Napoleon Dynamite Problem Problem
https://franklantz.substack.com/p/business-model-determinism
about 2 years ago
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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美
over 2 years ago
Hey NYC people... this Thursday evening marks the return of
@flantz.bsky.social
to the NYU Game Center for the launch his new book, the Beauty of Games. Come hang out with us & talk aesthetics & meaning! RSVP link here:
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Lazarus Lake
Game Designer
https://bit.ly/3ZCxA2z
over 2 years ago
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5 ideas from my forthcoming book The Beauty of Games
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The Beauty of Games
My book is coming out!
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/the-beauty-of-games?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
over 2 years ago
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The King and the Assassin
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The King and the Assassin
An Adversarial Dialogue
http://bit.ly/3YNHfmj
over 2 years ago
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New blog post: Discourse on Meth
http://bit.ly/3OloORi
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Discourse on Meth
The recombinant convolutions of high school debate
http://bit.ly/3OloORi
over 2 years ago
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Holly Gramazio
over 2 years ago
okay I guess now I have somewhere I can finally post this 1930s picture of a paper cup factory with a water tank shaped like a paper cup, I've had it open in a tab for three and a half weeks
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over 2 years ago
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AI, Games, and Civilization
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/ai-games-and-civilization?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
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AI, Games, and Civilization
A Conversation with Soren Johnson
https://open.substack.com/pub/franklantz/p/ai-games-and-civilization?r=8av9o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
over 2 years ago
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New blog post: How to Watch Poker
https://franklantz.substack.com/p/how-to-watch-poker
over 2 years ago
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