he looks like he went clothes shopping in paldea

Wild to see a pokemon game not made by game freak introduce what appear to be evolutions and new pokemon? I kind of hope they keep it up if only so the game freak teams aren't so reliant on their own games to keep the plushes and tcg and shit going stronh

"(x) implies the existence of-" wrong. nothing implies the existence of anything. implications are fake. language is a barrel hurling down niagara falls begging to survive to have something to brag about to newspapers, immediately forgotten. "four dimensional implication cube" = obvious nonsense.

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People have this strange idea that you can just throw money at a video game being bad and it'll become good. That's not how it works; you can't just pay people and spin up a AAA studio from nowhere. Amazon tried. Google tried. This shit is actually complicated.

Pokemon doesn't need voice acting. But lord does it need to stop making cutscenes that feel like you turned voice volume to 0 percent.

I think a lot of people miss that having ideas is like 10 percent of good game design. And the rest is being good at understanding playtest feedback and responding to it effectively.

As someone with adhd that is often caught in the "power washing" video spiral - I think the reason power washing simulator never grabbed me is litterally just cause, it doesn't actually simulate the dirt. And that's the funnest part imo.

I really have to respect maro for this one. I think its an empathetic and emotionally intelligent response to the concerns of people like me who mourn the loss of what mtg used to be. markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/7971220...

I think a lot of experienced GMs will see guidance designed for inexperienced GMs and think the designer is setting weird boundaries for no reason. If you're willing to be a bit of a game designer, you can do anything. But you have to remember that some players need that handhold.

Imma be real, you're allowed to pirate my shit. I get it - I've been poor. Poor people deserve cool shit and to play cool games. But you don't need to tell me about it.

Every "cringy" queer kid getting to find community through Deltarune lifts my heart. It's all that I ever wanted as a kid. I wish I could have lived in your world, and I'm so glad you get to have things just a bit better - atleast in this way.

It's okay to make toys. Not everything you make has to be focused on being art. It'll be art anyway - so it's okay to make it toys too if you want to.

I think more people enjoy complex women protagonists in video games than a few divorced YouTubers would have you believe

currency exchange #東方project #touhou

Full offense, every time the "trans women can't trust any cis women" discourse flares up I'm harshly reminded that a lot of you think transfeminism is primarily a vehicle to build theoretical foundations that justify being an NLOG

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

One thing thats really frustrating about Ai is that its this excuse to just repurpose the past without evolving it. As a machine that "easily" takes the past and repackages it, every little problem and presumption with art of the last decades gets reproduced.

Sent in a rulebook to a public editing space for review and some guy had the absolute GALL to suggest changing all instances of using they/them for the player to he/him. It's 2025 my guy!!!! The #tabletopgamedesign community needs to do better.

Nothing made me feel more like it was all worth it than when one of our playtesters got so excited about Mugen Taikai that they made a tier list of which cards they felt were the strongest. #boardgame #tabletopgamedesign #tabletopdesign #cardgame #gamedesign

ADHD #TabletopGameDesign Tips: Always be working on at least two projects you're excited about at once. It's way easier to stay productive when procrastinating one project means working on the second one.

I keep trying to write this game checks for everything it does right, but lord in heaven 13 Sentinels is transphobic.

#TabletopGameDesign Tip: Look at niche design communities for solutions. To keep each draft fresh in Mugen Taikai, we took a lot of inspiration from "Modular Cubes" in #MtG. The ways people had already been balancing synergistic and generic effects saved us a lot of work.

Niche topic YouTubers looooove to transform into people who get arrogant and annoyed that creators in that space aren't bending everything to match their personal preferences and opinions on design.

You know. I feel like the way video games has been split into "free to play gambling dens accessible to normal people" and "premium experiences that only enthusiasts can afford" should be treated as a recession indicator.

If you're someone who finishes a draft in #mtg and wants to start again right away, I'd love if you joined us in playtesting our newest project Mugen Taikai! The game is all about making the actual "resolution" parts of a draft faster so the synergies can shine. discord.gg/Du39ugZpqU

Knowing when to stop a project is so hard, cause I know for a fact i'll be looking at it in a year or two and hitting myself for not realizing how to solve a problem I never could have discovered until it was out there.

Fundimentally magic the gathering is not the same game it was 5 years ago. Universes Beyond and commander have new goals and incentives. And that's great for the people that are having fun. It's not for me anymore. But mtg died, and in its place a new more successful card game was born.

I think ttrpgs are an engine that make you annoying about ttrpgs.

Mario 64 level design is roblox obby level design.

reminder i emailed the author about this

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a useful touchstone for storytelling at its time - but it's really only "the first story" or "first piecd of liturature" is something that only makes sense when applying modern definitions both retroactively and needlessly strictly.

Innovation Ultimate has a deck it tells you to only add when another card asks you too - and I think it says something about me that this may have taken Innovation from a 10/10 to an 11/10

Social media is a machine built perfectly to create pointless leftist infighting

My biggest weakness is that I get more annoyed at people who believe right things for the wrong reasons then people who believe the wrong things.

I have three types of RPG character: - self projection - self projection but I'm unaware of it - self projection but I'm doing it for the bit.

It's fucked up how many people just put art that isn't there online and then list it as part of the creative commons??? Why??? And now I have to double check everything all the time too.

If Hundred Line has one problem it's that it doesn't seem willing to admit to how people will play the last "half" of the game, and that means the mechanics and design never quite catch up.

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Video games are so fucking good right now. Blue Prince, Hundred Line, Expedition 33, The Bazaar. These could have all been my game of the year in 2024, and in 2025 it's only May.

The way people whove never read comics talk about comic characters can be insufferable. "Batman should solve social problems" "um he does! Look at these screenshots" Batman isn't a real guy. He has no consistent continuity. It's up to the writer and thatll change the moment their run is over.

it really is insane that we were all meme-ing about kagurabachi potentially being lame or corny or cringe or bad at the outset but now it's genuinely one of the best new stories in sj right now. amazing choreo and story and themes and panel work. and it's just beautiful. like look at this.

remember to higurashi gou to the polls today

I admit it... I was the shadow duelist all along. I just got a little embarrassed so asked Konami nices not to tell anyone,,!

Despair Dilemma (by @continuityand.bsky.social) cleverly uses GM-less mechanics to make a #ttrpg that captures the intense thrills of Danganronpa and Squid Game. Read about it in my new review! libraryofwords.com/despair-dile...