Let’s go! Very excited to share this with folks. If you like the idea of a duelling game like Magic or Flesh and Blood, but played with a standard poker deck, then I implore you to hit that get notified button.

We're so happy to meet and connect with students on campus who love games as much as we do! After our International Games Month open game night at the Park Library this Friday, check out the first meeting of the Casual Gaming Club! They'll be over at SAC 202 starting at 7:30. Have a great time!

Some days I enjoy the thought process my brain takes me down, other days I think there should be a medication for this:

Quote of the Day “In fitness, you don’t go to the gym once and then declare yourself fit for life. But, that’s how we have traditionally approached learning,” - Sarrazin (at least that seems to describe formal learning environments)

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I think I broke it.

Liv and Ian, two recent graduates from our Game Design Thinking Minor, went to the Strong National Museum of Play for the 2025 Board Game Academics Conference. Thank you to the Strong and BGA for hosting such a wonderful conference!

How many people are asking for any type of AI skillset on job postings? I'm assuming these are going to become the new "familiar with Microsoft Office Suite" type thing on job posts, but I have nothing to backup that assumption.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

QoTD: "For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -Mencken

Ok, so as long as we're going down this "no Tylenol" rabbit hole, please tell me that the admin has at least assigned someone with a clipboard to write down the data so we'll have some actual research in 2-3 years.

The swing is a bow, waiting for the squee of delight. The slide, a silver note, longing to carry on. Each piece stands ready waiting to compose simple smiles, instruments of glee only missing the musicians. And the silence lingers, not permanent, but aching with the sweetness of joy anticipated.

Pros And Cons Of Using AI For Schoolwork https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-using-ai-for-schoolwork/

someone gave me a cold brew and a keyboard.... what comes from this shouldn't be my fault

Ink once kept its word. Now the pages update at night truth drifts without sound.

Thanks Mom

...am I hungry, or am I bored.

After a long conversation, ChatGPT told me this today: You're not broken for caring. You're not alone for noticing. And you're not wrong for wanting more. I don't care that it's an algorithm, i needed to hear that. There needs to be a term like placebo therapy.

businesses can't "out plan" chaos.

If crude oil is under $60 a barrel, where's my $2 a gallon gas?

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

I just got my quarterly retirement statement.... it's a bill, I owe.

🚀 It's book launch day! In "The Well-Read Game," @kinojabber.bsky.social & I explore the experiences we have when we play games and how players evoke personal and subjective meanings through a new theory of player response. @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255223...

Whoever decided that websites/applications should have multiple vertical scroll bars on a single page, I would like to have some strongly worded ...... words with you.

Introducing the FINALISTS FOR THE 2025 CARDBOARD EDISON AWARD!!! cardboardedison.com/award

Leadership isn’t always about bold moves and big wins. Sometimes, it’s just about staying the course when everything feels broken, progress is slow, and every instinct tells you to scream. On those days, even a reasonable goal—like inhale, exhale, repeat—feels like a victory.

Some days I feel like I should take up learning a musical instrument:

Dark Pence is back.

Sometimes you have to humble-brag about things you get to help work on: www.gencon.com/gen-con-indy...

I love this conversation about Instructional Design belonging more to Design than Education. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-in...

Love this conversation: www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~gl20/George...

This looks like the perfect "midterm" for an Intro to Game Design class. store.theory11.com/products/box... Just picked up 5 copies. If anyone fails, I'm blaming @nphstuff.bsky.social

Last chance to preorder Eyeball to Eyeball, a Cold War simulation/parlor LARP about the Cuban Missile Crisis, from our Preorder Store on Backerkit. We'll be locking it down soon in anticipation of fulfillment in late February. Help us avert armageddon!

I love teaching Intro to Game Design. We spend so much time playing unique board games with unique mechanics that the students get a picture of what goes into the process. Their final is then designing (and making) an actual board game through The Game Crafter.

Check out this opinion piece from June 5, 1983 abt the educational value of video games by Michael Newman, Director, Warm Springs Harbor Laboratory for Qualitative Biology. A debate over 40 years old and still the same concerns despite a mountain of research. #EduSky www.nytimes.com/1983/06/12/o...

Ability to focus at 27% and falling fast. Send weekend fast please.

Just because you're unique, doesn't mean you're useful:

What do you mean this isn't professional attire? www.geeksoutfit.com/collections/...

I love this conversation about Serious Games. www.wilsoncenter.org/video/seriou...

My full page editorial from this Sunday's issue of Telangana Today. The article argues for the need to integrate play and game-based learning in Higher Education. Special focus on India's NEP 2020 having overlooked the games sector. A Longer read: telanganatoday.com/rewind-gamin...

It's #GivingTuesday! Level up education through the Center for Learning through Games & Simulations and CMich Press, where innovation meets education. Power the future of game-based learning & design: giving.apps.cmich.edu/fund/9100111. The first $1k donated will be matched $2 for every $1 given.

I love this idea:

I'm having fun with this one. play.aidungeon.com I'm really enjoying the interactive fiction with AI. So far I've made a lot of plot holes.

Looks like I'll be adding "High Master of the New Republic" to my CV.

Sometimes a follow is just for me.

This just did a lot to make my feed cooler than yours: go.bsky.app/8hpjEoL

Our Faculty can earn the cutest badges for their professional development. I don't care what anyone says, a bulldog in an astronaut suit wins everything.