People are gonna make games using LLMs, and they’re gonna be hollow. [5/6]

Got curious if people's copies of Fox in the Forest Deluxe have been posted here (I know of one pre-order which has arrived), and...uh, kinda forgot which site I was on.

Since other game designers are showing prototypes, here's an early prototype of Fox in the Forest. Just slips of paper that I printed out and slipped into sleeves. Earlier than this was just me writing on playing cards with a sharpie.

I hope AEG is ready to flip on their magical game design robot, because I will personally make sure every designer that I know sees this and realizes that AEG hates their guts and is actively trying to destroy game design as a discipline.

One of the truly delightful things about Bandcamp is that every now and again, when I buy an album on there, the band will send me a DM thanking me. It's my pleasure! Thanks for making great music!

New Action Cookbook Newsletter! Surprise! There's a new voice in your group chat this morning, and before you ask: no, you cannot turn it off. (Free post, but you should subscribe after reading it, IMO) www.actioncookbook.com/welcome-to-t...

Not only are they useless, as a view from nowhere tells me nothing, they're also really, really boring.

The Dice Tower funding campaign is a grotesque mess, and DT does not deserve any attention or funding. It's good that Sam is leaving, but it doesn't excuse all the other times DT has been bad. The hobby very much does not need them.

I know that it can be easy to think "they're not sending their best" but I think that's wrong. I think they really are. "Guy Who Backed Into Phrenology By Looking At Dogs" represents the top of their intellectual spectrum.

What stage of capitalism is "ads on fruit"?

I am not posting it through the Leder Games website, instead going to my personal network to look for candidates I know. We are looking for 1 possibly 2 graphic designers as I build our team for growth. This is not a remote position. Thanks! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A classic "imbecile's spring" day today - crisp enough with dudes wandering around in shorts for my most dogbrained part to think "huh, I guess spring is basically here". The true sign of spring, of course, is telling myself a non-descript fifth outfielder "might really be something".

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I wrote some thoughts on 2025 music. It's not a ranking, it's just some records that I loved this year in no particular order: fiverandomsongs.com/2025-year-in...

Just in case anybody out there is encountering the same problem as I am, my Lenovo laptop used to keep going to sleep on me while I was using it. After a lot of poking around, I figured out that the "Elliptic Labs Smart Sensor Platform" is responsible. It's supposed to sense if somebody is... [1/2]

I had a ton of fun in this conversation!

My random campaign generator just produced a couple bangers for names. (deleted and reposted because I forgot alt text)

Oh my God this list talks about Surgery, I am all in.

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

Three hands of I'm Out by Masato Uesugi tonight and it's a banger. I think it's going to hit the table frequently, it's so pleasant to play.

Listening to the latest Tortoise record for the first time, and got confused when what I thought was a gradual intro for a new track just turned out to be water slowly dripping off a pan onto a burner.

Well, tonight, apparently I'm going to try and go to sleep with Killdozer's cover of "Take the Money and Run" going in a loop in my head.

cryptography is a mathematical system for transforming problems which aren't key-management problems into key-management problems

When I'm feeling down at all during the holiday season, I head to One Simple Wish to donate something and it absolutely fixes things.

i was at a house party once with calvin johnson from beat happening and he went into the kitchen and just sorted out all the mixed recycling

holy father, i'm offering you a chance to skip this boring lunch. get day drunk with jane and i while we watch clips of the '05 world series on youtube

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Eight Cheeses

Time to do the second half of this project: the creation of a gazetteer PDF to go along with the map. Been working on the title page. ("Enthusiastic Man" is a randomly generated name which is just a random adjective and random noun.) (repost because I forgot the alt text last time)

being a tabletop designer means sometimes you find an Untitled Spreadsheet and inside is just the numbers 1 to 100 in order

If this game were happening in a movie, you'd be thinking "well, that's a bit much".

fortnite feels like the pearl america was built to gestate. memeified celebrities and licensed cartoons killing each other over and over in uncannily bloodless PG gunfights within freemium software subsidized by a child casino. a satire beyond the cruelest imagination did it not already exist

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th [Sun rises] [Sun keeps getting bigger] BUCK: yes [World engulfed by flames] BUCK: oh god yes

Rivers are now no longer perfect 60 degree turns. (The butts remain.)

Well, this dumb thing now has points of interest - towns, cities, all kinds of stuff.

I was just talking last night about the bizarre line reading in the MLB Piazza ad to my daughter, and now Lauren Theisen at least provides me with why I have to hear about that and "oppo taco" five thousand times a game: defector.com/the-mlb-app-...

It's interesting reading this at the same time that I'm reading Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, one theme of which is connecting so many biographies of people back to childhoods spent in high-lead environments.

I added deserts to my map generator. Underlying this is a crude climate model (along with an elevation model).

Little worried about this fried chicken joint, inasmuch as they're bumping some Coldplay playlist in here.

Mariners win

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

While I anxiously watch the Mariners game, I also added forests into this thing.

I spent way too long making this Gourdhub home page:

Forgot to take an in-play picture, but we played Worst in Show tonight and it was a really good time. @dnlnwmn.bsky.social , I really appreciate the work you're doing!

Well, hello, what's this? Is that a deluxe version of Fox in the Forest I spy? renegadegamestudios.com/fox-in-the-f...

Well, latest version adds volcanos, which is fun. Also, cleaned up some things with river generation, although it's still not quite where I want it. Oh, and I added some hex numbers.

Please, I'm begging people to stop sharing Sora videos. If I wanted to look at appalling slop, I'd use a Meta service.

Introducing: ugly lakes. This map generator is getting more and more map like (after you adjust for the ugly/butt-tastic "artwork" that I put together).