Ohh, these are just starting to twist my brain in interesting ways... Fivefold Daily Puzzle #3 (Nov 13, 2025) solved in 3:26 with 0 hints! fivefold.ca

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Waking up puzzle #2 I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 12th 2025) in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

New fun daily puzzle! Fivefold Daily Puzzle #2 (Nov 12, 2025) solved in 0:50 with 0 hints! fivefold.ca

Mass market games are more likely to be sold in "normal" stores instead of hobby stores/direct sales. Also less likely to have the designer credited (or framed as "a game by" x), more likely for games to be "owned" by the publisher. It's a little like trying to separate a movie from an "art movie".

Is there a generally understood definition of hobby board games vs. Mass Market board games? 🎲✂️ It feels wrong to me to just chalk it up to the number sold, but I'm not sure why that is.

I have a game in this too!

You can pick up the book here! It contains: “Games For a Rainy Day 54 micro-games, puzzles, and more by independent game designers and artists.” www.txtbooks.us/product/game...

AI and Crypto data centers need to be the first ones to lose power in a brown out.

My birthday is 31st of October (Halloween), so it's only appropriate for my games to be part of Itch's Halloween Sale :) Get Abdec and/or Workworkwork PDFs for 50% off (until Monday) itch.io/s/164916/let...

Down to inbox 10 and you know it's only because I'm procrastinating on work.

🎲✂️ Howdy! @czamboni.bsky.social and I are looking to connect with TTRPG / LARP creators from outside of North America creating games that address oppression and resistance from a cultural perspective. We're putting together a list for potential guests for our podcast-in-progress! #TTRPG #LARP

I realized the names are in alphabetical order. That helps significantly. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 16th 2025) in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟡 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

An emotional minute as the word Democracy melts away in front of the US Capitol Building.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 15th 2025) in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com Really tried to not take a hint on this one.

I could have probably gotten this one without hints if I had taken more time. Fun! 🧩 I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in less than 7 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟡🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 12th 2025) in less than 15 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟠 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟡 cluesbysam.com

Glad to see the Tabletop Games series at @uofmpress.bsky.social take off with @jreylee.bsky.social's book on Catan. Clear, unambiguous writing on abstraction and gaming with regard to colonial themes.

This one felt pretty good. No mistakes and one hint. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 11th 2025) in less than 14 minutes 🟠🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

No AI is used in any of my games. You can find this Human Made icon on everything I make. Really great icon pack by Hinokodo

Doing this first thing in the morning is maybe not what my brain is up for. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 10th 2025) in less than 22 minutes 🟡🟩🟩🟠 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟡🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

So when you’re planning for your pitch, think not just in terms of your fun, mechanical hooks—make sure everything is working towards fulfilling the appeal of your game’s promised experience.

as a person who designs narrative-focused things, I think that staying true to the story is vitally important to escape game design - if your puzzles or mechanics aren't in service to the story pull players out of the immersion and they begin to realize themselves as frustrated players. ✂️🧩

Good morning! It's Pizzamas, and that means I can finally tell people about THIS: pizzamas.com/collections/... I wrote another Pizzamas Dungeons and Dragons adventure! It's got tons of Nerdfighter references (and a few just for the LRR fans, heh heh), jokes and a message board!

The crowd sale for #Crownfell has been approved for November 18! Add-ons include a neoprene playmat and a solo expansion. This 2-player asymmetric chess-like has 17 cards unique movement and abilities. Sign up to be notified here (shares appreciated!) 🧡 www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/cr...

14,292 games released on Steam in 2025 alone. 1100 new board games at SPIEL. The sheer number of games being released now, all over the world by all these different sizes of teams, really boggles the mind, but what *really* boggles the mind is still having to *defend game studies* despite all that.

Hey look, you can spend money to let a corporation spy on you! 🤨

Happy Pizzamas everyone! Favorite Kitsch 2 week Holiday, hands-down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=odsG...

Going to release 🔴, a #pico-8 bounce shooter with mostly procedural animation and gfx, sometime this week!

What do you consider a perfect movie?

ok, played around & ended up here: Use this image as a template. Image size is 94x27.5mm (scale this however you want in pixels) Pink & Blue bars are cut off when bluesky crops. Desktop crop- Pink. Mobile crop -blue (pixel 7 anyways). Generally, don't put anything in the colored zones.

It's a release! Drawing Dungeon is a roll-and-write dungeon crawl I've been working on for a few months now! Four maps and a playtime of 15-20 minutes per session, all for $3! Explore the dungeon, collect treasure, and defeat the boss (or die trying)!

Four review copies of #Crownfell are now in the mail. 📤 This launch has been far less stressful than my last game launch. I’m glad I’m taking my time and not rushing to fit into a ridiculous timeline… five stars, do recommend. 🎲✂️

Has anyone tried editing video over GeForce NOW? Just wondering if $200 a year is a viable option now for a pretty powerful remote pc.

Finished up the beginner 7-game Flamme Rouge Grand Tour campaign. There wasn't a lot of surprise at the end-we had known who was winning consistently in the races. I felt the more interesting thing for us was keeping half exhaustion and the interesting tracks. Want to play it at 5/6 sometime.

We're funded, but in the last few hours, my car got hit-and-runned(while parked) and I had to turn down a gig I really wanted due to caretaking responsibilities, so the film having a comfortable budget will really ease my overall stress! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

Every once and again I gonna slide into your quiet posters feed.

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️

Getting some training in with my new Haba games.

still two hours left in our drive home (plus one more stop to charge) i’m not the one driving, and i’m getting a little restless AMA time!

Humankind's ability to make stories just amazes me.

Today in the intro to the Videogame Industry class I'm teaching I told everyone that AI was prohibited for use in class. The students' response against AI in the comments was just massive. They know what's up. The kids are alright.

I'm happy with this joke on so many levels.

Me: What's CRISPR's favorite 90's song? Also me: Splice, Splice Baby. My family: wut.

💔. This is spot on. For one more bit of context, remember DC is an "industry" town whose main industry is government. So: everyone knows someone who's lost a job to DOGE, and we're also reeling at a more fundamental level from watching the dismantling of the democracy that we came here to help.

the relationship between its and it's has always confused me. By the rules of AMERICA possession should have more apostrophes than proper diction. In fact, it should be it'''''''''s - Its now owns all the apostrophes.

No sir, sir if you don’t mind me pointing out, something curious. I never did say the clown’s name and I was wondering just how you could have known that name

My book was in there! Just added my name