President Trump: Would you go to Moscow? President Zelenskyy: It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.

[putting on history of labor and aesthetics hat] See how the devaluation of skilled creative labor causes public visual standards to sink even deeper, with the previous devaluation paradigm of the word processor and MS Paint now held up as an ideal

A Wednesday reminder that @sawinchell.bsky.social and I made a Columbo game that rips. Play to find out what the viewing audience thinks of the Murderer when the Detective finally calls them to account. Includes 5 ready-to-play casefiles + full writer's room mode. www.ndpdesign.com/one-more-thing

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...

It is wonderful to see all of these authors' work preserved in a much more searchable and posterity-friendly format!

Thanks to #PlayStoryPress our prior, archival work is getting a massive boost into posterity. It's satisfying to know that people will be able to find and get copies of this work for decades to come. Those POD books are so inexpensive btw that your local library *could* get the set.

Behind every "solo dev success story" is usually a partner working 9-5 for years to pay the bills.

Solo TTRPGs have been around for awhile!

Even after the devastation of WWII, there were plenty of former Nazis serving in public office in the FRG, such that a certain stereotype of the German citizen who was convinced "too early" (ie, in the 1920s) of Hitler's imminent danger was deemed a communist threat. Centrism lets this happen folks.

Gen Con just posted an article about our Emerging Designer Program, interviewing @aarontram.bsky.social, Adrianna Burton, and @forbeck.com! gencon.blog/2026/07/06/m...

There are only two choices on the table for the game worker right now: give up or get organized. And giving up repeatedly has only led us to this absolute shitshow, so let's take a look at what organizing really means (uvw-cwa.org, btw)

Between the time Swords Without Master was in Worlds Without Master issue 3 & the rise of the fix-up, I made the switch from Dark Magicks to Regretful Magicks and, folks, all other concerns aside, it's better: more explicit, more evocative, less trite. Any excuse to examine your language is a gift.

One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

*rubs hands* My specialty!

One of the fun things about running Bits & Mortar is encountering retailers who can't believe that it's free and based on taking the risk of actually trusting each other to be looking out for each other but... yep. That's really how it works.

A Tuesday reminder about my Jacksonian Gothic horror game Imp of the Perverse. Follow your imp-afflicted protagonists as they deal with the real monsters in their world. If you give in? You GM the next game as your comrades now hunt your former protagonist! www.ndpdesign.com/imp

Gotta separate descriptors such as "iconic" and "genius" from "made someone a lot of money" and also "Exclusively One Gender In Particular"

I’m so sorry for everyone at id Software affected by these layoffs. I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on. It’s a strange and painful thing to step away from a place that holds so much of your work, friendships and history. 1/5

This is also fantastic advice for board game and RPG designers.

Hey, I hate to ask, but if you read my game writing guide and found it helpful in any way, I'd appreciate a review. Someone decided to give me 2 stars because it was too "woke" for them and it hurt my rating 🫠 www.amazon.com/Game-Writing...

What a modern WPA (without y'know political interference) could achieve with all of the out-of-work creatives our system seems to produce! Man oh man

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

To that end... here's all 244 posts associated with my author page on @noproscenium.com www.noproscenium.com/author/kathr...

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

This is where I become the square-jawed, all-American Kentucky voter and ask earnestly: "Where is my Senator?" I mean: I do have the right to know, despite all of the chicanery and shenanigans and flim-flammery!

Since I've been more-or-less substituting the words "game studios" with "academic departments" in my analogy brain, it's like asking a bunch of fired, capital-less faculty if they want to start their own college now.

Expansions are kinda weird, right? I spoke with ten game designers and a historian about one of the most unusual elements of modern board games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v08K...

A must-read political economy of immersive: "The land question is everything." "The volunteer model looks the same on the surface, but it isn't." "DFUS tickets are already priced competitively." and "The experience-generation model is doing a lot of heavy lifting." www.patreon.com/car0mur/post...

10 days remain to support The Blue Way - the storytelling game of lost stories, colonialism, and its cultural aftermath from @jmstar.bsky.social and Central Michigan University Press. #TTRPGs #RPGs #gaming www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

Steve Bannon: power of “rootless white males” who spend all their time online and could be radicalized in a populist, nationalist way "I realized [these] could connect with these kids right away. You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate and then get turned onto politics and Trump"

I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

Systemic and chronic understaffing, no matter the industry.

Since apparently LLM slop is getting promoted over real people's writing, a reminder that I have a ton of writing over at chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/blog (will add other great places to read things from people later today)

wow sure was a good idea for biz to get exuberant on consolidation and mega-growth. New ownership and going indie sound good until you realize that krypton is exploding -- i'm sorry, restructuring -- behind the escape pods

whatever comes after the games industry will have to be unrecognizable

BREAKING: Xbox will cut 3,200 jobs as part of a major reorganization, and divest from five studios: - Compulsion and Double Fine will go indie - Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will be sold - Arkane to enter consultation process Here's the full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An important update from Compulsion Games.

My project of radicalizing young Millennials through Flash games paid off. Future? No Thanks! tackles the more crucial task of re-radicalizing elderly Gen-Xers.

Top to bottom: Chicken Egg Duck Egg Turkey Egg Goose Egg

This was a very well done doc on an important topic: AI in UK Higher Education. I'm writing about this topic at the moment, so I'll add another perspective that was not covered in the show: how AI tools give US tech giants further leverage over UK universities.

What we played during Story Game Night! We host this event every Monday evening at 5pm at Altitude 15 in downtown Olympia Washington. Come join us and play some story games! #olympia #olympiawashington #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #storygame

Had my fav style of game dev today: 1: Grab a fellow creative/co-writer 2: Hop a bus to a nearby city/town 3: Walk about ideating 4: Find a cafe and do a bunch of work 5: When you get stuck, tired, or hungry repeat steps 3 - 4 6: Celebratory dinner, then home So good to get away from your desk.

It was a different era: in the 1990s, TSR (the company that owned D&D before Wizards of the Coast) owned the Gen Con convention, and the TSR "booth" was at the center back of the exhibitor area, and it was a CASTLE. (Photo by Terry O'Brien.)

I am working on art direction for The Art of Power, my medieval power politics game set in a land ruled by women. I'm working with the artist Ann Evtushenko, and I want to share some of the early art for the game.

We academics chart the answers to questions like "what is a game?" over decades to appreciate the complexity of our object of study. We find our own positions by way of those of earlier folks, which then let us evaluate the contributions of novel material & formats as they're created.

One subtle thing I appreciate about Wildermyth's design is how it sculpts *stuff*. There's no "inventory." There are simply characters equipped with the latest gear, with nothing in "storage," and your raw materials for crafting, which will make that gear. No having 5 staves off in reserve!