me talking about game design like *references The Quiet Year* *references The Quiet Year* *references The Quiet Year*

If you know of cool creative or educational work opening up remotely or in LA, think of me. I’m really very pleasant to work with.

Obviously being super productive rn

displacement is one of the greatest cruelties you can do to someone

What if someone gave me a big pile of money to remake Smokey & The Bandit?

My games cracked 1,800 downloads today! 🥳

Also, my partner got me this great puzzle for my birthday that’s made mostly of edge pieces and it was a ton of fun to put together. Highly recommend for a quick but still challenging puzzling experience.

Last week I read this excellent book

This was a really great workshop

Going back through ye olde Backstory podcast and it rules

I want to record some actual plays of my games over the next couple of months, especially a version of Falling Objects inspired by John Tucker Must Die.

I made Critical Mass because I believe that play can be a form of practice, and thinking critically about how best to engage repression (both active and passive) is something we seriously need to practice with one another. Download it for free here: nullandvoidgames.itch.io/critical-mass

Still feeling extremely honored by being selected by the other nominees! 🥰🥹

I got to see an elephant seal give birth in breach from like 35 feet away the other day. Año Nuevo State Park, California.

Really excited to be presenting Part 2 of my Deviant Scaffolds series of talks and workshops to the Nowhere Lab at the Digital Arts Research Center at UCSC tonight! As you can see, I’m really good at making slides.

Something I really love is wearing a clown nose in traffic because people will get so frustrated at how slow everything is moving and then they look over at me like

Bully Pulpit Games has 28 larps and larp-like games published - for free, pay what you want, and for sale; some by me and some with friends. We have lots more available to our patrons but never published for various reasons. Some of my personal faves in a thread... www.patreon.com/posts/bully-...

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From Critical Mass:

“His death is assured by his cruelty, and by those who will not forgive it” Falling Objects is a GMless game of Regicide and Hard Bargains. Download it today. Pay what you want. nullandvoidgames.itch.io/falling-obje...

Why do I make games? Check out this clip from the @indiecade.bsky.social 2025 Winners Roundtable!

Mood:

The fantasies most people indulge in play or consumption don’t even amount to escapism. Escape requires action, and it changes your relationship to being captured. What most people are doing is merely coping. I’d really like to play and create games that enable real escape.

I made Critical Mass because I believe that play can be a form of practice, and thinking critically about how best to engage repression (both active and passive) is something we seriously need to practice with one another. Download it for free here: nullandvoidgames.itch.io/critical-mass

Working on a character creation process that includes a full page pick-list of incredibly stupid nicknames for one of the characters Inspired by this great bit by @austinwalker.bsky.social youtu.be/gzJ5LFR85Cg?...

I have several games in this jam / bundle, including V2 of The Sentient Severed Arm, which is the only game on my Itch page you’d normally have to pay for.

Had a great conversation today that got me thinking about this game zine I made and am incredibly proud of.

T H E A R M

Maybe it’s the midwesterner in me, but this has been one of my favorite love songs since I was like 14 (I’m old now). youtu.be/8AXHaNXTXL0?...

I can hardly believe it! 🥹🥰🥳💪

A quick important break in Indiecade content for the Yodeling Bird. youtu.be/U8eAeOjF0wU?...

I met Harper today and am reading this game right now and holy shit, it is brilliant and weird and I’m kinda obsessed with it!!

Try something really different at your next game night! youtu.be/3upJdjsYJOY?...

Dropping an updated version of The Sentient Severed Arm just in time for the Indiecade Awards. You can still play the b&w prototype for free, but now you can also pay a little more to get the beautiful new updated version in full color. nullandvoidgames.itch.io/the-sentient...

A successful little home test print of The Sentient Severed Arm v2 🥰🥰🥰

You can play The Sentient Severed Arm for free today. All you need is a weird friend or 2 (or 20) and to go to nullandvoidgames.itch.io to download it.

I desperately need to get a more complete version of this game out this year. nullandvoidgames.itch.io/critical-mass

Never talk to police. Don’t even say thank you if they hold a door open for you. Give them nothing ever.

31% of the 1,177 people that US police killed last year were attempting to flee at the time. #abolishice and abolish all cops. mappingpoliceviolence.us

It’s exhausting and disheartening and brutally sad, not least of all because fundamentally, it could be a different way. We could build it a different way. But a lot of people who say they’d like that to be true are, themselves, too afraid to believe it’s possible. I wonder who built them that fear

Next time your players gets hired to turn over an arm of Kotar to the Circle of Flame, or arrive at a town that needs a mystery, try throwing The Sentient Severed Arm at them as an adventure module where they play as the people they took the arm from or delivered it to. youtu.be/B_FvAgLb6ps

Just walk in and grab whatever you like, in my opinion.