Martin Grider

What is this "after work" you speak of?

03.06.2025 14:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

IGDA Twin Cities | The Twin Cities Chapter of the International Game Developers Association

IGDATC.org is where it’s at!

15.05.2025 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Games are structured play! Come play some games (including my chess variants) at the Arcade today at #minnebar19! #minnebar

03.05.2025 14:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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Look into Ghost - ghost.org - Substack has repeatedly defended hosting literal nazis on its platform. 😞

23.04.2025 03:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

...adding to a cube where your tile was the convex one, and subtracting opponent's cubes when your tile was concave. I deliberately didn't settle on how to score the game, since I wanted to play it a bit first. Goals and scoring are the next important step, I think.

03.04.2025 14:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Feel free to ask whatever you'd like to know!

This was a simple 4-player "majorities" game. Everyone started with a full set of 13 tiles (minus the 4 we used to seed the board). On your turn, you placed your tile, put a cube on it, and then also added or subtracted cubes from adjacent tiles.

03.04.2025 14:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A finished prototype board game played with a set of "Bubble Tiles" (hexagons with circular cuts), many of them covered in player markers for scoring/ownership.

Awesome, thanks for these! First idea playtested this afternoon!

30.03.2025 06:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Recently, I spent time thinking about WHY I trust answers from Wikipedia a lot more than I trust answers from AI, and it applies equally well to AI vs. Stack Overflow. The AI answer has only one (unverifiable) source. It is also ephemeral, no down-votes or opportunity for fact checking.

05.03.2025 15:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Is there some good reason not to like Obsidian, or do you just not like it?

04.02.2025 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm feeling sick that I voted for Klobuchar.

04.02.2025 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

When can I buy my own Bubble Tiles box?

04.02.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I want to make games with these! (I was not able to find this for sale anywhere. Opportunity?)

02.02.2025 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the artist standing in a wheat field in manhattan

"Once seeded, however, the work was far from over. For the next four months as the wheat grew, it was meticulously cared for. This included setting up an irrigation system, weeding, fertilizing, and clearing the plants of “wheat smut,” a type of fungi several grain-bearing crops are susceptible to. Not a single day went by where the wheat field was left unattended, and for the many months it was growing it became a part of the fabric of the city, with even the ships coming towards the Hudson River regularly saluting the field with their horns as they came and went."

"The wheat from Denes Wheatfield – A Confrontation was harvested on August 16, 1982, and everything was used and given a purpose. The harvest bore nearly 1,000 pounds of wheat, which was collected and then taken on tour and exhibited all over the world, with the first stop being at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, in the exhibition “International Art Show for the End of World Hunger,” (1987–90). At each stop on the wheat’s journey, Denes offered out packets of the seeds, which she donated, for people to take as a form of solidarity."

"In addition to the traveling wheat, the hay that was left over from the harvest was also donated, but instead locally to the New York City Police Department Mounted Unit to feed their horses. The careful and complete utilization of the wheat crop further emphasized Denes’ aims to confront the status quo; not simply a gesture or performance isolated from the greater world, in its conclusion the wheat field fulfilled its thesis, to actively provide sustenance both literally and metaphorically."

thinking about agnes denes' "wheatfield" today, turns out it's more complicated than I remember... like it took 4 months of constant labor to protect it from plant diseases... and the hay was donated to the NYPD news.artnet.com/art-world/ag...

10.01.2025 21:42 — 👍 164    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 2

Fascinating. I assume you mean because it looks like it's going to need some serious maintenance? (Or even to come down, maybe.)

11.01.2025 18:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".

But... www.bbc.com/news/article...

06.12.2024 22:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But also "good" is quite subjective, so I don't mean that question literally as written. You have to ask whether it's worth doing something SPECIFIC, or in some specific way.

06.12.2024 22:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If everyone who asks "Should we really be doing this?" convinces just one person not to do a bad thing, then that post was justified, IMO. Of course it's _also_ worth asking "How can we make good things?" That could have also stopped a lot of the BS from getting made in the first place.

06.12.2024 22:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How many people bought a copy of Monopoly? Not many game designers talking about that one either. (For good reason!)

04.12.2024 23:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is there a way to follow a starter pack feed without following all its users? (I want to add it like I can a list.) 🤔

23.11.2024 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

‎Hexagon Grid Generator ‎A hexagonal grid generator. Use this to draw highly customizable hexagonal grids and save them to your photo library.

work: itunes.apple.com/us/app/mygif...
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23.11.2024 18:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Glad to hear you're interested! I have definitely decided to move forward with the project. I'm not sure how long it'll take me to get everything in order, but I'll reply here when I have a kickstarter page (or something like it) ready to look at. 😀

15.11.2024 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A 9x9 Go board with small circular chess pieces intermingled with circular go stones. There are also bowls with go stones, and bowl lids with captures and remaining chess pieces.

My latest board game design is a mashup of Go and Chess. It's a Chess variant AND a Go variant. I'm thinking about making 100 sets and putting them on Kickstarter. Any interest?

13.11.2024 16:36 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 0

I haven't really been using this... but at least logging into blue sky today, my feed isn't empty! I only logged in to follow the "Eyeo Festival Speakers" feed. If anyone knows of an equivalent list on Mastodon, please LMK!

16.04.2024 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to having some board games playable at #minnebar this Saturday. (At least two are games that also have iOS versions.)

16.04.2024 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

‎Puzzle Prison ‎Tap to match-3 in this spacial puzzle game that appears all around you. There's actually no escaping this puzzle... prison. Features: - immersive block-breaking puzzle game - fully original soundtr...

I'm giving two talks on #visionOS development in the coming month or so. Both will cover my latest game release, Puzzle Prison for Apple Vision Pro: apps.apple.com/us/app/puzzl...

MN VR & HCI: www.eventbrite.com/e/mn-vr-and-...

TCiDev / MN Cocoaheads: www.meetup.com/twin-cities-...

16.04.2024 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0