intertextual experience

Thanks for creating amazing art!

see with these four games should get you quite excited about them. So conjure up some Halloween spirit and check these out.
@asmeesh.bsky.social @saibep.bsky.social @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social & konbou_club have made some absolutely amazing illustrations for these games 🔥

Not a critic and haven’t touched these games in any capacity (so check out @danthurot.bsky.social’s words on this matter), but it should be pretty obvious how much I’m into @dnlnwmn.bsky.social’s aesthetic and independent production with New Mill. The set of reviews and everything you can visually

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Excited to see the number when you’re ready to unveil that information.

(I read that as something Michelina’s and thought of the frozen meals; distracted brain, 😅)

Oooh, gotcha gotcha. Guess 37 FELT like the average then because I misread the clues too, lol. Reordered below.
Gas station burrito—12
Steak, but at IHOP—18
Caviar on a kettle chip—23
Chicken strips from a sit-down restaurant—45
Filet Mignon at a Michelin Star restaurant—96

37
Least: gas station burrito
Most: chicken strips at a sit-down restaurant

Very true! I guess I don’t think about designing euro games either, only hybrid climbing things and ridiculous dexterity games 😂
I technically did have some early card-throwing/rummy and partnership “memo-rummy” game thoughts.
Your cards look great—looking forward to seeing how great the game is!

to the BGG ratings, there's only one in the top 1000, and that's Mahjong.

Looking forward to yours being up there 🙂

Hearing you talk about studying Rummy and older designs when we chatted was a lot of fun. I'm a fan of a good Rummy game, but while I can conceptualize—at the very most/least as I don't design much—creating games for most genres, Rummy always stumps me as a thought experiment. At least according

Got the launch notification and was super tempted to just buy it.
The back log is a little too big to justify getting it right now, but it will inevitably be in my collection at some point.

The number of times where I get excited to play ~30 minutes of Steam Deck to cap off a night but then am too tired by the time that comes is nearly every night.

At least there's that excitement.

Really excited to see your Rummy games!

I read them so you don’t have to.

Feel better soon!

It's perfect.
And seeing as the three of you designed the two games in the newest Bitewing Mythos line, I have to say that I'm loving Azure on BGA and am excited to get both super fancy physical productions in my hands!

The trilogy is complete 😊

In person—Iliad and my game. Online, a bunch; I’d say Shock Knights has been on that’s stuck out to me as a recent gem on BGA that I’d love to play in person.

Leviathan Wilds is high on my to playlist, and I’m hoping this week is the week!

Not sure if it was the browser or connection, but this set of nested messages seemed to break my Bluesky the way a Pynchonian page breaks my brain. Thank you for this write-up though! After finishing a few things (GR included..), I think I’m going to read a little DeLillo and return to Pynchon.

Well.. it is now.
Based on the mechanisms, that will actually fit really well compared to this arbitrary condition I had in there and will provide some more fun text-linked “chrome” (kind of embarrassed I didn’t think of this).
If/when this gets done, you’re getting rulebook note shout-out!

It’s gone through quite a bit of change. It was also something I was going to try to make for a compendium initially and then re-theme. Going to be a little tough to make that happen, so I’ll just pour myself into this one.
tl;dr: As soon as it’s done, it’s all yours!
& fair on the italics 😅

Semi-interestingly, I’ve been noodling with a game based on/inspired by “As I Lay Dying.”

Also, I wish Bluesky let you italicize titles—putting them in quotes feels 🤢.

Interesting... I had the same sentiment about that damn Faulkner taking my ideas.

What I played, I loved. Felt like I was okay/good at Hades and firmly in the okay camp when playing Hades II early in its early access.
Take care of those wrists though. Endurance activities are all about sustainability. Can’t defeat Chronos with carpal tunnel

Had to double check for understatement.
Hades is a top three game for me ever, so I’m really trying to set a time to dive into II—just have some games to finish at my current 🐢 pace.
@supergiantgames.bsky.social ‘s Pyre is one of those games, and I’m loving it

Mostly confused that it’s only kinda

a cartoon of lisa simpson reading a book to a teacher Alt: "a cartoon of lisa simpson reading a book to a teacher" Auto-generated alt text lol

It was great!
Thanks for taking the time to be on the show.

#40 - Pete Wissinger—Crit(ical Thinking Skill)s and Trick(y question)s—A Back to School Special

Back to school with @petewiss.bsky.social

We put in some standardized test prep here.

All that work is paying off, as Pete's been making some awesome stuff—designing, developing, and podcasting.

open.spotify.com/episode/0zGK...

Thought I had this wishlisted (? if there was a pre-early access page) but didn’t.

Thank you for the reminder!

Purchased! Looking forward to trying this out.

this in a previous article and subsequently subconsciously thought of it as a great title for our episode before forcing you to title it—but I don’t think I consciously noticed that blurb until now.
Fun?!