Nora Jean Haynes | Double Summon Games

I really have to respect maro for this one. I think its an empathetic and emotionally intelligent response to the concerns of people like me who mourn the loss of what mtg used to be.

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I think a lot of experienced GMs will see guidance designed for inexperienced GMs and think the designer is setting weird boundaries for no reason.

If you're willing to be a bit of a game designer, you can do anything. But you have to remember that some players need that handhold.

(You're not allowed to pirate my shit if you spent money on a D&D supplement this year though. Then its no longer allowed)

Imma be real, you're allowed to pirate my shit. I get it - I've been poor. Poor people deserve cool shit and to play cool games.

But you don't need to tell me about it.

Every "cringy" queer kid getting to find community through Deltarune lifts my heart. It's all that I ever wanted as a kid. I wish I could have lived in your world, and I'm so glad you get to have things just a bit better - atleast in this way.

It's okay to make toys. Not everything you make has to be focused on being art. It'll be art anyway - so it's okay to make it toys too if you want to.

I think more people enjoy complex women protagonists in video games than a few divorced YouTubers would have you believe

painting by haru bun of tenkyuu chimata from touhou wearing a dress made of various banknotes

currency exchange
#東方project #touhou

Full offense, every time the "trans women can't trust any cis women" discourse flares up I'm harshly reminded that a lot of you think transfeminism is primarily a vehicle to build theoretical foundations that justify being an NLOG

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

Someone could tell the AI more specific things to break it out of that convention I suppose. But:
- its always going to treat that as the default
- It is always going to be infinitely better at producing that default because it pre-exists the attempt at change

It takes monumental effort to break the conventions of "average", but even worse when the "average" is reproducing itself at a speed impossible to any person.

Beauty is defined by what beauty meant in 2010. Fun is defined by the conventional wisdom of 2014. The average person looks like the average person found on disney channel in 2008.

One thing thats really frustrating about Ai is that its this excuse to just repurpose the past without evolving it.

As a machine that "easily" takes the past and repackages it, every little problem and presumption with art of the last decades gets reproduced.

Sent in a rulebook to a public editing space for review and some guy had the absolute GALL to suggest changing all instances of using they/them for the player to he/him.

It's 2025 my guy!!!! The #tabletopgamedesign community needs to do better.

Nothing made me feel more like it was all worth it than when one of our playtesters got so excited about Mugen Taikai that they made a tier list of which cards they felt were the strongest.
#boardgame #tabletopgamedesign #tabletopdesign #cardgame #gamedesign

ADHD #TabletopGameDesign Tips:
Always be working on at least two projects you're excited about at once.

It's way easier to stay productive when procrastinating one project means working on the second one.

I keep trying to write this game checks for everything it does right, but lord in heaven 13 Sentinels is transphobic.

#TabletopGameDesign Tip:
Look at niche design communities for solutions.

To keep each draft fresh in Mugen Taikai, we took a lot of inspiration from "Modular Cubes" in #MtG. The ways people had already been balancing synergistic and generic effects saved us a lot of work.

Niche topic YouTubers looooove to transform into people who get arrogant and annoyed that creators in that space aren't bending everything to match their personal preferences and opinions on design.

Every day I think about that statistic that while "Video Games" as a medium has grown year by year, the number of "core gamers" has barely grown by comparison.

You know. I feel like the way video games has been split into "free to play gambling dens accessible to normal people" and "premium experiences that only enthusiasts can afford" should be treated as a recession indicator.

Posting stuff on Reddit is so hit or miss in my experience. People want to see cool things. But if it feels like self-promotion then it ends up as just a wasted effort.

It's a gamble with each individual community.

If you're someone who finishes a draft in #mtg and wants to start again right away, I'd love if you joined us in playtesting our newest project Mugen Taikai!

The game is all about making the actual "resolution" parts of a draft faster so the synergies can shine.

discord.gg/Du39ugZpqU

Knowing when to stop a project is so hard, cause I know for a fact i'll be looking at it in a year or two and hitting myself for not realizing how to solve a problem I never could have discovered until it was out there.

Fundimentally magic the gathering is not the same game it was 5 years ago.

Universes Beyond and commander have new goals and incentives.

And that's great for the people that are having fun. It's not for me anymore.

But mtg died, and in its place a new more successful card game was born.

Just how long any person and group spends with ttrpgs. And how easy it is to make assumptions based on what in any other medium would be genuine levels of experience.

Its like it was designed to make annoying discourse.

I think ttrpgs are an engine that make you annoying about ttrpgs.

Yeah.

Unless your games some 2 page thing where you play as feral cats im willing to bet it has characters, art, encounters, examples of play, premades, or something.

If your game can't represent a marginalised group there then your game doesn't support the identity.