Charles Palmer

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While we're finishing up Dosa Divas, we're still shopping around two smaller new projects. We wanted to let folks know with enough time and severance. Here's a spreadsheet with info on each person and I'm happy to provide any recommendations for any of them. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Today in keyboard mashing surprise results.

hi, looking for game programming or related work. primarily experienced in unity dev and c++. been looking for work for two years now even outside games/tech and won’t have a place to stay soon. i’m in los angeles / US
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And standing on one leg!

But ultimately hamstrung by ideological purity.

Super on brand though. Building something almost useful.

😇 play this please!

i worked hard on it

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good:
www.roguelike.club/event2025.html

So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

I feel you’ve made it more penis shaped looking at the after. 🤔

Also they’re worth more money than makes sense but not making a mobile slop game for the dolls was a mistake. What even!?

Noob!

Jesus John that’s a good start.

Strong Abzu vibes.

I wrote an Intro to Puzzle Design article🧩

This covers the usual points I discuss with people who are working on their first puzzle game. Given how some concepts can be quite abstract, I think a written piece allows everyone to digest it at their own pace.
www.ludipe.com/2025/08/18/i...

It gets really good when non-programmers end up jamming functionality together into something completely unexpected.

Low coupling, high coherence and composable. Not sure there is a collective noun but they’re all great principles for gameplay code (and design) that results in emergent results easily.

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Definitely I think the main advantage of physical toys is it’s much easier to recontextualise them. Lego minifigs can interact with Playmo characters whilst playing with them as Fortnite. But you can’t take the symbolic elements out of Fortnite the digital game without a new representative thing.

I disagree here. Physical toys do have an advantage because they are necessarily embodied but the power here is in imagination. Digital games exist outside of their computational confines.

I think that’s a great sentiment including outside of the context of games.

I think there’s little introspection sometimes or rather design isn’t often learnt from first principles but from an attempt to improve on an existing form. Which isn’t bad necessarily but is self limiting.

I often watch my youngest playing by herself lost in her own head. I’m not sure I could author that or even if it’s something anyone other than her could author. Structure entirely in sync with the player.

Yeah players are always inside the structure and verbs the game provides and by necessity the level of self expression possible is dictated by that structure. Maybe that’s stating the obvious though. Tyrannically focused games like Tetris vs hands off ‘worlds’ like Minecraft.

I see scores, deaths and other associated friends as goal setting rather than trying to dictate actions to the player.

One thing I’ve always liked about the Zachtronics games is that they provide one linear set of goals to get through the puzzles but then multiple different scores you can choose to optimise towards or not.

I think the latter because largely the game is not individualised to each player and as such cannot reasonably accommodate everyone. With a few genres I quite often get the feeling I’m playing the game ‘wrong’ but have a good time anyway.

Twitter post by @JoshMLabelle We've assembled 100 people with ADHD and 5 people with no soft skills to manage them, and given them a simple goal: make an impossible amount of money. We call it the games industry, and we think it's going to work great. 10:06 AM 17 Feb 22

Having made the mistake of engaging some enthusiastic supporters it’s also clear that no one will end up satisfied with the result. The petition is so open there are 1001 individual interpretations.