DVC Games + Jasper Beatrix

COZY TIME DVC EDITION

Also a huge CIV VII fan here. Feels like almost everything they did was for me to like personally. I do see them adding options to allow for more CIV VI play options, but the medley of stuff it has going on, and so many game flow choices, just make it the easiest to hop into of any one yet so far.

Says something about me that my first reaction is ‘hey is that title font RumbleBrave?’

We are hopefully getting our games to a UK distributor soon, so that may make things a lot easier!

By ONE POINT? Dayum

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Great minds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@weheart.games Great minds! (from 6 months ago)

Not the busiest January but glad to have a smattering of new things to fiddle with.

Five classes in university/college (Jono edition)

1. The Gnostic Gospels
2. Developmental Psychology
3. Chinese Calligraphy
4. Quantum Mechanics / Physical Chemistry
5. Ballet

“Go away” ???

I am trying to figure out where to even begin.

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

Probably doesn't help that our collective has made games that are polarizing at home- everyone has strong preferences for and against what we have made, and no one has perfectly matched the results in the outer world. This may put folks in a position of feeling like their own feelings are 'wrong'...

I do think it comes somewhat from folks being pretty invested in DVC doing well- I know they care, but also it can get tricky if their instinct is to give this feedback, and not more 'themselves' feedback, which is what helped make our games better in the first place.

okay i love this

i used this as my ‘magic word’ for a whole game. lovely!

I had to read this three times to realize what he meant

We fiddled with a prototype today about competing magicians and mentalists and had a good debate about how kingkilling can bring out nastiness, but if placed under the right theme and low stakes, it blooms into sub-feelings upon sub-feelings that are elevating rather than harming.

Trouble naming something after a set of magic words. Pretty much all are taken by published games...

Presto, Presto-Change-o, Tada!, Hocus Pocus, Abracadabra, and so on...

Contemplating intentionality today.

Why that mechanism to tell that story? Why that rule? That behavior? I encounter a lot of design that has not dug deeper, even as an intellectual exercise.

What is the lore behind all your choices as a designer? What is its infinite soul?

We have an orbit of folks concerned with everything we touch either being, or not being, a DVC game, or a successful one at that. It is going to be a project this season to recultivate the kind of feedback that is, truly, a fun process, not a focus group.

*with the comments…

This was relevant in a conversation today, where sometimes designers give us feedback with this whole curve in mind, or ‘the market’, or ‘publishability’, and the joy is sometimes gone if it is mistimed. It is harder to make games for fun without comments about commercial value or broad appeal.

yeah holy crap

Reforming ICE is like taking Tylenol for cancer.

Abolish. Eliminate. Prosecute.

thank you! We really quite love it and are very proud of Ben!

Yay! Wonderful! We have been testing some new factions (out of picture).

It may be very snowy, but we are celebrating the release of Pacts!

Normally no, but we are looking at being able to ship the mats specifically to the EU, especially since they are so small.

Once I have info updated on the website I’ll be sending an email and posting about updating orders!