Harper Ferry

You can get this at the Bearpad website and if you use code SCARJO you get 15% off!

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Pretty amused to turn on Dirty Laundry and see Chris Grace wearing a shirt from @bearpadart.bsky.social . I have one in blue and it’s basically my favorite shirt.

I think if myself as someone who doesn’t like movie musicals, but I rewatched The Sound of Music this last weekend and it turns out that most movie musicals just suck shit by comparison.

I’m going to start using this app again I think

DEVIANT SCAFFOLDS with Harper Ferry October 20th @ 7pm In fishblow We don’t know what it is yet but we already live it and we are willing to try

It was really great to return to UCSC to give this talk to Nowhere Lab about my approach to game design (and more). What an amazing, supportive space.

I’m feeling really grateful to all the people who’ve supported me rn tbh

I’ve been feeling really stagnant via a vis game design since the summer began, but this week, I was able to present a talk about my artistic practice to the Nowhere Lab at UCSC and I just jumped off a really successful playtest as part of my first game design contract! 🥳

Hevel (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) by nullandvoidgames Use a passage from biblical text to tell stories about a community undergoing constant change.

Shana Tova to everyone observing.

Here’s a free game

nullandvoidgames.itch.io/hevel-eccles...

Chocolate Rain slowed down by 25%. It’s the sound of the summer.

Niles Crane from the television show Frasier, saying “Her lips said no, but her eyes said ‘Read my lips’”

Hares On The Mountain

Been really into this one lately

"Focus on the Family" try focusing on being dead you dead bitch

I read The Iliad this week and want to play Agon more than ever.

This interview was great -- Hendrik is really good at outlining the inspiration & lineage of mechanics in their game. Got emotional more than once just hearing about the moves and structure!! So excited for the girls of the genziana hotel to crowdfund later this year

I just cracked 4000 views on my itch page today, and I’m at just under a 1000 downloads. It’s a nice milestone to hit when I haven’t been getting much game design work done in the last couple months.

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a discursive object trotted out for the sake of ontological internet debates

That’s it. That’s the whole game.

Great episode!

I should watch Mouse Hunt (1997) again.

I’ve been having a shit month and would like to work on some games now

21. Games don't *have to* say something profound, they can be easygoing/lighthearted/just there to pass the time. But a game *must* be aware of what it is actually saying, and make sure it's not accidentally advocating for some bad shit, including through its mechanics.

Distance by nullandvoidgames Headphone-assisted self-reflection for 1 player

“Think about how far you’ve come” Download Distance, a headphone-assisted self-reflection for 1 player. Pay what you want.

“In the criminalization of our pleasures, we've found the pleasure to be found in crime!" From Criminal Intimacy -"a gang of criminal queers" Published in Total Destroy, 2009

How does one know if their games have been de-indexed on a storefront like itch?

It could just be that I’ve been going to school in Santa Cruz, which is a town with certifiable hacky sack energy, but I saw a lot of people kicking them around there, mostly undergrads.

I think it’s already back

Processing: a game of examination and imagination for two or more players by nullandvoidgames A game of examination and imagination for two or more players

My game Processing is getting a little attention on tumblr this morning, which is cool because I often forget about it.

nullandvoidgames.itch.io/processing

I’m gonna need one of these

I have the opportunity to give a series of three artist’s talks/ workshops next year at UCSC under the working title of “Deviant Scaffolds”. I’m really excited about it.