Kyle Kukshtel

Coming soon: Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.

Every TTRPG I’ve read the past year has felt like a pale imitation of The Valley of Flowers. They’ve got a new Kickstarter coming up for the next book, and I expect it will be everything from the previous book and more, along with a great chance to grab Volume 1.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...

In the wake of the announcement regarding redundancies at Bithell Games please go and follow these wonderful, talented people go.bsky.app/U1R3UmV

we did it! 40+ people joined us for an incredible session of john company, where the familial links of the east india company emerged from play. it was amazing to see joco and the company archives scale so well. thanks @colewehrle.bsky.social and @wehrlegig.games all the players and volunteers.

Last year, this was my favorite part of Gen Con and this year it got bigger and better in every way, transforming what was a black box production to a massive piece of theater. I don't know how or when it's going to happen, but we'll do our best to put together some documentation on how to run this.

Save 20% on Rise of Industry 2 on Steam Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network w...

And check out rise of industry 2 here!

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Matthew Viglione & Gabriel Firmo on Rise of Industry 2 Listen now | On building the data architecture and design pipeline behind a city-building game

new episode of game data up! I talk with SomaSim games about nearly a decade of creating unique strategy games and their custom data definition language underlying it all (inspired by logic programming??)

listen here and wherever you get podcasts

www.gamedatapodcast.com/p/somasim-ri...

also seems like bluesky caches OG images from initial domain post so my links aren’t being unrolled properly 😩

added in the ability to directly paste in @scryfall.com links to mood.site and get card art and links back to source. pretty cool! also paves the way for more “paste from url” type stuff!

mood.site/BvD4lxc5

yep! I mean the touch point was the engine code but it was never unmanageable.

so generally content people did content and code did code. it was definitely hard before the schema stabilized but gracefully handling migrations there and making sure everyone has good hygiene helped us avoid any major issues.

something we didn’t do that would have been possible is to have the repos share a sentinel sync file. but the thing was that the repos moved at different speeds and had different users. the plastic people dgaf about git and just checked in, and git people could generally not worry about plastic.

we would ship the data with the build itself so for end-user builds it was pretty easy to replicate. for incremental commits and data changes it was obv more touchy - we tried to avoid big schema changes generally and usually tweaking values themselves didn’t cause issues.

git for code, plastic for data and assets. LFS is a mess and has none of the nice gamedev-y VCS things (like image diffs, checking out only SOME of a repo, etc). We did this with about 8 and I’d do the same with a team 10x the size and 1/8 the size

MAC Attack - Sci-Fi Mecha Miniature Wargame MAC Attack: Mobile Armour Colossus. A fast-playing, explosive mecha tabletop wargame, where factions of a fractured humanity fight for dominance on alien new worlds.

MAC Attack just went live!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

These covers rip so hard. I had them (well the original Spanish language ones) in my moodboard for when I made Cantata and continually just fell in love with their detail.

did some fanart today for a birthday party card (we got her the first sato book)

Large tableau of a castle filled with demons and creatures, with a bridge where demons are leading humans to the mouthed entrance. The castle is surrounded by a river full of sea monsters and other creatures.

Limbo

Archaion Episode Four - Heal Thyself

A short synopsis here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Extracted images here:

It’s an incredible & true fact that my commissions are open right now

For once I even have buckets of time for drawing!!!

Don't Call It A Comeback... Yes, we are finally back with a new newsletter AND a brand new website... What a Sunday this is turning out to be.

Ok, because there is no better time to relaunch your newsletter, and launch your entire (half built) brand new website, than a Sunday afternoon when you are on a family holiday that’s exactly what we’ve done…

Gazetteer subscribers please check your inboxes/junk mail or like everyone else read here

Heisenfunctions, Incremental Determinism, and The Future of Programming - k-hole Exploring what it could mean to program with GPT from the very start

I wrote about doing this a few years ago under the name "heisenfunctions", based on some of the speculative work @ianbicking.org was doing at the time as well!

kylekukshtel.com/incremental-...

VOID LINEAGES
Clans of spacers, who take on courier, transport, and mercenary functions. Highly insular, they hold to a rigid familial structure that can be traced through several previous eras.

I think there is a ton of merit to societal “megaprojects” - I think both for long term employment options, shared visions of the future, social melding, etc.

The photo above is on the header of the X account associated with The Velvet Sundown. While there aren't any extra fingers or other telltale "this is AI" signs in the image, it feels AI. Like the music, it's hard to explain the difference between a human face and an amalgamation of millions of human faces, and it's hard to explain the deadness in the eyes of AI "people," but it's there.

"vibes" against AI make human capabilities into some mystical inexplicable magic, doomed to be undermined when inevitably the "vibes" no longer can tell what is "real" and what is "AI"

Pixelart illustrations of fictional Tarot cards Names of the cards: Row 1: the eclipse / knowledge / the oracle / the Truth / the Tome / The Magician Row 2: the Sun / the Sword / the Coin / The Reaping / The Star / The Empress Row 3: The Tower / Temperance / Tempest / The Comet / The Dunes/ The Shipwreck The Garden / Justice / The Depths / Judgement / The Clover / Mercury Row 4: the Sphinx / The Ankh / The Grail / Ouroboros / The Fool / Ace of swords

I made some fictional tarot cards (and remixed old ones). They're achievements for an unannounced game. 64x64 pixels each

Names in the alt text. #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev

rare ascension enjoyer

it honestly feels like a psyop. we are so weak to it you would think that a machine intelligence seeded humanity to replicate itself and was happy to wait 1000s of years

[ trrrckt ]

risograph print of various catgirls in white robes dancing & drinking against a backdrop of hills and windmills, a big sun hanging in the sky like an egg yolk. the scene is framed above by a spread of food and drink

Heavy Revelry (2023, Hunter Green + Sunflower)