K Lam (she/her)

If the food is the games and itch's creator and consumer services are "restaurant services", ok, hrmmm

But if itch's creator and consumer services are the food (and games are, I dunno, the genre of cuisine? Analogies can get clumsy), then ok, HRMMMMM

/fin

While I think the underlying question of what itch is in the context of growing technofeudalism is an interesting one that I'll be chewing on (haha) for a bit, I think the analogy suffers here by not deeply examining what itch's "food" is
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Update: I have a name and a pitch. Just need to let it lie overnight, go over the text one more time and then ship it out

<falls over>

Update: you ever rummage through some old files bc you know you have something you can cannibalize?

Who woulda thunk the toxic archetypes for an urban supernatural romance would be useful here....

I think it's fair to critique Flanagan's works for the extensive monologuing but boy is it useful to me right now

Update:

Me: ok, I need some chars to use as templates and they need to be awful but also needy AF

<fast forwards through Fall of the House of Usher> that'll do pig. That'll do.

I appear to be genderfluid. You learn something new every day!

Update: started down one path, realized I was developing the wrong game, regrouped, sketched out the right game, realized I should read my fucking notes from a couple weeks ago bc I did this cycle already

Coincidentally, this is thematically appropriate for the game

In all fairness, I had to write a mechanic playtest scenario to gather some info, which was very useful, so it's not like I was sitting on my hands the whole time.

Just most of the time.

Oh, and I started a new run of Stardew Valley

IT'S FINE

Sorry, haha, I made a mistake

I have FIVE DAYS

Ok, I'm bringing a larp to a local larp festival, and pitches are due in a week.

A week is plenty of time to write a pitch except I haven't written the larp and my brain is such that I need more larp written before I can write a confident pitch

So I have a week to write a larp draft

Pray for me

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It started selling masks in the beginning of the pandemic so the name didn't have quite the... layered... branding it has now.

They also sell sizing kits so you can test what size fits best. Not sure how the strike will affect shipping prices on those though.

There would be a strong drive to find the first people as a gauge of how well the "make god good" project is going...

I would like to play every faction in this theological rift, kthxbai

Huh. Got lots of surprising data!

Got a playtest for a mechanic scheduled tonight and I wrote the first act to be boring because I need to know if it actually is.

Playtests are weird

WAIT 901 LOST WHAT NO

Do you listen to podcasts? @diceexploder.com had a series of episodes on larp and while not directly about application into ttrpgs, it's def part of the conversation.

Starts with S5E4 Just Read the Card and is most of the eps through to S5E14 10 Candles

You can keep getting 2 for 1 so long as you have the credits, and you can buy yourself extra credits. Just sayin'

I have reached the point in a project where it is now work and I am going to have to block time for actually writing the damn thing or I'll lose a prime playtesting opportunity in Nov.

One of the primary reasons I stay a hobbyist is to avoid deadlines. What a tragic turn

Definitive Aesthetic Edition

A quick browse of this list gave me four new books that hadn't crossed my radar before for the cost of two credits.

If you've been growly about Audible's changed author payout plan and aren't tied to the exclusives, I def rec switching to Libro

In the same way, playing a game can give me the opportunity to express, internalize, and crystallize my empathy.

It's not that the game's induced empathy in me from nowhere, it's that the game's given me intuitive, creative access to the empathy I've already been cultivating.

In a game I ran, a player would not give up the ring and kept grasping for something to "fix" the room while the other players pleaded with her to pass the ring over, though they couldn't promise her anything in return

Feels very cage rattly to me, just also futile

Gaza's Annihilation Can Never Be Forgiven Revisiting On Repentance and Repair

It’s long past time that I take responsibility for what I wrote on Israel/Palestine in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR.

& with the Gaza genocide, our thinking about what amends & healing may ever involve is even more urgent.

Even if there may never be “forgiveness” or “atonement.”

I'm naturally inclined to make things zing in particular ways with word choice, framing and application of pressure via rules, and designing for specific boredom isn't different in principle, just in the choices you make

I'm just not used to those specific choices

What a fun challenge!

Hand an enthusiastic player (ie any playtester who knows what they're getting into) anything and they'll tackle it with vim and vigour. They'll make that void bear fruit if they have to water it with blood from their heart

Today I am blocking out time to work on a proof of concept game to test a mechanic

Hilariously, I need the first few rounds of play to be boring AF bc I have to know what that feels like in the context that I'm building

Designing deliberately for a flavour of boredom is weird and kinda hard!

More-or-lesbian continues to be my fave self-identity joke