Frank Lantz

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That’s one of the new designs and my personal favorite. Pleasure doing e-commerce with you!

Four Quarters. — Good Afternoon NYU's No Quarter Exhibition and commissioning series 2022 - 2025

<whimsical reminiscing soundtrack plays>

In memorandum of my 4 beautiful years curaring @nyugamecenter.bsky.social's annual No Quarter exhibition I've pulled together an archive of each of the 4 cohorts & the 16 weird & wonderful works they brought into the world

www.goodafternoon.uk/four-quarters

Everybody House Games The official website and shop of Everybody House Games. Find the latest content, buy merch, and support your favorite creator.

We updated the Universal Paperclips merch store and added some hot new items. How do I buy ad space on moltbook? universal-paperclips-shop.fourthwall.com

let me know if it happens again, thanks!

I think you might have just discovered an important new skip

How is this possible?

This looks amazing, thank you!

Two lifelong goals achieved

Medic Overnight Shift... fun :) Hey so Overnight Shift is pretty unique, it’s the only node in the game that doesn’t have a limit to how many times it can be triggered….. Or a limit to how many times it can be DEPLETED. This brings ...

this player's guide to going infinite on the medic is pure madness and i love it docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Yes, music is especially math-y

if you are talking about your eudaemonia essay, I thought it was fantastic, but as a side note I can't find it now, did you take it down?

An Introduction to Donkeyspace What is this substack about?

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Also, be honest, are short games that much better than long ones, on average? For me, this issue you are noticing applies to all video games, not just long ones, and not just AAA ones.

Second, intuitively, the incentives would work the other way - short games you can consume like movies would make for better products.

1 may have some weird economic effects, eg. winner-take-all dynamics in multiplayer games, the scourge of f2p. But to suggest that this property of games is due to, or in response to, or incentivized by, economic incentives seems wrong. First, it predates games as products (Tennis, Chess)...

As you can see, Theory 1 is positive and optimistic, Theory 2 is disparaging and pessimistic. I'm more confident about 1 than I am about 2, but I think it's a mistake to ignore the possibility of 2, it should be on the table and we should be ruthlessly honest about it.

2. Video games are struggling, for a variety of reasons. There's no robust critical/theoretical practice around them. The audiences are fractured, defensive, conservative. The economics are weird. Video games haven't evolved as much as we might have hoped. Overall, they're just doing worse than film

Great question. I have some theories.

1. Games are less like novels/movies/paintings than we think. They are more like hobbies, musical instruments, habits, trips. Video games shoehorn something like Tennis or Skateboarding into a "work-shaped" box we feel we should be able to evaluate but can't

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Save 25% on Q-UP on Steam Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...

The game of the year winner for “Accurately Parodies My Job in a way that Highlights its Absurdity” is:
“Q-up” by Everybody House Games
What’s it like being a ranked and competitive systems designer? This game knows. Thanks @flantz.bsky.social
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If it's any consolation, this happens to me too. A thing I found helpful is to focus on getting my board to do one important thing, instead of a bunch of generally-useful things. Maybe even take some less-important nodes off the board. Simplifying my board makes the trigger logic easier to follow.

finally someone gets it

It's never too late!

Announcing The Hacker Update. A brand-new hero with their own unique way of playing Q-UP. Help the Hacker escape the game before being deleted by QA! Steal skills from the other heroes!! Misspell common English words!!!

Also: Q-UP IS ON SALE FOR 25% OFF

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Buy Q-UP from the Humble Store From the twisted minds that brought you Universal Paperclips and Babble Royale comes a timeless tale about numbers going up and going down, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, reverse merge...

Q-UP now available at the Humble Store. Do good by playing bad! Now you can buy Q-UP and Horses at the same time to confuse Ian Bogost! www.humblebundle.com/store/qup

Bell's Inequality - Guide and Walkthrough Version: 1.01 | Updated: 11/28/25

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Q-UP might be game of the decade.