Eduardo Escudero

There's a book by Caillois called Man, Play and Games that presents a classification for games along how much they rely on chance (alea) versus skill (agon). You showcase how Magic's design, by virtue of pushing it towards one of the extremes, is robust under this analysis. Magic fucken rules.

Sam has done a lot of analysis on how Magic has acted as a canvas for formats which can become games of their own like Forgetful Fish. This is fundamental to the discipline.

Analysis in this vein is critical to helping designers understand that games can spawn games. They can become the toolbox.

Day 8 posting my weekly work until I can land a job.

Jam game working on; another mini-RPG that uses 2D renders of 3D Sprites. Finally got to use my character design.

I am a Fullstack Godot Coder; 2D/3D Artist/Animator

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They were speccing into wizard

Mental image of the day: Velociraptors standing on one leg to cool off like flamingos.

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Madel, an attorney, also argued that "the national Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota". His decision to drop out of the race marks some of the most pointed GOP backlash yet to Republican's handling of the killing of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent

A bit of advice: if you're condemning a group for their rightly condemnable actions maybe don't add the clause "omg you guys, you're making it so hard to benefit from the thing I really want" if you want to appear sincere at all.

But kudos for being so transparent, ig.

Hell, if anything, I'd say the mannerisms and physicality of the character are much closer to RFK

Welp. I thought I was a rehabilitated man, years clean at this stage, and all it took was seeing @patstaresat.bsky.social start a Stardew Valley run and now I'm jonesing again.

Time to set up a farm and plant some cauliflower I guess

Buenos dias? In this economy?!

My dude, best I can do is buen día. Only got the budget for one. Can't be handing them out like candy anymore, damn.

Ayo that's me!

Dude, if you ever bathe in the blood of a dragon just make sure you do it in the desert or something, cause all it takes is a single god damn linden tree leaf and then it's all for nothing

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Their memory haunts me in Winter

The dolly zoom is probably the best camera trick with regards to the density of how much it communicates.

I'd go so far as to say the dolly zoom is better at communicating than the Dutch angle.

I wish I were shocked they're calling the person an "investor", as if there was anything of value created by this rather than straight up calling it a gamble/wager

My Most Wonderful Card of the Year. I absolutely love cards that play with the concept of discarding and that have you playing value analysis games with your own hand.

Brewed many ideas with this one, one of which got me to Mythic this year.

Don't forget the paywalls!

This.

It's my main gripe with post-apocalyptic media in all its forms is that it most often pushes the message of "yeah, everything is fucked, but you know what makes it worse? Fuckin people, amirite?" and it's just not fucking true.

Our species-wide instinct is to build communities and society.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Language-wise there's a very interesting thing happening.

When folks try to flaunt genAI they say "we're big into AI", usually trying to bring ML under that umbrella.

In the quotes from Vincke, there's more specific mention of ML tools rather than AI, as if trying to distance one from the other

This. I've seen a lot of the "-punk" movements forget that it's not about The Thing™ being cool, but rather about The Thing™ having been perverted into absolutely fucking sucking.

Sure, cities and tech in Akira and Ghost in the Shell look cool, but life 100% fucking sucks in them.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen
Was joy to his mighty heart
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves:
"It's pretty but is it Art?"

poets.org/poem/conundr...

picture of the staff who operate this bluesky account

Big shoutout to Edd for working on this. UIDB is an incredible resource for reference work, research and experimentation

Blue Prince (2025)

Images that go hard AF

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Hi people!
What advice would you give to someone who is trying to learn how to start their own publishing company?
The rough idea is to try and create not only a publisher for local game designers, but also a localizing partner to help out designers from across the globe.

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