Laura Nash

100% positive he agrees with you.

When you're writing a tabletop roleplaying game, the mechanics should evoke the atmosphere you want in your story.

A simple example: we're writing a cozy woodland mystery game. What are the combat mechanics like? Well, clearly there aren't any. Combat isn't part of our cozy woodland story.

But...

This is great and the diagram is also great

Before you spend 7 years in Australia making Silksong with 2 friends, it’s important to figure out whether you created Hollow Knight or not. That’s a key factor in deciding whether making Silksong is the right business move

happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote

what's the strangest thing to order from a comedy club menu and why is it soup

Of course you were in OM, my friend, I wish we’d spent a whole 1:1 comparing memories!

My husband is aghast at how many hours I’ll listen to movie podcasts, what would he say if he saw how much I’ve listened to people talk about the history of Game of Thrones

This is great work. Great. And you know what? A librarian might not know all this off the dome, but they would absolutely help you find out.

unfortunately for all of us it is the only process? somehow?

alas I have acquired the Platonic ideal of a hair tie, but I bought it in a yarn shop in Sweden so I'm destined to never find its equal again

are video games art garfunkel?

Life happening! Nothing cataclysmic, but each of us independently had things that together made recording and editing tougher than normal. Thank you for caring, and sorry for making you worry — we’re working through it ❤️

Kind Games: Designing for Prosocial Multiplayer Kind games are social-first game designs that encourage players to behaving in helpful, prosocial ways towards one another. This paper covers benefits such as increased retention and reduced toxicity ...

Interesting dive into design principles behind prosocial games. Makes me think of systems at work — sure, your job can't cover everything. But most of my companies would have been better if "toxic behavior is carefully monitored and mediated" was a requirement.

polarisgamedesign.com/2022/kind-ga...

How many times do you think I've checked the expiration date on my passport since I bought my flight to Copenhagen?

(It expires in 2029. I know it expires in 2029. But what if it *actually* expires in 2025? Can't be sure unless I look at it again.)

Couldn't possibly be related to anything.

Oddly good heuristic for what it’s safe to give AI control of

related content from the team behind the most anticipated video game of the year, Silksong: bsky.app/profile/bria...

Amanda I am so sad about the line breaks. For me the headline showed up as

President Trump signs the
Executive
Order to modernize the interfaces
that
serve everyday citizens.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS A DESIGN WEBSITE

And yet the folks putting the wall of text on the website didn't know how to handle line breaks. Cmon, just grab some nonbreaking spaces and spaces after ellipses, it's not hard!

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This is so funny — this is wonderful, and it has that constant feeling of almost crashing into a wall, which can be really fun in live performance, and which I am now informed was indeed because of a tempo error. A happy accident, if you ask me.

i don’t think it’s fair that the walls can get dusty. like what am i supposed to do about that. that doesn’t seem like it should be my problem.

weather: solar eclipse

I love many things about my tiny local pharmacy, but my favorite might be that their hold music is an 8-bit version of Holst's "Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity"

A lunar geology class called "We Choose to Go to the Moon."

an argument that i did not make in here but i do fully believe is that if you're the kind of parent who wants your kids to have Good Taste in Art, you gotta also let them watch some real trash

taste doesn't come through restricted access to a pre-curated list, it comes through Trying Shit

We Have to Stop Using Facebook and X to Warn People About Disasters In the early morning hours of July 4th, as the Guadalupe River reached catastrophic heights, city officials in Kerr County, Texas turned to an all-too familiar mechanism for getting the word out to ar...

We absolutely have to stop using Facebook and Twitter to warn the public about things that could kill them - and we need to do whatever it takes to help local and state government break this habit.

My latest on Little Flying Robots:

little-flying-robots.ghost.io/we-have-to-s...

not only are his pants doing excellent work, I wore a red petticoat under my wedding dress because of Cyd's outfit. Brigadoon's costumes stuck with me

Ben Espisoto aka Torahhorse on twitter saying "nobody told me when you make a video game you have to make the whole thing" he has an orange avatar with a pale orange squiggle of a deer in it

I keep thinking about this one

I feel like not enough of you heard me tell you that you must read The Tainted Cup so I’m saying it again. two weird detectives in a quasi-Roman fantasy setting with the most interesting magic system I’ve seen in a while uncover murder plot while beset by… fine I’ll call them kaiju