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  • Check out my friends’ gaming zine!

    TTRPG folks are probably familiar with Epidiah Ravachol and Nathan D. Paoletta from their fabled indie games past, but if you need more of their kind of game, or if you’re new to these names and looking for something fun to bring to the table this spring, you’ll want to hop on this KS before it wraps in four days!

    As promised by anyone who might know Dread, or World Wide Wrestling, you can find some very pulpy adventures within: small town amateur wrestling with a cosmic twist; suburban horror; space race pulp – and all of them what they call “system-adventurous”, which means you can easily shape these adventures to support your preferred methods and mechanics as a GM.

    It’s an all-star list of artists contributing as well, including some of my favs Mary Verhoeven and Meaghan Carter; and a map from the inimitable Tony Dowler. It’s a few dollars away from fully funded as of me hitting publish on this, and I can’t wait to see what they end up making! Don’t miss out on this first magazine-shaped endeavour of a magnificent teamup – go forth and get gaming!

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  • Feeds vs Blogs Thoughts

    so when I reformatted my website, one of the things that I wanted to do was make it possible to post casually to this, with a similar energy to how I used to post on social media. you know, with the hope of getting myself free from social media and not simply just falling back down that slippery slope into blue sky and who knows what else I’ll join in the near future, etc. and so, when I did the reformatting, I made in my mind two key categories of posts: structural posts which work functionally as load-bearing writing or load-bearing collections of images, making the site make sense etc. and then the other category was building block posts, which I thought I would be able to collect into structural posts more.

    but the problem is, I didn’t really set from rules for myself around what a building block post is, and how it’s supposed to work. I think I need to think a lot more about what posts would constitute a feed style posting for me, and then how could I make those useful to myself in future as potential collections, instead of trying to go with my gut every time.

    not particular big website thoughts today but, I am still wrestling with this and it seemed worth writing down.

    has anyone else struggled with and found any solutions with regards to casual posting versus full on blogging? I miss sharing casual low stakes the thoughts and studio photos and so forth. I’m really trying to figure out how to enable myself to do that again.

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  • learned something important about my website

    i have footnote capabilities already!1 Ahh, the newly distracting ways I can write, unfolding before my like cells in the library of babel…2 Unfortunately I am already not to be trusted with most punctuation; I will resist all efforts to simplify my sentences, and I WILL nest (or embed3) too many clauses! Anyways, this has been fair warning4. Footnotes ensue.

    1. legit this is probably going to be somewhat misused by me ↩︎
    2. borges reference! footnote for reference! ↩︎
    3. — or teleport you to and from — ↩︎
    4. probably ↩︎

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  • Skeletons (2010)

    Shoutout to Jurie and Andy for sharing this gem with me; deeply british, dry, spooky, sweet, and shows you the tip of the iceberg of a larger occult understanding that is revealed further through rewatchings and the subsequent mulling over you might do at the pub after with a friend.

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  • while i am gardening this website i realize the weeding process is maybe invisible

    As I edit posts for spelling and grammar and tagging and layout and all these little invisible things I do to try and learn how to wrangle my website and all its content, I realize that a) this seems to kick them back into RSS “unread” status, which must be annoying..? and b) most folks will not be able to discern any difference in the post itself in most cases.

    So what if each post had a potential little changelog on it for stuff like that? so when I modify it I can add a reason why? is that … interesting to anyone else? I’m likely to do it just for myself but let me know. Also, are there folks doing this in a fun way? Curious website owners want t ofind out.

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quick game dev thoughts

  • lovely new art toy!

    a 27qhd cintiq! complete with pen, stand AND express key remote!

    seriously, I’ve already discovered how useful the remote is, it saved me yesterday during hours of setting up tiny assets in unity. it’s enormously more ergonomic for my partially paralyzed right hand than a keyboard right now and i wish I’d thought to try one much much earlier!

    overall it’s beautiful and the extra screen real estate even makes game dev’s constant problem of too many apps slightly less annoying! not sure I’m back to full digital painting yet, but it was a great deal and i am glad i snagged it, even if it’s a bit earlier than initially planned.

    anyone have any hot tips for min-maxing a Cintiq of this vintage?

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  • asking for recs

    i am starving for all the “how to art direct but not at a AAA company” content the universe can provide, certainly so i can continuously get better at my job, but also because I don’t yet have a language for what I’m doing all day every day at work and, like in this Lee Petty talk, I often unlock awareness of decisions I’m making simply by giving them a name.

    Would love any recommendations! I’ve dug through gdc’s youtube archive and hunger for moooooooorrrrre

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  • freelance artist psa from your friendly neighbourhood art director

    please, please, please god, please, put your website address on all your social medias

    and then
    please,
    please, please,
    PLEASE
    put your email on your website

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