Occasional Thoughts

I’ve decided to republish a book.

I listen to a lot of podcasts, because I can listen while making art for the diorama-based game I am working on.

In 1989, I turned nine.

Recently, I discussed some mistakes I made working on my game.

I’m still working on my point-and-click puzzle game made from dioramas.

Some people make games using the Unreal Engine.

Here’s an update on my game Middles.

I made Middles, a daily word game.

I don’t want to review the whole game.

Have you noticed the turds?

Deco Deck is my fourth indie game.

Dominus wrote about games played by aliens.

Game overview I just released a new game!

Previously, I reported on my attempt to use Stable Diffusion.

I really want to make a game along the line of Myst.

The most important thing is that Surfwords now has a demo available.

Thanks to the success of Semantle, I decided to become a game developer.

This post includes spoilers for: - Perhaps The Stars - Worm - Worth The Candle - The Wave (1981 film) For me, Bridger’s narrative-warping powers destroyed Perhaps The Stars as a novel.

Since I last wrote, I have moved my pottery practice from Brickhouse to my basement.

A friend asked: “Why aren’t you working on the development of a decentralized communications platform?”

Since last time I wrote, I’ve made a few more pieces.

Reiner Knizia is one of my favorite board game designers.

There’s a really neat technique for doing simple encryption that you can decrypt with your eyes.

The game of Set is not a strategic game.

Some game designs seem more robust than others.

I made a greebled teapot: I was inspired by nostalgebraist (re)posting this image, entitled “A cube and its greebled version": Of course, mine is more regular (but, being handmade, is also much more irregular).

It’s increasingly popular for variables to be immutable by default.

I was talking to my friend C about work benefits, and I mentioned a particular benefit that I had taken advantage of in some job I had ever had.

I loved Ben H.

I’ve done some development on Git.

So David Albert wrote a tweetstorm about Plan 9 and about generality.

For the Power Broker game design contest, my friend Ed and I designed “Whipsaw!”.

One of my favorite games is Set.

I created a totally stupid game called “Word Freq”.

My mom emailed me to ask about machine interpretation of laws (i.e. software judges and lawyers).

Last weekend, I attended Feldcon, a one-day board gaming event where we played nothing but Stefan Feld’s games.

I made a shallot-shaped lamp.