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garykac.bsky.social
Board game designer (Shinjuku). Seattle(-ish). he/him
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You almost certainly missed this, since I published it in the middle of the night, but I attended ProtoCon, a convention for prototypes, and wrote about the experience! spacebiff.com/2025/02/25/p...

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

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Just a bit of gameplay from Nitronauts (demo out now on steam). I had so much fun art directing and animating everything

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with alt text because everyone must see this

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Another Board Game Indie Market is scheduled! This time in Seattle (at Pax West - Aug 29 - Sep 1)

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石を持ち上げる木の森

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Games that will be available at Game Market West in San Jose this March.

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I strongly prefer Hinokodo's Human Made icon over the text-heavy NoGenAI gear logo for this sort of thing.

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www.sasktoday.ca/central/york...

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Testing a tweak to the combat in Echo from the Dark this weekend, and the Empire (in blue) fell into a great start with the initial technology.

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We're one week away from the Game Market West designer application deadline (Feb 17)! A tabletop game market where independent designers showcase and sell their newest games. forms.gle/aCff5442kvWS...

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Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

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Onion articles are straight up news now

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Why many of us don’t participate in serious discourse (tm): You: “here’s an opinion formed from years of expert (or expert-adjacent) immersion on the topic.” Reply guy: “counterpoint—I googled something else and read otherwise so debate me but you need to do both our homework”

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K! So! We spent this week figuring out how the tariffs, inflation and other bullshit is going to affect business. Time to thread. For those not in the know, I'm the Director at Hachette Boardgames USA and I import games for foreign publishers and market and sell them in the US. 1/?

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We have some snow...

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Gathering all the components so I can assemble games for upcoming Indie Game Markets.

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The work @garykac.bsky.social has done in our design group around understanding rules + learning complexity is extremely helpful when I'm considering whether something in Echo is pulling its weight. boardgamegeek.com/blog/12853/b...

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"SHINJUKU will be released in the second quarter (Q2/2025) and will also be available in German at the same time by HeidelBÄR Games." heidelbaer.de/der-puls-tok...

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Doing the work. 🧱

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"heir to France's largest baguette company" 😂

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This goes so fucking hard dude

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The Deepsky reaction to DeepSeek is weird. Noone who has worked with LLMs is remotely surprised when someone comes up with a more cost-efficient way of training these models. First build ginormous LLMs and then try to match their functionality with fewer resources. This is how progress is made.

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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

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I was messing around modeling a board game in Blender and accidentally created a nest of Unown Pokémon.

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I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

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Proofs before the production run.

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Hey, the first chapter is available as a preview on the website if you want an overview of the book's whole deal, and the vibe.

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