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🏳️‍⚧️ Freelance & Published Game Designer, Developer, Educator. MFA graduate from NYU Game Center. https://ko-fi.com/marcelineleiman http://bio.link/marcelineleiman
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Good evening . . . We're conjuring some unranked games—games uninterested in ranking the players and their performance. For example: • Multivictor games where players pursue their own goals in a messy social space. • Victorless games that defy the concept of winning with narrative outcomes. 1/🧵

‘Every life is a universe’: The ceasefire must hold Whoever destroys a single life, the Torah considers it as if they destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a single life, the Torah considers it as if they saved an entire world. Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a 1/10

I love knowing that if I never had to worry about money again, I would still be doing exactly what I’m doing. The fact I make enough money to keep making my art is such a blessing.

i know some people don't want to hear this, but there is no way to move forward and push back against the amount of relentless attacks on us trans people without us being more visible. people are understandably fearful, but we really cannot afford to be less visible at this point.

🎲✂️ Just a PSA: This is a grifter that follows & unfollows anyone vaguely into board games to fish for followbacks. He's been known to start harassment campaigns against people in the industry for spurious reasons. Rodney Smith from Watch It Played even posted an old video about him on Twitter.

If you are able, speak up on behalf of your friends and colleagues who are in a precarious position and do what you can to push leadership to do the right things. It hasn’t lead to anything public but I sent a message to my CEO. Silence is obeying in advance

Ok, if it wasn’t unclear by now… We have an actual nazi government. What the fuck.

Utopia's don't and won't ever exist. But we should always be laying the groundwork for a better world. If it helps us, great. But even if we don't get to see the results of our labors, our descendants inherit the benefits, and that's the true point.

My solo mode for Trekking the National Parks mentioned! 👀

I have had a lot more success in my career through my lighter designs. The economic times we live in definitely means publishers are less willing to take a punt on one of my heavy designs, me being a relatively new designer. But I do wonder if my circumstances would be different if I were a man.

Preparing for a cozy cabin weekend with friends! Here’s the games that made the cut:

Over the next 12 days we’ll be previewing the finalists in our 18 Card Challenge: Use 9 Cards per game. It was a doozy. Let's make a thread.

If you care about the trans people in your life, this is a great thing that you can do to help support us. Passports are used to accurately identify someone, these changes directly defy that purpose.

Here’s another way for people to do something for trans rights TODAY! 😄 (If you’re cis and/or a man, I’m looking at you!) Don’t delay; do this now!

Got my dinosaur racing game tested with coworkers at Underdog and ITS SO SILLY AND STUPID and I love it very much! 🦖🍌

It never has mattered 😄 You can be the best at what you do, or have the potential to be, but if a company doesn’t make enough capital (often for choices made entirely out of your control) they can’t keep you on payroll. It fucking sucks.

Shakshouka for lunch while nourishing myself reading “Let This Radicalize You” by Kelly E. Hayes and Mariame Kaba 🍳📖