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Captain of Kitfox Games (Loose Leaf, Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
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it's unfortunate that for various reasons Polaris Game Design Retreat can only be attended by ~30 people every year, but it's EXTREMELY fortunate that those people tend to write up their findings and learnings, and give it away FOR FREE, check it out: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

New Post - Muse: Before You Tweet Hello! Microsoft's new Muse system isn't trying to generate game ideas. If you want a concise summary of what the paper tries to do, and a few notes and criticisms about the project, I wrote something about it. www.possibilityspace.org/blog-before-...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Your outie always leaves a positive review when they like a game.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Bayeux tapestry. i really love these expressive, tall people with the prominent nose guards. the marginalia are one of my favorite parts. i like this decapitated person and all the tiny archers.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

I know I'm going to enjoy myself here and there, but honestly, it pains me to go to DICE. all I wanna do is work on the game. after many years, I have come to believe I am a great designer. a fantastic event planner. successful producer. celebrated publisher. not the best deal-maker. OH WELL.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

I should be packing for my trip tomorrow so I guess it's a great time for doomscrolling wait wtf everyone's watching a sport god damnit I guess I really do have to pack ugh

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I wish we had different terms for the different play experiences games offer. not to be a gatekeeper (though inevitably they'd show up) but to genuinely help differentiate EVEN A LITTLE between infinite-rabbithole-sandbox vs two-hour-melt-your-heart-story vs collection-of-little-distractions etc

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

huh. almost a year since I gave this talk about the 4-day workweek and its complications and nuance as a rare but wonderful privilege. feels like a lot longer ago. if you're curious: gdcvault.com/play/1034598...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I'm heartened by knowing that, even in dark times, people are making things like Streets of Fortuna www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/th...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

it's fine to take 3 days or more to reply to most emails. trust me. you'll be okay. everyone will be okay. let's all collectively decide it's actually more rude to reply too quickly.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT! A 1995 CD-ROM. A game buried for a reason. You flip a card. The screen glitches. Something is watching. Forbidden Solitaire—a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... With @slicknicklives.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 114 comments

Glad to see @pcgamer.com giving gamers good advice

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

Despite everything, I’m going to be at GDC talking about building responsive narrative systems in systems-heavy games. And I’d love to chat with people making these kinds of games who are interested in what dynamic narrative could do for them — let’s make some time to talk!

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

prediction: Balatro shows Normal Gamers can enjoy nerdy synergy-building gameplay in the right context & aesthetic. cheap to reverse-engineer, good long tail. of the many fast follows, some will be good and different enough to have similar success. but then... (thread)

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

agh help I ruined my coffee with vanilla extract now what do i do

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

game designers!!! the day is here! Polaris 2024 reports are released: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/ and my group's is about how and when and why you might want to make your game's characters less obedient to the player's whims: polarisgamedesign.com/2024/enrichi...

submitted 32 days ago • 25 comments