Coding Summoner Wars Online on stream today. Starts in 3 minutes. twitch.tv/joepinion
you sent me down a mini research rabbit hole, and I am amending my cost prediction to "tbd."

@jarthurellis.bsky.social
Tech and game design at Plaid Hat Games. Anti-hate, anti-bigotry. He/him. I work on Brumble games, Forgotten Waters, Summoner Wars, Summoner Wars Online, and more.
you sent me down a mini research rabbit hole, and I am amending my cost prediction to "tbd."
It is unfortunate, but hopefully temporary. That amount of coding is expensive as shit, right now it's a combination of subsidization by the AI companies, and people overpaying to satisfy their curiosity. Won't last and CERTAINLY won't get any cheaper. Might not get any smarter.
Coding Summoner Wars Online on stream today. Starts in 3 minutes. twitch.tv/joepinion
Did you use hole punches for the smaller and larger round tokens?
Nick, thx for sharing stuff like this, VERY rare to get insight on this zone of publishing.
When working with Isaac on Forgotten Waters, I thought he'd be all artsy and I'd be all thinky.... but we overlapped a lot more than I expected. Any mix can work. The more opposite you are, the more you can delegate and trust the other person. The more you overlap, the more important chemistry is.
Brumble alert! @jarthurellis.bsky.social is chatting with game designers to try to broaden our perception of game design and games. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3L...
2 additional interviews with awesome people already recorded for the next 2 weeks so subscribe if you want to see those. For those who don't have time to sit through the whole hour, I'll post some shorts later this week. Thx to Zoë for being a part of it!
Introducing the BrumbleCast, a 3 part series that's an excuse for me to chat with cool 🎲✂️ folks like @dxdydz.northsky.social who create games as experiences and art first instead of as products. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3L...
“Right now, you have an economy where people are getting choked out because they don’t have the basic means for a dignified life because we are more focused on allowing a billionaire to make another billion” - Abdul El-Sayed ~~ No lies detected.
I made this with my elementary school-aged kid. We don't know what we're doing with lighting or sound, but I still found the result really fun XD
Oh man I cannot WAIT for lunchtime to arrive so I can watch this 20 minute video of former Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin showcasing his 10-year quest to make an massive elaborate minecraft city. Wildest thing I've seen this week.
This story is so beautiful, thank you for sharing!
One night, when my oldest kid was 1 or 2, as I was putting her to bed, she said, "We need to do the Ceremony of Time." Well, who can resist an offer like that?
3 levels of concentration while working: 1. Unfocused. Music playing over speakers. Not particularly focused. Casual easy work. 2. Focused. Music off. Need to think to be productive, no distractions. 3. Super focused. Headphones on. Music at dangerous volume levels. Completely locked in.
You made me lol. Not only is it intimidating, there's a massive swath of people that it's just not gonna be fun for due to the high level of crunch, no matter how experienced they are with gaming. (And I love the game!) My group played a rule wrong for years until the digital version corrected us.
yeah been watching taskmaster. Got the bike on fb marketplace for $15. Just BARELY squeezed it into my car.
I actually love it but my skeleton is too fragile. I've given it up finally due to always getting injured. Unfortunately it's just too rough. Been doing stationary bike lately, much gentler.
Going from claiming your company is working on technology that might destroy humanity to leaking you’re on track to generate $100 billion in sales this year, just in time for the IPO. Makes it hard to defend the claims that this hasn’t all been a cynical form of marketing and regulatory capture.
Moral victory.