Naomi McArthur

Seriously!

god. seeing “Narrative Director: Cat Manning” got me. I’m so proud of the work we did, and of my team.

Great read!!

ICYMI earlier this week, I talk a bit about what’s in store for Civ VII’s new narrative system!

Why does 'finding the fun' fail so often as a design strategy?
#gamedesign

New designers are told to prototype and 'find the fun'. But the naive version of this is a garbage tactic that mostly results in poorly thought out prototypes that are never going to converge on gameplay.

Incredible

Hell yeah

Wish the exodus had happened sooner, but better late than never.

For folks impacted by the layoffs, we have open roles at Magic Soup. Please take a look! bit.ly/3SzEmEr

A pocketwatch that has the words "Don't forget 3.Oct.10 etched in the lid. Image is from Fullmetal Alchemist.

It’s the evaporation of low interest rates and money being expensive to borrow again. Everyone in the industry who poured their profits into speculation and infinite growth (so, everyone) was left scrambling now that their ventures actually cost them with rates soaring.

josh sawyer's tweet about game designer's making players the enemy but still loving them

i always thought this tweet captured the feeling perfectly

To be fair, we did trick rocks into thinking. What did we expect

My covid avoidance strategy is born out of this kind of data.

It’s highly transmissible, it escapes immunity. Each time you get it there’s a 10-20% chance of getting a post covid complication. It looks like those never go away.

It’s easy to start calculating “years I can catch covid” from there.

AP Headline Box: "Corgis parade outside Buckingham Palace to remember Queen Elizabeth II a year since her death.

Thank you, AP headline writers, for allowing me the pleasure of momentarily misreading this as a spontaneous demonstration, put on by the Corgis themselves.

Big fan of the checkbox :)

Loaf

Bart hitting Homer with a chair meme where the unsuspecting Homer is labeled “me planning literally any other romance in BG3” and Bart is “meeting Karlach”

anyway

"I guess stars can be binary" -my fiance while we're watching Star Trek

Aw you! <3

If you're out on Monday, I know what happened 👀

So for Android is the BlueSky default app the place to go? Or is there a better alternative one yet?

Oh wow yeah, its great :)

The Skybridge Chrome extension was super useful in populating my following list. Definitely recommend!