To all you aspiring game makers out there, a warning: do not be like @helvetica and try to swindle me into praising your awesome and delightful game, Pile-Up Poker.
After a few years away I'm back at it with traditional card games
I'm really proud of Pile-Up, it's a poker game anyone can play (even if you've never played poker and don't know poker hands), but it still runs very deep.
It's a perfect little daily deal (or 5) for your morning
We commissioned one of my favorite comic artists, Lisa Hanawalt (of Bojack and Tuca & Bertie fame) to make a custom deck of playing cards that are free to everyone who subscribes during the Pile-Up event!
Currently reading HItchhikers Guide to the Galaxy to the little one and two chapters in it’s a hit. Never laughed so hard during stories. Can’t recommend it enough. #books#scifi#kidsbooks
I truly feel that the moment I liberated myself from the ideas of ‘doing / learning things for productivity / success’, my relationship with everything changed. Like wdym I can learn typography without becoming a designer, learn to play an instrument without ever performing, and just.. be?
There’s a lot of info about ‘perfecting a craft’ but I’d bet it would help most people to just ‘dabble in a craft’
@skinnylatte one of my most meaningful art classes in college was called “digital sketchbook”. we had to use all kinds of different pieces of technology to create are but we were forbidden from finishing anything.
really a meaningful experience to be forced to work that way
@Hempuli this is really nice! I feel a bit like the “allowed to cross itself" rule can be pretty brain-breaking, but maybe that's needed for really advanced puzzles! I admit i haven't solved the harder ones.
I was thinking this might be an easier to parse design: