Lords:

• Lena


• Droqen

Topics:

• Kill gameplay
  
  
  
  
  • https://droqen.itch.io/the-end-of-gameplay
  
  


• The thrill of firefighting on live service games, and how to stop


• It was D and K who showed me the way
  
  
  
  
  • https://newforum.droqen.com/index.php?topic=705
  
  

Microtopics:

• Great content.


• Multiplayer games that are focused on human connection.


• Farmers' markets.


• Kinopio. (The mind-mapping software.)


• Just barfing stuff onto the page.


• Looking at a piece of software that someone has polished for fifteen years and being astounded.


• Weird ego boosts.


• Meeting hundreds of people whose names you recognize from the Internet and they're all like "I love the thing you made."


• Pursuing the thing that other people say is good about your work and forgetting what you liked about it yourself.


• A nebulous idea whose lot in life is to be dominated by more concrete ideas.


• Making your next game with the intention of killing your most popular game.


• Unlocking creative expression into a vessel.


• Tolerating a combat system to get to the good parts of a game.


• Playing a game because you enjoy pushing the buttons.


• A museum exhibit of a hundred different platformer control schemes.


• Using your ability to hang out with people to tell them a story.


• A list of all the ideas you've ever had.


• The safety of watching the numbers go up.


• An interaction that exists to be self-perpetuating.


• Advertising as a way to tell people that a thing exists vs. all the noxious cruft that we've grown on top of that idea.


• Game addiction as a thing that is desirable.


• Games that grip you as tightly as possible vs. games that gracefully end and allow you to stop playing.


• Game developers accidentally discovering that they can Skinner Box people and then deciding "let's build our entire industry around that forever"


• The mantra you use to remind yourself to not put gameplay in your games.


• Trying to detect the humanity in a work of art.


• Trying to express your experiences in a medium and knowing you at least have an audience of one. (Yourself.)


• Disagreeing about color names.


• It's Thanksgiving and people are at-ing you on Twitter that your online service isn't working.


• Moving fast enough that you don't have time to sit with your thoughts and second-guess yourself.


• The true meaning of a Lord.


• How to sit with the discomfort of uncertainty.


• Solving a problem before you get the chance to wonder whether solving the problem aligns with your values.


• Running an online world that gets hacked and rolling back only 98% of the hack, leaving enough to remind people that this is a world with a living history.


• Ruminating about your past actions as a way to learn how to behave in the future.


• Acting without reflection because you can't reflect and act at the same time.


• It doesn't matter what you do as long as you feel really bad about it afterwards.


• How to stop.


• Don't make live service games.


• Sitting with the knowledge that you are going to make mistakes.


• Staring at blue-green walls.


• The most juicy fire-fighting that's available.


• The horrible steak that is life.


• Trying to construct your life so that you are doing something thrilling and important for one to four hours per day and then relaxing.


• The introverted fire fighter who has his own personal cardboard box to cover his head with as he's hanging out at the station.


• What's-his-letter?


• If Heaven's so good, why haven't they made a Heaven 2?


• Making a one-user forum for yourself.


• Poetry 2: it's when you do something interesting with forum posts.


• Doing something for brain reasons and then people who you inspire do the same things to so they can pretend to have the same brain reasons.


• Adding everyone who ever influenced you to the credits of your game.


• Intentionally excluding the U.


• Suck it, English orthography!

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