In this episode, Nathan and Eppy report back on their recent work on PET CRIMES, centering on making digital tools for play. This leads into a discussion of the concept of designing the "surfaces" of your game - what are the things (physical, relational, temporal) that you need to design in order to enable someone to play? This is just the start of this conversation, but it feels like a useful framework as we continue to make games in this season of the podcast!

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Show Notes:

• One More Thing online playspace (Google Sheet)


• Eppy's game Vast and Starlit


• Jason Morningstar's The Skeletons

And there's more:

• Unwritten Earths Symposium


• Our Patreon


• Join the Discord


• Nathan's games


• Eppy's games


• Music by Will Jobst