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Alex Jaffe

@blinkity.bsky.social
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Indie game dev and design consultant. Prev. Lead Champ Designer on Riot's 2XKO, Spry Fox, Kongregate, SuperBot, UW CSE PhD. Cursed problems, player mythologies, immersive designer, game master, dad, a lot of sincerely giving a shit. alexjaffe.games

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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
2.5 years later, my GDC talk "Player Mythologies" is free on the vault! gdcvault.com/play/1034601... I'm really proud of this one. It tries to rewire your brain wrt what games actually do, what they are for, and thus why-and-how we should make them. Stand out from the crowd by changing lives.
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Player Mythologies
Designers build games around player fantasies. These typically concern something the player
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Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We just updated the Poly Fighter demo on steam!! store.steampowered.com/app/3977340/... It's a HUGE upgrade on the previous version! More moves, new UI, lots of new VOs, visual upgrade, AI upgrade, etc... Please check it out and spread the word!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYkb...
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Poly Fighter New Demo
YouTube video by Poly Fighter
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I got to be on one of my favorite podcasts! Had a super fun time, give it a listen. Thanks for the clutch hosting, @nictringali.bsky.social. ❤️
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Who's heading to Rocky this Saturday 😭
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
WenzlerPowers: 

Dolly Parton writing “I will always love you“ and “Jolene“ in the same day is mind blowing.

It’s like if da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa then turned around in the same day and wrote “Jolene“
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yummmm got my rules down to 3 pages.
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I AM STILL SAD ABOUT 2XKO A few of us had a little wake last night 😢
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Psyched to talk about the game I'm designing! In Chrysalis: Dungeonwake, 1-3 players search a dungeon for treasure, while that dungeon is built out of cards, by an additional player. It bottles some of the creative magic of DMing into a compact PvP experience. blinkity.substack.com/p/chrysalis-...
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Chrysalis: Dungeonwake
Build a dungeon of cards to torment your friends
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Just posted to my substack, on tabletop game design as nature's medicine open.substack.com/pub/blinkity...
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On the Table
A video game designer on making videoless games
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Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
pope says HACK THE MEGACORPS
from the encyclical https://www.humandevelopment.va/en/magnifica-humanitas/risorse/infografiche.html
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Lil’ life update thread: I’ve gone rogue baby, OR, I’m an indie dev and game design consultant now
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Heading down to KublaCon for the day, HMU if you're there!
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Today I'm making a website about me. I last did this when I was 15, which seems about right. Just writing out all the things I've done, like I'm a Dwarf Fortress dwarf. I guess lots of you do this too, but it is PRETTY SILLY.
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Been so impressed watching @fourbitfriday.bsky.social and co put together this clean-as-hell multiplayer roguelike faster than anyone has a right to. Can't wait to poke all the buttons.
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Now a week til GDC. Register for the Systems Design Meetup to Meet Up about Systems Design!
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A monthish until GDC, and so too until the GDC Systems Design Meetup. Our 11th annual meet - not official, but delightful. Come wade through a sea of crunchy design topics and lovely people. Wed, March 11, 12 PM luma.com/dzii8av8 Will likely fill fast, but please read the page before registering!
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GDC Systems Design Meetup 2026 · Luma
Hello! It's the eleventh annual GDC Systems Design Meetup. Come on over! GDC is changing, who knows how or why or what, but I know that I'll be running this…
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
That's all for me. So proud of this thing and the people who made it. 8 great years of my life. I got to design Ekko! And lead the champs team! Dreamy. Devastating goodbyes all around. But I want this game to go hard for the FGC, and for those who remain. YOU CAN DO IT 2XKO.
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I wrote a very short story, Merry Christmas forevermag.net/Magazine
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Magazine — Forever Magazine
SMALL PILGRIMS  Alex Jaffe  12.25.2025  SMALL PILGRIMS ARRIVE, DEPLOYING BALSA WOOD SHOPS, TAVERNS, PRAYER HALLS, BATH HOUSES,...
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Dispatch from fighting game land: 2XKO is out in Closed Beta today, which means for some people it exists forever, and for everyone else it will exist forever soon, and I simply cannot believe it. I love this game, I am very grateful I got to spend a good chunk of my life making it.
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Okay, 2XKO calling, we've got a Vi, we've got a global Beta on PC that is on from Sep 9 and there on out, we've got an EVO booth, we've got extremely earnest intent to deliver you an extremely sick fighting game youtu.be/quGZjIkigu4?... youtu.be/vr6Y96D3_Ro?...
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Vi Gameplay Reveal Trailer | 2XKO
YouTube video by 2XKO
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
An absolute honor-and-hoot to guest on one of my favoritest sources of game design wisdom there is
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Burned my brain out playing 2XKO today - a special kind of melt I've only really had from long sets of tag fighters. Oh shit it works. 🙏
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If you're in Alpha Lab 2, we're trying to cram a bunch of folks into Ranked Lobbies right about for now testing. Come play!
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Man, games hit different when you get to play them with people who aren't making them. I had SO much fun playing ranked duos in 2XKO today. Can't wait til we get the rest of the world in there.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Five people—three researchers and two test subjects—have just seen a color no human has ever seen before.
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Only Five People Have Seen This New Impossible Color
Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
My game design aesthetic is "Surprisingly Discrete"
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Whoa. Hi Alpha Lab.
2XKO's lobby in Alpha Lab 2.
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
When I joined Spry Fox 12 years ago, I worked on Road Not Taken, a roguelike narrative puzzle adventure, a game I loved. Blue Prince is also a roguelike narrative puzzle adventure, somehow managing to have absolutely nothing in common with Road Not Taken. 👏
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Blue Prince is the intersection of like five separate that I've wanted to make, god I love it
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Nom nom Mardu
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Tons of juicy 2XKO improvements and updates, all on one big hour-long platter. youtu.be/v_juWbTw4hc?...
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Every Gameplay Update We’ve Made in the Last 6 Months | March 2025 Dev Update - 2XKO
YouTube video by 2XKO
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
So sad that I'll be missing the Systems Design Meetup (and GDC altogether) today. I'm sick and I'm staying home! Thanks so much @lizardengland.bsky.social for sailing the ship. Miss everyone!!
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
You could show me any ten seconds of Severance at any time of my life in any fictional universe where I've never heard of Severance and I'd instantly know it's my favorite show in every universe
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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Hellloooooo if you are going to GDC and are a systems designer (or aspiring to be one), I'd like to recommend registering for this. Free, only about a block from the Moscone, and usually a really good mix of people (if I don't say so myself).
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Do you design game systems, even a little as a treat? Will you also be at GDC this year? Gosh do I have the event for you. Our tenth annual GDC Systems Design meetup. Wednesday, March 19th at noon. Register, chat, enjoy! lu.ma/ileesdw6
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GDC Systems Design Meetup 2025 · Luma
Ten years in, the GDC systems design meetup remains a rarity, and I'm so glad we get to keep doing it. A place to immerse yourself in wonderful designers with…
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just WILD. 17 congratulations to @unormal.bsky.social, @jfg.land, the whole @cavesofqud.com team, @kitfoxgames.com, and the human race (distributed evenly). I've been holding out on diving in for many years of friendship with these folks. I'm so excited that my time has come. Mash that buy button
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Behind the times, but one of the greats of is BACK. 868-HACK is easily one of my favorite Roguelites, _certainly_ my favorite Broughlike. What a purified essence of game
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Was there a vibe shift? I'm pretty sure The Ship of Theseus isn't a paradox anymore. It's just obviously, uncontroversially the same ship.
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Dang, my favorite restaurant is closing. www.instagram.com/p/DCqIFTnpb2... If you're in the bay and want to try some scrumptious food that honestly reads like the chefs were microdosing, check it before it's gone.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/11/2024
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ridiculously insightful, nuanced, clear-eyed take on Trump's coming autocracy. Reshaped how I think about what's happening and what's going to happen. Not in a good way. But getting clear does feel empowering.
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
We out here
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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Lessons from today's prototyping meetup #gamedesign 1. Build the middle of your game first. Can you play your own game for 40-60 minutes? Then figure out how to teach that. Tutorials reveal the known fun, they don't find the fun.
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Trump was elected and everyone at daycare came together in sorrow and love, buoyed by the unrelenting joy of babies. Over the next two days most of us got gastroenteritis, and stayed up all night puking our guts out while watching our babies puke their guts out. I'd like to thank the writers
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
I'd love to see an attempt at a DM-style difficulty mod for Baldur's Gate 3. Threats are clearly signaled, risk is on the lower side, the game gives you multiple opportunities to recover from your screw-ups, but: permadeath, no save-scumming.
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
When you die if you were good they show you all the mildly approving things the whisper networks said about you
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
This is like when a fighting game plays CPU vs CPU
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 08/07/2023
We made a Trello for home life and by far the saddest thing about that is the deep equanimity that washed over me
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 08/07/2023
This book so yum
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Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
Ten games to get to know me: - Final Fantasy 1 - Worms 2 - Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Resident Evil IV - SpelunkV - Street Fighter VI - Unreal 7ournament - Subnautic8 - Harvest M9n - Deus X
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