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jason grinblat

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creative head at freehold games co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹 he/him

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Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 5h
An absolute delight to do the cover + slipcase for this one www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...
Switch cover for Caves of Qud - illustration of a sweeping landscape framed by trees, whose roots are crowded by various denizens and artefacts beneath the earth
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inkle @inkle.co · 13h
New Kaleidiscope Episode! WHY I LOVE TEXT PARSERS Creativity, craft, and designing for text parsers, with the Crimson Diamond's creator @juliaminamata.bsky.social www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...
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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 7h
Meet our newest EDITIONS! 🎮 The Séance of Blake Manor, Caves of Qud and Morsels join our line-up of physical games, now available for pre-order 🔻
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Caves of Qud @cavesofqud.com · 6h
In partnership with @lostincult.co.uk, I am coming to the physical world. With both a retail and Limited Edition. www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...
Caves of Qud for Switch 2 EDITIONS version with lost in cult. Stylized cover art depicted fossilized items and creatures in the foreground and Qud with the Spindle in the backgroundCaves of Qud EDITIONS sleeve. Stylized depiction of a Qud character with implants and mutationsCaves of Qud EDITIONS poster. Stylized collage of Caves of Qud creatures and locations in the game's art style.
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 7h
Caves of Qud is coming to Switch 2 as a free upgrade for Switch 1 owners + a limited physical edition from @lostincult.co.uk 🍄 Pre-order now: www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The schedule's out - I'm speaking at the Roguelike Celebration again this year! My talk is titled "The City, The Street, The Lens" and it's about street photography, collisions in time and space and how to think about procedural generation differently. More here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
A photo of a truck by the side of the road in Tokyo. The driver's leg is sticking out of the window resting on the side of the trailer. The title of the talk is written on the truck. It will happen on October 18th, online. Tickets are roguelike.club
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 20/09/2026
Cropping of a Sankey diagram:
17 - product-market fit
5 - strategic pivot
15 - execution failure
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 19/09/2026
We've a nice couple [redacted]s coming down the pike
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 12/09/2026
Opinions on the viability of taking a 2.5yo to the ren faire?
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 04/02/2025
ASCII roguelikes are the most epistolary game genre because they're letters moving back and forth
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 11/09/2026
thinking about this
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.
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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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David Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In about an hour (11:00 PDT/14:00 EDT), I’ll be holding a Reddit Ask Me Anything at www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/Mo... (answering your questions about Thousand Hells, game development, or, well, anything!)
David holding an iPad showing “Ask me anything!”
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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 10/09/2026
I want weirder representations of "readings"—the trace/artifact produced by a reader's interaction with text(s). Here playing with a cut-up "poster-ification". Cumbersome in many ways, but interesting.
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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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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
mfw I get annihilated by an extradimensional mechanical psychic slug cherub immediately after start
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
this paper is coming up once again today among designers so am recirculating it here
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 09/09/2026
GPT-6 Astra: I found a general solution for discrete time BOFA in three dimensions. me: what's BOFA? GPT-6 Astra:
Many complicated differential equations
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 09/09/2026
Do Buckmaster et al deserve the credit? Does OpenAI? Look, different Stokes for different folks
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 08/09/2026
me, having solved Navier-Stokes last month but forgetting to write it up: FUCK
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 08/09/2026
Four heroes risk their body and mind as they descend into the underworlds. But will this be their last trip? Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is OUT NOW! A new tactical narrative storybook from @radiofreelunch.bsky.social 😈 Buy on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 04/09/2026
we took a perfectly good (dead) fossil of human intellectual activity and gave it anxiety
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Yaso 🦋🌼 @orangeblossombitch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Turkish Tiles pt. 1 #art
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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 01/09/2026
Anyway! This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, nic talks with Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social about his upcoming card game Chrysalis: Dungeonwake, 2XKO, improvisation, and the theater-like ephermality of a game session. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...
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Paper Labyrinths: Alex Jaffe on Head-to-Head Games
Nic talks with Alex Jaffe about his recently-announced dungeon crawler card game, his long tenure on 2XKO, and the ephemerality of game experiences. Find Alex on Bluesky () and follow his work at ---...
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Etienne Jacob @bleuje.com · 01/09/2026
A little “Brick Territories” experiment. → bleuje.com/js_sketches/...
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tanya DePass presents the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, developed by Sandfall Interactive, published by Kepler Interactive. #HugoAwards
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 28/08/2026
this is one of the most deranged (positive) fan works I've seen. please watch this video
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 27/08/2026
having talked to Tarn about his plans for myth & magic, I can confidently say that ~~even in the context of the notoriously deranged scope of Dwarf Fortress~~, the details left me speechless
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026
To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
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Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Multiplayer Twine is in live alpha! Sign up now to get a link. It's like Docs for IF, but fully open-source and self-hostable. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... h/t @chrisklimas.com for this awesome collaboration!
A screenshot of the twinejs editor labelled "Multiplayer Twine"
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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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merritt @merrittk.com · 19/08/2026
one reason it sucks that magic the gathering is all recognizable intellectual properties these days is that as a kid it taught me all kinds of wonderful words like "jokulhaups," "bivouac," "benthic," "scion," "juxtapose," "taiga," "abjure," etc. plus it introduced me to the classics via flavor text
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 18/08/2026
First day of kindergarten for our 5yo. 😮🥹 It's messed up when the parenting milestones start to overlap with your own memories
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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Live now! Let's wish The Crimson Diamond a Happy 2nd Birthday! 🥳🎂 www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery
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a_maplemystery - Twitch
Solo indie dev of The Crimson Diamond! I also stream EGA games, particularly EGA adventure games. Based in Toronto, Canada!
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 16/08/2026
The disarming self-awareness of this parking lot
A bent parking lot bollard with a lampshad e on it
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 15/08/2026
[Mîchal Stîpust] 🎶 That's me in the cörnor, that's me in the stockpile, losing my religion 🎶
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hey, Project C has a name! PRECOGNITION. Excited to be collaborating with newly launched @kineticpub.bsky.social on this, our wildest ride yet!
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 10/08/2026
great narrative pacing
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 06/08/2026
when software interrupts my interaction flow with an unexpected popup — often to introduce a new digital tulpa named Krolo or some such — I rejoice in the small but rebellious act of hitting Esc rather than Okay
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 06/08/2026
dramaturges of the future will class Naomi as a commedia dell'arte stock character
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 05/08/2026
Liveposting thread of the Beyond Quality Awards in the 20th Anniversary Celebration! If you want to follow along, you can read this thread or listen yourself and see who/what wins the hearts of dwarf fortresses: www.twitch.tv/kitfoxgames www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q5z...
"Beyond Quality" stamp on top of "Awards" with the Bay 12 logo (pixellated yellow dinosaur-esque-creature pointing right)
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 05/08/2026
I'm at the tier of design problem where the solution is an empty trait called "Nominal Dogness" that you must rank up but does nothing, except contain reminder text that you are a dog in name only. After 12 hours deep in the tank, I'm convinced this is the right solution.
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 03/08/2026
Ostranauts 1.0 is out NOW! 📖New endgame story 🕵️‍♀️ Bounty System: Make money catching criminals ⛏ Steam Workshop Support: Over 68 community mods already available! 🚀 New Station Maps 🏆Achievements 👨‍🏫Tutorial Improvements and much more! store.steampowered.com/app/1022980/...
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 25/07/2026
Dude's rock
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Alex Trebek, the host of jeopardy
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_D @drnmcy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ok, super satisfied with the overall generation results and assets. here is a mountaintop labyrinth.
generated world showing a labyrinth on top of a mountain
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 09/07/2026
permadeath of the author
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