Reposted by jason grinblatSajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 5hAn absolute delight to do the cover + slipcase for this one www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves... 30441111
Reposted by jason grinblatinkle @inkle.co · 13hNew 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... 1268
Reposted by jason grinblatLost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 7hMeet 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 🔻 18019
Reposted by jason grinblatCaves of Qud @cavesofqud.com · 6hIn 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... 417745
Reposted by jason grinblatKitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 7hCaves 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... 310928
Reposted by jason grinblatMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The 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 16518
Reposted by jason grinblatEverest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'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... 24839305
Reposted by jason grinblatcmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If 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! 29484479
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 12/09/2026Opinions on the viability of taking a 2.5yo to the ren faire? 690
Reposted by jason grinblatjason grinblat @jfg.land · 04/02/2025ASCII roguelikes are the most epistolary game genre because they're letters moving back and forth 1137357
Reposted by jason grinblatZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Very 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.terrytao.wordpress.comA Severe Misalignment of AI in MathematicsI 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… 19922230
Reposted by jason grinblatDavid Dunham @radiofreelunch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In 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!) 13710
Reposted by jason grinblatAndy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 10/09/2026I 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. 3606
Reposted by jason grinblatAlex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 10/09/20262.5 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.gdcvault.comPlayer MythologiesDesigners build games around player fantasies. These typically concern something the player 25013
Reposted by jason grinblatCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 19/03/2025mfw I get annihilated by an extradimensional mechanical psychic slug cherub immediately after start 619344
Reposted by jason grinblatCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10/09/2026this paper is coming up once again today among designers so am recirculating it here 36819
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 09/09/2026GPT-6 Astra: I found a general solution for discrete time BOFA in three dimensions. me: what's BOFA? GPT-6 Astra: 3162
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 09/09/2026Do Buckmaster et al deserve the credit? Does OpenAI? Look, different Stokes for different folks 1150
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 08/09/2026me, having solved Navier-Stokes last month but forgetting to write it up: FUCK 3476
Reposted by jason grinblatKitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 08/09/2026Four 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/... 4232101
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 04/09/2026we took a perfectly good (dead) fossil of human intellectual activity and gave it anxiety 1403
Reposted by jason grinblatYaso 🦋🌼 @orangeblossombitch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Turkish Tiles pt. 1 #art 117859
Reposted by jason grinblatbrendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 01/09/2026Anyway! 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/...sites.libsyn.comPaper Labyrinths: Alex Jaffe on Head-to-Head GamesNic 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 ---... 086
Reposted by jason grinblatEtienne Jacob @bleuje.com · 01/09/2026A little “Brick Territories” experiment. → bleuje.com/js_sketches/... 1127853
Reposted by jason grinblatLocus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Tanya 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 0745
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 28/08/2026this is one of the most deranged (positive) fan works I've seen. please watch this video 629785
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 27/08/2026having 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 417541
Reposted by jason grinblatMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution 694119857
Reposted by jason grinblatJasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Multiplayer 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! 210637
Reposted by jason grinblatAlex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Psyched 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-...blinkity.substack.comChrysalis: DungeonwakeBuild a dungeon of cards to torment your friends 26614
Reposted by jason grinblatmerritt @merrittk.com · 19/08/2026one 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 1542631
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 18/08/2026First day of kindergarten for our 5yo. 😮🥹 It's messed up when the parenting milestones start to overlap with your own memories 0370
Reposted by jason grinblatJulia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Live now! Let's wish The Crimson Diamond a Happy 2nd Birthday! 🥳🎂 www.twitch.tv/a_maplemysterytwitch.tva_maplemystery - TwitchSolo indie dev of The Crimson Diamond! I also stream EGA games, particularly EGA adventure games. Based in Toronto, Canada! 0244
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 15/08/2026[Mîchal Stîpust] 🎶 That's me in the cörnor, that's me in the stockpile, losing my religion 🎶 0336
Reposted by jason grinblatSam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Hey, Project C has a name! PRECOGNITION. Excited to be collaborating with newly launched @kineticpub.bsky.social on this, our wildest ride yet! 21709162
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 06/08/2026when 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 615113
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 06/08/2026dramaturges of the future will class Naomi as a commedia dell'arte stock character 212713
Reposted by jason grinblatKitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 05/08/2026Liveposting 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... 1489
jason grinblat @jfg.land · 05/08/2026I'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. 56510
Reposted by jason grinblatKitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 03/08/2026Ostranauts 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/... 621960
Reposted by jason grinblatEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I 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...lrb.co.ukEmily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my... 19761601559
Reposted by jason grinblat_D @drnmcy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026ok, super satisfied with the overall generation results and assets. here is a mountaintop labyrinth. 512414