My co-conspirator Max Johnson and I put together a little solo/coop RPG as part of a game jam! If you like slasher flicks, check out *And Their Bodies were Found the Next Morning* drivethrurpg.com/product/40471

My school year is wrapping up, and I’m planning ahead for next year while the students finish their last assignments in the next two weeks or so.

My big sticking point is how to begin the RPG unit. I think I want to start with having them make characters, but is that too much? Should I do pregens for the very first days and then have them make their own? I could TPK the pregens to give them something to avenge 😂

As expected, I find myself not posting here much, but I still appreciate the theory of the platform. I will see if I can post more things that are interesting thoughts worth sharing, but… right now posting about teaching just gets depressing real fast…

A student of mine has their second game up on Itch.io! Check out Shipping Day, a sliding tile puzzle: jeremykdev.itch.io/shipping-da

One thing about at the end of the year: the last six weeks of school are absolutely destroyed by testing. AP, state assessments, and various proficiency exams (including ones with no passing score, just requirement to take) absorb about three weeks, then it’s the last week for seniors, and then it’s the last two weeks of the year, where everyone is just done.
Gotta stop the testing if you actually want to improve what would be tested.

A comment on an article just called Diablo 3 an “older Blizzard game” and that made me sad until I looked it up, and saw that it came out a decade ago, and that made me angry because the comment was right. 10 years old tomorrow.

Working on and planning for next year, and trying to come up with a fast way to teach GMing to a class of 30. So far we’re considering interactive Google slides experience, and/or something like a Twine-based pick your path adventure. Probably Cypher System, but still pondering.

Why is Star Citizen never going to be finished?
“We knew early on that, to hit the fidelity we expect for Sq42, we would need to do some R&D on bedsheet deformation. This work is currently underway and, if successful, will allow the AI to deform their sheets when entering, exiting, or sleeping inside them. This is a challenging assignment and expands the complexity of the feature. For example, what happens to the sheets if the AI needs to exit the bed in an emergency?”

is awesome, especially since one of the best ways to practice actual design is to have the students play and then learn to run .

Also a good excuse to just have a ton of dice lying around, which is quite satisfying 😃

Hashtagging with to let people filter—just to be clear, while I mostly post gaming and teaching content, I am not OK with the status quo or the fascist agenda. Taking away a person’s right to choose whether or not to bear children is about controlling that person, not protecting children, babies, or even fetuses. It’s about keeping the poor poor and ensuring an impoverished class exists to exploit. It’s despicable and harmful in many ways, and doesn’t prevent abortions from happening.

As part of my nerdery while teaching (English and Game Dev both), I use video and audio clips as signals. This is how I indicate someone is in trouble. youtu.be/mwRXE3o9kMI

I am definitely someone’s weird coworker. (Image stolen from the bird site)

We adopted our greyhounds through a rescue agency, and it’s always nice to see the “just adopted” photos for their new placements! But since I don’t have photo credits for theirs, here’s Ahsoka, our elder pup:

Anyone know any good scifi that deals with or presents AI similar to the ships and ancillaries in Anne Leckie’s Ancillary Justice? Looking for research for my own writing and game design.

Spent the afternoon playing “The Crew: Quest for Planet 9,” a cooperative trick-taking puzzle game, and crokinole, a puck-sliding game on a homemade board. Definitely a good mental break!

PS the white powder is cornstarch and wax, not cocaine. We’re boring.

Trying to do writing, game design, or any other creative work for fun is difficult when there’s literally no time for fun in a daily schedule. Gotta actually sit down and enjoy yourself sometimes, so today will also include board games with friends!

Been playing a solo RPG/war game called Six Parsecs from Home with a combination of paper craft and 3d printed terrain. A lot of fun, and hopefully now I know it well enough to teach to the students!

One thing I miss about teaching English in the spring: grading essays at the archery range. If the class’ stack of essays could collectively resist piercing by arrows at 50 yards, everyone would get an A.

They did not get As.

count for the day: 24 oz coffee, 2 cans coke, 1 cup tea. Not bad! I don’t have a headache, but I also feel like I’ll be able to sleep sometime tonight.

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