Alexei Pepers
@apepers.bsky.social
Technical system designer, proc gen ranger/druid, Roguelike Celebration MC, kaiju groupie (she/her)
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Alexei Pepers
@apepers.bsky.social
· Jan 23
Designing for System Suspense | 2025 Schedule | Game Developers Conference (GDC)
Attend 750 sessions for game designers, programmers, artists, producers, audio, business, and marketing professionals over 5 days at GDC.
schedule.gdconf.com
Speaking of Polaris - I’m giving a 60 minute lecture at GDC about system suspense, a topic from a previous year! I’ll be able to dig into some case studies that didn’t make the report - so if you’re into systemic games and designing for surprise, check it out 😊
schedule.gdconf.com/session/desi...
schedule.gdconf.com/session/desi...
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Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
Do other folks have nightmares about the shitty parts of game dev, even long after the fact? Layoffs, project cancellations, terrible leadership. They suck enough the first time but my brain just loves to relive them instead of sleeping 🥲
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Do other folks have nightmares about the shitty parts of game dev, even long after the fact? Layoffs, project cancellations, terrible leadership. They suck enough the first time but my brain just loves to relive them instead of sleeping 🥲
I am so excited to spend my commute listening to coverage of Fëanor’s bullshit. As Kawa pointed out, our emergency go-bag currently contains my copy of The Hobbit, but not my passport. So this is great news for me specifically.
Let's make it official:
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
bookshop.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I am so excited to spend my commute listening to coverage of Fëanor’s bullshit. As Kawa pointed out, our emergency go-bag currently contains my copy of The Hobbit, but not my passport. So this is great news for me specifically.
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Its officially that time.
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Its officially that time.
Extra baseball has meant some extreme measures to try and actually make dinner before 10 pm
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Extra baseball has meant some extreme measures to try and actually make dinner before 10 pm
Please channel Forrest Best and end up stealing home off a single
November 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Please channel Forrest Best and end up stealing home off a single
It says a lot about the quality of my memory and also what baseball is like that only now, after 6 innings, have I realized that I was watching a replay of yesterday’s game and not the live game. Yesterday’s game which, to be clear, I did watch live.
November 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
It says a lot about the quality of my memory and also what baseball is like that only now, after 6 innings, have I realized that I was watching a replay of yesterday’s game and not the live game. Yesterday’s game which, to be clear, I did watch live.
Played this with @procgenkawa.bsky.social to round out the night and it hit my highest compliment, which is that it made me exclaim “video games are good actually!!!”
The additions for this year are SO GOOD. This is free! It's packed with fun! Get your friends and get on this tonight!
It's that time of year... 🍂
🎃 The Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is BACK for 2025! 🎃
This year we can support up to 800 players at once in this seasonal pumpkin carving MMO!
This year's update comes with new areas and new secrets to find.
Hope you don't mind if I re-use the trailer from last year! 😅
🎃 The Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is BACK for 2025! 🎃
This year we can support up to 800 players at once in this seasonal pumpkin carving MMO!
This year's update comes with new areas and new secrets to find.
Hope you don't mind if I re-use the trailer from last year! 😅
November 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Played this with @procgenkawa.bsky.social to round out the night and it hit my highest compliment, which is that it made me exclaim “video games are good actually!!!”
Spent my Halloween evening watching the game. This is all I have to say.
November 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Spent my Halloween evening watching the game. This is all I have to say.
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Rooting not just for a Game 7 of the World Series, but another 18 inning game that goes so long on Saturday night that the clocks fall back at 2am before it’s ended and everyone gets tremendously confused about what time it is.
October 30, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Rooting not just for a Game 7 of the World Series, but another 18 inning game that goes so long on Saturday night that the clocks fall back at 2am before it’s ended and everyone gets tremendously confused about what time it is.
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So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)
The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
crpgbook.wordpress.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)
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So my bonus bit of #procjam content for this year is going to be the Lunch Hour Generator - five videos, five little tasks you can do in your lunch break, and at the end of the week you have something you can enter into the jam. I hope it helps encourage a few people to give the jam a go!
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
So my bonus bit of #procjam content for this year is going to be the Lunch Hour Generator - five videos, five little tasks you can do in your lunch break, and at the end of the week you have something you can enter into the jam. I hope it helps encourage a few people to give the jam a go!
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Gaming stuff: Crusader Kings 3’s “All Under Heaven” is out now. I helped consult for historical accuracy and design on its representation of medieval Southeast Asia (and Siberia). Check it out! A fantastic expansion for a fantastic game.
www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/crusad...
www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/crusad...
Crusader Kings III: All Under Heaven - Paradox Interactive
Build, Conquer, and Rule in the East. With Crusader Kings III - All Under Heaven, the vast and dynamic history of Eastern Asia comes to life. Claim the Mandate, unite your people, and shape the future...
www.paradoxinteractive.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Gaming stuff: Crusader Kings 3’s “All Under Heaven” is out now. I helped consult for historical accuracy and design on its representation of medieval Southeast Asia (and Siberia). Check it out! A fantastic expansion for a fantastic game.
www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/crusad...
www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/crusad...
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in the netherlands major league baseball is called Honkbal Hoofdklasse
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
in the netherlands major league baseball is called Honkbal Hoofdklasse
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Has anyone checked under home plate for a secret envelope yet?
If they get to 19 they open a new legacy deck. we don't actually know what happens. we may be in the early stages of baseball, as a species
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Has anyone checked under home plate for a secret envelope yet?
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The baseball commentators have given me a new quest: acquire a zagnut
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
The baseball commentators have given me a new quest: acquire a zagnut
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[camera pans to an empty bullpen]
“which chair throws best?”
BROTHER LMAO
“which chair throws best?”
BROTHER LMAO
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
[camera pans to an empty bullpen]
“which chair throws best?”
BROTHER LMAO
“which chair throws best?”
BROTHER LMAO
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My favourite thing about all these very long baseball games is just how filthy nasty the uniforms get. Give me a bunch of exhausted dudes staring into the distance, covered in dirt.
October 28, 2025 at 4:55 AM
My favourite thing about all these very long baseball games is just how filthy nasty the uniforms get. Give me a bunch of exhausted dudes staring into the distance, covered in dirt.
Love to come out of my office and be told “it’s bottom of the 12th and it’s maximum baseball”
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Love to come out of my office and be told “it’s bottom of the 12th and it’s maximum baseball”
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PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
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The people asked and we've delivered. Presenting... the Columbroguelike.
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"Columbroguelike (For Light Shirts)" Classic T-Shirt for Sale by Roguelike
When only the deepest of cuts will do. This is the dark pattern of the shirt. Only use it on light colored shirts! Note that the @ sign in his eye is bright green- it will be invisible on green shirts...
www.redbubble.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The people asked and we've delivered. Presenting... the Columbroguelike.
www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Co...
www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Co...
If you think Roguelike celebration is unhinged, you haven’t been to the post-con zoom chat, where currently we are peer reviewing calculations of the mass energy of a dango that is 7*10^16 calories
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If you think Roguelike celebration is unhinged, you haven’t been to the post-con zoom chat, where currently we are peer reviewing calculations of the mass energy of a dango that is 7*10^16 calories