Join the Shadowrun 6th World Livestream at 5 PM EST. It's going to be a lot of fun :) 

Watch here: https://youtube.com/@catalyst-game-labs

@catalystgamelabs.bsky.social 

#gencon #shadowrun #cyberpunk

Join me live as I talk about Adventure Forge. 

🕐11 AM to 11:30 AM EST

👉Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/@catalyst-game-labs

@adventureforge.games

#gencon #adventureforge #gamedesign

Join me and some friends for Shadowrun Most Wanted at Gen Con this Thursday. 

@tomdowd.bsky.social  @primerunner.bsky.social 

👉Watch the livestream here: youtube.com/catalyst-game-labs

#gencon #shadowrun #catalystgamelabs #cyberpunk

I'm heading to Gen Con and will be on a few panels with @catalystgamelabs.bsky.social. If you're there, come and say hi :)

#gencon #shadowrun #catalystgamelabs #cyberpunk

Had a ton of fun in SF with Kevin, who's leading the charge for our Marketing & Communications, at @opensaucelive.bsky.social  showcasing our no-code video game building tool, @adventureforge.games.

Join our closed beta now at https://bit.ly/adventureforge-secretsauce-jordan

#adventureforge

Just landed in San Francisco for @opensaucelive.bsky.social. Looking forward to showcasing @adventureforge.games as part of @offbrand.games #SecretSauce!

If you're going, please come to our booth and come say hi :)

We're back with Episode 2 for the We Thought It Would Be Easy Podcast. Joining us is Chris Taylor, the creator of Total Annihilation, Dungeon Siege, and Supreme Commander in the hot seat.

Watch here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WnQIJdd5FWM

#podcast #TotalAnnihlation #DungeonSiege #SupremeCommander

Check out our first episode with Justin Gary, creator of Ascension and SolForge Fusion! Discover his journey from Magic: The Gathering tournaments to designing hit games. Watch on YouTube or listen on your favorite podcast platform:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PhNDRjk31HM

#mtg #podcast

Ok let’s start with the fact that I was wrong. I left out all the non-port NPCs in my calculations and when I included them the total was over 350 characters. What was a hard task just became much harder. Luckily, the lighter tone of Sea of Legends provides some fun options on how to reuse NPCs.

Back to doing some design work on Sea of Legends :) Wrestling with NPC count. Our Adventure Forge authoring tool really handles NPC relationships well, so we want to lean into that. My first cut arrived at 250 unique NPCs, way too many for our budget. So working on how to reduce or combine them

The last several days I’ve been lost in the land of deep spreadsheet doing forecasts. There is a certain joy of working in complex spreadsheets, they develop their own sort of emergent behaviors which can be satisfying in its own strange way.

Yesterday we did the Tomb Raider escape room experience in Seattle. It was a blast, the environments were great and the puzzles were balanced right for the audience they hope to attract. But I have to say that doing an escape room with a family of game designers is always a unique experience :)

At a Nerd Craft Fair today. These things inspire me so much, people are making the most amazing nerd wonderful things. Over the years I’ve bought all sorts of cool tools and kits to bash from, now I just need to find the time to make stuff !

Thanks for the warm reception ❤️ total carb hangover today, I am sure that after every Thanksgiving my pants size goes up and my IQ goes down.

Thought I would start on BlueSky on Thanksgiving by mentioning the many people I am thankful for; my amazing wife and kids (all six of them, 3 boys + 3 new daughters), the thousands of creative people I’ve had the pleasure to work with, and the millions of players who give our work meaning.