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Jacob Garbe 💀
@logodaedalus.bsky.social
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Quiet Poster. Retweets mostly spooky art, books, and the occasional original thought. Did a PhD on designing dynamic narrative systems in games. Senior Narrative Systems Designer @teamlfg.bsky.social
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Jacob Garbe 💀 @logodaedalus.bsky.social · Oct 24
This is the most recent thing I've done that I can share. Some people have found it useful! If you're struggling with scope on a dynamic narrative project, try this Authorial Leverage Framework to help figure out how to course correct or prevent future woes: logodaedalus.github.io/Authorial-Le...
The Authorial Leverage Framework
Jacob Garbe’s PhD Dissertation on increasing authorability for dynamic/generative narrative systems
logodaedalus.github.io
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polarisgamedesign.com
Hello, Bluesky! If you love thinking, talking, and/or writing about game design, check out our starter pack! go.bsky.app/AsBK784 We're an organization committed to tackling the toughest problems in games and sharing what we learn with the world!
October 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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doublefine.com
🎉 KEEPER HAS AWAKENED 🎉

Watch this brand new launch trailer full of otherworldly eye candy, and then get ready for a reality-bending experience full of surprise, absurdity and delight!

** OUT NOW on Xbox and Steam**
@xbox.com / @steampowered.com

doublefine.com/games/keeper
October 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
logodaedalus.bsky.social
Nice! Looking forward to reading a deep dive on a tough design space many designers engage with.
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
logodaedalus.bsky.social
Rabbit Trap does for faeries what You Won’t Be Alone did for witches
October 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
logodaedalus.bsky.social
I don't know how, but somehow I managed to get into a pick-up session and took control of a robot in Beijing in a boxing match. I got to knock out my opponent. This may be the most Bay Area Friday night activity I've ever done.
September 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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diveamydive.bsky.social
Hey! I have no idea how to do this, I’ve never made a List or Starter Pack before, but:

⭐️ If you’re a Games Writer/Narrative Designer looking for work, and you’d like to be added to my Starter Pack, lmk!
⭐️ If you’re looking to hire a Games Writer/Narrative Designer, check out this Starter Pack!
September 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
logodaedalus.bsky.social
My favorite Alien Earth theory that could apply to the entire Alien franchise is that cryosleep gives you brain damage.
September 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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aaronareed.bsky.social
⬇️ 🚨🚨Heads up, this sale ends tonight!🚨🚨

This is a _rare_ occasion when my physical books are on sale as well my digital stuff (probably increasingly rare if the tariff situation continues to worsen).
September 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
logodaedalus.bsky.social
“Do I smoke? Oh, just enough to get vaccines” is such a perfect encapsulation of the insanity of American healthcare.
September 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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aaronareed.bsky.social
🎃🍁🍂AUTUMN SALE!🍂🍁🎃 All my books and games are on sale for one week only to celebrate the impending arrival of cooler days and pumpkin lattes.
RPGs: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
50 Years of Text Games: if50.textories.com
Subcutanean: subcutanean.textories.com
Cool swag: aaronareed.net/store/
Screenshot of DriveThruRPG showing the Downcrawl Deck and other recent RPG titles at a 20% discount.
September 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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aaronareed.bsky.social
#Downcrawl2E Adventure Zine #2 is here (and ON SALE for launch week)! Explore a new underworld region clinging to an endless roof over bottomless void, in the legendary place Where The Rock Stops. #ttrpg #hexcrawl #DriveThruRPG
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

and SPEAKING OF SALES... (1/2)
Cover art for Where the Rock Stops, a Downcrawl adventure zine, showing black-and-white woodcut-style art of a zeppelin floating beneath a rocky ceiling with huge dangling stalactites.
September 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
logodaedalus.bsky.social
Weyland-Yutani (apparently): "let's spend billions of dollars on an interstellar mission to collect multiple living biological weapons, but also let's send multiple interns"
September 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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osamadorias.bsky.social
It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter!

We are HeartLoop Games! ♥
polyfightergame.bsky.social Poly Fighter Game @polyfightergame.bsky.social · Sep 2
New studio. New game.

Step into the ring with Poly Fighter, a single-player roguelike fighting game where every run reshapes your style.

🖊️ Sign up to playtest: bit.ly/polyfighterplaytest

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilkn...
Poly Fighter - Reveal Trailer | Roguelike Fighting Game
YouTube video by Poly Fighter Game
www.youtube.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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itep.org
The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program.

We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful.

The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs.
www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...
IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service
IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.
www.irs.gov
August 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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rajandelman.bsky.social
Caterpillar waking up halfway through metamorphosis: I'm goo. Shit. Shit. Calm down. Go back to sleep. I'm really straight-up goo right now. Fuck
August 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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aaronareed.bsky.social
Lucky enough to be one of the writers involved in bringing this wild stygian world to life! If you've ever wanted to barter with a dead swan god or infiltrate the fortress where souls go to be flensed, wishlist this game...
kitfoxgames.com Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · Aug 7
😈 Announcing Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists, a procedural narrative RPG by A Sharp @radiofreelunch.bsky.social and published by us!

▶ Wishlist the game now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...
August 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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stcymsn.bsky.social
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:
2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
logodaedalus.bsky.social
Cool explorable explanation by @bleuje.com of physarum-style simulation with a great list of different algorithms: bleuje.com/physarum-exp...
Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations
Article explaining simulation algorithms that produce complex organic behaviours, starting with the classic physarum algorithm from Jeff Jones.
bleuje.com
July 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
logodaedalus.bsky.social
Man this essay hits hard, and the intro is so well-written even if it gives me severe psychic damage
comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · Jul 11
"Chat, in what consists my drip? My drip is stiff with blood and mire.

Chat, in what consists my aura? My aura is only fear.

Chat, in what consists my rizz? My rizz is a half-turned head, twisted birdlike."

samkriss.substack.com/p/in-my-zomb...
In my zombie era
The third stage of culture in the age of infinite information
samkriss.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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victoriatran.bsky.social
if you're tired of friendslop, that's not very hopecore of you, truly in your hate era, so not teeheepilled, should be smilemaxxing, have you ever heard of yay theory, don't be a genrecel, i love to play companionlikes, it's so sugoipunk
July 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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dryad.technology
Okay so I heard this story a half dozen times on Twitter about a civil rights activist who became a Marxist after an FBI agent grilled him on Marx so he decided to look the guy up—

I didn't realize until this moment that was Zohran Mamdani's father. Amazing
abtnatural.bsky.social Virgil Abt @abtnatural.bsky.social · Jul 3
Incredible scene.

FBI: Do you like Marx?

Mhmood Mamdani: I haven’t met him.

FBI: No, no, he’s dead.

MM: Wow, what happened?

FBI: No, no, he died long ago. ... He wrote that poor people should not be poor.

MM: Sounds amazing.

www.warscapes.com/conversation...
BS: How was that? How long were you in jail? MM: One night. They let you make one phone call, and I called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, DC, talked to him, and he said, “What are you doing interfering in the affairs of a foreign country?” I said, “What? We just got our independence! This is the same struggle. Have you forgotten?” Anyway, he got me out. Two or three weeks later, I was in my room. There was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen in trench coats and hats said, “FBI.” I thought, “Wow, just like on television.” They sat down. They were there to find out why I had gone – because this turned out to be big – it is after Montgomery that King organized his march on Selma. They wanted to know who had influenced me. After one hour of probing, the guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.
July 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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theophite.bsky.social
if you don't want people doing gematria don't reduce all human language to an empirically derived set of mathematics which can summon forth divers images
charles-sumner.bsky.social Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · Jun 21
This is starting to get a little bit kabbahlistic up in here
June 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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richterscale.bsky.social
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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dustinkcouch.bsky.social
the weirdest thing that happened to me 56 months ago was when when i got sent this counterfeit coupon
(A text message exchange. The number up top is blurred out.) Sender: (Image of a Pizza Hut coupon) Pizza time! Show this coupon to the cashier while checking out at your neighborhood Pizza Hut for a FREE 1 Topping Large Pizza. At participating location only! Receiver: idk if this is the number to text but i just showed this coupon to the cashier and they said they didn't recognize it. sender: at participating location only! Receiver: location? As in just one Pizza Hut? Sender: Yep! More of the text exchange: Sender: Yep! Receiver: Which location? Sender: (Sends an address, but it's blurred out) Receiver: Are you sure you sent me the right address? Sender: Yep! Receiver: then what the fuck is this Sender: pizza hut (text from a different cut off number) Sender: (sends a coupon) Burger time! Show this coupon to the cashier at your neighborhood McDonalds for a free quarter pounder! Yum! At participating location only. Receiver: which location Sender: (sends address, but it's blurred out) Receiver: that's the same address that other number sent me to. Sender: no it isn't Receiver: i'm not going Sender: please sender: please Receiver: no Sender: please (Text from Mom) mom: What time are you and your brother planning on coming by tonight? love you Receiver: idk i haven't talked to him but I'll probably get there around 6 or so. do you need me to pick anything up on the way? love you too mom: No, I'm just running to pick up dinner real quick before y'all get here. I got a great deal on some pizzas! Receiver: wait what deal Receiver: mom? mom: (sends coupon) Pizza time! Show this coupon to
June 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
logodaedalus.bsky.social
Caught COVID for the second time last week...I feel like I want a website that updates daily like "1 out of every x people you contact has COVID" because I missed somehow we were back up this high.
jpweiland.bsky.social JPWeiland @jpweiland.bsky.social · Jun 20
June 20th update:

Slight uptick this week, as XFG and NB.1.8.1 grow. Still at low/very low levels across the US, but that is expected to change in the next month, especially in the South and West.

🔸169,000 new infections/day
🔸~1 in 200 currently infected
🔸~1 in 500 are reasonably infectious
June 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM