David King
@d-king.bsky.social
Course leader MA Games Design UAL
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It's the last week to get your submissions in for Leftfield 2025. They close on Friday 1st of August: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
July 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It's the last week to get your submissions in for Leftfield 2025. They close on Friday 1st of August: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
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I've looked & I could have missed it, maybe its saved in their drafts but @ukieofficial.bsky.social TIGA, BFI, that new video game council. Which UK body representing games is stepping up to publicly speak about the mass censorship of the cultural form they represent?
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...
Adult games are forcing the game industry into a spiritual crisis
Itchio joins Steam in pulling games due to pressure from extreme groups with an ongoing campaign aimed at payment processors
www.polygon.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I've looked & I could have missed it, maybe its saved in their drafts but @ukieofficial.bsky.social TIGA, BFI, that new video game council. Which UK body representing games is stepping up to publicly speak about the mass censorship of the cultural form they represent?
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...
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UK playful pals & mutuals- we've been given a bit more capacity for our boutique Car Boot Casino night at Develop on Tues 8 July
If you enjoy homebrew card & bluffing games, poker visors, janky prizes then ticket details are below:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...
Code: DOGPLAYINGPOKER
If you enjoy homebrew card & bluffing games, poker visors, janky prizes then ticket details are below:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...
Code: DOGPLAYINGPOKER
June 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
UK playful pals & mutuals- we've been given a bit more capacity for our boutique Car Boot Casino night at Develop on Tues 8 July
If you enjoy homebrew card & bluffing games, poker visors, janky prizes then ticket details are below:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...
Code: DOGPLAYINGPOKER
If you enjoy homebrew card & bluffing games, poker visors, janky prizes then ticket details are below:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...
Code: DOGPLAYINGPOKER
Obviously I'm massively biased, but this video on the wilmot's warehouse board game is great, both fun and insightful.
NEW REVIEW for Wilmot's Warehouse. very proud of the intro for this one. spent a while on it. take a look if you'd like!
game by @cmyk.games & @rickyhaggett.bsky.social (and some others not on bsky, from what i can find)
#boardgames
youtu.be/izYRwz5izKI
game by @cmyk.games & @rickyhaggett.bsky.social (and some others not on bsky, from what i can find)
#boardgames
youtu.be/izYRwz5izKI
enter your mind palace in Wilmot's Warehouse
YouTube video by tim!!!
youtu.be
May 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Obviously I'm massively biased, but this video on the wilmot's warehouse board game is great, both fun and insightful.
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A reminder to apply to join us in London on July 11 for the symposium on the question WHAT IS THE ANTIFASCIST GAME. Applications due May 17!
reimaginingvalue.ca/antifagame/
reimaginingvalue.ca/antifagame/
May 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A reminder to apply to join us in London on July 11 for the symposium on the question WHAT IS THE ANTIFASCIST GAME. Applications due May 17!
reimaginingvalue.ca/antifagame/
reimaginingvalue.ca/antifagame/
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after 100 years of making my blog look really pretty instead of finishing any of the posts i have half-written, i started finished and post a post today!! about one of my favourite tiny games on itch that i keep coming back to play :)
knivesforcats.online/tiny-islands...
knivesforcats.online/tiny-islands...
Tiny Islands Brings Me So Much Joy
I want to talk a little bit about this game I've had saved on my itch page forever in my collection called ! It's been years, and I keep coming back to play...
knivesforcats.online
April 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
after 100 years of making my blog look really pretty instead of finishing any of the posts i have half-written, i started finished and post a post today!! about one of my favourite tiny games on itch that i keep coming back to play :)
knivesforcats.online/tiny-islands...
knivesforcats.online/tiny-islands...
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It’s the first day of @nowplaythis.bsky.social today and they kindly reprinted a bunch of Games For People zines for the event.
Also they are hosting a digital version of the zine here and @v21.bsky.social wrote a little intro for it! nowplaythis.net/game/games-f...
Also they are hosting a digital version of the zine here and @v21.bsky.social wrote a little intro for it! nowplaythis.net/game/games-f...
Games for People (zine)
In 2014, Pat Ashe and I were at the big gamedev conference in San Francisco together that year. And we were soaking in an international culture of indie game developers who were keen to understand and...
nowplaythis.net
April 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
It’s the first day of @nowplaythis.bsky.social today and they kindly reprinted a bunch of Games For People zines for the event.
Also they are hosting a digital version of the zine here and @v21.bsky.social wrote a little intro for it! nowplaythis.net/game/games-f...
Also they are hosting a digital version of the zine here and @v21.bsky.social wrote a little intro for it! nowplaythis.net/game/games-f...
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West Midland games folk, join us on Monday 28 April in Leamington Spa for...
Let's Go Indie!?
An evening of practical support & guidance for those considering starting their own independent game studio, or new studios starting out.
free but RSVPs are essential
letsgoindie.eventbrite.co.uk
Let's Go Indie!?
An evening of practical support & guidance for those considering starting their own independent game studio, or new studios starting out.
free but RSVPs are essential
letsgoindie.eventbrite.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
West Midland games folk, join us on Monday 28 April in Leamington Spa for...
Let's Go Indie!?
An evening of practical support & guidance for those considering starting their own independent game studio, or new studios starting out.
free but RSVPs are essential
letsgoindie.eventbrite.co.uk
Let's Go Indie!?
An evening of practical support & guidance for those considering starting their own independent game studio, or new studios starting out.
free but RSVPs are essential
letsgoindie.eventbrite.co.uk
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I finished teaching my Playful Theory class, a seminar for studio artists focused on games.
It was my first academic course in the post-ChatGPT era, so I tried out a few strategies to handle students potentially skimming readings and submitting AI-generated response papers.
Thread🧵
It was my first academic course in the post-ChatGPT era, so I tried out a few strategies to handle students potentially skimming readings and submitting AI-generated response papers.
Thread🧵
December 12, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I finished teaching my Playful Theory class, a seminar for studio artists focused on games.
It was my first academic course in the post-ChatGPT era, so I tried out a few strategies to handle students potentially skimming readings and submitting AI-generated response papers.
Thread🧵
It was my first academic course in the post-ChatGPT era, so I tried out a few strategies to handle students potentially skimming readings and submitting AI-generated response papers.
Thread🧵
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We're close to the deadline for GAIA 2025 applications. We're looking for curators, streamers, reviewers, festival organizers, advocates & more!
If your work involves celebrating, documenting, curating, educating, organizing in games & playful arts, please apply!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If your work involves celebrating, documenting, curating, educating, organizing in games & playful arts, please apply!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
GAIA 2025 Call for Applications
The Game Arts International Assembly (GAIA) is an event that creates space for people in the game arts organizing, production and curation community to discuss their challenges and share information. ...
docs.google.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:46 PM
We're close to the deadline for GAIA 2025 applications. We're looking for curators, streamers, reviewers, festival organizers, advocates & more!
If your work involves celebrating, documenting, curating, educating, organizing in games & playful arts, please apply!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If your work involves celebrating, documenting, curating, educating, organizing in games & playful arts, please apply!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I made a tiny protest game about the terrifying reality of biking in Toronto without bike lanes
marieflanagan.com/loserlane
marieflanagan.com/loserlane
November 21, 2024 at 5:15 PM
I made a tiny protest game about the terrifying reality of biking in Toronto without bike lanes
marieflanagan.com/loserlane
marieflanagan.com/loserlane
I had a nice chat with Dan about Tiny Islands, the Wilmot's Warehouse boardgame and also dodged some challenging questions about the nature of art, games and education.
Wilmot’s Warehouse has been described as a magic trick and a miracle. On today’s Space-Cast!, I chatted with creator David King about his circuitous route to game design, browser game Tiny Islands, and the role of failure and memory in board games. Listen here: spacebiff.com/2024/10/02/s...
Space-Cast! #41. Wilmot’s Island
Dr. David King’s Wilmot’s Warehouse has been described as a magic trick, a miracle, and one heck of a fun time. On today’s Space-Cast!, we’re joined by King to discuss the i…
spacebiff.com
October 3, 2024 at 7:37 AM
I had a nice chat with Dan about Tiny Islands, the Wilmot's Warehouse boardgame and also dodged some challenging questions about the nature of art, games and education.
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The lovely folks at @eurogamer.bsky.social are celebrating 25 years, and asked me for a feature ‘where will games be in another 25 years’. I had two answers: a realistic one, and a hopeful one. They kindly allowed me to share both here: medium.com/@h.k.nicklin...
Two Futures
As part of Eurogamer’s 25th Anniversary they asked a few folks in the field of games (including me) where video games will be in another 25 years. I wrote two passages for them, and said they could…
medium.com
September 6, 2024 at 12:08 PM
The lovely folks at @eurogamer.bsky.social are celebrating 25 years, and asked me for a feature ‘where will games be in another 25 years’. I had two answers: a realistic one, and a hopeful one. They kindly allowed me to share both here: medium.com/@h.k.nicklin...
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Wilmot's Warehouse is a memory game. Let me finish! It's a memory game but good. But great. But a miracle.
My review: spacebiff.com/2024/08/06/w...
My review: spacebiff.com/2024/08/06/w...
Ars Wilmot
Meet Wilmot's Warehouse. Based on the video game by Richard Hogg and Ricky Haggett, and designed by David King — creator of browser-based roll-and-write Tiny Islands — Wilmot's Warehouse is a memory g...
spacebiff.com
August 6, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Wilmot's Warehouse is a memory game. Let me finish! It's a memory game but good. But great. But a miracle.
My review: spacebiff.com/2024/08/06/w...
My review: spacebiff.com/2024/08/06/w...
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We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2024 🎉
The grant will award $15,000 to 6 thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.
Deadline: October 7th
More Info: grants.draknek.org
The grant will award $15,000 to 6 thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.
Deadline: October 7th
More Info: grants.draknek.org
Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant
The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is a grant opportunity for game developers from traditionally underrepresented groups and backgrounds who are interested in designing and developing puzzle games.
grants.draknek.org
August 6, 2024 at 3:06 PM
We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2024 🎉
The grant will award $15,000 to 6 thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.
Deadline: October 7th
More Info: grants.draknek.org
The grant will award $15,000 to 6 thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.
Deadline: October 7th
More Info: grants.draknek.org
I've been working on this board game for 4 years, so I'm excited to be able to announce Wilmot's Warehouse.
You can watch a trailer for it here:
youtube.com/watch?v=bHa1...
And preorder it here:
cmyk.games/products/wil...
You can watch a trailer for it here:
youtube.com/watch?v=bHa1...
And preorder it here:
cmyk.games/products/wil...
July 23, 2024 at 4:42 PM
I've been working on this board game for 4 years, so I'm excited to be able to announce Wilmot's Warehouse.
You can watch a trailer for it here:
youtube.com/watch?v=bHa1...
And preorder it here:
cmyk.games/products/wil...
You can watch a trailer for it here:
youtube.com/watch?v=bHa1...
And preorder it here:
cmyk.games/products/wil...
It's been a while since I've gone back and played Tiny Islands, I'm definitely not at my peak. dr-d-king.itch.io/tiny-islands
June 13, 2024 at 12:28 PM
It's been a while since I've gone back and played Tiny Islands, I'm definitely not at my peak. dr-d-king.itch.io/tiny-islands
Always great when a graduate student puts there game out in the wild.
I really enjoyed the first version of the puzzle game Sticky Arrow which was made on the course and I'm looking forward to seeing what Tong Yu has done with this latest version. store.steampowered.com/app/2879470/...
I really enjoyed the first version of the puzzle game Sticky Arrow which was made on the course and I'm looking forward to seeing what Tong Yu has done with this latest version. store.steampowered.com/app/2879470/...
Sticky Arrow on Steam
A Sokoban-like puzzle game, which can be solved using only the arrow keys.
store.steampowered.com
April 30, 2024 at 7:46 AM
Always great when a graduate student puts there game out in the wild.
I really enjoyed the first version of the puzzle game Sticky Arrow which was made on the course and I'm looking forward to seeing what Tong Yu has done with this latest version. store.steampowered.com/app/2879470/...
I really enjoyed the first version of the puzzle game Sticky Arrow which was made on the course and I'm looking forward to seeing what Tong Yu has done with this latest version. store.steampowered.com/app/2879470/...
Shifting Shores a little puzzle game I made using puzzlescript dr-d-king.itch.io/shifting-sho...
March 9, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Shifting Shores a little puzzle game I made using puzzlescript dr-d-king.itch.io/shifting-sho...
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It's finally here! Downpour is out!
Downpour is my tool for making games on your phone in literal minutes. Collage together images & text, link them up, then share online. No coding necessary!
🌐 downpour.games
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/d...
🍎 apps.apple.com/us/app/downp...
Downpour is my tool for making games on your phone in literal minutes. Collage together images & text, link them up, then share online. No coding necessary!
🌐 downpour.games
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/d...
🍎 apps.apple.com/us/app/downp...
Downpour
Downpour is the best app for making games on your phone. Collage together photos, drawings and text, and then connect them into an interactive story. It's genuinely quick and easy to use — you can mak...
downpour.games
March 6, 2024 at 3:02 PM
It's finally here! Downpour is out!
Downpour is my tool for making games on your phone in literal minutes. Collage together images & text, link them up, then share online. No coding necessary!
🌐 downpour.games
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/d...
🍎 apps.apple.com/us/app/downp...
Downpour is my tool for making games on your phone in literal minutes. Collage together images & text, link them up, then share online. No coding necessary!
🌐 downpour.games
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/d...
🍎 apps.apple.com/us/app/downp...
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This looks like an amazing opportunity.
If you already have a Masters degree, love games, and want to relocate to Gothenburg.
boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/158...
I don't have an MA/MSc but anyway I'm not sure if I can bring myself to move long-term to another country that gets so cold.
If you already have a Masters degree, love games, and want to relocate to Gothenburg.
boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/158...
I don't have an MA/MSc but anyway I'm not sure if I can bring myself to move long-term to another country that gets so cold.
March 4, 2024 at 4:54 AM
This looks like an amazing opportunity.
If you already have a Masters degree, love games, and want to relocate to Gothenburg.
boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/158...
I don't have an MA/MSc but anyway I'm not sure if I can bring myself to move long-term to another country that gets so cold.
If you already have a Masters degree, love games, and want to relocate to Gothenburg.
boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/158...
I don't have an MA/MSc but anyway I'm not sure if I can bring myself to move long-term to another country that gets so cold.
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I have revived my Medium to post a talk I gave for MA students at the London College of Communications, University of the Arts London.
The Unbearable Weight of Worldbuiling is a provocation reflecting on the politics of worldbuilding.
medium.com/@h.k.nicklin...
The Unbearable Weight of Worldbuiling is a provocation reflecting on the politics of worldbuilding.
medium.com/@h.k.nicklin...
The Unbearable Weight of Worldbuilding
Or: Playing in the Polycrisis.
medium.com
February 28, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I have revived my Medium to post a talk I gave for MA students at the London College of Communications, University of the Arts London.
The Unbearable Weight of Worldbuiling is a provocation reflecting on the politics of worldbuilding.
medium.com/@h.k.nicklin...
The Unbearable Weight of Worldbuiling is a provocation reflecting on the politics of worldbuilding.
medium.com/@h.k.nicklin...
My first game made using puzzlescript.
5 levels of slipping, sliding and pushing blocks of ice to get the Penguins back to their nests. dr-d-king.itch.io/nesting-peng...
5 levels of slipping, sliding and pushing blocks of ice to get the Penguins back to their nests. dr-d-king.itch.io/nesting-peng...
February 25, 2024 at 5:47 PM
My first game made using puzzlescript.
5 levels of slipping, sliding and pushing blocks of ice to get the Penguins back to their nests. dr-d-king.itch.io/nesting-peng...
5 levels of slipping, sliding and pushing blocks of ice to get the Penguins back to their nests. dr-d-king.itch.io/nesting-peng...