Yeah, she had a funny persona from the very beginning.

Palpatine voice: Do it.

One of the under-known designers from games history: Maureen Hiron, designer of Continuo, who kept working until her final days. At 2:50 in this BBC segment, she's pitching a game and the publisher balks at the outlandish requirement of 90 cards. youtu.be/blAckegfeR0

God, Daggerfall is a sense-memory for me.

I got so irritated by a "top 10 SF authors" youtube list being mostly deceased that I did a powerpoint presentation just to promote living authors. docs.google.com/presentation...

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

英語 / えいご
«eigo»
English

ルール
«ru-ru»
rules

付け / つけ
«tsuke»
included / attached

英語ルールが付いている?
«Eigo ru-ru ga tsuiteiru?»
"Are English rules included?"

人分 / にんぶん
«nin'bun»
players

このゲームは何人分
«Kono ge-mu wa nan'nin'bun?»
"How many players is this game?"

このゲームはどれくらいかかる
«Kono ge-mu wa dore kurai kakaru?»
"How long does this game take?"

Good one for the future! It helps if the four hidden names are associated with each other in pop culture, like the Beetles or TMNT.

Yep, definitely practicing that one.

Basic meeting administration is a lost craft.

I miss that whole era of crisp inking. It was mostly a budget and production constraint, but it produced such striking images.

Indeed!

Nicely done!

I have fun with the top row jokes even if it makes the puzzle a bit easier.

Eyyyy 🏆

And to spice it up just a little bit, I will match the first 100 donations of $5USD exactly that are made before the start of the run. Obviously it’ll be great if we get more, but I figure that’s likely what my goof would have cost me 😃.

So head over to desertbus.org and get those $5 donations in!