Thank you so much!!!! I would LOVE to hear any of your thoughts!

Thank you so much Rowan! I would LOVE to hear more about your experience of it, if ever you want to share in DMs!

To do high quality recruiting and testing! It feels like the main way right now is often “be in a lot of Discords and ask nicely “…

I definitely will, thanks for offering. We just had a bit of a brain wave recently when we realised how even our own playtest recruitment standards weren’t up to our research recruitment standards. In a design scene that is made up of a lot of hobbyists and small projects, it’s going to be hard …

This is great! It’s early days for us right now so we’ve got a lot of questions to explore, but I’m sure you’ll see me post some more about them soon. Thank you!

Is that right?
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Because we’re an organisation that does a lot of other stuff too, we don’t necessarily need every use of the service to be paid, the service just needs to pay for itself overall!

Thanks so much for your response!

We’re also exploring different payment options (free up to a certain size? payment after crowdfunder?)

Completely hear you on being on the same page for design intent. Sounds like that might be:
- an ability to screen for certain kinds of players
- an ability to constrain feedback to targeted qs

Players/testers: how do you currently sign up to test a game? Why do you volunteer to playtest games? What would make the experience better for you?
#games #ttrpg #gamesdesign

I loved reading this! It really chimes with my own thoughts about games that design for 'frame-shifting', utilising multiple points of interaction to increase buy-in, and the value of object-based interactions for opening up new imaginative experiences

fractals.coop/blog/designi...

Speculative praxis

@kierancutting.bsky.social giving the last talk of the day, ‘Rituals for building futures’

This new version is portable, for an unlimited number of players, and can pop up anywhere. Let me know if you’d be interested in hosting or playing it!

THE POOP IS POOP, THE TEARS ARE TEARS

It's a story about my own life, told with the help of the His Dark Materials series, an Oxford Summer School, the YouTube videos I made at 17, and Philip K Dick's ideas of orthogonal worlds.

#psychogeography #zine #philipkdick #hisdarkmaterials (are these useful hashtags? I'm sure we'll find out!)

My design skills weren't as good in 2021 as they are now, so I didn't feel like I could really capture what I was trying to do back then.
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I came back to it recently after finishing Chaos Magic and it all sort of fell into place.

It's another pretty media-centric piece...