While we're finishing up Dosa Divas, we're still shopping around two smaller new projects. We wanted to let folks know with enough time and severance. Here's a spreadsheet with info on each person and I'm happy to provide any recommendations for any of them. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

And standing on one leg!

But ultimately hamstrung by ideological purity.

I feel you’ve made it more penis shaped looking at the after. 🤔

Also they’re worth more money than makes sense but not making a mobile slop game for the dolls was a mistake. What even!?

Jesus John that’s a good start.

Strong Abzu vibes.

It gets really good when non-programmers end up jamming functionality together into something completely unexpected.

Low coupling, high coherence and composable. Not sure there is a collective noun but they’re all great principles for gameplay code (and design) that results in emergent results easily.

Definitely I think the main advantage of physical toys is it’s much easier to recontextualise them. Lego minifigs can interact with Playmo characters whilst playing with them as Fortnite. But you can’t take the symbolic elements out of Fortnite the digital game without a new representative thing.

I disagree here. Physical toys do have an advantage because they are necessarily embodied but the power here is in imagination. Digital games exist outside of their computational confines.

I think that’s a great sentiment including outside of the context of games.

I think there’s little introspection sometimes or rather design isn’t often learnt from first principles but from an attempt to improve on an existing form. Which isn’t bad necessarily but is self limiting.

I often watch my youngest playing by herself lost in her own head. I’m not sure I could author that or even if it’s something anyone other than her could author. Structure entirely in sync with the player.

Yeah players are always inside the structure and verbs the game provides and by necessity the level of self expression possible is dictated by that structure. Maybe that’s stating the obvious though. Tyrannically focused games like Tetris vs hands off ‘worlds’ like Minecraft.