Players will retain parts of their progress, though. Many items and knowledge will be permanent. More info soon!

Character development will supplement community goals and determine victory or failure for everyone playing. Rounds will probably be short, maybe under an hour to flow with breaks and ad runs on Twitch.

I’ll be refining this process and trying to produce some visualizations soon!

This is followed by a “synthesis” activity, where players may be able to fuse their experiential, short-term knowledge with the long-term knowledge configured before.

This will cement the knowledge so it can be used to inform future actions, and so the cycle will continue.

The next phase I have the existing “quest” system (I might rename it to “venture”) where players perform actions to acquire loot and short-term knowledge for themselves and resources for the community.

The first phase will be “cultivation”: players will choose knowledge they want to explore. This will change the experiences they have when they make actions, and possibly which actions are available.

Good luck tomorrow!

Happy birthday!!! 💟

So tell me what you think about that. I think it’s an interesting concept. I’m gonna try to expand upon it on social media today. So I’ll talk to you soon. Have a good day!

I saw an interesting social media post about “how to work with me” documents, and kind of just expressing to people up front what kind of conditions you like to work in, and I feel like that would have helped me a lot with my recent drama at my co-working space.

Transcript:

Good morning everybody! Happy Tuesday!

[The camera briefly cuts to an electrical utility box on the side of the road]

Here’s the box on my walk. It’s blinking. It’s chilling. So am I. Having a decent day so far. I hope you all are too.

The video shows Reklaw on his morning walk through the neighborhood. The background is mostly the morning sky with leaveless trees against it. A local temperature widget in the corner shows 10 degrees Celsius (50 F).

I appreciate comments about this: how do you feel about being asked to make a quick, one-pager explaining your preferences in your workspace?

Video description and transcript in the rest of the replies.

If there’s an office manager like in my situation, then they can make sure that people aren’t around others who might make it difficult to work.

It’s direct; ambiguity can be awkward. It also creates a paper trail - you can say you made a clear expression at a particular time. If others choose to disregard your needs, then that’s on them.

As a neurodivergent person I appreciate several things about this concept. The biggest is that it removes the stress of having to express my needs and preferences to others gradually (trying to decide the right time), or not at all (which can feed into passive-aggressive patterns of behavior).

I liked the nuance in the comments, though: while some may weaponize documents like this to try to control others, for many it could be an expression of boundaries, and to explain behavior that may make others uncomfortable BEFORE that happens.

My problem was ultimately just poor communication, with both the other individual and office management.

The post I saw was dismissive of the “how to work with me” practice, which I didn’t appreciate.