Karlito
@soapko.bsky.social
Game Designer.
Recovering Startup Founder.
Currently working on:
- Tableau: MRDR
- “Kingdom Game”
Recovering Startup Founder.
Currently working on:
- Tableau: MRDR
- “Kingdom Game”
The younger generations apparently think em-dashes didn't exist in good English writing prior to ChatGPT. Have they even read a book?
May 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The younger generations apparently think em-dashes didn't exist in good English writing prior to ChatGPT. Have they even read a book?
When did Google add an AI mode to Search? I was pretty sure it'd be within two years of this post. I may have been off by just a few months.
May 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
When did Google add an AI mode to Search? I was pretty sure it'd be within two years of this post. I may have been off by just a few months.
Pushed my song “Brownies for your birthday” out so I can finally add it to my birthday playlist in Apple Music. They don’t let you build playlists with both cloud music and local music for some reason.
Brownies for Your Birthday (Part I) by Soapko on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 5:12
music.apple.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Pushed my song “Brownies for your birthday” out so I can finally add it to my birthday playlist in Apple Music. They don’t let you build playlists with both cloud music and local music for some reason.
Without protected means of archiving our digital knowledge and history we risk losing it all.
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
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At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
April 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Without protected means of archiving our digital knowledge and history we risk losing it all.
Boxes of books are heavy bc they’re basically boxes of solid wood. 🪵 📕
April 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Boxes of books are heavy bc they’re basically boxes of solid wood. 🪵 📕
Can’t to show off the new party game we’ve been working on. It’s called “The Aristocrats!”
April 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Can’t to show off the new party game we’ve been working on. It’s called “The Aristocrats!”
Reposted by Karlito
#picotron mockup: stickers can be attached to any window and live in file metadata. They can be used to bookmark, annotate, or tag arbitrary files. For some apps, they can be attached with finer granularity: e.g. to a line of code or an xy on a map layer. Here is a dev/player making notes on a map.
March 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#picotron mockup: stickers can be attached to any window and live in file metadata. They can be used to bookmark, annotate, or tag arbitrary files. For some apps, they can be attached with finer granularity: e.g. to a line of code or an xy on a map layer. Here is a dev/player making notes on a map.
Application can have a chat bot which lets you request & design new features into the app you’re using. Live. Who will do it first? Who will do it best?
January 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Application can have a chat bot which lets you request & design new features into the app you’re using. Live. Who will do it first? Who will do it best?
Um…Apple Notes can do calculations and graphing *with variables* now?! I really slept on that update.
I simply started writing a calculation and it completed it for me. I added a variable and it just worked. 🤯
I simply started writing a calculation and it completed it for me. I added a variable and it just worked. 🤯
January 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Um…Apple Notes can do calculations and graphing *with variables* now?! I really slept on that update.
I simply started writing a calculation and it completed it for me. I added a variable and it just worked. 🤯
I simply started writing a calculation and it completed it for me. I added a variable and it just worked. 🤯
I pre-ordered so many board games last year & they’re all shipping over the next three months. It’s like second-Christmas!:
- Facade Games Deluxe Editions (6 games total!)
- Earthborne Rangers (so excited for this one)
- Brink (from IV Studios of Moonrakers fame)
- Root: Homeland
- 1 I’ve forgotten
- Facade Games Deluxe Editions (6 games total!)
- Earthborne Rangers (so excited for this one)
- Brink (from IV Studios of Moonrakers fame)
- Root: Homeland
- 1 I’ve forgotten
January 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I pre-ordered so many board games last year & they’re all shipping over the next three months. It’s like second-Christmas!:
- Facade Games Deluxe Editions (6 games total!)
- Earthborne Rangers (so excited for this one)
- Brink (from IV Studios of Moonrakers fame)
- Root: Homeland
- 1 I’ve forgotten
- Facade Games Deluxe Editions (6 games total!)
- Earthborne Rangers (so excited for this one)
- Brink (from IV Studios of Moonrakers fame)
- Root: Homeland
- 1 I’ve forgotten
What’s in your 🎲✂️ game design junk drawer?
Mine is a random collection of baggies (for holding my prototype bits), card sleeves, random player pieces from games I no longer own, dead pens, post-its, orphaned dice, and so very many little notepads.
Mine is a random collection of baggies (for holding my prototype bits), card sleeves, random player pieces from games I no longer own, dead pens, post-its, orphaned dice, and so very many little notepads.
January 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What’s in your 🎲✂️ game design junk drawer?
Mine is a random collection of baggies (for holding my prototype bits), card sleeves, random player pieces from games I no longer own, dead pens, post-its, orphaned dice, and so very many little notepads.
Mine is a random collection of baggies (for holding my prototype bits), card sleeves, random player pieces from games I no longer own, dead pens, post-its, orphaned dice, and so very many little notepads.
Reposted by Karlito
Tools, not rules--and you don't get better at using a tool by leaving it in the box all the time.
Genius not needed. Not desirable, in fact, fuck the idea of genius. Just write the thing you want as well as you can, then do it again and try to be better at it. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Genius not needed. Not desirable, in fact, fuck the idea of genius. Just write the thing you want as well as you can, then do it again and try to be better at it. Lather, rinse, repeat.
January 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Tools, not rules--and you don't get better at using a tool by leaving it in the box all the time.
Genius not needed. Not desirable, in fact, fuck the idea of genius. Just write the thing you want as well as you can, then do it again and try to be better at it. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Genius not needed. Not desirable, in fact, fuck the idea of genius. Just write the thing you want as well as you can, then do it again and try to be better at it. Lather, rinse, repeat.
🎲✂️ Have you ever intentionally designed for what would typically be considered negative feelings or themes? (eg frustration, confusion, anger) And what place do you think games have in helping us to safely explore & process unhappy themes or feelings?
January 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🎲✂️ Have you ever intentionally designed for what would typically be considered negative feelings or themes? (eg frustration, confusion, anger) And what place do you think games have in helping us to safely explore & process unhappy themes or feelings?
🎲✂️ At what point in your game design do you focus on the players’ *feeling* of the gameplay? All the time, never, only during certain bits?
January 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🎲✂️ At what point in your game design do you focus on the players’ *feeling* of the gameplay? All the time, never, only during certain bits?
Balatro is not for me. I’ll try it again, but maybe I just don’t connect enough with Poker culture or some-such-thing.
January 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Balatro is not for me. I’ll try it again, but maybe I just don’t connect enough with Poker culture or some-such-thing.
Apparently watching TikTok for 4 hours is equivalent in environmental impact to doing a load of laundry?
In America that amounts to 5.28 million metric tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere every year.
In America that amounts to 5.28 million metric tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere every year.
January 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Apparently watching TikTok for 4 hours is equivalent in environmental impact to doing a load of laundry?
In America that amounts to 5.28 million metric tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere every year.
In America that amounts to 5.28 million metric tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere every year.
Last time I talked about a startup of mine was in 2022 for an AI tool I built with OpenAI's GPT-3. Back then you had to pitch them your idea before they'd approve your usage for consumer applications.
I pitched them Pippin, which was a proto-ChatGPT. Except mine launched with a paid plan.
I pitched them Pippin, which was a proto-ChatGPT. Except mine launched with a paid plan.
January 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Last time I talked about a startup of mine was in 2022 for an AI tool I built with OpenAI's GPT-3. Back then you had to pitch them your idea before they'd approve your usage for consumer applications.
I pitched them Pippin, which was a proto-ChatGPT. Except mine launched with a paid plan.
I pitched them Pippin, which was a proto-ChatGPT. Except mine launched with a paid plan.
If TikTok truly were banned in the U.S. it might be best for the environment? The estimates I’ve seen put annual carbon emissions for all U.S. TikTok users at about 5.28 million metric tons of CO2. 😬
January 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If TikTok truly were banned in the U.S. it might be best for the environment? The estimates I’ve seen put annual carbon emissions for all U.S. TikTok users at about 5.28 million metric tons of CO2. 😬
If you want to help save the planet, maybe stay off the internet? I've see daily reminders from people that every ChatGPT prompt is harmful to the environment, but not that every two minutes watching TikTok is equivalent to one ChatGPT prompt…
January 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If you want to help save the planet, maybe stay off the internet? I've see daily reminders from people that every ChatGPT prompt is harmful to the environment, but not that every two minutes watching TikTok is equivalent to one ChatGPT prompt…
This guy got paid to stand in a room and take pictures with people. Wild. Starting to wonder if I made poor career decisions.
January 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This guy got paid to stand in a room and take pictures with people. Wild. Starting to wonder if I made poor career decisions.
I used to be really vocal online about all my projects and experiments! But then somewhere along the way I adopted a rule that I would not talk about a project until I had made major progress on it. And so, well, I basically stopped talking about my work altogether. Well, with one notable exception.
January 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I used to be really vocal online about all my projects and experiments! But then somewhere along the way I adopted a rule that I would not talk about a project until I had made major progress on it. And so, well, I basically stopped talking about my work altogether. Well, with one notable exception.
I’m been away from social good a LONG time. Time to start talking again!
January 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I’m been away from social good a LONG time. Time to start talking again!