290. Forever Games Are Just Rude

Lords:

• Lena
• Droqen

Topics:

• Kill gameplay
  • https://droqen.itch.io/the-end-of-gameplay
• The thrill of firefighting on live service games, and how to stop
• It was D and K who showed me the way
  • https://newforum.droqen.com/index.php?topic=705

Microtopics:

• Great content.
• Multiplayer games that are focused on human connection.
• Farmers' markets.
• Kinopio. (The mind-mapping software.)
• Just barfing stuff onto the page.
• Looking at a piece of software that someone has polished for fifteen years and being astounded.
• Weird ego boosts.
• Meeting hundreds of people whose names you recognize from the Internet and they're all like "I love the thing you made."
• Pursuing the thing that other people say is good about your work and forgetting what you liked about it yourself.
• A nebulous idea whose lot in life is to be dominated by more concrete ideas.
• Making your next game with the intention of killing your most popular game.
• Unlocking creative expression into a vessel.
• Tolerating a combat system to get to the good parts of a game.
• Playing a game because you enjoy pushing the buttons.
• A museum exhibit of a hundred different platformer control schemes.
• Using your ability to hang out with people to tell them a story.
• A list of all the ideas you've ever had.
• The safety of watching the numbers go up.
• An interaction that exists to be self-perpetuating.
• Advertising as a way to tell people that a thing exists vs. all the noxious cruft that we've grown on top of that idea.
• Game addiction as a thing that is desirable.
• Games that grip you as tightly as possible vs. games that gracefully end and allow you to stop playing.
• Game developers accidentally discovering that they can Skinner Box people and then deciding "let's build our entire industry around that forever"
• The mantra you use to remind yourself to not put gameplay in your games.
• Trying to detect the humanity in a work of art.
• Trying to express your experiences in a medium and knowing you at least have an audience of one. (Yourself.)
• Disagreeing about color names.
• It's Thanksgiving and people are at-ing you on Twitter that your online service isn't working.
• Moving fast enough that you don't have time to sit with your thoughts and second-guess yourself.
• The true meaning of a Lord.
• How to sit with the discomfort of uncertainty.
• Solving a problem before you get the chance to wonder whether solving the problem aligns with your values.
• Running an online world that gets hacked and rolling back only 98% of the hack, leaving enough to remind people that this is a world with a living history.
• Ruminating about your past actions as a way to learn how to behave in the future.
• Acting without reflection because you can't reflect and act at the same time.
• It doesn't matter what you do as long as you feel really bad about it afterwards.
• How to stop.
• Don't make live service games.
• Sitting with the knowledge that you are going to make mistakes.
• Staring at blue-green walls.
• The most juicy fire-fighting that's available.
• The horrible steak that is life.
• Trying to construct your life so that you are doing something thrilling and important for one to four hours per day and then relaxing.
• The introverted fire fighter who has his own personal cardboard box to cover his head with as he's hanging out at the station.
• What's-his-letter?
• If Heaven's so good, why haven't they made a Heaven 2?
• Making a one-user forum for yourself.
• Poetry 2: it's when you do something interesting with forum posts.
• Doing something for brain reasons and then people who you inspire do the same things to so they can pretend to have the same brain reasons.
• Adding everyone who ever influenced you to the credits of your game.
• Intentionally excluding the U.
• Suck it, English orthography!