Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames) header
Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames) profile picture

Do Better Games

@DoBetterGames

// do better games is Matthew Moore and friends, making digital and analog games. Latest: https://xitter.cf/t.co/fpZsNRtcD6

 Seattle, WA, USA, Terra
bringyourownbook.com
Joined February 2012
  • Tweets1.2K
  • Following180
  • Followers389
205Media
Photo by Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)Photo by Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)Photo by Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)Photo by Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)Photo by Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)Photo by Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)Photo by Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)Photo by Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)Photo by Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)Photo by Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)
What a proud yet strange day. After 6 years of availability, we've sold our last copy of the first printing of Bring Your Own Book (crowdfunded in 2015). This means there are effectively no English editions for sale, as the Gamewright and Scholastic editions are out of print. 📭
Image from Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)
1
1
3
A name for a cat: "RADIANT HEAT MANIFOLD," Manny for short. 😽 From The City of Folding Faces by Jayinee Basu. #BYOBook #BringYourOwnBook #bookgames #catnames
A prompt card from Bring Your Own Book reading "A name for a cat" and a photo of a page from The City of Folding Faces by Jayinee Basu with the following text highlighted: "RADIANT HEAT MANIFOLD"

ALT A prompt card from Bring Your Own Book reading "A name for a cat" and a photo of a page from The City of Folding Faces by Jayinee Basu with the following text highlighted: "RADIANT HEAT MANIFOLD"

268
A sentence that's twice as dramatic when read slowly: "A 'remarkable' increase in flatulence and a 250 per cent increase in the volume of stools." From A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin. #BYOBook #BringYourOwnBook #bookgames #pottyhumor
Image from Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)
I want to go to there.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
This has got me wondering what it would look like to export a full game of Twindle.us as side-by-side Townscaper villages of different rows for each round. 🤔 (Right now, you can't export the detailed results of a Twindle game as anything, but still...hrm.)
Oskar Stålberg (@OskSta) profile pictureOskar Stålberg@OskSta17 Jan 2022
This madman actually went ahead and wrote a Wordle-to-Townscaper converter (like 2 seconds after I jokingly floated the idea). To mark the occasion I'll reluctantly share my embarrassing attempt at today's Wordle. xitter.cf/tarmo888/status/148295…
Image from Oskar Stålberg (@OskSta)
1
Well, this answers that question! 😁 #Twindle #kindalike #multiplayer #Wordle #remixedin #Townscaper
2
From here to there. 💻➡🏘 (Screenshot from a round of Twindle for context.)
The results screen from a match of Twindle (a local multiplayer Wordle-inspired word game) in which, over four rounds, the first player won, 7 points to 4 points, properly guessing UDDER, RACES, ROUTE, and REVEL (three of those guessed first) while the second player failed to guess HATES, but successfully guessed MOODY, ENEMY, and ANNEX (only one guessed first).

ALT The results screen from a match of Twindle (a local multiplayer Wordle-inspired word game) in which, over four rounds, the first player won, 7 points to 4 points, properly guessing UDDER, RACES, ROUTE, and REVEL (three of those guessed first) while the second player failed to guess HATES, but successfully guessed MOODY, ENEMY, and ANNEX (only one guessed first).

A screenshot from the game / art tool Townscaper, where buildings are composed of voxel-like cubes stacked on one another or rising on stilts from foundations in open water. In this case, there are two islands, each with four rows, where the blocks are colored yellow and green to match the guess coding from successive rounds of Twindle (a local-multiplayer Wordle-inspired word game).

ALT A screenshot from the game / art tool Townscaper, where buildings are composed of voxel-like cubes stacked on one another or rising on stilts from foundations in open water. In this case, there are two islands, each with four rows, where the blocks are colored yellow and green to match the guess coding from successive rounds of Twindle (a local-multiplayer Wordle-inspired word game).

A screenshot from a single round of Twindle (a local-multiplayer Wordle-inspired word game) where the second player was the first to get their word correct: WACKY, which they got on the fifth guess of the round. The first player managed to guess their word, CROPS, immediately afterward, scoring them a consolation point.

ALT A screenshot from a single round of Twindle (a local-multiplayer Wordle-inspired word game) where the second player was the first to get their word correct: WACKY, which they got on the fifth guess of the round. The first player managed to guess their word, CROPS, immediately afterward, scoring them a consolation point.

"Finally. It was started at the outset, that this system would not be here, and at once, perfected." Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
A Bring Your Own Book prompt card has been modified to read "Tweet like chess just came out" and text in the book Moby-Dick has been highlighted: "Finally: It was stated at the outset, that this system would not be here, and at once, perfected."

ALT A Bring Your Own Book prompt card has been modified to read "Tweet like chess just came out" and text in the book Moby-Dick has been highlighted: "Finally: It was stated at the outset, that this system would not be here, and at once, perfected."

This quoted post is unavailable.
Try viewing anyway · View on X
1
There are some killer QTs and replies to this, by the way. xitter.cf/BicycleLobby/status/15…
Here for this content.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
1
"Less Than 2%" : The name of a popular new indie band. Cannot recommend playing Bring Your Own Book with ketchup packets...but that band could be fresh. #BYOBook #BringYourOwnBook #bookgames
A Bring Your Own Book playing card saying "The name of a popular new indie band" and a ketchup packet with the highlighted words "Less Than 2%"

ALT A Bring Your Own Book playing card saying "The name of a popular new indie band" and a ketchup packet with the highlighted words "Less Than 2%"

1
2
Text from a book about conspiracy theories: "These dark feelings will come to the fore as soon as the drug of grandiosity fails." From The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller. #BYOBook #BringYourOwnBook #bookgames Maybe not a crowd pleaser because of the #darkthoughts 😁
Image from Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames)
1
Bring Your Own Book game designer @ironmaus caught #Wordle fever (like so many of us). Teamed with the talented @TheJonAGill, they've released the head-to-head word game Twindle! Grab a buddy (locally or over screen share) and hop into twindle.us 🤓⚔🤓
This quoted post is unavailable.
Try viewing anyway · View on X
1
If you want to download either of these (cards or the Royale rules), head to bringyourownbook.com and hit the mailing list / print-and-play link. If you've signed up before, there are instructions for how to get all the links again. 💻
1
For those who are curious about whether an English version will be sold again, the answer is uncertain. For now, we're just happy that the last seven years have seen thousands of people discover the joy of turning their books into a game. 💖📚🎉🃏 #BYOBook #bringyourownbook
1
2
Not sure why it needs to be decreed, but... (from Molly Knox Ostertag's The Girl From The Sea) #BYOBook #bringyourownbook
Bring Your Own Book game prompt: "Part of a royal proclamation" Response from The Girl From The Sea graphic novel: "You are what you are, all the time."

ALT Bring Your Own Book game prompt: "Part of a royal proclamation" Response from The Girl From The Sea graphic novel: "You are what you are, all the time."

Important animal behavior tip. [From Molly Knox Ostertag's The Girl From The Sea] #BYOBook #BringYourOwnBook
Bring Your Own Book game prompt: "A line from a science textbook." Response from The Girl From The Sea graphic novel: "You know, the gulls wouldn't scream all morning if we didn't feed them..."

ALT Bring Your Own Book game prompt: "A line from a science textbook." Response from The Girl From The Sea graphic novel: "You know, the gulls wouldn't scream all morning if we didn't feed them..."

2
Enjoying the little things.
Snow-covered little library with a Hufflepuff mural on one side and snow on the door obscuring all book titles except part of one that just says "WHEAT."

ALT Snow-covered little library with a Hufflepuff mural on one side and snow on the door obscuring all book titles except part of one that just says "WHEAT."

2
Some players of Bring Your Own Book (or みんなで本をもちよって) were recently discussing playing with 20 people. We've encouraged players to try their own rules, but have provided little guidance on big groups. How have you handled it? We had some ideas but love to hear from you!
Do Better Games (@DoBetterGames) profile pictureDo Better Games@DoBetterGames8 Sep 2021
Replying to @DoBetterGames @bsyokuratowo
You could do the "Cutthroat" rules (last person to find a response doesn't get to read and is instead the judge) but cut it off sooner. Only the first...8? Once 8 people are in, then the judge is one of the others.
Load more