@NemoRathwald

Narrator of Fluidity Audiobooks. Designer of "Overworld" boardgame. Science fiction conventions, hacker spaces, and other volunteer orgs. Front end web dev.

Joined September 2021
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For ~14 yrs, I've tried to implement a browser-based deck-building game, to be able to make any change I want & find out what it'd be like. This fall I finally got it, by spending an hour or 2 a day for ~4 months in lengthy conversations with gen code tools in my IDE.
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I wrote/maintained a 1K+ word coding standards/architectural doc to keep the AI on target, & another 1K+ words for a roadmap of features & debugging. It has 313 source files averaging 100 to 1070 lines each, ~36K lines of TS, 90 test files & 446 passing tests.
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Correction to a typo: 100 to a hundred and seventy lines each, not a thousand and seventy.
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The game has the ability to export diagnostic logs, & restore a previously-saved game from a code string. There's persistence so your sessions survive browser reloads.
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Dismaying seeing so many metamodern-ish thinkers concluding that their attempts to find a solution to the "meaning crisis" have failed, and returning to eternalist religion. Strong disagreement by @jim_rutt here! xitter.cf/jim_rutt/status/198206…
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This will probably take years to develop, but I'd like to adapt "Spectrum Of Ecstasy" into a Live Action Strategy Boardgame played on a retreat, in which players arrange a series of meals, karaoke, & ceremonies which simulate communal skills. Too ambitious. But I don't mind that
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To my gamer group: The cards you are drafting aren't "harmful" or "beneficial", they're "wisdom energies"
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"A Reader's Guide to David Chapman": maxlangenkamp.substack.com/p…
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A new weekend-long convention game idea, which combines rock-paper-scissors, clothespin as$@s$in, & social deduction. 1. There are 6 clothespins, painted & labeled: 🟥🪨, 🟥📄, 🟥✂️, 🟦🪨, 🟦📄, 🟦✂️. 6 players get 1 random clothespin each & conceal it on their person.
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4. At the end, you score 1 point for each of these conditions if met: - the person you attached your clothespin to has a different 🟥🟦 color, - the person you attached your clothespin to has your symbol's target🪨📄✂️symbol - you never had a clothespin attached to you
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5. Whichever color scored highest at the end of the weekend wins as a team.
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I didn't publish any new posts last year, but that doesn't mean I didn't write anything. I've come a long way towards finishing my book and I'm now doing the last round of editing before I have a presentable text. The whole thing has seven parts, a cryptic overview:
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At the risk of distracting you from the gifts you just got for Xmas... the free version of Slipways is really good. krajzeg.itch.io/slipways

Slipways Classic by Jakub Wasilewski

Build a vast interstellar empire in 30 minutes flat. Play in your browser

krajzeg.itch.io
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bostonglobe.com/2023/12/11/o…

A five-point plan to save Harvard from itself - The Boston Globe

For universities to have a leg to stand on when they try to stand on principle, they must embark on a long-term plan to undo the damage they have inflicted on themselves. This includes Harvard.

bostonglobe.com
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In-depth: America's first wireless electric charging road
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I gave a talk at Vibecamp 2023, during the game design lightning talks. xitter.cf/array_hog/status/16715…
Harry@array_hog21 Jun 2023
Replying to @array_hog @keyofgeo @nobody_
@FluidityAudio talked about designing board games with simple, easy to understand rulesets. The number of rules you have is a "currency" or budget that must be spent carefully. The majority of players are casuals who are not as willing to tolerate a long ruleset as an enthusiast.
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