Joshua A.C. Newman (he/they)DID YOU KNOW
game design is hard
kit@JoshuaACNewman GATEKEEPER!
(I jest.)
@wlonk I saw this out of the corner of my eye, and thought it was a response to my “unpopular opinion about game design” on Twitter, where I’d said that opinions about game design and play are best expressed through design and play, not prose.
And I was going to say that you wouldn’t be the first to make that accusation.
Luke Hawksbee@JoshuaACNewman Fake news.
@lukehawksbee Like so much "Fake News", this is, in fact, true.
...unlike fake news, which is false.
@JoshuaACNewman I am jesting. Although I am tempted to argue that game design is easy, it's only *good* game design that's hard...
@lukehawksbee Ha ha! I mean, by that metric, everything is easy until you try to do it well.
@JoshuaACNewman That's a much more optimistic way of looking at things. I might make it into a (de)motivational poster.
@lukehawksbee "Everything Is Easy Except Doing It Well."
@JoshuaACNewman I take it I have your permission to use this as an epigraph at some point?
Dave@JoshuaACNewman Yeah, it's come up.
@dave77 one time i wrote a game and it was bad and i put it down and it hasn't gotten any better do i need to water it or something
@JoshuaACNewman Obviously you need to nail to a door to demand answers of the Church.
Wait, what are we talking about?
@dave77 I think it was a game about machine gun-armed rallycross cars, but maybe you're right?
I should definitely do it as an app. You write a bunch of demands on your phone, then nail your phone to the door.
@JoshuaACNewman Could you have a chimpanzee riding shotgun?
@dave77 I don't know why you wouldn't?
@JoshuaACNewman Some people just don't understand.
@dave77 I love the idea of having Car Wars with goofy animal sidekicks, like BJ And the Bear.
@JoshuaACNewman Nail it, rather. Not yourself personally. That's a little Criss Angel-esque.
@dave77 Eh, whichever.