Laura E. HallHappy Friday! Here's my end-of-the-week roundup, a collection of stuff I've enjoyed lately
Today: pinball, two games, aaand... turning into a pile of dust ⚪✳️👾
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1) A loving tribute to the physicality of pinball and maintenance of the machines
"Pinball is of the body: Why modern tech can't recreate the world under glass"
(I obviously don't agree with their underlying thesis that tech-based games, etc. are "chintzy techno-frippery" but I do love the physicality of a cabinet and embodied play)
2) The wonderful artist Shing Yin Khor (@shing) posted a video from an exhibition at the Prague National Museum that instantly vaporized me. Watch all the way to the end 💀
Watch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct_ApcyqRK_/
Watch Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sawdustbear/video/7248677064969178411
3) Reddit user dudewithtude42 created an RPG using only three-letter words. Excellent constraint
"Are you new or old? Big or wee? Lax or mad? Fun or dry?"
Thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/14jzd2o/i_made_an_rpg_using_only_threeletter_words/
Play doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19HZGmLLae1s97nlWWXlkN0HhL1Fo_Fi8v3wEt3dxV5E/edit
4) Feeling rather like this cat illustration by French illustrator and toy designer André Hellé (1871-1945)
5) How far can you get in this brilliant, torturous password game? (I stalled out at around rule 18)
And that's all for this week! If you enjoy these posts, please give the first post in this thread a boost to spread the love? And have a great weekend, friends 🦖🌞
Duke Ted of the Lutskord@lauraehall Ah I see you included the password game.
Paul is a menace.
Ted@lauraehall Oh and of course I saw that on the wrong instance XD
0xC0DEC0DE07EA@lauraehall Rule 20 inserted spreading 🔥 into my password and told me to put it out. I failed to do so.
Cube Drone@lauraehall i got to 24 before I accidentally overfed paul and died
@lauraehall it's sufficiently frustrating that I'm not going to start again from scratch, I died where I died and that's as far as we go
@cube_drone same here, at this point the password wins
jdw@lauraehall that's a lot of fun. I made it to the "name the country" step. Going to try to get farther. Thanks for sharing!
@jdw that one almost tripped me up but I did get it eventually with a combination of reverse image search and going down a list of countries...and it only gets harder from there, haha
Most Noble Spork Duelist@lauraehall made it to 20. Poor Paul.
Eve@lauraehall frustrating little game. and i have @makeworld to thank for ruining my afternoon by having me boil my brain cells trying to get through these rules.
webhat@lauraehall I can't get past 15 without restarting the browser to get out of dark mode
rtn@lauraehall I got to 23 but gave up after that. Just too much pita lol :)
Evan Jensen@lauraehall god, only 11. This is a trial.
It's brutal!!