i should link my little rant, that will help explain some things, sort of, about "kill gameplay", and then i am going to watch an episode of white lotus (season 2) (we are re-watching it after finishing season 3) and go to bed. i don't really post on mastodon very much, but i figured i better, so this is what you get for following me on mastodon...
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anyway, without further ado, my "kill gameplay" rant, good night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGjv9GDd504

properly credited, the name The End of Gameplay must certainly have been inspired by @shadsy 's momentous "It is Easier to Imagine the End of Gameplay than the End of Video Games": https://shadsy.itch.io/post-gameplay

it lodged itself in my brain, i suppose, emerging when it was warm enough, emerging when ready.

it's been funny making a game this way, after so long, but i think killing gameplay set me free to create something so much more deeply resonant? without gameplay watering it down. it's DENSE!!!

and the whole time i was making a game about it by accident too? i was just... putting pieces together. piece after piece after piece after piece.

here, if you haven't already clicked onthe steam linke, there's a video, i made a trailer, you can see what it looks like. also there's my face!!! check out my face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_kQLrBSrt0

alright let me dial it back. the game is fine. it's fine. it's a game, it has gameplay, i love it but it's pretty grounded, i guess. it is something. it has a shape.

i started yelling and screaming on bluesky "kill gameplay" "kill gameplay" "kill gameplay" until people asked me what i meant. it seems like this phrase has some kind of magic power not only over me (to make the right kind of games) but also over other game devs (to make them ask wtf i'm talking about)