Phenry Ewing

@hoverbird
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Vector of enthusiasm. Narrative-focused game designer. No gods, no masters, only Zuul 🏴

Past: made Cat Burglar with Netflix, Neo Cab with Chance Agency, Firewatch with Campo Santo, Twitter engineering 2009-2014

Gamehttp://neocabgame.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/hoverbird
Pronounshe/they/any
Twitterhttp://twitter.com/hoverbird

We’re preparing Neo Cab, a game I’m immensely proud of, for a mobile re-release soon!

I’d love to celebrate this. #Gamedev pals- can you recommend any streamers/podcasters (esp narrative games focused) who might want to host a behind-the-scenes “let’s play” / interview with me? Shares appreciated!

Been playtesting Witches' Quarrel since the earliest prototypes, and I’m so excited to see it finally launch on Kickstarter! It’s such a polished gem at this point…. Def back it if you love fast-paced PvP card games, strong character-driven narrative design, and progressively unfolding legacy mechanics. Gorgeous art, to boot https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rakshasa/witchesquarrel
NYT tech workers are making their own games while on strike https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289937/nyt-tech-workers-strike-games-wordle
NYT tech workers are making their own games while on strike

Striking New York Times tech workers have created a “Guild Builds” page dedicated to strike-themed games you can play. There’s even a Wordle alternative.

The Verge

Trump mobilized those who desire extremism while not losing those who do not consider themselves extremists.

But there was no “genius” strategy, no sophisticated messaging dance - just unhinged rage and the promise of revenge. The extremists loved it, the “respectables” shrugged it off.

There's criticisms of "humanism" you could make around historical weirdness around venerating homo sapiens specifically, but for all the rabid frantic hate that postmodernists have for the term, self-identified humanists have pretty much weathered the last few decades the LEAST scathed by reaction. Lotta boring old atheist progressives whose entire moral compass is "care about everyone" have batted a thousand when it came to refugees, islamophobia, trans panic, climate, covid, etc.
in the webbed site. straight up "scripting it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My java

"What I want to say is that we cannot see these regional ecological crises as disconnected from us. We cannot turn our heads away and say "that's happening in the South" any more than we can ignore wild fire season in California or tornadoes in the midwest. Appalachia is "not supposed" to get drowned by hurricanes. Twenty years ago something like this would have seemed an unthinkable disaster; in 2024 it happens with a storm that builds strength in a matter of hours. These kind of disasters are more and more frequent, less and less predictable, and will only become more so as climate change accelerates."

"What would you want someone to do if your house had been flooded? What would you want to see happen if you were in need of immediate help, if you felt overwhelmed and trapped? Keep an eye out for local mutual aid groups and funds in the areas effected, and watch for calls for start watching for calls-to-action or requests for assistance or need. For Asheville, pay attention to Final Straw Radio, The Asheville Blade and Firestorm Books."

https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/all-out-for-the-south/

All Out for the South

At this point, if you're in the US, you've probably heard about the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene. Helene was both a horrible storm and a terrifying harbinger, because it went from tropical storm to CAT 4 hurricane within 36 hours, picking up unprecedented strength and size due to water

All Cats Are Beautiful
Reporting from Asheville Public Library: we are OK! But still cut off from the world and without power, water, phones or data. But spirits are high while we keep the anxiety at bay and wait for news- our neighborhood friends have really pulled together in amazing ways to share resources, information and hope. Will write more when I’m able.
Ahhh, Neopetrolisthes Maculatus, or as I like to call her, Survivorship Bias Crab
A Navajo weaving of an Intel Pentium processor and how it relates to the history of Silicon Valley and Native Americans. “The weaving is accurate enough to determine that it represents a specific Pentium variant, called P54C.” https://kottke.org/24/09/a-navajo-weaving-of-an-intel-pentium-processor
A Navajo Weaving of an Intel Pentium Processor

In 1994, a Navajo/Diné weaver named Marilou Schultz made a weaving of the microscopic pattern of an Intel Pentium processor. (In

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