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I posted several of these reviews over on Steemit before I realized it's circling the drain and all the good bloggers from there have migrated to Hive. So I'll be doing some copypasta over the next few

Odd, I got a notification about this post mentioning me, but nothing's there. Was there an edit? o.O Anyway, thanks for spreading the word about quality games writers on the Steem chain!

Was this inspired by Pitfall? Or the other way around? A lot of the elements look really similar (swinging vines, and so on)!

Interesting. I haven't noticed that as a problem, but it's something I'll keep an eye out for. I do think there are some behaviors and skills that generalize well across many if not all tabletop games,

the influence of the ideas of Improv Acting on the play culture started dulling the notion that the actual rules and procedures of games are things worth caring about. Can you unpack that at all? I was

Ah, that's... not what the tier updates post says. (EDIT: Oh, I see. It's in the detailed description here, but not the summary block. Oy.) So the only real change on May 1 is that the minimum upvote less

My upvotes aren't worth $0.03 yet, but maybe if I score a deal on an SP lease it'll become an option!

The most unethical game ever! I definitely fall into the infinity trap, myself, but that's mostly because editing/polish is much less fun than design iteration. Based on your writings here and elsewhere,

I understand the need for the shift to the subscription model, but alas, it's not going to be viable for me. I go for a quality-over-quantity approach to posting, so it's highly unlikely that the Qurator

I've never played Pathfinder proper, just some of their spin-off properties. I do remember seeing a map of the setting hanging in a local game store once, and it had this obvious fantasy-Africa across

To be clear, I'm not working from a pure philosophical game-theory perspective here--more a psychology-aware one, where we recognize that humans SUCK at gauging long-term vs. short-term benefit. If your

And that's exactly it--they have no incentive to take that kind of action. Long-term sustainability is only something that matters to people who haven't made it yet on the platform. If the winners wake

Examples? Ship's sinking, I'd love to lay eyes on a lifeboat before it's too late.

Sad thing is, Steemit itself is designed to encourage this behavior. It's optimal play that achieves the ill-disguised goal of funneling as many tokens as possible upward to bot-controlling whale accounts.

I kinda get what you're going for with the emphasis on players' thoughts (insofar as we can consider what a player's attention, anticipation, feelings, etc. might be), but it seems like a strange target

Wow, that sounds like an unmitigated disaster. I'm glad it didn't turn you away completely! Story Games was a peculiar animal. I think it fell prey to a vulnerability of some styles of moderated fora,

That is a super cool way of thinking about it! I, too, am unsure if these specific boxes are useful categorization tools--but then, I feel like I've grown out of the need for essentialist, bright-line

And oh, hey, grats on nabbing a @curie nod! Got one at random with my own last post, always a treat.

Thanks so much to you and to @curie for the kind words and promotion! I should probably have hunted up a few links for my intro, there. This is the VICE Waypoint review I had in mind that kicked off said

Oh, that's cool! What about something like Pusher?