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Gamescom week starts now! I have my badge, and I’m ready to go! Come visit my Tool Design Roundtable on Monday at 11:15, and the Tool Design Panel on Tuesday at 12:15 And: Find me and ask me for a stroopwafel, to get one and a tag!

Thank you to everyone who came to the Tool Design Roundtable! We had great discussions, especially about how to create simply UIs, creating tools for non-technical users, and simplifying workflows that consist of many disparate tools. I’ll post the notes on my website in the future.

Nothing like lying down after a long day of Gamescom walking, with @jrawry.bsky.social

The Tool Design panel went amazing!! Completely packed room, and we even had 30 people still waiting outside to get in. Thank you to everyone who visited, to gamescom dev and the AI in games organizers, and of course Theo and Anna for the great conversation!

Gamescom is bussing this week. There are barely any trains, with many replacement busses. Then there is a bus on the show floor, which is the waiting line for a bus game. Then there is another bus! A double decker, inside of which you can play a bus game.

The ARC Raiders booth is insane!!

They put helmets on you with headphones, and you genuinely have to loot around to find things. It’s very well done

Seeing the Witcher 3 at Gamescom again is awesome, with (@katstodian.bsky.social and @hanney.bsky.social)

What a great day today of no meeting Wednesday. Great fun hanging out with devs, and I even won a keyboard!

And of course, the fantastic Polish consulate party to end out the Wednesday Gamescom day

“From gaming’s heart I stab at thee” Time for day 5 of the Gamescom week!

I love country booths that are on brand.

Thank you to everyone this week who told me that my Gamescom Survival Guide helped them! And, thank you to everyone who said my Gyms, Zoos, and Museums video helped them too!

Friday, end of gamescom Trade! What an absolute fantastic week it has been All the country booths are fantastic. I just have yet to see a Vatican booth. Maybe they can invite the chicago pope next year?

So many Europeans do not want to visit the US anymore that folks from the US now need to come here to Gamescom to do business. There was a big increase in the Americans I saw visiting this year.