Harry Dean Hudson

I’ve been making podcast about game design over the past few months, and it’s just about ready to share! The premise: conversations with designers about how they and their designs interact with randomness and chance. Starts next Tuesday! open.substack.com/pub/harrydea...

"We are in a moment where you could plausibly argue that Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Land are the most influential policy intellectuals in the US conversation. Just look at the state of the two of them. This is not a good thing." www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...

The average public repo on the @radicle network is replicated on ~13 independent nodes, spread across 28 countries. No hosting company, no single point of failure. It's just how the protocol works. Measured it from a live seed and built a dashboard: stats.radicle.at

ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :) smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games: eggplant.show PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)

I will be st @gamesground.bsky.social over the next couple days—please reach out if you’re interested in the podcast. I’m starting to put together the interviews for season two. I’m especially interested in the topic of maps and map generation. Let’s meet up and chat!

@trampolinetales.com on slot machines

@newobject.bsky.social on the latest episode

I had a great time yappin' on Probably Designed. Give it a listen!

Episode 4! @calmpewter.games and I yapping about multiplayer. Please, to enjoy: YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAWa... Transcript: my.playful.work/probably-des... and RSS in the normal places: rss.com/podcasts/pro....

Harry hosted this excellent podcast where I got to be a guest speaker alongside Eddie Cai, the designer of StarVaders! We chat about various designs of randomness but specifically about card pools in deckbuilders and other card games. Both episodes are now out.

Subway stations should be asymmetric so you can orient yourself on the platform more quickly. Feel free to reach out for details if you’re designing any subway stations.

I'm at the Berlin GameScene Talk and Play in a little booth to talk about the podcast (or anything else you wanna chat about). We can also play the WIP rover game: liminal.games/planetaryrov... Or Mosa Lina. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Come by and say hi!

Love this metaphor from @ezra-szanton.itch.io ! youtube.com/shorts/fx7GT...

The second episode will go live next Tuesday. It's the first episode of a two-part banger with @pengonauts.com and @boxdragon.bsky.social (Star Vaders and As We Descend). Info on the rest of the season/sign up for email (transcripts, other articles, etc) here: my.playful.work/new-podcast-...

The first espisode of the new podcast is live! This is my conversation with @ezra-szanton.itch.io and randomness and game design in general. The podcast and transcript are available here but you should also be able to find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Enjoy! my.playful.work/probably-des...

Am I the only soulslike enjoyer who doesn’t really like boss fights? 🙈 I really appreciate the craft that goes into the combat and boss design, but I’m mostly in it to learn maps and level routing. The bosses are something I need to pass through to get to more maps. To me bad maps == bad souls like

Instead of expecting what you want from other people, try thinking about what other people want and figuring out where things intersect.

REPOST: I made a last minute change, let's use this URL... I’ve been making podcast about game design over the past few months, and it’s almost ready to share! The premise: conversations with game designers about how design interacts with randomness and chance. my.playful.work/new-podcast-...

I'm convinced that auto-correct is getting steadily worse as AI language models get "better."

I think we're currently enduring questionable-attempts-to-capture-low-hanging-fruit phase of the AI hype-cycle.

new study on vibe coding dropped pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I don’t think superintelligence is an existential threat. It’s superstipidity that we need to be worried about.