Ascii Dreams

A Minimal Definition of Games Games consists of two things: oracles, which determine "what happens next?", and one or more players...

A while ago on a private discord I spent some time articulating one of the central concepts of intuitive game design: that you enter into a ...

I'm extremely happy to announce update 5 is out for Sixty Years in Space, along with a new solo/coop standalone sequel A Lot of Zeroes ...

Beau Kalden reached out a few months ago asking if they could do a reading from Sixty Years in Space, and I was more than happy to give them...

 (I had planned on writing another post for part two, but this is an interlude triggered by another Discord discussion, so here we are. You ...

 (Or how I posted in a discord and got told by the mods to write a blogpost instead). In response to me looking to get some TTRPG people ont...

I've been thinking a lot about the season 1 finale of Sens8 recently. It's a great piece of writing, bringing together a gestalt of ...

One of the wild design decisions I made with Sixty Years in Space is that it's rules compatible with the board game it is based on. Not ...

Update 4 for Sixty Years in Space is now out. This update is focused on completing the colony administration rules in (A)-Base (D)-Landing ...

The power of adventuring through New Plan or seeing the map of the Forgotten Realms for the first time is in the gaps in the maps. The sense...

Update 3 required a huge investment of time to put together - but it solved a number of problems with Sixty Years in Space . I really should...

Update 3 is out for Sixty Years in Space is out. And I'm incredibly proud of it. There's enough changes here that in many ways, thi...