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I have the ambition of making RimWorld something worth playing for at least a few people in the 22nd century.

What games will people still play 100 years from now?

Count both games that get continuously updated, and games played in original form.

Counter-Strike is approaching the quarter-century mark and is still going strong.

4) Failing to distinguish between:
- not wanting to hear a message yourself, and
- wanting to prevent others from discussing it between themselves

@Jonathan_Blow Probably just not enough energy. It takes a surprising amount of physical labor to generate enough energy to run even small devices.

Would be interesting to try to calculate how much power you get versus how much is needed.

Sometimes I think of game design like putting each idea on trial. I am prosecutor, defense, judge and jury, each in turn.

Write it. Bolster it. Question it. Attack it. Try to replace it. Make alternatives. Recess, reconvene. Judge. Sentence. Implement, discard, or deep freeze.

Still in 2022 there's no good software I can find for managing game design tasks that's better than Google Docs.

The solutions out there are so featureful but so fatally clunky due to the weight of their features. Can't decide if they want to be used by creators or managers.

Nice of them to make this decision on 4/20.

Our full announcement on RimWorld returning to Steam in Australia:

Good news! RimWorld is now rated and legal to buy again in Australia.

We'll have it back up on Steam soon.

Thanks to everyone who lent their support.

Thanks for the help everyone! I think we got what we need.

What are examples of games which are rated by the Australian Board () which include drug use, especially connected to player incentives?

Seeking examples to bolster an ongoing case (right now).

@PirateGleeClub Elden Ring is exactly what you expect, at massive scale. If that's what you're after, it's awesome.

Same with Kirby, though smaller scale. Very easy game though, appropriate for kids and ultra-casual.

@WarbroJavaCo dear god

Kirby and the Forgotten Land is in the same genre as Elden Ring fight me

@TiaPixel: 📢 Ludeon Studios (creator of RimWorld) is #hiring and looking for game designers and gameplay artists!

☄️Details here: https…

@tezateser Tweet chains don't work; people retweet and target single tweets out of contexts. And the UI shouldn't force you to do something so ridiculous, which still prevents complex thoughts from forming.

Blog posts work, but they require clicks to engage with so you lose most people.

Twitter increasing its character limit would be the easiest way to improve the quality of discourse (and thus thought) across our whole society.

As it stand's it's a discussion platform that makes it almost structurally impossible to communicate nuanced ideas.

@Zizaran I was basically a child when I did, so not much reasoning was going on. I was just super interested, wanted to build stuff, loved playing games and thinking about game universes.

Game design is hard to learn because mistakes feel like victories.

The signals of a mistake are hard to interpret and slow to arrive - often only coming years later.

The try-fail-adjust-retry learning loop is crazy long - if it ever closes at all.

RimWorld developer Ludeon Studios is looking to hire a gameplay artist!

Full info: