c.diffin

@cdiffin.bsky.social

Maker of Games and Sounds. Better in person. He/Him 📚 - Graduated MA Games Design @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social 🔜 - Square Zero Games 🕹️ - cdiffin.itch.io

I think that being in Ireland and seeing that the Irish government has paid for there to be pride flags literally everywhere and having bus drivers that aren’t ground down to within an inch of their last nerve has really brought home how worried I am about my home rn

The emotional rollercoaster of seeing Wes Streeting had quit (yay), then thinking he’d be doing a leadership bid (oh no), to him saying he wouldn’t (lol), to now people saying he is… has been a lot.

If you’ve a card, betting or bluffing game/ prototype or idea for one that you’d like to grace the Car Boot Casino floor with in future then let me know this-a-way -> forms.gle/HVi9q7irnX21...

car boot casino at the V&A. I drawn a smiling blob over Vs face. Text reads “your face here” and “your game here”
Marie Foulston@tigershungry.co.uk · 3mo ago

Sending out my absolute biggest pit boss love & thanks to everyone who graced the c/kasino floor at @amazefest.bsky.social yesterday. Those moments when the whole room stopped, many heart in mouth, the tinkling of the the piano as everyone awaited the results of each horse race test.

A crowd gathers around the stage as Blake Andrews hosts a race

I’ve reached the point in learning CSS where I now know the situations where the usual logic doesn’t apply, but don’t quite understand the different logic that applies in those cases. My spellbook grows…

Recently realised just how much I think about this page from Wanderhome by @jdragsky.bsky.social It’s basically every day, and I just love it so much. I want nothing more than to be making spaces where people can show up and feel connection, even if talking is too much. That’s the goal.

A page from Wanderhome by Jay Dragon, with floral decorations at the top and bottom, that reads:

The first time I played Wanderhome was with friends outside, sitting in the grass by the creek. I brought pencils and tokens, while Charlie printed out copies of the playbooks. Socks baked cookies and had a pitcher of punch, and Mel didn't have the energy to bring anything—xyr presence was a present. While I had read Wanderhome plenty of times, I had never facilitated it. The rest of my friends were going in completely fresh-faced.
A few months later, we welcomed a new friend to our group—this time digitally. I curled up with a PDF of the game and a plate of crackers, while we all said hello to Maeve. While we were all familiar with the game, we wanted to take some time to welcome her into our little traveling party.
Mel spent fifteen minutes showing off all the art xe had drawn of our characters (the most xe had talked in months!) and Socks helped Maeve figure out what character she wanted.

I played Power Grid yesterday for the first time and I can't stop thinking about it. There is exactly 1 source of randomness in the whole game, which is tuned to produce absolute maximum schadenfreude, and then its just raw competency contingency all the way down.

im at the Whitechapel (tube station) i dont see you here dawg tiny ass hamburgers tiny ass cheeseburgers tiny ass chicken sandwiches its outlandish kid …