EP Walker
@erikpeter.bsky.social
Human, gamer, game designer, media consumer. Also a standardized patient for medical training.
James Ernest on the stages of tabletop game design, from workshopping an idea to delivering a final prototype, and the importance of learning to throw away everything that isn't working
James Ernest: Practice, Practice, Practice (Game Design Lecture)
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Wanna know the best way to know something isn't AI? See it in real life. In fact you can just pick up your phone and chuck it in a lake. The internet is dead.
Missed out on Gen Con but took a nice family trip up to Lake Plantagenate. Waded in the headwaters of the Mississippi and visited Paul and Babe in Bemidji. Good times.
Home cooks take note: the three essential ingredients in any dish.
GAME DESIGNERS AT GEN CON: please join us tonight and help spread the word. 6pm downstairs at the JW. (It should be easy to pop up to the Indy game market - that starts at 7pm, 3rd floor. Both go til 10!)
Elizabeth Hargrave@elizhargrave.bsky.social · 2w agoSaturday 6pm - a creator meetup hosted by TTGDA. You DO NOT need to be a member to attend! Come network with other game designers and creatives. We have the room until 10 so bring a prototype to playtest. (Sorry this overlaps with the night market! We took the space at the time it was available!) 🧵
I'm doing an "in conversation" with Laura Snapes of the Guardian at Nottingham Central Library on Wednesday August 5th at 5.30pm - tickets are free! I will talk process, ideas, useful things for anyone interested in story I hope. www.ticketsource.com/nottmcityofl...
"Big City Reads 2026: John Allison in conversation" at Room 6&7 Nottingham Central Library
Tickets are now available for Big City Reads 2026: John Allison in conversation at Room 6&7 Nottingham Central Library, Nottingham on Wednesday 5th August 2026 at 5:30PM. Click the link for further in...
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We wrote this song It’s not to short, it’s not too long It’s got backup vocals in just the right places
We had a lot to cover in our July Newsletter. Did you see it this weekend? Check it out at the link below, and subscribe to get the next update, straight to your inbox! bit.ly/LGNewsJuly2026
Leder Games | Summer Time and the Studio is Hopping!
As Minnesotans we're given the best combination of seasons to stay in and play board games: harsh, cold winters and scorchingly hot summers. 🙃 The great news for you is that we're in some of our…
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This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.
Are you going to Gen Con? Have any plans? I sure do... I'll post links to my events below. Wish me luck getting through all this! And please come say hi!! 🧵
Hey most of our work is done in-house, but we are open to new things. If you have something that you would fit our brand we will have a limited number of slots available at Gen Con 2026. forms.gle/iwTLC3H612Rr...
Leder Games: Gen Con 2026 Meeting Request
At Leder Games, we're always excited to try new, interesting, and fun game concepts. While most of our games are developed in-house, we are open to publishing games from outside designers. At Gen Con...
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The subscription drive (to increase staff and contributor pay) is running until the anniversary of the magazine. We're about halfway to the goal. Thank you to everyone that has subscribed so far! clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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Data decay is huge. I have a dusty l'il website displaying my speculative ("fan") designs for a couple card games. But since google sites was bought by squarespace I can't edit them anymore. It's a different development kit and I am not skilled enough to find where I can access the raw HTML. Sigh.
"Expressing our own flawed subjectivity just makes us feel better." - @mkcarr.bsky.social
June 2026: Magic, Memory, Machines
On June reads and artificial intelligence
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In a real society, in a real country where laws were applied to everyone and consequences were a thing, saying "I will protect the pedophiles and crooks in this room from justice" would be the end of this guy's career and he'd be in jail
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last mo.Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.
I just had the worry that people might think I'm a bot since I find interesting people to follow and upvote their little posts. Instead of like, commenting a hundred times a day like a real blueskier. Blueski?
If your movie blurb mentions the rating, I probably don't want to see it.
Doing long-overdue web maintenance today. My old site is uneditable, thanks to google domains getting sold to squarespace. It's a teardown/rebuild. I wish there was an easier way, but it probably won't take too long if I can figure out how to get started. Layers upon Layers are intimidating.
A great sale going on for my first urban fantasy novel (anthropological werewolves!) on Kindle in the U.S. $0.50! You can't buy anything of such quality for that nowadays! www.amazon.com/Silver-Book-...
Silver (Silver Series Book 1)
Amazon.com: Silver (Silver Series Book 1) eBook : Held, Rhiannon: Kindle Store
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Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.
It was fun to listen in on the 200th episode of Writing About Dragons and Shit. Congrats @aboutdragons.bsky.social, still waiting on Treavor's book
