Jon-Paul

@tripleshot31.bsky.social

Game Director.

Just putting this out there: as a kid whose early videogame exposure was defined by what you could borrow from the public library, if I owned a non-Steam gaming storefront, I’d work out a deal with Kanopy, or set up a similar game-focused service and partner with public libraries.

"There is naught you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it. But you do not stand alone. You will learn that your trouble is but part of the trouble of all the western world." -- Elrond from Book 2 of the Fellowship of the Ring.

on the twelve days of Christmas, my true love gave to me: 12 at the council [of Elrond] 11 pipes for smoking 10 Dúnedain 9 in the Fellowship 8 elven cloaks 7 palantíri 6 months to Mordor 5 Istari! 4 little hobbits 3 Silmarils 2 towers and the 1 Ring to rule them all!

A big day for Return to Moria. A million copies shipped! old school but still an emotional milestone to hit. … Plus today is our winter update with cosmetics and dedicated servers … and our first premium DLC on four platforms … and we are the free game on Epic’s Holiday sale for the next week!

"My job is to say no. I have to resist good ideas if they dont fit the puzzle" -- great advice about direction from Jac Schaeffer, showrunner of Agatha All Along. She was speaking about TV direction but oh man does that apply to Game Direction too. #gamedev www.theqandapodcast.com/2024/11/agat...

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Gave a guest lecture to Game Design students at Indiana University today. Tried to stick to my own personal experience with systems design and realized how hard it can be to keep the audiences separate. The experience is for the players, but the _design_ is for the team.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive