Carla. Weird Giraffe Games. 🌈

@weirdgiraffegames.com

game designer, developer, and publisher. I make weird games and that’s ok, as we’re all a bit weird sometimes. JOIN ME ON DISCORD: http://weirdgiraffegames.com/discord

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

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The pro-AI, anti-game-designer nonsense Suz is quoting below is on LinkedIn, in the comments on a post by the SAME PERSON about how AI told him to *walk* to the car wash. (The cognitive dissonance is killing me!) Here's what I replied over there:


Ryan I am so disappointed to see you say this. AEG would not exist without the hard work of its human designers. You know damn well that Peter and John are better than AI and will be for a long time to come. An AI that can't tell you how to go to the carwash isn't going to be able to tell you how to play a game, either. Playing many iterations of chess by following the rules it is given is a computation issue that has nothing in common with the complex mess of inspiration and psychology required to design a game.
🥧 suzanne 🥧@425suzanne.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Reposting with ALT because this kind of phenomenal disdain and disrespect from within the industry literally against two of their own titles and the designer who made them is important to recognize.

I played this expansion at OrcaCon and it only improves an already great game. I'm working on a full review now, but if you haven't, check out this really great 2 player deduction game

Carla. Weird Giraffe Games. 🌈@weirdgiraffegames.com · 8mo ago

Logic & Lore: Variance goes live TOMORROW MORNING! You can get a notification by signing up here: weirdgiraffegames.com/logic35 I made an expansion adding in dice, which adds another layer of figuring out how to best use rolled values on your turn. There's new questions, new modes, and BIRDS!

I played Oros! It took me a few turns to understand what I was doing but I ended up really liking the action selection system. You move a person to that action, but then it’s blocked until it’s moved or sent to the island. What’s your favorite game with a bit of a puzzle in action selection?

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Yarn wall is slowly progressing! Do you do anything unique for craft or board game storage? Whenever I get stressed, I get the idea in my head that the way to fix whatever it is that’s bothering me is the perfect storage solution for something. Obviously that’s not true but MAYBE IT IS???

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