@mnolin.bsky.social
Game developer (Epic Games, Blizzard, Vicarious Visions, 1st Playable Productions); enjoyer of games, theater, soccer and more.
Doing some cleaning and my original Xbox still works (don’t have the right adapter so it’s in black and white) but this is from 24 years ago!
December 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Doing some cleaning and my original Xbox still works (don’t have the right adapter so it’s in black and white) but this is from 24 years ago!
Always enjoy reading Raph’s stuff; this is no exception
Game design is simple, actually. Except when it isn't. Here are the 12 things you need to know.
Game design is simple, actually
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not useful for getting better at making games, which is usually why people read articles like this. The fun of a bit of confetti exploding in front of you, and the fun of excruciating pain and risk to life and limb as you free climb a cliff are just not usefully paired together.
www.raphkoster.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Always enjoy reading Raph’s stuff; this is no exception
Wild this wasn’t called
October 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Wild this wasn’t called
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
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In response to a question about how to solve the polarization that is tearing the world apart, Pope Leo raised the problem of the growing gap between CEO and worker pay. Nice to have a new ally on this front!
Full interview: cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...
Full interview: cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...
September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In response to a question about how to solve the polarization that is tearing the world apart, Pope Leo raised the problem of the growing gap between CEO and worker pay. Nice to have a new ally on this front!
Full interview: cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...
Full interview: cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...
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ALL of my games are in the Fellow Traveller sale!
🚀 Build a crew in Citizen Sleeper 2 (25% Off)
💫 Find a home in Citizen Sleeper (70% Off)
🐠 Study an Alien Ocean in In Other Waters (75% Off)
+ grab another one of my publishers excellent narrative games: store.steampowered.com/sale/fellowt...
🚀 Build a crew in Citizen Sleeper 2 (25% Off)
💫 Find a home in Citizen Sleeper (70% Off)
🐠 Study an Alien Ocean in In Other Waters (75% Off)
+ grab another one of my publishers excellent narrative games: store.steampowered.com/sale/fellowt...
September 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
ALL of my games are in the Fellow Traveller sale!
🚀 Build a crew in Citizen Sleeper 2 (25% Off)
💫 Find a home in Citizen Sleeper (70% Off)
🐠 Study an Alien Ocean in In Other Waters (75% Off)
+ grab another one of my publishers excellent narrative games: store.steampowered.com/sale/fellowt...
🚀 Build a crew in Citizen Sleeper 2 (25% Off)
💫 Find a home in Citizen Sleeper (70% Off)
🐠 Study an Alien Ocean in In Other Waters (75% Off)
+ grab another one of my publishers excellent narrative games: store.steampowered.com/sale/fellowt...
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A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
August 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
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COMMISSION SLOTS OPEN! ✨
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Details on the banner
RT's GREATLY appreciated ;)
DM for a slot, have your details such as email/paypal/description to fill out the form
Details on the banner
RT's GREATLY appreciated ;)
August 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
COMMISSION SLOTS OPEN! ✨
DM for a slot, have your details such as email/paypal/description to fill out the form
Details on the banner
RT's GREATLY appreciated ;)
DM for a slot, have your details such as email/paypal/description to fill out the form
Details on the banner
RT's GREATLY appreciated ;)
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ICE GOONS draw guns on humanitarian aid workers
July 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
ICE GOONS draw guns on humanitarian aid workers
Love this! More announcements like this please 🎶
reasonably sure this is the first time a regional government agency has launched a new service with an elaborate broadway musical parody
July 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Love this! More announcements like this please 🎶
So lucky to have been able to commission @blacksalander.bsky.social for this piece to represent a big moment in our d&d campaign. Amazing work and love, love, love it!
June 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So lucky to have been able to commission @blacksalander.bsky.social for this piece to represent a big moment in our d&d campaign. Amazing work and love, love, love it!
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Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
June 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
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Crazy how long this conversation has been going on
May 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Crazy how long this conversation has been going on
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How you *think* you're going be as a parent is so much different than the reality of *actually* being a parent. At @crossplayblog.bsky.social, I enjoyed publishing this one mother's journey of going from endless worries over tech and gaming to fully embracing it. www.crossplay.news/p/why-i-let-...
Screen Time Surrender: A Tech-Resistant Mom's Gaming Journey
How did I get here, from my no-screens-allowed mind space? Honest answer: mama needs quiet time.
www.crossplay.news
May 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
How you *think* you're going be as a parent is so much different than the reality of *actually* being a parent. At @crossplayblog.bsky.social, I enjoyed publishing this one mother's journey of going from endless worries over tech and gaming to fully embracing it. www.crossplay.news/p/why-i-let-...
This is a really fun crossover and not one I was expecting! apple.news/AfV20_52YTs-...
USWNT Forward Midge Purce Razzle-Dazzles While Making Her Broadway Debut in 'Chicago': 'So So Special' — People
Purce opened the iconic show at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City on May 1
apple.news
May 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is a really fun crossover and not one I was expecting! apple.news/AfV20_52YTs-...
Treat people with dignity and respect should be the least we can do in the United States. Taking everything from this family (wrongly); leaving them standing in the rain in their underwear without an ability to feed themself? This is who we are as a nation at the present 🙁
kfor.com/news/local/w...
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Treat people with dignity and respect should be the least we can do in the United States. Taking everything from this family (wrongly); leaving them standing in the rain in their underwear without an ability to feed themself? This is who we are as a nation at the present 🙁
kfor.com/news/local/w...
kfor.com/news/local/w...
Played through the prologue and a bit past and am loving it so far! Really enjoying playing. Thanks for all the effort involved to make this!
And here we are.
Three days after launch.
One million copies sold.
And, as we type this, over 100,000 of you are currently playing on Steam.
Thank you for believing in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. This has been surreal.
Three days after launch.
One million copies sold.
And, as we type this, over 100,000 of you are currently playing on Steam.
Thank you for believing in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. This has been surreal.
April 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Played through the prologue and a bit past and am loving it so far! Really enjoying playing. Thanks for all the effort involved to make this!
@gamechangershow.bsky.social and @dropout.tv is truly some amazing content ❤️
April 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
@gamechangershow.bsky.social and @dropout.tv is truly some amazing content ❤️
Hah - this is an awesome review :) Can't wait to give it a shot!
My review of Sunderfolk so far is that my 11 year old is upset to learn that I have a freelance gig and so cannot just play Sunderfolk with them all day tomorrow.
April 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Hah - this is an awesome review :) Can't wait to give it a shot!
Saw that Chris Richard’s got a double yellow/red in the Crystal Palace game today and watched the highlights. Wow! Such a soft / inconsistent red. Gotta feel for him.
April 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Saw that Chris Richard’s got a double yellow/red in the Crystal Palace game today and watched the highlights. Wow! Such a soft / inconsistent red. Gotta feel for him.
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Hey, you know what would be a super humorous prank? Go drop a 5 star review on a TTRPG product you use or put a nice comment on a Patreon you support. Then just wait.
The creator is probably going to reply and be all happy and stuff. HILARIOUS.
The creator is probably going to reply and be all happy and stuff. HILARIOUS.
April 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hey, you know what would be a super humorous prank? Go drop a 5 star review on a TTRPG product you use or put a nice comment on a Patreon you support. Then just wait.
The creator is probably going to reply and be all happy and stuff. HILARIOUS.
The creator is probably going to reply and be all happy and stuff. HILARIOUS.
"we’re going to need to pivot essentially all of our U.S. sales operations.”
“The message we are receiving right now from Washington DC is that we should not be planning on making [any] U.S. sales this year."
www.polygon.com/gaming/56034...
“The message we are receiving right now from Washington DC is that we should not be planning on making [any] U.S. sales this year."
www.polygon.com/gaming/56034...
Trump tariffs trap Gloomhaven overseas, and the publisher is furious
Small businesses are paying the price in Trump’s trade war
www.polygon.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"we’re going to need to pivot essentially all of our U.S. sales operations.”
“The message we are receiving right now from Washington DC is that we should not be planning on making [any] U.S. sales this year."
www.polygon.com/gaming/56034...
“The message we are receiving right now from Washington DC is that we should not be planning on making [any] U.S. sales this year."
www.polygon.com/gaming/56034...
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Man, South of Midnight is one of the most original and beautiful games I've played in a while. If y'all haven't already, go check it out asap. @compulsiongames.bsky.social have woven some real magic here #GameRecs
April 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Man, South of Midnight is one of the most original and beautiful games I've played in a while. If y'all haven't already, go check it out asap. @compulsiongames.bsky.social have woven some real magic here #GameRecs