Nathaniel Hicklin
@nghicklin.bsky.social
Author. Game Designer. He/him. Autistic as F***. Ko-fi.com/nathanielhicklin
This is what I love about Satisfactory. It has periods of paying attention while I'm building or exploring, and then long periods of just sitting and letting it cook while I do a sudoku or something.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is what I love about Satisfactory. It has periods of paying attention while I'm building or exploring, and then long periods of just sitting and letting it cook while I do a sudoku or something.
Everything but 1 and 10, mostly because I don't have that many reasons to get in touch with people.
December 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Everything but 1 and 10, mostly because I don't have that many reasons to get in touch with people.
They're not running out of new ideas, just out of free ones.
Because we've realized the value of what we have.
Because we've realized the value of what we have.
December 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
They're not running out of new ideas, just out of free ones.
Because we've realized the value of what we have.
Because we've realized the value of what we have.
I only joined Twitter to market my writing, and now I know I fundamentally don't know how marketing works anyway, so I left Twitter. Why on earth would I leave here to go back there?
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I only joined Twitter to market my writing, and now I know I fundamentally don't know how marketing works anyway, so I left Twitter. Why on earth would I leave here to go back there?
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Happy Hogswatch!
December 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Happy Hogswatch!
My personal game design note:
Every RPG should have a cheat sheet for the key rules, and it shouldn't be more than half a page. Like, DnD should tell people which dice are which, and what "advantage" means and stuff.
Every RPG should have a cheat sheet for the key rules, and it shouldn't be more than half a page. Like, DnD should tell people which dice are which, and what "advantage" means and stuff.
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
My personal game design note:
Every RPG should have a cheat sheet for the key rules, and it shouldn't be more than half a page. Like, DnD should tell people which dice are which, and what "advantage" means and stuff.
Every RPG should have a cheat sheet for the key rules, and it shouldn't be more than half a page. Like, DnD should tell people which dice are which, and what "advantage" means and stuff.
You're a better man than I, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
You're a better man than I, Charlie Brown.
I did check on the first day. The numbers seemed unusually high. I suspected a scam of some kind, and I turned out to be right.
What I mainly learned was probably not useful for most people: that crowdfunding requires a skillset I don't have, and enthusiasm does not beat marketing savvy.
What I mainly learned was probably not useful for most people: that crowdfunding requires a skillset I don't have, and enthusiasm does not beat marketing savvy.
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I did check on the first day. The numbers seemed unusually high. I suspected a scam of some kind, and I turned out to be right.
What I mainly learned was probably not useful for most people: that crowdfunding requires a skillset I don't have, and enthusiasm does not beat marketing savvy.
What I mainly learned was probably not useful for most people: that crowdfunding requires a skillset I don't have, and enthusiasm does not beat marketing savvy.