Congrats! there’s a new one every day so if you like that, you can keep playing. It was nice to be able to put up one of these prototypes finally. I have so many.

It was obviously immediately fun, but I did worry that it might distract people away from all of the things that are fun about the core game of Ribbit. Ultimately, I decided that it would probably be OK as long as I kept it a secret — and ribbit is up as an experimental game anyhow.

It is possible every game, though you’d have to do a lot of work. I can do it like 80% of the time if I’m trying lightly.

I was trying to imagine an analog for fantasy land that would work in Ribbit and I just thought what if I did this wild thing, why not?

We switched over to using the date instead of # because all our #s count from the start of the website

im so glad you're digging it Alex ! that is really rad

(Today’s Ribbit is playable by everyone)

If you are a game designer this collection is required reading

def friending both of you. helvetica#puz

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hell yeah congrats!

I looked it up. It took about two years for doodle jump to come out. I think that was the first cultural impact moment of the iPhone outside the hype of it being a cool device.

So two years sounds about right. not looking so good for midjourney, but looking good for Suno

just for clarity since i think im coming off a little hype-y. besides being pro accessibility im not particularly pro any of these specific companies or tools outside some coding tools. i’m just very very very curious about this wild shift we are undergoing and paying a lot of attention

i also wonder how hard it will be to see new culture going forward- e.g. italian brain rot, which in a different age would have been all of twitter. or maybe im just old now

i’m curious what the next few years will be like. i think we’re only in the last few months starting to see any tools that are masterable (that make any reasonable room for human creativity)

thinking back it seems like other technologies were a mix. the internet created some wild culture fast, but twitter floundered for a while. the iphone was sort of fast but actually it was just a hyped thing for quite a few years before it really had “impact” but the ipod was instant.

i feel the opposite but not for any high minded reasons. i think culture will use whatever tools are at its disposal to make culture, but it takes a while to warm up a new one. either gen ai will become a tool that people find useful or it won’t, but im not surprised it hasn’t yet.

but it seems like maybe you're getting at something else! so im curious about where you're drawing lines and why.