Marc Gurwitz

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Turns out you can model 90's house music

category theory is real and my friend

I just found this headline from 6 years ago:

Protected from Media Burn with a Screen Saver

Via fistsofgloom on tumblr

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10th May 1979, Dear Mr. Hewson, Thank you for submitting your tape of 'U2' to RSO, we have listened with careful consideration, but feel it is not suitable for us at present. We wish you luck with your future career. #boardgames #gamedesign ✂️🎲

Prototyping question -- what do you think? A small tile that tells you to look at the red 'T' card in front of the player to your left, the orange 'C' card in front of the player to your right, and the grey 'O' and green 'B' cards in front of you. Which one best illustrates this -- A, B, or C? 🎲✂️

Marvel is really cutting the budget on the next Fantastic 4 movie

jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

Hey who'm I gonna see at Origins?

I'm gonna start a museum of only YouTube ads. Calling it "Ad Nauseum"

New game idea: A traitor game where everyone is naked. I call it 'Bluff in the Buff'

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Failed business: "Kristy Noem's Puppy Farm"

Found this while looking for music icons. The website that links to it is dead, no idea where it's from or who made it. Apparently it's an illusion. Any ideas what I'm supposed to be seeing here? A music note and a document 'note'? Thoughts?

Mahjong isn't played with dice. Or maybe it is. If I knew, I wouldn't be looking for the video.

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Mentee Applications for the 2024 Session of Tabletop Mentorship Program (now part of Unpub!) are open now! www.unpub.org/mentorship Deadline to apply is Thursday 5/16.

Tabletop Mentorship Program — Unpub: The Unpublished Games Networkwww.unpub.org

Phrases used to help identify that this is nonsense: "potentially valuable" -- could also be absolute nonsense. I'm potentially Spiderman, if only I can find a radioactive spider and a good writer. "families' findings" -- not peer-reviewed, not empirical, basically a rumour.

TIL movies in development: - Polly Pocket (Lena Dunham) - Magic 8 Ball - Viewmaster - Uno - Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots (Vin Diesel) - Barney the DInosaur (Daniel Kaluuya) (Thanks to Marina Hyde) Yay for IP!

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Full disclosure: Everything I've every posted on BlueSky has been Al-generated content

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This new online tool lets you easily create printable sheets of cards from basic templates

Forge of Cardsforgeofcards.com The website for prototyping your cards effortlessly.

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Mentor applications for the 2024 session of Tabletop Mentorship Program (now part of Unpub) are open! www.unpub.org/mentorship Mentor application deadline is April 26th. Mentee applications open May 2nd. We're looking forward to making games better, together!

Got my glasses, reserved a space on the hill with clear visibility, so all ready for the eclipse tomorrow!

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Consider donating your eclipse glasses to Eclipse Glasses USA so schoolchildren in South America can use them in October. eclipse23.com/pages/donate...

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Beautiful, clear sky this evening Now if someone can please rewind the sun and moon, I'd appreciate it

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Marc, here's a couple of models of my current designs. See if they make sense. (I skipped the set-up process on Sky Merchants because it's relatively involved; I'll probably model that separately.)

Says someone who's never been punched by a baby

“everybody was kung-fu fighting” oh? even a little baby? a little baby with no muscle strength was kicking and punching and flying around? a tiny little flying kung-fu baby? get out of my face

Picture of the staff who operate this Bluesky account

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Just to add to this, Golden Bell got booted off Kickstarter, and set up their own crowdfunding site. As this post over on Reddit from a few years back says, it has a clause that you can never defame them. www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...

If you are ever approached by Golden Bell Entertainment, stay faaaar away.

Hey wow looks like I'm giving a talk in a few days! www.eventbrite.com/e/marc-gurwi...

Marc Gurwitz - “Board Game DesignFrom Ideation to Publication”www.eventbrite.com Before video games, there were board games. Let's talk about designing them.

I'm working on a game where you try to figure out who farted in the hot tub. It's called J'accuzi.

Something tells me I can figure out a bit about what books the developer has recently read...

TIL: The cybertruck is a load-bearing butt

Here in Online we love a good load-bearing "but;" this one might belong in the record books.