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David Sparks

@dsparks

Director of Basketball Analytics for the @celtics. Formerly of @DukePoliSci and @isDotR. https://t.co/Ha9EKXz5d8

Katılım Nisan 2007
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Hardwood Paroxysm
Hardwood Paroxysm@HPbasketball·
The Celtics are a WAGON and we all overreacted to losing two supplementary veterans with spotty availability and underrated their developoment system.
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Canzhi@canzhi·
how many player ids do you know by heart? sadly i only know who 2544 is
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I based my first designs on those illustrations, and then built from there...
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Games in general, but perhaps especially card games, afford the opportunity to think really hard about æsthetics and legibility. There is a bit of an inherent trade-off: often the most visually stunning games are the ones that let their illustrations breathe, while the most...
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David Sparks@dsparks·
I'm not sure which is more intimidating: having other people playtest one's game, or writing about it and putting it on the internet. I learned a lot from the former; hopefully we can all learn something from the latter. open.substack.com/pub/replayable…
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David Sparks@dsparks·
This week, on 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲: » Three kinds of playtests, and how to learn from them » Putting “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” to the test » Sometimes, the best design choice is to turn the whole thing upside-down 🔗👇
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David Sparks@dsparks·
Niche Tweet: If you're going to #NESSIS this weekend, and you have good taste in board games, come find me! (I also enjoy talking about basketball ∪ statistics, so that's cool too.)
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David Sparks@dsparks·
✅ Pretentious title ✅ Confident assertions by a non-expert ✅ Animated GIF ✅ Navel-gazing (small amount) ✅ Uncomfortable levels of earnestness ✅ Self-deprecation Yeah; this blog has it all!
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David Sparks@dsparks·
@CrumpledJumper Yeah; it's one of those things that just occupies a lot of my spare cycles. The tricky thing has been to figure out what to do now that I have a game -- so I'm just writing about it 🤷‍♂️. We shall see if there is any audience.
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New, at 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲: The story of how I went from idea to prototype for a new tabletop game. Like all good stories, this one features a deck of cards, masking tape, and a spreadsheet. And, like most other stories on Twitter, the 🔗 is in the reply 👇
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In my free time this summer, I worked on something new: developing a tabletop game. I have no idea where it will go, but it's been interesting to work on & think about, and I'm going to put some of those thoughts in a "dev diary" of sorts, starting here: open.substack.com/pub/replayable…
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David Sparks@dsparks·
Central Park is large / Boston (the city proper) is small
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