David Sparks

☝️ The map will likely be the more useful resource, but here is the text version: dsparks.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/eat… And below 👇, an abbreviated Twitter thread version

@HPbasketball What's up

@Mikeweisberg /whispers louder: He hasn't talked to me in almost 20 years

The Celtics are a WAGON and we all overreacted to losing two supplementary veterans with spotty availability and underrated their developoment system.

@James_Brocato @canzhi 708 1628369

@canzhi 1717

how many player ids do you know by heart? sadly i only know who 2544 is

...ending up with something like this 👇 But do read the whole post, and tell me what you think! open.substack.com/pub/replayable…

I based my first designs on those illustrations, and then built from there...

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...

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…

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 🔗👇

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.)

✅ 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!

Did any of you also become briefly addicted to Balatro? Did any of you also design and develop a new tabletop game because you couldn't stop thinking about poker hands?

@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.

@dsparks Looks like it’s been a fun project!

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 👇

Read all about it here (and why not subscribe while you're at it?) open.substack.com/pub/replayable…

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…

Central Park is large / Boston (the city proper) is small