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Saltsea Chronicles is OUT. It felt like christmas morning to see all the lovely reviews and kind words trickle in today. I’m so glad and relieved that it’s finally in people’s hands. Phew. And now I sleep.

I’m getting kinda okay at this pottery thing! Although my house is slowly filling with ceramics now oops

And that’s a wrap. My final day at @gutefabrik was today. We got together on video call for one last social hang before we go our separate ways and it just reminded me of how rare it is to work and grow with a group of such uniquely wonderful people as this. I will miss it. 🏭❤️

❕️If you are at GDC, come see @zerofiftyone_ and I speak about how we made Spoils, the in-house card game featured in @gutefabrik's Saltsea Chronicles ✨️We'll talk about mjnigame design, inspiration, AI and more - Friday, March 22 at 11:30AM 🃏 schedule.gdconf.com/session/miniga…

@philippawarr Ty Pip, I appreciate it 💛

@zerofiftyone_ <3 If there's anything I can do just DM me, this news truly sucks

Pretty gutting news here today. I’m going to miss the DGF crew so much. This studio felt so refreshingly ahead of its time as a place to work in so many ways, and I’ve learned so much in the last three and a half years.

@NilsDeneken Cheers Nils! It’s been such an honour to be involved 🥹❤️🙏🏾

@zerofiftyone_ It’s been great working with you Ben. I‘ll really miss the wonderful, competend and kind energy that you brought to the team.

@timstatis Thanks Tim 🙏🏾❤️

Also I managed to throw, dry, turn and carve the one in the last pic in less than an hour which is *wild* by my standards. Looking forward to the day when I can do this sort of thing without needing to immediately take a nap afterwards

This week at pottery class I learned how to make little foot rings on the bottom of my pots🏺

I’m definitely getting a little better on the wheel with more practice. It’s no longer quite so utterly heartbreaking when I ruin a pot, now that I can throw another one fairly quickly. RIP to the pots that perished in the name of practice today.

@philippawarr Aw thank you Pip! ❤️

@zerofiftyone_ Omg Ben that's amazing! It's so professional-looking!

I threw my first decent bowl on the wheel yesterday! I’d made a bunch of practice ones before but none of them were kiln-worthy. Stuff like this doesn’t come easy for my dyspraxic brain, so I’m pretty pleased 🎉

@jennegatron ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🥹

I was on a recent episode of @eggplantshow. If you listened to the ep I was on back in 2021 and wondered why we were obsessively thinking about trick-taking games, well.. here’s the reason!

@helvetica I can’t unsee the “only two appendages at a time” thing now 😄

We made a mini-puzzlebook you can print-and-play with your fam* this thanksgiving — and if you solve it, you’ll all unlock access to puzzmo. download it at launch.puzzmo.com !

@hannahnicklin I only know V in passing and didn’t know they were into it but I can totally see how there’d be a big interest overlap amongst games folks

I tried pottery on a wheel for the first time last weekend and now I can feel myself getting sucked into yet another new hobby rabbit hole. The unused gear I bought from the time I tried stained glass art is side-eyeing me hard rn as I google for local pottery studios oops 🙈

Some news! I’m going to be speaking at next year’s GDC with @doougle. We’re giving a talk about the card game we designed for Saltsea.

@ruthie_edwards @gutefabrik Ahh thank you Ruthie! 💛

@zerofiftyone_ @gutefabrik Absolutely gorgeous!

Saltsea Chronicles is OUT. It felt like christmas morning to see all the lovely reviews and kind words trickle in today. I’m so glad and relieved that it’s finally in people’s hands. Phew. And now I sleep.