🦖 Absurdist Productions 🦕

We absurdists are now over on Blue Sky social, if you happen to be there too, you should give us a follow. @absurdistprod.bsky.social

@gengelstein Use input/output randomness a lot when giving feedback to other designers after playtesting.

I thought my legacy might be coining the phrase “Input / Output Randomness”. But apparently it’s going to be this picture.

We will be going live on Twitch shortly playing some PaleoVet with our good friend DC. m.twitch.tv/dcbueller/home

@EllieDixTweets Apparently your cup of tea needed a cup of tea

I made myself a cup of tea and then discovered I had made one not 3 minutes earlier. I suspect this may be the beginning of the end

PaleoVet got reviewed on the Dice Tower. youtu.be/oFLGTwbvK0c?si…

@NaomiLaeuchli We are also working our way through Baldur' Gate 3. But hope you enjoy Seven Murders Til Midnight once you get to it.

It has arrived! Ready to start hunting a killer in this solo RPG journal game by @AbsurdistProd. That is if I can pull myself away from Baldur's Gate III. Too many fun things to do!

Packing up the bundles for those who ordered all of our books. It's a nice pile of RPG goodness.

Packing of Seven Murders Til Midnight in progress with our official QA dog sniffing every box to ensure they are packed with care.

@failfasterjay TTS is a useful tool if you can't get a group together to playtest in person. You just have to keep in mind that the games will take longer and people will interact with elements differently. Testing with a physical prototype will always be incredibly important.

A lot of designers use Tabletop Simulator in order to help them playtest their game. Do you feel this is a good way of playtesting? Or, do you feel board games should be tested how they’re physically played? What sort of tools do you use for playtesting?

@DrayerInk Apparently they can't even rebrand properly.

@QMLogistics Going to be a lot of happy Paleo Vets out there soon.

PaleoVet created by Absurdist Productions has begun packing and shipping this Friday morning! #Kickstarter @AbsurdistProd 🦖

Just dropping another Con announcement. We plan on being at @skasdicon in November. A great Indigenous Comic Convention hosted here in Oklahoma. skasdicon.com

@UnitedAJ7 @MiracleConOKC Games should start shipping out for US backers sometime next week. So hopefully you will be saving Dinos very soon.

Will is at GenCon this weekend. PaleoVet should start delivering to US backers next week, Seven Murders will start delivering the week after, and we will be at @MiracleConOKC at the end of the month.

@RestorationGame The first part is a physical engineering issue. For the second, make it for something more interesting than movement, and I like the idea of making it double ended and players choose one of the two indicated spots. Depending on other mechanics maybe someone else gets the other.

@RestorationGame The thing that usually turns people off from spinners is that older ones were always fairly easy to game and/or hard to read. They were also often used to replace dice for movement, so just roll to move in a different form.

Serious question: As someone who specializes in bringing back old games, I have a burning desire to do a game with a spinner. Have you ever seen a hobby game with a spinner? How would you use one? I have ideas, but I want to hear the wisdom of the masses.

@SenFoongLim A map based tile placement game where you are building cultures via spice pairings.

Oh look, a spice rack for game designers.

@PatrickLeder @perryjon Call it "Becoming human", with each player cursed in some way which turned them into a monster and searching for a cure.

@perryjon I always wanted to make a game where the players start out with all of their powers and have to shed them throughout the game to return to being human.