Gamification: like fun, only hellish... timharford.com/2024/08/gamifi…

Really excellent explanation of how to design systemic (as opposed to scripted-content) games. playtank.io/2024/06/12/des…

Interesting if true. (Does it apply to other species?) But further studies needed first. livescience.com/planet-earth/e…

It's here. The first complete #openworld solo #RPG #gamebook series. amzn.to/3LNqAtt

I had a lovely time at #FFFest5. All the stars! All the artists! A glorious tribute to Fighting Fantasy and other gamebooks. Ian Livingstone was an absolute star as always. Thanks to Jonathan Green, Gamebook Author and the team for putting together such an amazing event!

“There is a genuine sense of the exotic that moves Steve Jackson's Sorcery away from being the usual sort-of Tolkien, sort-of medieval fantasy fare." #gamebooks fabledlands.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-s…

Three human figures in a 50,000-year-old painting – as long as you squint at it and use lots of imagination. No denying the pig, though. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

#Vulcanverse #gamebooks. An open world with an epic endgame. amzn.to/3LNqAtt

Why numbers are sometimes better than words. What people think you say when you say “little chance,” “probably not,” or “highly likely.”

If it wasn't clear at the time, it is clear now. Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt poisoned the wells and salted the fields to ensure they left Labour a terrible inheritance. The supposed party of law and order preferred manufacturing a prison crisis to doing the right thing

Jonathan nails it. Many ppl who know nothing about science misunderstand the word 'Theory'

“Among the Ache of eastern Paraguay, a man who replaces a woman’s previous mate after the latter’s death or disappearance will frequently kill her offspring on the grounds that he is not willing to rear another man’s child.” amzn.to/3xITVSt

How long does it take to turn an oil tanker around? Brilliant listener question today on Tim Harford's #MoreOrLess, and I felt v smug asking Husband Dave Morris to guess afterwards. He said half an hour. (Wrong.) Anyone else like to guess?

Is human-level #AGI just 5 years away? youtube.com/watch?v=_1krIn…

“Why, reading a #gamebook on a phone screen, do we suddenly acquire the attention span of a toddler on a sugar rush?” fabledlands.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-do…

If you get sent something like this, bin it. Not only does paying for a page devalue Wikipedia, it's not where anyone is going to come looking for your company details anyway. That's what a website is for.

“I’d have gotten away with it, if it hadn’t been for you meddling Ids!” @TobyLitt on monsters. awritersdiary.substack.com/p/on-monsters