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Yo. Game designer, educator, writer, and everything in between. https://timsamoff.artstation.com/

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The Global Game Jam, proper, begins this Friday. And this will be the first time in eight years that I won’t be participating. While teaching at Azusa Pacific University, I had the privilege of… | Ti... The Global Game Jam, proper, begins this Friday. And this will be the first time in eight years that I won’t be participating. While teaching at Azusa Pacific University, I had the privilege of leadi...

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28.01.2026 21:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bonus Installment (Part 6?!): Leave Something Behind I Lied I said this series would be five parts. Which was true, until it wasn’t.

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19.01.2026 18:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I haven’t had one of these since high school maybe. It’s delicious.

13.01.2026 20:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is very cool project that I was involved with. While my submitted game didn’t make it in, playtesting and proofreading was an incredible experience.

13.01.2026 14:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Game Poems Magazine Game Poems is an online playable magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames. The videogame poem is a concept that challenges traditional boundaries betw...

Out now!

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13.01.2026 14:40 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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When the City Answers Back A Different Kind of Ending Up to this point, this series has traced a path from intent to systems, from systems to space, and from space to action. I started by asking why I wanted to make a game like...

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13.01.2026 03:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Message from The Ambassador W. Kamau Bell
A Message from The Ambassador W. Kamau Bell YouTube video by Fishbone

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09.01.2026 19:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great read — even food AAA game devs. I’ve been saying these things for years.

08.01.2026 18:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Making Resistance Playable Real Change Comes From Action (or Interaction) In the first part of this series, I wrote about why I wanted to start ideating on a game like New & Improved™, and why engaging directly with culture fel...

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07.01.2026 06:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First day of a new job. First time in going into a job with no idea what’s in store. First day in over twenty years that I’ll be sitting in an office 5 days per week. First day in over 10 years that I won’t be driving my kids to school.

05.01.2026 12:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dog by Cat.

04.01.2026 00:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😁

31.12.2025 17:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I didn’t make my goal of 205 books this year, but I did a lot less driving and got pretty close. Not bad!

31.12.2025 16:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The City Sets the Tempo: How Space Shapes Play The City as a Mechanic In the first part of this series, I talked about intent, or why I wanted to start ideating on a game like New & Improved™. I also discussed why it mattered to me that the game e...

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29.12.2025 22:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Progress Isn’t Power: Designing Systems That Measure Impact, Not Dominance Progression Systems & Player Impact Last week, I laid out the intent behind New & Improved™: a 2D pixel-art side-scroller built around cultural resistance rather than combat, accumulation, or dominati...

Forgot to post this last week!

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29.12.2025 22:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No words…

21.12.2025 04:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Look at that. I go and get myself a job and I’m all of a sudden inspired to start working on new circuits again. Go figure.

Still got it? 😉

20.12.2025 16:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Language, then, is a field ready for the plow; a poem is the careful turning up of that field. A poem must break up the dry outer crush of assumptions to expose the fertile soil underneath.” — JANE CLARK SCHARL

20.12.2025 13:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“The word “verse” has an agricultural past: it comes from the Latin word for “furrowing” or “turning up the soil.

20.12.2025 13:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

- Added slider potentiometer components
- Refined UX for file saving/opening and confirmation dialogs
- Updated all cursor iconography app-wide
- Added specific file icon for saved files
- Updated documentation
- Switched from PayPal to Ko-fi for donations

19.12.2025 03:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

-- Enclosure manufacturers also have brand-specific color coding and badges
- Added component categories
- Changed component menu icon
- Added “Footprint Guides” for determining drill hole placement (internal and external footprints available)

19.12.2025 03:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

- Right-clicking a selected component will display a context menu with Duplicate, Rotate 90°, and Print/Export to PDF (on/off)
- Added enclosure manufacturer categories with specific enclosure sizes
-- Manufacturers listed in alphabetical order

19.12.2025 03:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

- Export to PDF now auto-selects proper paper sizes for enclosures
- Refined header and footer info in PDFs
- Added calibration mark in PDFs for printing accuracy
- Panning is now accomplished via middle-click

19.12.2025 03:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

- Refined app auto-update
- Enclosures now auto-fit to the screen space
- Removed direct print in place of exporting to PDF (PDF exports print more precisely)
--Includes a new “print instructions” screen
- Increased export to PDF resolution

19.12.2025 03:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

v1.1.0 (December 18, 2025)
- New Start screen for selecting a starting enclosure
- Legacy enclosure updates for old version saves

19.12.2025 03:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Enclosure Pro v1.1.0 is here!

If it doesn't auto-update from v1.0.1, please head over the website and download the installer from there.

The app has been downloaded almost 350 times!

This version has SO many updates…

19.12.2025 03:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes.

16.12.2025 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What happened when I was let go.

16.12.2025 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Designing a Game About Cultural Resistance: What Happens When Mechanics Take a Stance Introduction Game development is often reduced to code, engines, and systems. But before a variable is declared or a pixel is drawn on the screen, there’s the messy and sometimes grueling work of idea...

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15.12.2025 19:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Most Difficult Role-Playing Game: Finding a Job Disclaimer: All images used in this article were generated by AI. The Intro We interrupt our usual games-and-culture musings for something a little more personal.

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10.12.2025 14:16 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1