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1. Games on boards with 8 or 10 rows. This is thought to refer to ashtapada and dasapada respectively; however, later Sinhala commentaries refer to these boards also being used with games involving dice. 2
2. The same games played on imaginary boards. Akasam astapadam was an ashtapada variant played with no board, literally "astapadam played in the sky". A correspondent in the American Chess Bulletin identifies this as likely the earliest literary mention of a blindfold chess variant. 5]
3. Games of marking diagrams on the floor such that the player can only walk on certain places. This is described in the Vinaya Pitaka as
"having drawn a circle with various lines on the ground, there they play avoiding the line to be avoided". Rhys Davids suggests that it may refer to parihara-patham, a form of hop-scotch.
4. Games where players either remove pieces from a pile or add pieces to it, with the loser being the one who causes the heap to shake (similar to the modern game pick-up sticks).
5. Games of throwing dice.
6. Dipping the hand with the fingers stretched out in lac, or red dye, or flour-water, and striking the wet hand on the ground or on a wall, calling out "What shall it be?" and showing the form required— elephants, horses, etc..
7. Ball games.
8. Blowing through a pat-kulal, a toy pipe made of leaves.
9. Ploughing with a toy plough.
10. Playing with toy windmills made from palm leaves.
11. Playing with toy measures made from palm leaves.
12. Playing with toy carts.
13. Playing with toy bows.
14. Guessing at letters traced with the finger in the air or on a friend's back. (letters in the Brahmi script)
15. Guessing a friend's thoughts.
16. Imitating deformities.
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No. 17 (2026): International Journal of Role-playing Issue 17 | International Journal of Role-Playing
Published by the Department of Game Design, Uppsala University-Campus Gotland. ISSN (online): 2210-4909 | CC BY 4.0
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Leonora Carrington, The Lovers, 1987
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The confusion began when we began letting them call this stuff "content" rather than, say, "expression." Content is a consumable substance which may as well be synthesized if you can. Expression is an attempt to communicate some aspect of the experience of being alive.
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can't believe they are bringing pol pot to fortnite
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everyone posting their 'top 9 games' when they should be posting about '10 BEAUTIFUL POSTCARDS'
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GAP logo: the letters G A and P spelt out in red string on a cork board
Myself and @mtrc.bsky.social are running a workshop on Games and Archaeological Play (GAP) at FDG 2026!
Short papers of up to 4 pages are due by April 5th. We are interested in any work that broadly relates to video game archaeology. See the full CFP here:
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we're looking for talks and workshops for GIGF26 if you know anyone who might be a good fit 🌸
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I like this quote:
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Future? No Thanks! Has a kind of website now:
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new blog post fuzul.bearblog.dev/ways-of-being/
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im getting there
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New Release: Magpie (v0.1 - Sorrow)
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A blue zine mockup for a game called Chord, the cover shows a morose face surrounded by piano keys and small creatures hopping around them.
CHORD is coming March 24, two player miniature capture the flag skirmish game played on a piano keyboard that generates ambient music while you play.
My first skirmish game release!
Pay what you want on itch and a few scrappy diy zines in my bag at adepticon.
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congrats!!
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imagining a one shot rpg of this lol
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this made me think what movie would u choose to see a ttrpg of
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no man's sky and late for work, gold standards in post launch updates
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is there any way this could get me a job pls hire kiss maker
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not even gonna question why this exists, just gonna appreciate that it does
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beautiful how it becomes easier to listen to those senses when we give our attention to the material of the thing we are working with
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Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6!
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made this creature making and battling game with a friend in a game jam couple months ago but didnt release it bcs combat is broken and kinda sucks but maybe i should just release it just for the creature making parts
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I just happened to be looking at Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter's Games of Empire (2009) this morning for entirely unrelated reasons
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i am experiencing a new way of being of reading this and thanking you
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new blog post fuzul.bearblog.dev/ways-of-being/
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above information but its a poster with lotte and werther using cell phones and like shitty psychedelic graphic design
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