Game Designer. Recovering Startup Founder. Currently working on: - Tableau: MRDR - “Kingdom Game”https://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lpsek6zw7c2oThe younger generations apparently think em-dashes didn't exist in good English writing prior to ChatGPT. Have they even read a book?23 May 2025 00:24 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpsek6zw7c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lojt7hn2f22tWhen did Google add an AI mode to Search? I was pretty sure it'd be within two years of this post. I may have been off by just a few months.06 May 2025 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojt7hn2f22thttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3loeygdgjfk2cPushed my song “Brownies for your birthday” out so I can finally add it to my birthday playlist in Apple Music. They don’t let you build playlists with both cloud music and local music for some reason. https://music.apple.com/us/album/brownies-for-your-birthday-part-i/1812270357?i=181227035804 May 2025 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3loeygdgjfk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lnnmllnxbk23Without protected means of archiving our digital knowledge and history we risk losing it all. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Apr 2025 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnnmllnxbk23https://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lmidkb2w4k22Boxes of books are heavy bc they’re basically boxes of solid wood. 🪵 📕10 Apr 2025 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmidkb2w4k22https://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lmcsjtcddk2bI see an Avengers Endgame reaction video and I'm going to watch it. Every single time. End of story. #iknewit08 Apr 2025 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmcsjtcddk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3llrpzbeul226Can’t to show off the new party game we’ve been working on. It’s called “The Aristocrats!”01 Apr 2025 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3llrpzbeul226https://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lkh37w4pvk26Some light gaming on the flight home. #stardew15 Mar 2025 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkh37w4pvk26https://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lgtejhtwo22pApplication can have a chat bot which lets you request & design new features into the app you’re using. Live. Who will do it first? Who will do it best?28 Jan 2025 21:10 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgtejhtwo22phttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lg4tpd7swk2hUm…Apple Notes can do calculations and graphing *with variables* now?! I really slept on that update. I simply started writing a calculation and it completed it for me. I added a variable and it just worked. 🤯19 Jan 2025 22:10 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg4tpd7swk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lfpuyz4b2s2bI pre-ordered so many board games last year & they’re all shipping over the next three months. It’s like second-Christmas!: - Facade Games Deluxe Editions (6 games total!) - Earthborne Rangers (so excited for this one) - Brink (from IV Studios of Moonrakers fame) - Root: Homeland - 1 I’ve forgotten14 Jan 2025 18:29 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfpuyz4b2s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lfpuocud5k2bWhat’s in your 🎲✂️ game design junk drawer? Mine is a random collection of baggies (for holding my prototype bits), card sleeves, random player pieces from games I no longer own, dead pens, post-its, orphaned dice, and so very many little notepads.14 Jan 2025 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfpuocud5k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lfg72zz4i22k🎲✂️ Have you ever intentionally designed for what would typically be considered negative feelings or themes? (eg frustration, confusion, anger) And what place do you think games have in helping us to safely explore & process unhappy themes or feelings?10 Jan 2025 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfg72zz4i22khttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lffmobo5qc2k🎲✂️ At what point in your game design do you focus on the players’ *feeling* of the gameplay? All the time, never, only during certain bits?10 Jan 2025 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lffmobo5qc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lf6qiek5x22iBalatro is not for me. I’ll try it again, but maybe I just don’t connect enough with Poker culture or some-such-thing.07 Jan 2025 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf6qiek5x22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lf3dnplcfc2lApparently watching TikTok for 4 hours is equivalent in environmental impact to doing a load of laundry? In America that amounts to 5.28 million metric tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere every year.06 Jan 2025 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf3dnplcfc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lex4qhvsuk2dLast time I talked about a startup of mine was in 2022 for an AI tool I built with OpenAI's GPT-3. Back then you had to pitch them your idea before they'd approve your usage for consumer applications. I pitched them Pippin, which was a proto-ChatGPT. Except mine launched with a paid plan.04 Jan 2025 22:11 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lex4qhvsuk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3leunoeja7s2bIf TikTok truly were banned in the U.S. it might be best for the environment? The estimates I’ve seen put annual carbon emissions for all U.S. TikTok users at about 5.28 million metric tons of CO2. 😬03 Jan 2025 22:36 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3leunoeja7s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3leulyabuj22qIf you want to help save the planet, maybe stay off the internet? I've see daily reminders from people that every ChatGPT prompt is harmful to the environment, but not that every two minutes watching TikTok is equivalent to one ChatGPT prompt…03 Jan 2025 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3leulyabuj22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3leuh4br4mc2oThis guy got paid to stand in a room and take pictures with people. Wild. Starting to wonder if I made poor career decisions.03 Jan 2025 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3leuh4br4mc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lesmsepwvk22I used to be really vocal online about all my projects and experiments! But then somewhere along the way I adopted a rule that I would not talk about a project until I had made major progress on it. And so, well, I basically stopped talking about my work altogether. Well, with one notable exception.03 Jan 2025 03:15 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lesmsepwvk22https://bsky.app/profile/soapko.bsky.social/post/3lesiwi4k2s24I’m been away from social good a LONG time. Time to start talking again!03 Jan 2025 02:06 +0000at://did:plc:33yprvqeubcxhdblnw7d4lon/app.bsky.feed.post/3lesiwi4k2s24