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helvetica

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Co-founder of Puzzmo.

I make deep games that are easy to get into. Also conceptual art.

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keenan, to random
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To all you aspiring game makers out there, a warning: do not be like @helvetica and try to swindle me into praising your awesome and delightful game, Pile-Up Poker.

https://gkeenan.co/avgb/zach-gage-thinks-he-can-bribe-me-into-talking-about-pile-up-poker-the-new-game-on-puzzmo

helvetica,
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@keenan 🤣🤣🤣 Sorry about that, you are right, i will halt all swindling in the future

helvetica,
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@keenan im very glad you're enjoying it

helvetica, to random
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New game release from me and the Puzzmo team:

♥️♠️ Pile-Up Poker ♦️♣️
Poker for Solitaire lovers (and Solitaire for Poker Lovers)

Play it for free here: http://puzzmo.com/play/pile-up-poker/

After a few years away I'm back at it with traditional card games

I'm really proud of Pile-Up, it's a poker game anyone can play (even if you've never played poker and don't know poker hands), but it still runs very deep.

It's a perfect little daily deal (or 5) for your morning

helvetica,
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We're running a multi-week event where the community is trying to win a total of $1 Trillion dollars.

At each milestone we're revealing a secret. We worked hard to make sure the secrets are really awesome.

You can see our progress here: https://puzzmo.com/game/pile-up-poker

helvetica,
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Our first secret, unlocked at $1 MIllion, is:

We commissioned one of my favorite comic artists, Lisa Hanawalt (of Bojack and Tuca & Bertie fame) to make a custom deck of playing cards that are free to everyone who subscribes during the Pile-Up event!

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helvetica,
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@danblondell hahaha thank you

helvetica,
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@jackamick yep the deck is $20 for subscribers. you can purchase it at the link at the top of your settings: https://www.puzzmo.com/me

helvetica,
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@eliperkins thanks!

helvetica,
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@sumokirby yep!

matt, to random
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I love this new game so much! Well done, @helvetica and team!

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@helvetica/112535844962805631

helvetica,
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@matt Thank you!

helvetica, (edited ) to random
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soft-launch day https://www.puzzmo.com/game/pile-up-poker

early access password: PUZZMAY31

helvetica,
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@BenRiceM thank you !

helvetica,
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@Bluewall thanks! At some point yes

JahimWord, to random
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@helvetica Your in-app prompt to update Knotwords gave me a text file to download and didn’t go to the App Store?

helvetica,
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@JahimWord interesting! ill look into it. sorry about that

theowatson, to books
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Currently reading HItchhikers Guide to the Galaxy to the little one and two chapters in it’s a hit. Never laughed so hard during stories. Can’t recommend it enough.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63340129-the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy

helvetica,
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@theowatson oh man i loved that show so much

skinnylatte, to random
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I truly feel that the moment I liberated myself from the ideas of ‘doing / learning things for productivity / success’, my relationship with everything changed. Like wdym I can learn typography without becoming a designer, learn to play an instrument without ever performing, and just.. be?

There’s a lot of info about ‘perfecting a craft’ but I’d bet it would help most people to just ‘dabble in a craft’

helvetica,
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@skinnylatte one of my most meaningful art classes in college was called “digital sketchbook”. we had to use all kinds of different pieces of technology to create are but we were forbidden from finishing anything.

really a meaningful experience to be forced to work that way

BoatsAndJoes, to random

@helvetica @orta In the Puzzmo Cross|word leaderboards, what is a "plonk"?

helvetica,
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@BoatsAndJoes @orta check the instructions

helvetica, to random
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perfect example of loss aversion. our table wobbled for 8 years because we didn’t want to reduce the number of protective rubber feet by removing the remaining three

helvetica, to random
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I don't know who else out there has my very specific problem of not wanting to use google software but — fastmail finally (as of today?) supports exactly one modern calendar application (https://morgen.so).

I've been using it for like 5 hours and it is amazing to actually be able to send meeting requests, have scheduled open time, and be able to accept meeting requests without going to fastmail.com

If you also have this problem — big recommendation from me!

helvetica,
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@iomegadrive oh that may be new. when i first started using fantastical they did not and it was annoying to not be able to approve events.

Hempuli, to random
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New paper puzzle type - Forceloop: https://www.hempuli.com/blogblog/archives/2993
Rules & 3 puzzles behind the link.

helvetica,
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@Hempuli this is really nice! I feel a bit like the “allowed to cross itself" rule can be pretty brain-breaking, but maybe that's needed for really advanced puzzles! I admit i haven't solved the harder ones.

I was thinking this might be an easier to parse design:

helvetica, to random
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I dont know why it took me so long to figure this out, but Bit Generations: Coloris has finally displaced Zoop as my secret favorite vidoegame of all time.

helvetica,
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@nephariuz my only specific recommendation is that the game is very ugly on a sp101 screen and beautiful on the original gba with the washed out colors (for which it was intended). Im not sure what you can do with that information, i dunno the state of emulators these days. but on my analogue pocket i can set the screen filters to the correct style

helvetica,
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@ailepet @nephariuz lower right, lower middle, or top middle. the first photo im attaching and not the second

helvetica, to random
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I still can't really believe orta and saman built this thing.
This is a great and extremely friendly overview
https://m.webtoo.ls/@orta/112287122086028154

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