Whenever people discourse about ludic vs non-ludic elements in games I’m always like show me a non-ludic element. I’m not sure they exist!
October 2, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Whenever people discourse about ludic vs non-ludic elements in games I’m always like show me a non-ludic element. I’m not sure they exist!
Officially awarded my PhD today 🥲
November 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Officially awarded my PhD today 🥲
the ludic ideal… I still don’t think anyone has ever made a better game than this…..
Replayed Papers Please and man the fact that it feels GOOD as a border inspector to find something wrong in an immigrant's paperwork and deny them entry is such effective design-as-commentary.
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
the ludic ideal… I still don’t think anyone has ever made a better game than this…..
Today- which also happens to be my 31st birthday- I submitted my PhD thesis, ‘British Board Games and Ludic Lives, c.1860-1939’
March 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Today- which also happens to be my 31st birthday- I submitted my PhD thesis, ‘British Board Games and Ludic Lives, c.1860-1939’
Really excited to get to share that a neat independent studio, Ludic Lemur, has picked up the rights to develop a Monsterhearts video game. Every glimpse I've gotten into the project so far seems really cool!
One of the Ludic Lemur folks, Amy, was an early playtester of Monsterhearts in 2011!
One of the Ludic Lemur folks, Amy, was an early playtester of Monsterhearts in 2011!
Ludic Lemur is developing the Monsterhearts TTRPG, created by Canadian designer Avery Alder @lackingceremony.bsky.social of Buried Without Ceremony, into a computer game.
Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake will launch on Kickstarter in the summer of 2025.
www.ludiclemur.com/monsterhearts
Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake will launch on Kickstarter in the summer of 2025.
www.ludiclemur.com/monsterhearts
Monsterhearts
A Cards-Based RPG About the Messy Lives of Teenage Monsters
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March 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Really excited to get to share that a neat independent studio, Ludic Lemur, has picked up the rights to develop a Monsterhearts video game. Every glimpse I've gotten into the project so far seems really cool!
One of the Ludic Lemur folks, Amy, was an early playtester of Monsterhearts in 2011!
One of the Ludic Lemur folks, Amy, was an early playtester of Monsterhearts in 2011!
HEY go support Ludic Lemur right now!! They make such beautiful, heartfelt indie games!!! And they support Indigenous and queer artists!
Yesterday was National Day of Truth & Reconciliation, so let’s shine a spotlight on the Indigenous artists who help make Ludic Lemur possible.
Our game Suncatcher is filled with indigenous art & patterns & that’s thanks to our incredible art team @alinapete.bsky.social & @telekitnetic.bsky.social!
Our game Suncatcher is filled with indigenous art & patterns & that’s thanks to our incredible art team @alinapete.bsky.social & @telekitnetic.bsky.social!
October 1, 2026 at 8:16 PM
HEY go support Ludic Lemur right now!! They make such beautiful, heartfelt indie games!!! And they support Indigenous and queer artists!
Standards ✍🏼
Ego’s flesh wound~
just a scratch
from
a ludic lover,
ill-suited
for my
Eros heart
#poetry #photography #standards #bloomscrolling #ludic #vss365 #inkmine #eck #westcoastkin
Ego’s flesh wound~
just a scratch
from
a ludic lover,
ill-suited
for my
Eros heart
#poetry #photography #standards #bloomscrolling #ludic #vss365 #inkmine #eck #westcoastkin
May 13, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Standards ✍🏼
Ego’s flesh wound~
just a scratch
from
a ludic lover,
ill-suited
for my
Eros heart
#poetry #photography #standards #bloomscrolling #ludic #vss365 #inkmine #eck #westcoastkin
Ego’s flesh wound~
just a scratch
from
a ludic lover,
ill-suited
for my
Eros heart
#poetry #photography #standards #bloomscrolling #ludic #vss365 #inkmine #eck #westcoastkin
The sharpest, most ludic insight within a must-read thread.
Verification (establishing truth), Deliberation (arguing about it), and Accountability (binding power to it). When these work, you have substance. When they break, you slide into performance, and eventually, simulation, and people recognise this, even if they don't use a shared terminology.
January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
The sharpest, most ludic insight within a must-read thread.
Strange Jigsaws is a wonderful collection of little ludic jokes and puzzles
January 29, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Strange Jigsaws is a wonderful collection of little ludic jokes and puzzles
In better news- I got to work on some formline art for Ludic Lemur!! :> the bear formline in the bakery shop in Suncatcher is my art!!
You can check out the full Sun Catcher game here! ludiclemur.com/sun-catcher
You can check out the full Sun Catcher game here! ludiclemur.com/sun-catcher
October 1, 2026 at 8:32 PM
In better news- I got to work on some formline art for Ludic Lemur!! :> the bear formline in the bakery shop in Suncatcher is my art!!
You can check out the full Sun Catcher game here! ludiclemur.com/sun-catcher
You can check out the full Sun Catcher game here! ludiclemur.com/sun-catcher
Yesterday was National Day of Truth & Reconciliation, so let’s shine a spotlight on the Indigenous artists who help make Ludic Lemur possible.
Our game Suncatcher is filled with indigenous art & patterns & that’s thanks to our incredible art team @alinapete.bsky.social & @telekitnetic.bsky.social!
Our game Suncatcher is filled with indigenous art & patterns & that’s thanks to our incredible art team @alinapete.bsky.social & @telekitnetic.bsky.social!
October 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Yesterday was National Day of Truth & Reconciliation, so let’s shine a spotlight on the Indigenous artists who help make Ludic Lemur possible.
Our game Suncatcher is filled with indigenous art & patterns & that’s thanks to our incredible art team @alinapete.bsky.social & @telekitnetic.bsky.social!
Our game Suncatcher is filled with indigenous art & patterns & that’s thanks to our incredible art team @alinapete.bsky.social & @telekitnetic.bsky.social!
December 8, 2024 at 9:54 PM
It's so funny that this is a thing that still needs to be addressed -- claims that Kojima is more 'cinematic' than 'ludic' -- when Kojima has been the most "ludic" AAA dev by a mile.
... The whole movie thing is just an entire other layer plopped on top of that, for better and worse.
... The whole movie thing is just an entire other layer plopped on top of that, for better and worse.
watching @kbash.bsky.social 's video essay on MGS3 and yeah this bit is on point youtube.com/clip/Ugkx_-q...
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January 16, 2026 at 12:20 AM
It's so funny that this is a thing that still needs to be addressed -- claims that Kojima is more 'cinematic' than 'ludic' -- when Kojima has been the most "ludic" AAA dev by a mile.
... The whole movie thing is just an entire other layer plopped on top of that, for better and worse.
... The whole movie thing is just an entire other layer plopped on top of that, for better and worse.
For a game to reject LUDIC as a word seems almost self-hating.
#NYTSpellingBee
#NYTSpellingBee
April 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
For a game to reject LUDIC as a word seems almost self-hating.
#NYTSpellingBee
#NYTSpellingBee
sometimes a guy who sat in on think tank meetings where they gamed out nuclear war scenarios before he disappeared more or less entirely from public records writes a book where he's like "hey what if we had a ludic century" several decades before we started talking about the ludic century
GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES has dived into the obscure archives, this time returning with a slim 1969 monograph from the heart of the military industrial complex that makes a number of claims that anticipate modern game studies, SIMULATION AND SOCIETY by John R. Raser rangedtouch.com/2025/06/30/8...
July 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
sometimes a guy who sat in on think tank meetings where they gamed out nuclear war scenarios before he disappeared more or less entirely from public records writes a book where he's like "hey what if we had a ludic century" several decades before we started talking about the ludic century
trying to be more ludic this year
September 17, 2026 at 2:38 PM
trying to be more ludic this year
quick sketch of the Bubblebear, wishlist Ludic Blocks now
May 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
quick sketch of the Bubblebear, wishlist Ludic Blocks now
od&d definitely too popular now. which way western man?
-> b/x revivalism but no classes this time
-> woke ad&d for her
-> boot hill revisionism with ludic filmography (no westerns)
-> b/x revivalism but no classes this time
-> woke ad&d for her
-> boot hill revisionism with ludic filmography (no westerns)
March 13, 2026 at 10:36 PM
od&d definitely too popular now. which way western man?
-> b/x revivalism but no classes this time
-> woke ad&d for her
-> boot hill revisionism with ludic filmography (no westerns)
-> b/x revivalism but no classes this time
-> woke ad&d for her
-> boot hill revisionism with ludic filmography (no westerns)
Oh that's just my neighbor Ludic Jeremy
October 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Oh that's just my neighbor Ludic Jeremy
a temporary ludic suspension of hierarchies would really hit rn fr fr ngl
February 17, 2026 at 1:49 PM
a temporary ludic suspension of hierarchies would really hit rn fr fr ngl
Definition of: 'ludic' is: 'playful in an aimless way'
Dyslexic Christopher was feeling playful. He said, “I am lucid” but his buddy corrected him … “You are ludic, Chris”
Use in a sentence 🤗
#WordOfTheDay
#OurDailyThread
#TwamilyTag
www.dictionary.com/browse/ludic
Dyslexic Christopher was feeling playful. He said, “I am lucid” but his buddy corrected him … “You are ludic, Chris”
Use in a sentence 🤗
#WordOfTheDay
#OurDailyThread
#TwamilyTag
www.dictionary.com/browse/ludic
LUDIC Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
LUDIC definition: playful in an aimless way. See examples of ludic used in a sentence.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Definition of: 'ludic' is: 'playful in an aimless way'
Dyslexic Christopher was feeling playful. He said, “I am lucid” but his buddy corrected him … “You are ludic, Chris”
Use in a sentence 🤗
#WordOfTheDay
#OurDailyThread
#TwamilyTag
www.dictionary.com/browse/ludic
Dyslexic Christopher was feeling playful. He said, “I am lucid” but his buddy corrected him … “You are ludic, Chris”
Use in a sentence 🤗
#WordOfTheDay
#OurDailyThread
#TwamilyTag
www.dictionary.com/browse/ludic
I enjoyed these lectures. “Resistance to #bibliography” and “ludic bibliography”!
2024 Sandars Lectures on Bibliography Now Available Online
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
2024 Sandars Lectures on Bibliography Now Available Online
The Sandars Lectures 2024 given by Timothy Young, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts for the Yale Center for British Art, on 'Resistance to Bibliography' are now available online.
www.finebooksmagazine.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I enjoyed these lectures. “Resistance to #bibliography” and “ludic bibliography”!