J. Walton
He/they. I teach about Game Design, Technoscience, & East Asia at CMU. Belatedly joining this thing to keep up with my creative & academic communities (comments my own).
- Eastwood Guitars loves designing modern takes on classic unusual instruments, so I emailed them a while back to suggest a new version of the Japanese 1960s Winston/Kawai electric banjo. Just now, this model popped up for pre-order. Unreal. eastwoodguitars.com/products/eas...
- DHS was created with an intentionally Orwellian name, amid the Islamophobic and xenophobic environment of the early War On Terror moral panic and its associated right-wing suspension of even the most basic human rights for everyone. Abolish the whole department.
- Reposted by J. WaltonEducation is a public good for all. When politicians censor classroom teaching in order to narrow the field of topics that students can engage in, they rob them of a stellar world class education. This is what is happening at Texas A&M & other institutions in the state. 🧵
- Pretty great pre-winter-storm haul at the used bookstore. Already own @jmstar.bsky.social's Durance & multiple editions of Montsegur 1244, so those will go to my university library's new indie games collection. But check out that old Chaosium larp book co-written by our Forge colleague Walt Freitag!
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- Reposted by J. WaltonAt the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
- We're playing @megueyb.bsky.social @lumpley.bsky.social 's Doomed Pilgrim + Firebrands excerpts + @johnharper.bsky.social 's Lasers & Feelings + Pocket Danger Patrol in my "Indie RPG Studio" class today. Wish me luck as I weird out some college students with micro-scale mini-games.
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Narrascope 2026 open call: The Experience Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds through Narrative Seeking projects in the realms of augmented/mixed reality, interactive installations, haunts, escape rooms, live performances that leverage tech, and more. narrascope.org/experience/ - Reposted by J. Walton[Not loaded yet]
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- Reposted by J. WaltonI need everyone to make a shitpost game that fits into at most 3 posts on here before the end of the year otherwise thr sun will not rise again
- Things I re-learned this year: (1) Working harder can't fix Systemic Problems. I need to be strategic about tackling those, w/ others. (2) The U.S. Public is frustratingly hesitant about direct action against blatant cruelty & corruption. Shut it down! (3) People like my games? Always a surprise.
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- 100% this.
- Trying to figure out if I can make a Neoplastic board game for the Public Domain Jam, since several 1930 paintings by Mondrian and van Doesburg become public domain on Jan 1.
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- Thinking about the different contexts of "prompt writing" today. When I try to write good prompts for RPGs (for random cards, for PBTA moves), I'm trying to create interesting structures where I myself cannot know what the emergent outcomes will be -- they are context- & player-dependent.
- I would like to wish everyone a Very Merry "things published in 1930 will enter the public domain in 6 days." itch.io/jam/gaming-l...
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- Year I first designed an RPG: ~1995. Year I first discovered indie RPGs: 2002. Year I first did a game jam: also 2002 (Game Chef 1). Year I first sold something at GenCon: 2006. Year I first made a significant profit: 2025. You never have to stop making games, even if it never becomes your day job.
