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Austin Auclair
@patientrock.bsky.social
Game, quest, and narrative designer. Location -based game expert and geocacher. I have too many hobbies. He/him. www.PatientRock.com
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Sarracenia leucophylla is happiest in the fall.

sarracenia leucophylla is an American Pitcher Plant, native to the southeastern United States. It’s notable for its white-tipped upright pitchers which are streaked with red veins. The fall is when it grows its most striking pitchers.
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Honestly though, kids are so different from each other that while you can get little tips and tricks from friends and family, it’s not often that those pieces of advice work for your kid, or if they do, only for a little while. You’re doing a great job.

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We’d be best buds because, being a morning person, I would have already been up for hours :p

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It’s a good album, Kathryn.

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If there was any work that defined the course of my creative life, Ed Emberley’s “Big Orange Drawing Book” is top of the list.

My kid is sitting on the floor with a sheet of poster paper for a school project. Three of Ed Emberley drawing books are arrayed on the carpet. Ed Emberley’s drawing manuals celebrate doodling over realism and to this day I find them magical. Also, our cat Knightley watches my kid at work, wondering if there’s anything present that might be suitable to steal for a toy.
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“Clash of Clangs”

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Quake is old fashioned, few games today let level designers hand-place pickups per difficulty level... but the general idea that "pickups help players commit to fight" is good for any combat game, a classic solve for Yoder's "The Door Problem of Combat Design" andrewyoderdesign.blog/2019/08/04/t...

shotgun placed in increasingly dangerous locations depending on difficulty level
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Happy Butterwort.

A Mexican Butterwort is a carnivorous plant. It’s got round, flat leaves with gooey little pores all over them. Small insects like gnats and ants are attracted to the smell of the goo, get stuck, die, and then the Butterwort releases digestive fluids to break down the bodies for their nutrients. This Butterwort has put up a lovely little flower. It’s purplish-pink and is a single bloom at the end of a tall stalk.
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@ozone.birb.house Could I be tagged as “Game Dev”? Please and thank you!

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[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

A bumper sticker just below where the car says Odyssey reading “my other car is an Iliad”
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Austin Auclair
@patientrock.bsky.social
Game, quest, and narrative designer. Location -based game expert and geocacher. I have too many hobbies. He/him. www.PatientRock.com
35 followers69 following255 posts