Diximus is a game of storytelling for four or more people that can be played with just pens and paper. In it, players write short narratives based on a prompt, and then compete to guess who authored the stories.
It is a generalization of the 2010 Spiel des Jahres Winning game Dixit. I’m making it [...]
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August 29, 2010 – 6:21 pm
SWM in Brooklyn
July 25, 2010 – 5:56 pm
As I am single and my roommate is away for the summer, I have taken on a lifestyle similar to a buzzard’s.
I inhabit a cave on the fourth story of my building, but as it is too hot to live in I spend my days shuffling back and forth on my roof, looking out over [...]
On Narrative Structure
July 15, 2010 – 12:36 am
Narrative is a High Level Data Structure
was the first thing I read this morning. It was a text message that Ethan Jucovy had sent the night before.
“Or…is data a high level narrative structure?” I responded, pleased with myself for having found something to say on the topic at 7:14 am. I was [...]
Event Score: The Advance
July 8, 2010 – 1:23 pm
Find someone beautiful who is oblivious to the same things that you are.
Kiss them.
Grower and STV
July 6, 2010 – 10:33 am
Circa 2150, humanity discovers that an enormous spore the size of a comet has drifted into its solar system. Scientists study it and conclude that it is a kind of deep space megaflora that propagates slowly from star to star.
The first astrobotanists nurtured the plant with sunlight and the atmospheric chemicals of Venus, discovering that [...]
