#overzealous — Public Fediverse posts

Sometimes it helps to look at game design through the 'Smooth/Chunky vibes' lens.

Smooth:
🥛 small numbers, small changes
🥛 stat parity
🥛 player-facing rules
🥛 4d6
🥛 predictable consequences

Chunky:
🥜 one dice for everything
🥜 big changes, high variance
🥜 1d100
🥜 you have two stats
🥜 random tables

Blog article with examples from my recent design work here:
https://periaptgames.blogspot.com/2025/10/smooth-vs-chunky-game-design.html

#gamedev #blog #devblog #Overzealous

So... this just in: #swedishpolice announced today that #dutch #artist #joostklein is no longer being #investigated as no #evidence was found. In other words: he's #innocent.

Meanwhile what I predicted has happened: he was #disqualified from #eurovision2024 proactively for something that turns out did not happen.

The #overzealous behavior of the #ebu that organizes the euro vision song festival has cost Joost the (near) top spot. That can't be taken back.

#fuckebu #boycott #eurovision2025