Here is a talk about trickster archetypes and games and play that I did in October 2021 for Upsala University’s Transformative Play Initiative. It builds off of ideas I initiated in my 2019 Playful By Design talk at UIUC.
What follows is the copy from my artist keynote for the Indigenous Digital Development Day 2021, on October 20th. I’ll also post a link to the video recording when it becomes available. The main page of it all can be found here. Thank you to the folks at imagineNATIVE who …
What follows are my notes, which make for a rough transcript, of my talk to the University of Kansas’ Digital Storytelling Colloquium from November 4th, 2020. The video can be found here. Opening I’d like to first acknowledge, during the crazy times of this particular election, that we are still …
I have been told by quite a number of people that I have a certain emotional resilience and a tenacity for working at a problem. I sometimes say that I attribute the development of that particular part of me to years of play tabletop roleplaying games, video games, board games, …
I’m sitting here, in this Covid world, experiencing its emotional ups and downs while I watch all the things that are shaken loose as the slowing down caused by the pandemic, beats the bushes. My mind wanders to my own design process and the things I think are important. The …
Hi all! I’m very long overdue for an update about my goings on and doings. Last year was something of a whirlwind of stuff. And this year has been an even greater swirl of social change, upheaval, sickness and awakenings. As I’ve been watching the ongoing reports of covid in …
Time for a ramble. My rambling brain is rambling non-stop. It’s my observation that humans have such a wide range of biodiversity and neurodiversity and much of it is oppressed and pathologized by normative culture. Things like skin color, autism, intersex, sexuality, relationship patterns all fall within this. I think …
The storm had subsided a bit and the morning sun had begun to peek through the clouds. In this new light, Makkitu’q could see the the remains of shiver corpses scattered all around the WayMound. They had already began the process of dissolution before the sun. They dissipated, tuning into …
Winter is an important season for me. It is a time that allows for the going into deep dark places, sitting with oneself and looking at the strange scars, and growths, and changes that have come about from the process of just moving through the seasons of the previous year. …
There are special breaths that come to us over the course of our lives. There is the “Breath of Arrival”. We come into this world from our mothers and are shocked into wakefulness. The sudden awareness of the world overwhelms us and fills our lungs with this great breath that …
Last time, I talked about this process that I call the “Winter Counts” which arose out of the character creation process found in Ehdrigohr: The role-playing game. I figured it was worth it to break down how this process actually works for me so that groups could try to do …
Ehdrigohr has been the beginning of many interesting discoveries and journeys for me over the last few years. When I set out to make it I was never quite sure what it would end up being. I didn’t know what I would end up finding in it. More importantly, I …
There are a lot of new people discovering Ehdrigohr, and asking about the processes of playing it and a Fate game in general, so I thought I’d post links to this podcast, called the Oneshot Podcast, where I did last an Ehdrigohr session year (2014) in December.
In Ehdrigohr there exist numerous smaller orders, touched by the Graces and Songs, who serve the people in much the same way as the Great Societies. Though they may be smaller in number or access the things they do may, in some cases, be even bigger. The Storykeeping Society of …
This began as an answer to a post from my friend online and game design peer, the awesome Kate Bullock. The question was “What is your magic?” I answered the post but decided to expand on my answer and talk a bit more about my interaction with the world with …
