I've just released a plot guide for Galactic 2e called Save the Galaxy!

The guide walks you through your session from character creation to the final epilogue and helps you tell fast paced, tightly plotted, single-session adventures. Grab Save the Galaxy on Itch: randylubin.itch.io/save-the-galaxy

Check out Galactic 2e by @rileyrethaI (Star Wars meets Belonging Outside Belonging): metagame.itch.io/galactic

Browse the Galactic 2e jam for great adjacent material: itch.io/jam/g2ejam/ent…

Yesterday I wrote about running an interactive ~90 person workshop on positive AI economic futures. Today I want to share some of the experience design patterns that @mmasnick and I used to ensure that it was smooth and successful.

Earlier thread:

https://twitter.com/randylubin/status/1339699477695791104

We were able to employ a bunch of techniques that we've been exploring over the past few years and hopefully you'll find them interesting, especially if you want to run interactive events. This event was on Zoom but many of these patterns apply on any platform, or even offline.

Earlier today, @mmasnick and I had the pleasure of running a 4-hour workshop on Positive AI Economic Futures for @wef and @CHAI_Berkeley

We're thrilled with how it went – here's an overview with details on the goals, exercises, and output: The event was part of a broader Positive AI + Economy initiative that will include reports, scenarios, and an @xprize film competition that will build on the workshop’s outputs. weforum.org/agenda/2020/10…

I just added monetization to @StorySynth, in an experimental, bleeding-edge, not-at-all-practical-but-technically-interesting kinda way.

It’s feels kinda cyberpunk!

A quick thread 🧵 Story Synth takes advantage of the relatively new Web Monetization Protocol (WMP), which enables the easy flow of payments from a user to a website via their browser.

And by easy – I mean you can set it up with just one line of code!

webmonetization.org

I'm super interested in ways to grow the indie storytelling game market (tabletop RPGs and larps). There's an incredible design renaissance underway, with a huge influx of new designers and groundbreaking designs, but the total revenue in the indie scene seems to remain small. For some context, 2017 figures had the RPG market at $55MM in rev and mainstream rpgs like D&D earned the vast majority. The market has likely seem major growth since, due to Actual Plays and pop culture mentions but the share of rev is likely still skewed
polygon.com/2019/7/29/8934…