About Me

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    Hello, and welcome! I am notKingCole.

    I'm a casual game designer who has been making games of all varieties since I was a kid-- card games, board games, a tabletop RPG, to digital games, to more card games, I've done it all. Well, not literally all, but a lot.

    I make games because I find them fascinating. The way that designers like Mark Rosewater, Avery Alder, Matt Leacock, and Toby Fox can evoke powerful emotional responses and immersive flow inspires me to delve deeper into the art we all love so much.

    Outside of games, I'm also, in no particular order, an artist, a father, and a juggler. Go figure.

    This blog is a place where I will muse out loud about games that I'm designing, or ramble about old or unfinished projects, sprinkled with opinions about game design as an art and games as a medium. If other designers can find something of use here, so much the better!

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