Kevan Davis

Still around somewhere.

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

Wizard Work, a card game I've developed with @chrisriddell50 for @betonmond, is now available to pre-order. It's a push-your-luck game about recruiting a team of wizards to meet the randomly-generated needs of fairytale clients. https://t.co/x3Z19GS5yx

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@charliemccarron Yes, same as the composer, it was a mediocre riff on the rule-changing playing card game Bartok, that perhaps all Nomic card games should be named after six-letter composers that end in a K. Have fun.

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

Bottletops and fridge magnets and incomplete chess sets at the ready: Everything is a Game is out in the UK today. Written with @vivschwarz, it's a collection of 63 old and new games playable with things you probably already have in your house somewhere. https://t.co/ea9mnIqukD

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

A book I wrote with @vivschwarz is out soon: rules for games that can be played entirely with household objects. A few classic parlour games and a lot of weird invented ones. Everything is a Game. Available on the 18th from wherever you get your books. https://t.co/ea9mnIqukD

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

Write-up of a word game that I've been playing for a while: think of a word, then think of a way to navigate through all of its letters, where each move can be described by a word that starts with the letter that you're moving from. https://t.co/QzQ0FyU0uS

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

My NaNoGenMo entry for 2021: a script to automatically convert Moby-Dick into a choose-your-own-adventure format. "To spit your last breath at thee, turn to page 710." https://t.co/tHMqMG6fuj

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@zarawesome @dailyshrdlu Depends what dictionary you favour. The Scrabble dictionary I filtered this bot through (it skips the 2% of deals with no solution) says not, but suggests 51 answers, including 16 actual everyday English words.

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@FarbsMcFarbs @zarawesome @dailyshrdlu [GROANS]

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@zarawesome Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@zarawesome Ah. No, two, I must have generated the latest version incorrectly when updating it the other day. Will fix it this evening.

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@RedPenEleanor @dailyshrdlu Thank you!

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@dailyshrdlu BARGEE

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@monohymn @dailyshrdlu Your dictionary mileage may vary, but sure, it fits the cards.

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@zarawesome Alright, it didn't take much to get @dailyshrdlu up and running, let's find out.

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

Here's a new fifteen-card print-and-play game I've been working on, about finding five- and six-letter words that fit into a randomly-dealt set of constraints. https://t.co/cRMv9zW82W

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@kathrrak That's it, good call on BYWAY. The difficulty varies, I did deliberately pick a non-trivial example, there.

[Kevan Davis @kevan]

@zarawesome Ah, maybe. And I was tempted to construct the deck so that every deal would always be solvable - which seemed possible, but not worth sacrificing card design space for, when the script's solution could just be one stupidly obscure dictionary word.