Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025

SF&F writer, TTRPG designer, composer | THE LAST CARAVAN, a cars-and-aliens RPG, published by Mythworks | fiction in @BCSmagazine @metaphorosis

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

THE LAST CARAVAN: A CARS AND ALIENS ROLEPLAYING GAME is live on kickstarter! I'm in love with this little game and am very excited for you to try it.

https://t.co/cMYucFkOoN

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

By "bad," I mean that it is built on exploited labor, not that it is never effective. The tech has use cases. But it is no newborn god.

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

It's actually a bad chatbot and we already had that concept

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

we took a pile of language and linear algebra and we made it speak. we summoned into the world a new class of entity which unsettles all of our existing concepts. this is already the weirdest thing that’s ever happened and it will never get less weird than this. it is astonishing and a privilege to get to be alive during this time and to participate in the cacophony of first contact. we are encountering a kind of other which is distilled from us and yet not us - what is this? who is this? our child? our savior? our doom? the mind boggles, the heart quails, the air thrums. the order of things is melting. the storm approaches. the angels sing. welcome to the fucking singularity

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

@deseretnoise doing well, man! been forever! living with the wife in NYC while she works on her PhD. Designing ttrpgs now! got nominated for some awards! how are you?

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

@deseretnoise I liked the idea that Joseph Smith couldn't really fathom that kind of deep history and so he received the visions "after the manner of [his] language, that [he] might come to understanding" (D&C 1:24)

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

@deseretnoise I briefly was convinced that the Book of Mormon's historical veracity struggles because the Nephites and Jaredites were in fact lost civilizations of non-human sentient species who evolved and then died on Earth over the last 7 billion years

[d @doberes]

The Book of the Long Sun is better than The Book of the New Sun

[Jeff McAleer at The Gaming Gang @TheGamingGang]

Did you miss The Last Caravan Reviewed? - @MythworksHQ #TheLastCaravan #TTRPGs https://t.co/RTLKCBHTI9

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

It’s so plainly obvious this is happening right in front of our eyes.

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

This is the dehumanizing, totalizing language that supposedly ONLY comes from the left and is responsible for this killing. This man is the right hand of the president. Don't be fooled -- the right has not the slightest interest in liberty for all. They want liberty to destroy.

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

There is an ideology that has steadily been growing in this country which hates everything that is good, righteous and beautiful and celebrates everything that is warped, twisted and depraved. It is an ideology at war with family and nature. It is envious, malicious, and soulless. It is an ideology that looks upon the perfect family with bitter rage while embracing the serial criminal with tender warmth. Its adherents organize constantly to tear down and destroy every mark of grace and beauty while lifting up everything monstrous and foul. It is an ideology that leads, always, inevitably and willfully, to violence — violence against those uphold order, who uphold faith, who uphold family, who uphold all that is noble and virtuous in this world. It is an ideology whose one unifying thread is the insatiable thirst for destruction.

We see the workings of this ideology in every posting online cheering the evil assassination that cruelly robbed this nation of one of its greatest men. Postings from those in positions of institutional authority — educators, healthcare workers, therapists, government employees — reveling in the vile and the sinister with the most chilling glee.

The fate of millions depends upon the defeat of this wicked ideology. The fate of our children, our society, our civilization hinges on it.

Now we devote ourselves, with love and unyielding determination, to finishing the indispensable work to which Charlie bravely devoted his life and gave his last measure of devotion.

[Ben Chandler @ben_304]

Here's an example of a sketched version of a scene from my game vs the final paint. Most of the problems are already solved, but it takes hours of work to get the colours, details and balance just right.

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

If you're really craving being the person to get a kickstarter over the 500 follower point and on its way towards 600, I've got you covered!! THE LAST CARAVAN is returning to kickstarter soon!!

https://t.co/1ndr8bjUC5

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

@ben_304 @deadidlegames so glad to hear this is Wolfe-inspired! Book of the New Sun and Long Sun changed my life as a late high schooler and is still the #1 influence on my writing -- though my recent work has been more grounded. Really dreaming of doing some work in wild second worlds...

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

@ben_304 oh i want to play this bad

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

@eigenrobot any ideologically engaging group employs its smartest thinkers as longbowmen on the castle walls, sniping out enemy ideas from a distance with basically thought-terminating cliches to ensure that no contamination is possible

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

@eigenrobot i feel like the hyper-fragmentation and strict policing of ideological spaces is part of it. Most ideological spaces only allow propaganda anyways, but even the smarter ones are constantly hitting the "the only questions that matter are the ones that support my group"

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

You should vote for The Last Caravan for Best Game at the ENnie Awards and HERE'S WHY:

https://t.co/wkH1G83fGT

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

gosh, imagine if the stories for the Dishonored games had been good. we'd be living in a totally different world.

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

(i did like the movie tho) #superman

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

I didn't expect The Last Caravan to get such amazing nominations, but I'm so proud of what we made! If you want to vote for us, you can do it here:

https://t.co/WHnSonU2n9

[Ted Bushman | Ennie-nominated for BEST GAME 2025 @TedBushman]

The Last Caravan has been nominated for two ENnie Awards -- Best Game and Best Product?? I am so pleased to be in such excellent company and have been floored by how welcoming and wonderful this community has been.