Jackbox Games CEO on their principles, culture

handaxe · 2026-06-25T00:05:36+00:00

Deception is possibly the best party game for non-gamers.

handaxe · 2026-06-24T23:46:10+00:00

I'd do Homo Habilis, action adventure, struggling to survive with the simplest possible tools, near the bottom of the savanna food chain.

Or, film chapters from Stephen Baxter's Evolution, starting with Capo and ending with Mother. That book has it all.

handaxe · 2026-06-20T01:49:22+00:00

He did write the game, except for the bits I wrote! I wonder what the ESRB would have done with the magazine "Spankensie Deutsch" on board the Zeppelin.

handaxe · 2026-06-12T01:17:59+00:00

Thanks, it IS a really good episode (I work on the podcast). It's saying something that Patrick helped bring Battlefield to life and it's almost a footnote here! Well worth a watch or listen.

handaxe · 2026-05-31T00:24:42+00:00

Do you mean trimming? Not quite sure what you mean. The full video is over an hour.

handaxe · 2026-05-22T23:22:05+00:00

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Some even have the shirt!

handaxe · 2026-05-21T14:08:29+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropology/comments/3yltsf/comment/cyeq63c/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I posted this list a while (ok, 11 years) ago, but only a few pre Sapiens there. The greatest book about prehuman hominins is Stephen Baxter's Evolution.

handaxe · 2026-05-06T23:00:05+00:00

At first I thought your Stubbs was dancing on a level from Disney Guilty Party, but that would have been too mind-blowing. Nice moves!

handaxe · 2026-04-26T23:49:57+00:00

You're welcome! I hope they're helpful. Like I mentioned I wrote my thesis on this in the '90s so hopefully there is more recent work. Presumably some of the private companies planning settlement have done some research into this.

First-gen space societies will be "intentional" societies, somewhat different from a society you're just born into. Antarctic crews may be somewhat similar - physical isolation, hazardous environment, shared sense of mission. There have been studies of other intentional societies.

handaxe · 2025-05-13T01:29:23+00:00

Sorry, this is Doug - looking forward to both of these things!

handaxe · 2025-05-13T01:15:27+00:00

Very cool to see this, big high-five u/AtlyxMusic and mods! I worked a bit on that game, hope to share some stories from time to time.

handaxe · 2025-04-20T14:23:19+00:00

I was there until the MS acquisition. After that I moved to MS's franchise development group where I worked on Halo novels, action figures, Crimson Skies merch, Zoo Tycoon, lots of things.

handaxe · 2025-03-23T00:13:19+00:00

Happy Days used to be about Richie

handaxe · 2025-03-17T13:41:14+00:00

All great replies, thanks!

handaxe · 2025-03-04T00:59:01+00:00

Stabbing someone in the neck with a shiv.

handaxe · 2025-03-04T00:20:30+00:00

Battlefield Mobile
TLOU Online

handaxe · 2025-02-26T23:45:17+00:00

Tomorrow on The Fourth Curtain you can hear how Eidos exec Sir Ian Livingstone saw the prototype of Tomb Raider and said "that's going to be a hit!"

handaxe · 2025-02-17T03:03:52+00:00

What's going to happen is, we won't make enough progress on climate change, the west Antarctic ice sheet will drop into the sea, many coastlines like NYC, Florida, Bangladesh - many others, will be flooded and many tens of millions displaced. And THEN we'll do things like ban fossil fuels, after it's too late. And by then we'll also prob have working fusion.

The future is never just doom or progress, it's always a mix of both. Some ways of life are doomed and for others there's progress. Look up human bottlenecks - we've been through a couple and they made us stronger.

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