Hey everybody! It’s me, Heather Flowers. You read the title of the newsletter? Cool. I’ve been watching a lot of Sex and the City recently for semi-gender reasons. I’m in the middle of Season 4 right now and it’s wild what they do to Miranda, right? Like, the A-plot will be “Carrie debates what it means to commit to someone after getting together with a guy who really likes jazz” and the D-plot will be some shit like “Miranda gets haunted by ghosts” or “Miranda eats out of the garbage.”¹ Absurd!

Anyways, I’ve been playing with a lot of very goofy game ideas recently. After last newsletter’s conversation about zero-player games (which I got a lot of lovely emails about!!), I threw one together in a couple hours, called SISYPHUSES.

Had a lot of fun making this! Maybe I’ll make a few more and put together a collection. Unfortunately a collection can only have one game that sucks like this, so the rest of em would have to actually be good, instead of just funny.

In terms of games-that-might-actually-come-out, I’m moving forward with a new game which does unfortunately have a player. It’s sort of a sequel to Unfair Flips, but instead of flipping a coin you’re getting stabbed repeatedly by a giant machine. “What kind of machine,” you ask? Well, I’ll tell you: knife machine. More details to come!²

Question of the Week: What’s the weirdest knife you’ve personally beheld?

Best,
Heather

P.S. I got to play a game of Raccoon Sky Pirates last night and had a blast! I’m still kind of bewildered by the skill roll system, and not entirely certain we played it correctly, but the way we did play it was a ton of fun.