Paul Gestwicki's Blog
a blog for reflective practice that was cleverly named after its author
Monday, October 6, 2025
Experiences interacting with generative AI in my solo game development work
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I have been reflecting on the role of generative AI in education. In order to better understand it, I decided to incorporate some generative...
Thursday, August 28, 2025
An evening with Torchbearer
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I mentioned my interest in Torchbearer in my post about goblins and game design , and I was glad to be able to run my first session of it l...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Notes from Tynan Sylvester's "Designing Games"
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I just finished reading Tynan Sylvester's Designing Games . The book was published in 2013, but Sylvester is probably best known as the ...
Saturday, August 23, 2025
On Goblins and Game Design
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I recently purchased the rulebooks for Torchbearer 2nd Edition . Something reminded me of the project a few weeks ago, and the free introduc...
Monday, August 18, 2025
The Pyramid Point Games Summit
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My family recently completed a lovely road trip around the Great Lakes. One of the most spectacular views was found at Pyramid Point on the ...
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Some thoughts on Fate and Forged in the Dark games
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Yesterday, my two older boys and I played a tabletop RPG session with a friend and his two oldest children. We had done a one-off OSR game y...
Monday, June 23, 2025
Stones
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My family gave me this lovely collection of stones for Fathers' Day. They are all stones from Clank! , one of my family's favorite b...
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