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First off, thank y'all for the kind response to my What's Nicky Learnt This Decade? post! It means a lot to hear it resonated with you, and I didn't get cancelled on the internet over it. ðŸ...
2020-01-24 16:44:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I'm actually really nervous to share this.
Here's a whole bunch of personal stories that I've never made public before – about being queer, going indie, and mental health:
🌈 What Did I Learn This Decade? (2010-2019) 2019-12-31 20:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Thank y'all for the lovely response to the first-ever What's Nicky Learning? post! 💖 I'm pleased lots of you found it valuable, even specifically useful to your jobs.
The full post is Patron-exclusive, but as promised, the Emotion in Learning section is now...
2019-12-05 21:18:36 +0000 UTC View Post(total reading time: 18 minutes)
Welcome to the first-ever, Patreon-exclusive WNL?+DD post!
What's Nicky Learning: emotion in learning, the physics of sound, drawing from imagination, juggling
Design Doodles: adventures with anxiety inside-out design, voice...
2019-11-21 15:15:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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But first, a video of my latest prototype of Voice Gender Trainer 5000, to prove I haven't been procrastinating.
🎥 Spectrogram + Formants 🎥 (unlisted video) 2019-11-20 15:55:51 +0000 UTC View Post
THE IMPORTANT BIT: Vote on the future of my Patreon via 👉THIS SURVEY 👈. Thank you thank you! 💖
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2019-10-29 15:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, thank you so SO much for the powerful response to Adventures With Anxiety! It means a lot to see that this story – inspired by my own life story – can help other folks' life stories, in some small way. 💖
In fact, let me brag a bit, and show off the fanart folks have drawn of their own "anxiety animals." Or...
2019-10-09 15:23:00 +0000 UTC View Post
After 7 long months, here it is here it is here it is!
🺠https://ncase.me/anxiety/ ðŸº
😱 browser, 30 min playtime 😱
And if you are looking to tame your wolf, I also wrote a page with Mental Health Tips & Resourc...
2019-09-17 15:52:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This will be the last Progress Update before AwA... is... OUT! 🎉
Since the past update, I playtested & polished up the game + added sound effects + made more art and animation. Here's some art from the credits:
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Alright! As of today:
Acts I, II, and III are DONE.
Act IV is ALMOST DONE. (art is done, just need to put spritesheets into the game)
Here's a compilation of animations – modified to avoid spoilers! – from Acts III and IV:
2019-08-09 16:59:20 +0000 UTC
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So how's my slightly-overscoped anxiety simulator doing? In the last 3 weeks, I did:
Good news: We're in the final lap!
Not-as-good news: The final lap is pretty long.
But still: Not bad!
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We're 50% there!... probably.
In the past two weeks, I finished the rough art for Acts II, III, and IV. I thought it'd just be placeholder stick figures, but I ended up drawing lots of "final-version" art.
For example, here's some art from Act II! (Context: you, the anxiety...
2019-06-07 16:03:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Two weeks ago, I launched the demo for Adventures with Anxiety... and I'm elated it resonated with so many folks! I hope it helps others with anxiety feel less alone – and, maybe, learn how to better live with scary e...
2019-05-24 18:30:21 +0000 UTC View Post
In this story-game, there is a human with anxiety disorder. You play *as* the anxiety disorder.
😱ADVENTURES WITH ANXIETY (demo) 😱
🺠browser, 7 min playtime ðŸº
Also, thank you all so much fo...
2019-05-07 15:47:11 +0000 UTC View PostI'm a bit ashamed about this, but I think it's important I be open and transparent with you: I feel stuck.
Specifically, stuck on the Adventures with Anxiety story-game. In February, I made a lot of progress on it! But in March, I gave two talks, so I did zero work on AwA. (Which is fine – I'm glad I...
2019-04-16 20:03:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the micro-talk I gave at the Game Developer Conference two weeks ago! This one's about games & the cognitive science of learning.
📹 Human Brains Are Awesome, Human Brains Suck (5 min)
I r...
2019-04-02 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! Quick end-of-month update, to keep y'all in the loop about what's to come.
The Tentative And Probably Too Hopeful 8-Week Plan:
Mar 4-10: Preparing & giving a free talk at the NYU Games Center! If you'd like to see me blabber about cognitive science, learning, and...
2019-02-28 16:15:33 +0000 UTC View PostAfter years of struggling with anxiety disorder – and slowly healing – I think I'm finally in a good space to make this next game. I'm excited/nervous! It's a "conversation-based fighting game" between a human and their anxiety.
You play as the anxiety.
2019-02-19 15:55:50 +0000 UTC
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A few weeks ago, I launched a randomized controlled web-experiment. My question: does being asked to predict an answer, before being shown it, help you retain information better? N=1600+ responses later, here's my results!
For years, I've been making interactives to explain science. Today, I launched an interactive to do science!
Specifically, I want to know if interactives actually are better than static content at helping people learn. Question: does being asked to guess/predict...
2019-01-10 17:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Can I just say how amazing public libraries are? Just the fact they exist? Anyway, I read 67 books in 2018, and here's the three that changed me the most:
📖 The Most Meaningful Book...
2019-01-01 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In 2018, I resolved to form one new habit a month! A third of them failed. Still, here's what I learnt in the last year – maybe it'll help you in the new year?
âœï¸ Habits I (Tried To) Make ...
2018-12-28 17:16:41 +0000 UTC View PostOnce upon a time, there was a hill climber.
The hill climber wanted to climb the tallest hill. However, the land was foggy and they couldn't see far. So, they climbed in whatever nearby direction seemed uphill.
2018-11-30 16:26:47 +0000 UTC
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Lesson learnt: don't release a new project on a Friday just before the weekend, coz people will miss it. Also, in case you missed it, my new explorable came out Friday!
It's finally out! An interactive comic on the science of memory, spaced repetition, and shoeboxes.
HOW TO REMEMBER ANYTHING FOREVER-ISH
👉https://ncase.me/remember/ 👈
So, good news: all the writing and art for my next explorable is done. I mean, I'll have to do some edits post-playtest, but right now I can say we're in the final lap. This thing's still on track to being done at the end of the month, with a week or so of "buffer time" just in case.
Here's some of the art...
2018-10-13 14:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you all so much for your feedback on Chapter 1 of my upcoming explorable! (If you missed it, I shared it in this Patron-exclusive post 2018-09-29 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Screenshot Saturday again! I want to make a habit of sharing my progress (& setbacks) with you peeps. This week, I made a simulation of my favorite spaced repetition system, The Leitner Box!
It's like a board/card game you play against yourself. The prize: storing as much as you want into your long-term memor...
2018-09-15 18:15:22 +0000 UTC View Post![ncase post [Patron Exclusive!] Prototype of my next explorable from patreon](https://img5.xxx4fans.com/storage/9/eo/yh/66b995-019e79cf-9f96-73ae-bee5-c5bbdd294f7d.png)
Hi all! Thanks again for your thoughtful responses to last week's behind-the-scenes post. I want to get better at sharing my process with y'all – and involve you in the process. Speaking of which, here's a patron-exclusive sneak peek at my next explorable!
