Draft Party – The game I built because the New England Patriots suck
Since 2019 my friend (a Broncos fan) and I (a Patriots fan) have played a game on NFL draft night where we try to predict the first round of draft picks.
The original game was built with a very delicate spreadsheet with 200+ line equations involving dubious scoring math. But we enjoyed the game nonetheless and have always pondered out loud "There should be an app for this".
I decided it was time to turn off yet another "draft talk" podcast and slogged away on Draft Party, replacing those dubious spreadsheet equations with real code.
I built Drafty Party for myself and my friends but I also built it for other fans of bottom dwelling teams everywhere. When your team sucks, you need hope and the draft represents hope. And when your team's front office also sucks at drafting and stomps that hope into the ground, you can at least have some fun among friends.
https://www.draft-party.com/
If you hate store-bought plastic wrap as much as I do, treat yourself and get this commercial foodservice film. It's huge but it works brilliantly.
My wife thinks I'm insane but I've never been happier. Life is too short to deal with shitty plastic wrap.
I have not found a magic formula for delivering effective PR feedback.
Everyone is different, so the delivery depends on the recipient.
Some people respond better to terse feedback, some people need long explanations.
Some people are very defensive, some are too willing to change things they don't need to and should stand their ground.
Some people want to get better and learn, some just want to get their thing done.
This is what forever makes collaborative coding both challenging and rewarding.
Skill gap is more pronounced in Res Arcana than in any other game I know.
After playing with me one time, nobody wants to play anymore. Nobody.
Res Arcana is a soul crusher.
Settlers of Catan, Stone Age, Dominion, Ticket to Ride, Roll for the Galaxy, Kingdom Builder, Splendor, Terraforming Mars, Pandemic, Sagrada, Azul, Unearth, Everdell, Takenoko, Wingspan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Citadels, Res Arcana.
5 Indie Party ideas that caught my eye:
🎛️ A consulting company for live music, visual design and performance
💻 An open source Next.js starter kit
🎤 Bring LIVE beatboxing to web3
🔵 Finish a hackathon project built on @base.base.eth
🧑🤝🧑 Start a local support group for entrepreneurs
Apply by September 8, 2024 if you want to join:
https://party.indie.win
Inertia is underrated.
A body in motion tends to stay in motion.
So if you're having trouble starting a hard thing:
🏎️ Get going on something else that's easier.
🏃 Keep moving - stay in motion.
⛷️ That hard thing will feel like it's downhill, because you're already moving.
For anyone out there interested in game design, I really enjoy following Justin Gary's newsletter and podcast.
His team at Stone Blade studio is running a mastery course and I bet it's 🔥 🔥 🔥
I'd do it but September is a super busy month for me.
https://justin-gary.lpages.co/tlagdcourse/
The Wayback Machine is a gold mine for researching the history of a brand.
1. Find a brand that's where you want to be in 3-5 years.
2. Plug their domain into the Wayback Machine.
3. Walk through the evolution of their messaging, value props, everything.
You'll learn a ton.
