Games that Breathe: Human Qualities in Good Gaming

Kenny Katayama is a verified Human Creator and co-host of the Shelf Stable board game podcast, which focuses on games that are at least five years old. He and Tom Bowers like to examine the quality of a game "...where the hype has worn off. We feel that 5 years is a good window for games to breathe, where we can focus on the experiences they create, abstracted from the initial excitement they generated in the community."

On their approach and AI: "Everything we do is human made. No AI here. We do not cover games that use AI art. We are opposed to the plagiarization of people's hard work, environmental impact, and the cocktail that is unregulated bias + misinformation + lack of accountability in current LLMs. We foresee a potential future where the above concerns are addressed by carbon negative models that credit and pay sources, but we can't endorse the use of gen AI until said concerns are addressed."

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