The questions below have been sourced from Cliff’s Q/A Transcript and are presented here in categories for easy viewing. You can also head over there to see the answers to any of the below questions.
Questions About Life
IAB 1 (2020-11-11)
- What are you majoring in? wrong answers only.
- What piece of media scared each of you the most?
- What is your favorite pizza?
- What is your spice-sona (OC)?
- What are your favorite ice cream flavors?
IAB 2 (2020-12-15)
- What is your favorite obscure emoji?
- What’s your goty other than Blaseball?
- How would you describe your soulsmell?
- If you had to combine any two fruit juices for an official Blaseball juice, what would they be?
- What is the least popular/lowest rated movie you’re willing to admit you like?
- Any advice on how to become a game designer/writer, anything you wish you’d known?
- Side Q from Joel: What is your favorite Game Jam game you’ve worked on?
- What’s your favorite kind of soup?
IAB 3 (2021-01-15)
- Joel, can you talk about self-care for two minutes?
- Which dev do you consider most like a deep fried mozzarella stick?
- Where did “the game band” come from?
- What positions have you played in IRL baseball/softball?
- What new skills have you learned since starting Blaseball?
- Who here do you think you could beat in a nerf fight?
- What movie/show have you rewatched most?
- Other than Blaseball, what are you most proud of?
IAB 4 (2021-02-25)
- What’s the best soda?
- What is your ideal breakfast?
- What are your favorite colors?
- As a team building exercise, can you count from 1 to 10 in order with no repeats
- Current Favorite music album?
- If you were cremated and had your ashes made into a vinyl, what song would be on it
- If you had to pick a vegetable to sell at baseball/blaseball games, which one would it be, and why?
- What is one piece of media that would make someone understand your inspiration for making games?
IAB 5 (2021-03-31)
- What’s everyone’s favorite bird
- Is there any piece of writing that jumpstarted your interest in narrative design
- What’s the best way to eat potatoes
- Please describe your ideal sandwich
- What is your image of a perfect evening of self-care
Factual Blaseball Dev Questions
IAB 1 (2020-11-11)
- Were there moments you fudged the rolls?
- Will the season schedule be changing after the siesta?
- What does TGB envision Non-Beta Blaseball as?
- What is the process for what mechanics to include in elections?
- Did you envision this as more of an app/not a website?
- Are there any rejected blessings/decrees/mechanics?
- Is there a little league Blaseball, any notable teams, where is the hall?
- How do you manage the state of the game? (Code-wise)
- Did you plan for these teams to be mostly permanent?
- How did the art style develop?
- How much does one season cost to produce?
- What was the thought process behind hometowns?
IAB 2 (2020-12-15)
- Out of kayfabe, how did the Wyatt Masoning (and the Unslam?) happen?
- Were Blagonballs inspired by Goku (Discord) and can we know more about them?
- Why is there no scroll bar on the Blaseball website?
- IIRC from last time, you were considering slowing the season some. Could you elaborate?
- Did you/do you plan on providing a stats (home runs, etc) ui, like bl-r, or do you prefer to leave that to the fans because of resources or something?
- What’s up with the ticker listing seemingly random stats all the time?
- Can you give us an idea what a writer’s meeting looks like?
- Why did the Spies’ Rigor Mortis actually buff their opponents?
- Where did the idea for the in-universe twitter come from?
- You made excellent use of the fan chants during the battle, in particular “My dork”. Were there other chants you were considering using but didn’t because the players didn’t get pulled in?
- Can I watch/read replays of old games?
- Does the immaterial plane orbit sun 2, or do we all just orbit Blaseball?
- Do you have metrics for # of fans/team on the site? Would you share how many are still on the Crabs?
- Where did the Shelled One come from? We know it descended, and the crabs ascended, are those related?
- What are fingers actually supposed to do?
- How are names generated? They don’t feel completely random.
- Since wins are physical objects, does that mean they’re stored somewhere?
- How many ideas for blessings/proposals/etc end up on the cutting room floor?
- What’s the deal with Uncle Plasma and Liquid Friend? Was it just a joke, or is there more?
- Why are the Dale specifically the life of the party?
IAB 3 (2021-01-15)
- Why did sharing signs remove fingers in season 10, but not in season 6?
- Did you have plans for a world where the book wasn’t opened in season 1?
- Don Mitchell is the only player with Reverberating. Are they unique, or..?
- If the Shoe Thieves had won, would the Hall Stars battle still have happened?
IAB 4 (2021-02-25)
- What are the 9 days in a Blaseball week called?
- What was the process you went through to come up with the first set of names?
- Are there plans for other official media than just the site?
- Will the rich be eaten at the top of Season 12?
- Did you implement the Bench/Bullpen/Shadows the way you’d originally intended? Were they supposed to replace incinerated players?
- Can Alx Pineapple and Denim Chilly be put back in the field to return some day?
- What happened to the Yellowstone Magic during the Season 1 election?
- How active of a role did you imagine the fans to have from the beginning?
IAB 5 (2021-03-31)
- Does clutch exist in Blaseball, is it a physical object, what does it taste like
- After the peanuts decree, all the Dans had their name changed to Peanut. Why “Dan”?
- Kinda weird that we have a team based in Hades, but the dead players go somewhere else. Why?
- Does the weather dial get cranked over the course of the season, or is that just how it feels?
- What are some advanced stat names that were never used?
- Where did the name Nolanestophia come from?
- How do you decide which concessions do what?
- Where did my squirrel go?
- What went into the Moab Sunbeams becoming the Hellmouith Sunbeams? Was it specific to that team?
- We know the Crabs went up or climbed, but when they created a hole by planting their flag, they let in three teams that are down themed. Should we destroy the concept of up and down?
- In a defense play, is defense rolled across the team and then a player picked, or is a player picked, and then defense rolled?
- Was evolution always going to do what we know it does now?
Opinion Based Blaseball Dev Questions / Just for Fun Blaseball Questions
IAB 1 (2020-11-11)
- What do you wish we knew about Blaseball that we don’t?
- What was one of the most delightful bugs/mistakes in Blaseball so far?
- Who would direct the Blaseball movie?
- What were some surprising inspirations for Blaseball?
- How has Blaseball affected your communication with normal people?
- What were some of your other game inspirations?
- If this was a video game, what genre would it be?
- What is your favorite blood type?
- What was your favorite decree that didn’t pass?
- Do you find it tough to reward fanbase creativity while keeping game balance?
IAB 2 (2020-12-15)
- What if Blaseball was a snail racing sim?
- If not for the Wyatt Masoning, Which player would you have wanted to have proliferate over their roster?
- What scrapped blessing would you like to see come back once you’ve broken some stuff down a bit more
- Has developing Blaseball changed your mindset on what it means to make a game?
- If you had to spend one day as a Blaseball player, who and why?
- What Christmas gifts should I get for Parkers III-IIIII?
IAB 3 (2021-01-15)
- What is your favorite part of Blaseball cosmology that you can share, would you compile them into a book at some point?
- If you could add any sound other than peanut crunching/foghorn noises, what would you add?
- What is your blasesona
- Can you create a fake team and motto in 2 minutes, possibly even with an emoji?
- Which Blaseball decree would have changed the most if it had passed?
- Do you have a favorite concept/mechanic that you couldn’t find a mechanic/concept for?
- If you could insert a fictional character into Blaseball, who would it be?
- How do you fit a whole team inside a Blaseball?
IAB 4 (2021-02-25)
- On behalf of the Hawaii Fridays, we would like to know what each of your best Frideas are
- You have to fancast the Blaseball movie. Who plays Parker, who voices the Shelled One, the Coin, the Monitor
- Do umpires dream?
- Of the things announced so far, what are you most excited for?
- Do you think the Blaseball gods hide from us out of fear of what they’ve created, or do they just have busy schedules?
- To the members of the Real Game Band who were, how did it feel to get percolated? Why did the keepers get flung into space? How are they doing?
- What is the one thing you really wish you’d known before you started working on Blaseball?
- Do you ever have Blaseball themed dreams, and how much anxiety do they cause?
- How afraid should I be?
- What is life like for people in the Immaterial Plane who can’t play Blaseball?
- How much blase would a blaseball ball if a blaseball could ball blase?
- If you could go back to the beginning, what’s one structural design you’d like to have in place from the start?
IAB 5 (2021-03-31)
- What’s the most memorable discussions that came up during the season 12 debates
- Given that the sim is written in JS, and you’re experienced in Unity, how did you learn JS, and what’re your favorite quirks
- The monitor now has to wear two hats: a hatless hat in the hall, and a chef’s hat. How many hats can we expect one squid to wear?
- What’s Parker’s favorite takeout?
- The one year anniversary is coming up, do you have any plans
- What is the most unexpected thing to happen post-grand siesta?
- What’s your favorite piece of completely inconsequential lore?
- How are you enjoying the first 3-on 2-off cycle?
- How would your favorite blaseball player have gone about freeing the big boat
- How sanitary is it to eat concessions made by a squid? Does the Monitor wash its hands?
Community Oriented Questions
IAB 1 (2020-11-11)
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- What was the most unexpected community thing?
- What is the biggest takeaway you learned from the community, and how are you incorporating that?
- Which player(s) would you want to go to an arcade with?
- Have there been moments where you’ve just been fans, not devs?
- Who is your favorite player, and why is it richmond harrison?
IAB 2 (2020-12-15)
- How does it feel to have Goku as a fan/friend/occasional legal counsel? Also, does this mean blaseball is an anime?
- Can we have a series between the Pandemonium Artists and SIBR for bragging rights?
- Where’s the recording from November?
IAB 3 (2021-01-15)
- How is ump_admin_pope_sunman doing? Are they okay? Do they want a care package?
- You’ve said that parker is banned from discord, why is he banned, can he get back in someday?
- What beef do y’all have with the Ohio Astronauts?
IAB 4 (2021-02-25)
- What’s your favorite thing the community has created so far?
- Are TGB aware of SIBR’s data crimes? If so, what are your favorites?