Stories
The more one pays attention to things, the more one notices similarities. I’m spending a lot of time, now, writing– stories and essays, but they both have a similar rhythm. Exposition, twist, resolution. I can add more twist, or alternate…
Category Narrative Design
Solipsism
He also programmed robots to write books and magazines and newspapers for you, and television and radio shows, and stage shows, and films. They wrote songs for you. The Creator of the Universe had them invent hundreds of religions, so…
Eve DevBlog 21: Tension
Been working really hard this week but don’t have nearly as much stuff to show for it as last week. It has largely been an exercise in frustration, both in terms of dealing with the infuriating little life things (such…
Strange Places
There is something bleak and beautiful and strange about old games that will always pull at my soul. Is it nostalgia? Perhaps. Nostalgia is certainly a component. It’s always a bit strange seeing a movie I loved as a child,…
Balance and Expression
The capability that games offer for self-expression is exciting, but can also be onerous. In much the same way as we are made uncomfortable by articles telling us what the way we move or dress or speak says about us,…
Eve DevBlog 18: What a Concept
Since I’ve decided that February is going to be a work retreat of sorts for me, I’ve been trying to get all of my ducks in a row so that I have a clear idea of what work to do…
Accomplices
Games are a strange and delicate string of analogies. A button with an X on it is a jump, a button with a Y on it is a punch to a stranger’s face, and within the context of the game…
Capability, Exclusion, and Diversity
How we see the world shapes the things we create. This is an obvious statement, but some of the implications are rarely considered. For instance, we rarely consider the effect that our physical capabilities have on our worldview. This actually…
Guidance
Yeah, things are scary. Yeah, they might not ever go back to being okay again, not really. And maybe the way forward is dark and obscured and terrifying, but at least we won’t be alone. There’s a strange distance between…
Apocalypse
Apocalypses are interesting. First: How is that pronounced? Hard E? Rarely pluralized, is what I’m saying. Um. But that’s neither here nor there. We’ve just gone through another projected doomsday, with results similarly unimpressive to all previous doomsdays, and are…