Presence Tension
I don’t deal well with scheduling. Any time I try to schedule myself, to block out what I’m going to be doing and when, days or weeks ahead of time, I get frustrated. I can’t help but rattle against the…
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A Frayed Knot
There is much to be said in favor of creative systems-oriented thinking. Many problems can be solved by breaking them down into sets of mutually influential factors, many occurrences can be understood by tracing the thread of causality from one…
Between the Bones
We educate ourselves in the arts trying to learn how to create better art, but the process of improvement is a strange and unsteady one and the paths we take don’t always lead where they seem to. The main thing…
Join the Madness DevBlog, January 2022: Open Structures
Almost no actual development work happened over the last month; I left for a trip on the 11th and got back on the 24th, and several days on either side of that were spent either preparing for or recovering from…
Pride and Ambition
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Cogs
As I worked on last piece about Inscryption, I also played Daniel Mullins’ other games, Pony Island and the Hex – primarily out of a desire to not put my foot in my mouth by making over-broad statements on their…
Singularity
There is a tendency to regard the mind as existing separate to, and separable from, the body. Long ago a person once beheld a corpse of someone they knew, now devoid of motion and emotion, thought and dream, and they…
Suspended
Over the last year or so, I’ve become increasingly aware of my dread of completion. This is something that’s been with me a long time and something that is also rather common, I think: How many of us haven’t dawdled…
Join the Madness DevBlog: May 2021
I ended up spending about half of May visiting family, since I finally got vaccinated, so I don’t have a ton of new progress to share right now – but I do have a number of new ideas, and there’s…
Making Things Right
I think a lot about what’s right. Not necessarily what is moral, just, factual, or ethical – though frequently those as well – but what fits, what makes sense, what’s appropriate, what’s useful. I think as much about what I…