Around this time last week, I discussed how games have a hard time portraying the unreliability of memories because this erodes the player’s ability to trust the information they’re receiving from the game. I’ve been thinking about that, and it…
I seem to be hating a lot of things recently. I’ve always been mature for my age, so I think at 30 I may have started to cross over into crotchety old man territory. If I had a lawn and…
No matter how much energy a person has, with no direction they will never be able to achieve much. It’s the difference between throwing a rock and throwing a handful of gravel. This is the main reason why jobs are…
After how quickly and intensely I progressed during TIGJam, this week felt like a slog through molasses, but looking back on it things actually went pretty decently. I’ve got a basic menu system implemented now, which isn’t much to look…
Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is how games and other works ask us to engage with them. Each work of art exists within a greater context, and how we parse the messages those works engender is affected…
TIGJam went fantastically and I got a ton of work done, but now I’m back home and trying to find a new rhythm to settle into after the jam. It’s not made any easier by the sun abruptly noticing it’s…
Playing Dark Souls has gotten me thinking about the different ways that games structure their world. I really want to describe, in a concrete way, what makes exploring the world of Dark Souls feel like such a different experience from…
Okay I think this new schedule is working out well. It’s always more satisfying, when I get to the end of the week, to be able to report even small progress on a lot of fronts rather than to put…
It takes a lot of concessions to make a game feasible. Some of these are made early on, settling on a conservative and traditional design paradigm that has already been well explored by other games: Some of these are made…
I’ve just begun playing Dark Souls. I’m not very far into it. I’m not used to this degree of relentless pressure, this viscous viciousness that must be pressed through to progress. It’s clear that there is a path to victory,…
