The Swapper
moderate spoilers Space is fucking cool. I mean there’s a lot more to say about The Swapper, but I think that may be its most lasting impression of the game on my mind. No other 2d platformer has captured the…
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Regrets and Resolutions
I still feel like I’ve wasted a lot of time. It’s easy to tell yourself that your future is still ahead of you while you consume it bit by bit, bite by bite. It’s easy to just keep chewing on…
Neverending Nightmares
[moderate spoilers for Neverending Nightmares] I like dreams, and stories about them. Though they never capture quite what it feels like to exist in a dream space, though they never quite emulate that constantly shifting boundary that builds itself based…
Transistor and Bastion
[extensive spoilers for both Transistor and Bastion] It’s hard to put a name to the relationship between Transistor and Bastion. Is Transistor a successor? A spiritual sequel? A sister game? The relationship between the two is similar to that between…
DevBlog: Diverted
Bleh. Okay. I’m done working on Turncoat for now. It was going okay, but I just have zero passion for the project at the moment. I think it might be worth picking back up at some point, but right now…
The Resistance
[slight spoilers for Transistor and Bastion] Change is the status quo. Some people fight against that change, and some people embrace it. One side calls themselves a revolution and the other calls themselves tradition, but when we have a tradition…
Trapped
In this stupid house, the only place I can afford to live at the moment, with inconsiderates who leave messes and fail to maintain the property – in a web of decisions going back decades, schools and friends and identities…
Turncoat DevBlog 1: Adjustments
I don’t have a header for this project. I should probably come up with one sometime here, but that’s a low priority in the greater scheme of things. I’m not feeling too great today, so here’s where the project’s at:…
Global Offenses
Over the last week or so, I’ve been sitting here and watching the world go crazy. Well, that’s not accurate. The world’s been crazy all along, and there have been plenty of examples of that popping up all over the…
Attachments
It becomes necessary, after a certain point, to ask yourself: “What, exactly, am I getting from this?” It isn’t necessary to have a good answer, but it’s necessary to ask. Sometimes it’s terrifyingly easy to spend an hour, a day,…