Lying’s Pride
We will believe any words said with conviction. Not all of us, not all of the time – sometimes people can tell the difference between flattery and observation, between pleasant lies and harsh truths. Still, as much as you may…
Tag Art
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…
Inscryption – Curses, Sacrifices, and Roads Untraveled
I finished Inscryption a few days ago and feel I should write about it, but I don’t entirely know where to start. Well, let’s start at the outside and work in: Inscryption is, to begin with, a roguelike deck-builder –…
Join the Madness DevBlog, October 2021 – Menagerie
Last month I said I wanted to get a few enemies done to flesh out these early areas. I also said, somewhat optimistically, that I thought I might be able to do them all in a week – this turned…
Undeaths and Double-Lives
Halloween – now duly extended to include the entire month of October – is, after New Years, the most introspective time of year. At the dawning of each new year we take a moment to take stock of our future…
Transience
It can be hard to let go. A couple of decades ago there was a burgeoning sense that the emergent internet meant information would be preserved forever, crystallized into magnetic pattern and within easy reach of anyone who cared to…
Dream Castles
You split your brain in two. One half holds what you’re seeing – either through the mind’s eye or through the two normal face eyes – and perceives edge, brightness, darkness, every piece of reality in relation to itself, defined…
Trouble in Paradise
As the world careens towards apocalyptic dystopia, it is only natural that the dedicated escapists of gaming might crave the inverse – a world that at least functions, that isn’t on fire or ridden with disease or rapidly shuffling malicious…
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…
Threads
I’ve fallen behind on these posts. I took a week or two to take care of some other things and fell out of the writing habit – I’m still working on falling back into it. What’s kept me relatively timely…