Exploring Transgression 1
There’s a huge subject I’d like to tackle, but it’s a bit difficult for me to pin down. It’s something I feel very strongly about, and because I feel so strongly it tends to bleed into a lot of apparently…
Tag Video Game
Eve DevBlog 5: Premeditated Accidental Self Sabotage System
Okay, after (mostly) wrapping up the map editor, I gotta say: I was pretty tuckered out. So I took a couple of days off, tried to pay off some of my sleep debt, wrote a couple of IMO pretty good…
Artificial Neuroticism
In games everything has a clear cause and effect. If you get your face stomped by a cyclops, it’s because you forgot to re-equip your Axe of Extravagant Evisceration after using the Feather Duster of Tidiness for that side-quest, or…
Agency and Narrative
“Anyone who prioritizes the delivery of narrative over support for player agency fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the medium.” – Bizarro Hepler I recently encountered this quotation in my twitter feed, and it got me thinking. I generally agree with…
Eve DevBlog 4: It- it- the f- it- flame- flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing- breathl- heaving breaths. Heaving breaths… Heathing…
I fell behind, then I caught up. Gotten a ton of work done on the map editor. It is basically functionally complete at this point, at least to the extent that one can make a fully functional map. I’ll still…
Greenlight District
A few weeks ago Steam came out with their hotly if somewhat anxiously anticipated Greenlight system, and so far it’s… definitely a thing? I wanted to talk about this a couple of weeks ago, but at the time I wanted…
Eve DevBlog 1
So this is pretty intense. Pretty much as soon as I announced Eve, I got hit with a rush of adrenaline which has yet to subside. I’ve been sleeping 4-6 hours a night, and I wake up feeling like shit,…