What role should frustration have in the player’s experience of a game? It’s a tricky question. For a while game designers assumed the answer was ‘none’, that frustration was an inherently unpleasant experience with nothing to offer, that it stood…
Well I just spent a week getting something I had working before working again. I’m sure this is a common programmer experience but still: Goddammit. The good news is, I guess, that the code is more elegant and straightforward, rescalable…
More than once I get an idea and start writing a post only to realize after one or two hundred words that I don’t really believe in what I’m writing. It’s a concept that sounds logical, and I can wrap…
Something I’ve noticed: While I was working on the final mastering phases of my album, even though it was a lot of work of a sort, it was also a section of the day where I had nothing else to…
Sometimes it’s embarrassing how simple our tastes really are. You know, we can write essays about why we love what we love, what works and doesn’t, about the delicate structure of ideas that play against each other in this particular…
Weird week, though I know I say that a lot. Took a first run at trying to work on AnxEdit concurrently with the game, which worked alright for the first couple of days, while I built out a general task…
Over the last year, I wrote a piece of music each month with the intent of collating all of them into an album. Most of these I’ve put up on the blog as I went, generally as a sort of…
I went to New York and back, which is why I didn’t have an update last week. I had a real nice time, but it was also super exhausting. I took the opportunity, however, to do some thinking. About how…
It’s interesting how much goes into a game that the player never sees. Old versions, unused content, hidden details of construction, or simply paths the player never takes. As we play the game, this stuff is invisible – sometimes we find…
I’m a few thousand miles away from home and very busy this week, so uh, no progress to report. No dev to blog. Updates resume next week.
