Bitter Man
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…
The Problem Machine Random Routine
So, last week at around this time I made a post discussing how trying to control how we experience things too tightly can easily lead into us never experiencing them at all. I trailed off at the end with a…
Eve DevBlog 46: Surface Tension
It’s been an odd week. It kind of feels like almost no time has passed at all since the last DevBlog update. Being inside my head sometimes is like some kind of reverse Narnia where I spend what feels like…
Structure
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…
Experienced
The more we think about how we tend to experience art, the more we’re forced to notice how little of our experience comes from the piece itself. This is not to devalue the importance of artistry or artifice, but to…
Eve DevBlog 45: Fine Touches
There’s a lot to be said for superficiality. The more programming work I do, the more often I find that it’s easiest to start with the outside and work your way in, rather than build a scaffold towards a nebulous…
The Last Minute
There are a lot of reasons for procrastination. I write these words at 4 in the morning. They are scheduled to be uploaded in 6 hours, at 10 am. Realistically, I had all day, all week even, to write these…
Uneasy
Sometimes it’s hard… Phil Fish quit the game industry this week. He was an abrasive and outspoken personality, a polarizing figure and, as he was known as such, was hounded incessantly by vicious internet wits via Twitter and forums until…
Eve DevBlog 44: The Lay of the Land
Sigh. And I am reminded forcibly of why I hate dedicating entire weeks to programming! Not only is the work sometimes a drag – I like programming, but it’s easy to get intimidated and/or frustrated by some of the problems…
Out of Control
I’ve been thinking about bad controls in games. What does it mean when people say that a game has bad controls? Usually, more often than not, they mean that it’s difficult to control. The more games I play, though, the…