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…
Join the Madness DevBlog, September 2021 – Interrogations
This last month has had a lot of sudden starts and stops, days where I make huge progress in a matter of a few hours and weeks where I slog away in slender intervals that feel like all I’m up…
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…
Instant Nostalgia
Today I saw a clip floating around from the movie Free Guy, a recent moderately-well-received cinematic pastiche of video game tropes, in which the hero wins the day through, essentially, the power of licensing – retrieving iconic virtual movie props…
Shifting Personae
I don’t know how anything ever gets created. The moment a single creative decision gets made, everything shifts around it. If you’re writing a story and a character has a little two-paragraph flashback, the information contained therein affects every other…
Join the Madness DevBlog, August 2021 – Names and Faces
It’s only been a couple of weeks since the last update – I’ve been letting these updates drift later and later behind schedule and into mid-month, and now finally trying to adjust it back to the start of the month…