Insensitivity and Marginalization
At this point, the ‘Girlfriend Mode’ debate has well and truly made the rounds. You’re probably all pretty sick of it now, which is too bad because I’m totally not (yet) so I’m going to talk about it now. I’d…
Aspects of Machine
We regret to interrupt your regularly scheduled essay. Friday’s essay will be posted Sunday morning, instead of Saturday morning as has apparently become customary. Keep reading to find out about plans for the future of Problem Machine, the new article…
Ludum Dare 24: Final Thoughts (or, My Personal Evolution)
Has it just been a week since Ludum Dare ended? It seems much longer. I must be busy. I’ve had a chance to look at some of the other entries. Some of them are pretty amazing, I gotta say. Many…
Ludum Dare 24: Epilogue
Ludum Dare ended five days ago and now it’s in the voting phase, where everyone plays everyone else’s games and votes on them. There’s 1406 of them, though, and I’m being incredibly remiss and have only rated 10 or so…
LD24: Aaaaand… finished.
Oh wow I can’t believe it’s over. I’m pretty hyper despite being exhausted. I actually got in a lot of what I wanted to get here: the animals breed with each other, successive generations mutate slightly, and…
LD24: Critters
7:30am. About 10 hours left. I am incredibly tired. The absurd scope of this project becomes more apparent with each step I make. This is a concept better suited to a thesis assignment than to a 48 hour competition. It’s…
LD24: Evolution: Arrrrrrrrgh: ME BRAINS
My brain feels kind of mushy. I’ve been slowly improving on what I had last night, trying to fix the multitude of little problems that came up. Well, it’s better anyway. After much tweaking and noodling around, the damn…
LD24: Evolution: The Evolutionating
Okay wow. It’s about 6am. I’ve basically been programming for 10 hours straight and I have… well, not a lot to show for it. Yet. First off: Man I didn’t make this easy on myself. In order to model things…
Ludum Dare: Evolution
It has begun! 105 minutes ago the theme was announced: Evolution. Fuckin’. Lame. Or so I thought. There’s already tons of games based on evolution, I thought. One could argue that basically every RPG is themed around evolution to some…
Ludum Dare 24
Hey. We’re going to be interrupting our regularly scheduled essays for MOTHERFUCKING LUDUM DARE. If you’re not familiar, Ludum Dare is a 48 hour game making competition, challenging designers to create a whole game over a weekend. I’ve participated before,…