Tag: gamedev

  • Sanguis Amantis is Out NOW!

    Sanguis Amantis is Out NOW!

    My friends just released a game! I had the pleasure of doing the tiniest bit of code consulting work on this project. “Consulting” in this case translates to “I made the text wiggle” – but I am in the credits, which feels pretty good 😎 (It’s been a while since I’ve had a project that…

  • Levels in Disguise

    Levels in Disguise

    There are no spoilers for Shadow of the Erdtree in this article. So… ELDEN RING: Shadow of the Erdtree is finally out, bringing with it a truly titanic wave of game design discourse. For two weeks, it has been crashing down upon every social media platform that I inhabit – which is unfortunate, given that…

  • Anti-User Interface

    Anti-User Interface

    Building a user interface designed to kill my users.

  • May Mileage May Vary

    May Mileage May Vary

    May is the prelude to everything else in my year.

  • I Like Big Lasers

    I Like Big Lasers

    And someone will fry.

  • My Life as an Upjumped Cursor

    My Life as an Upjumped Cursor

    Hello! Welcome to the blog! Today, I come before you with a confession: real-time strategy games have been living, rent-free, in my brain for the last 10 years. Now, there are plenty of good reasons to be thinking about real-time-strategy; it’s a famously obsession-worthy genre! That’s not really what I’m here to talk about, though.…

  • The Juggling Act

    The Juggling Act

    Sometimes, you really only find the spirit of your game through actually building it. In Doorways 9’s case, building out levels has made me realize that I’m not really working on a puzzle game, in the sense I thought I was when I started. I’m making a spite simulator.

  • Card Souls: An Essay on Mechanical Flavor

    Card Souls: An Essay on Mechanical Flavor

    This is not the Dark Souls of card games. But it feels like it.

  • Tasks & Temptations

    Tasks & Temptations

    I really gotta stop trying to put dates on things.

  • The Four Horsemen of the Emailpocalypse

    The Four Horsemen of the Emailpocalypse

    A Journey to the Heart of My Spam Inbox.