Dreaming Alone
I love single-player games. Don’t get me wrong, I like all sorts of multiplayer games as well, and I enjoy cooperation and competition as much as anyone, but what really excites me about the medium of games is the possibility…
Problem Machine
A Net for Water
Writing has been difficult recently. Every idea I think to write about feels obvious, trivial, or disingenuous. I like to take threads of ideas and follow them back, to see what each idea implies about its underlying antecedents, to tug…
The Test of Time
Everything is temporary, and it’s easy to forget that. There’s something in us that drives us to seek stability, try to find something permanent and reliable, that can be there for us forever, and during this pursuit it becomes to…
EverEnding DevBlog, June 2020: Kindling
These illustrations, which were supposed to take a couple of weeks, ended up taking somewhere in the region of 3 months. This sucks! I’m quite happy with how these have turned out, but I can’t help but extrapolate this work…
The Weight of Words
I think words are important. This is, perhaps, an unusual trait – even many of those who make their living with words seemingly have little respect or affection for them. Often we treat words with contempt, as imperfect vessels for…
Criminal
Big things are happening. The sheer cruelty of the systems that drive the world have been laid bare, and right now people are trying to see if they’re going to find a way to somehow sweep the blood under the…
The Past
The past is a dead end. In 1975 the movie Jaws was released. It is now considered one of the greatest films ever made. On the off chance you don’t know about it, the premise is that a great white…
EverEnding DevBlog, May 2020: Cages
I’ve spent the last month, plus a week or so more, working on this illustration. This was not the original plan. I had, at first, wanted to have this done in perhaps a few days. Then, when I realized the…
Cynics
Cynicism is like cholesterol; there’s a good kind and a bad kind. I used to dislike cynicism categorically, but over time I’ve come to recognize that we call at least two diametrically opposed concepts by the same name. This sort…
How to Not Create
Get very frustrated you can’t think of anything interesting to write about. Discard several ideas as not interesting enough to write about. Wait, is that one interesting? Ah, you’ve probably written about it before. It sounds familiar, you’ve definitely thought…