Technique and Aesthetic
There’s a danger in getting better at things. Well, there are probably several, but I have one in particular in mind right now. As you improve in your chosen field, art or music or writing or whatever, you gain the…
Problem Machine
EverEnding DevBlog 71: Nothing To See Here
I really don’t have a lot to say. This week has been entirely spent on slowly writing up and polishing a big chunk of back story. It’s still not quite in a place where I feel comfortable posting it, and…
Verbosity and Concision
With game design, as with any sort of design intended for human use, simpler is, generally speaking, better. The history of game design is a history of streamlining and simplifying, merging similar ideas together and glossing over the technicalities. Firearms…
Delay
Oops, apparently today’s post didn’t go up as scheduled and I’m only noticing now, 12 hours after it was supposed to show up. Not sure whether that was a mistake on my part or something with WordPress, but I’ve rescheduled…
The Observed Life
Today was a strange day. Today we lost something, we lost a great talent. And yes I know that he was a stranger to me and yes I know that there are people dying everywhere, but still. Good night, Mr…
EverEnding DevBlog 70: Hodgepodge
Phew. Okay I’m actually like super tired right now so I’ll try to make this brief. First thing’s first, sound and music are tested and seem to work! So far at least. There’s obviously a lot of tests I’m going…
Passive
I spend a lot of my time in games. I work in games, I play in games. Sometimes I dream in games. When the energy it would require to actually play feels like too much, I’ll watch someone else play.…
Writing In Colors
It’s hard to know how much to expose. There is a skill to knowing how much to let through our filter. The truth and character of a piece of writing come from how honestly we express what’s in ourselves – the…
EverEnding DevBlog 69: Following Music Tracks
It’s been a pretty good week. At this point, I’ve got maybe 90% of my total sound code finished. As I wrote about this previously I’d developed a bunch of the foundational classes and I was just about to integrate…
Play
The names we give things can be so unexpectedly revealing sometimes. I saw a play a few days ago. It was a good play, but that’s not relevant. This was the last staging of this show, though, and as someone…