Easy Mode
I just played FTL for the first time. As the game recommends, since it was my first time playing I went ahead and played on easy mode, and everything was going pretty well up until the last couple of star…
Problem Machine
Predictability or Inevitability
A little while back, I discussed how experienced and incisive players of video games begin to perceive the hand of the designer, to predict his aims, and infer information which the surface layer of the game doesn’t communicate in order…
Announcing: Eve
I am pleased (albeit scared) to finally be able to announce this project. Eve is a game concept that has been lurking in the back of my mind for a couple of years, and I’m incredibly excited to finally see…
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…