In a traditional narrative medium, moral choice often enters in when a character discovers they can do something that goes against their beliefs to gain some sort of an advantage or object of desire. The audience may perceive the character…
Nowadays, opportunities to express misanthropic and cynical viewpoints are thick on the ground – cruel and duplicitous politicians who still bafflingly find true believers, fantastical and murderous conspiracy theories, betrayals and close-mindedness, callousness and cruelty everywhere. It makes so much…
I still like the film Inception. This is not an unusual opinion, it was a huge blockbuster hit, but in general the film seems to have diminished somewhat in the public estimation in the decade since its release. Many of…
I don’t know how many people are interested in reading about programming – usually my own interest in the topic runs about as far as whatever particular problem I’m trying to solve at the moment. While I usually write about…
Subtlety is overrated. I find I have less patience these days for slow burns and coy insinuations, for quiet stories that never quite go anywhere or actually say anything. When I was first studying writing and art, I resisted the…
There are certain ideas that I find myself endlessly revisiting, ideas so flexible that I end up appealing back to their analogies on a weekly basis. One such idea is that of Zeno’s Paradox, which goes thus: In order to…
An idea which many artists at first rebel against, but are generally forced to accede to, is that of constraints breeding creativity. It can be galling, to one who considers themselves creative, to admit to all the confusion and terror…
I think a lot about what’s right. Not necessarily what is moral, just, factual, or ethical – though frequently those as well – but what fits, what makes sense, what’s appropriate, what’s useful. I think as much about what I…
When I can stand to, I think about the future. Seldom the future of the world at large – that’s entirely too complicated and distressing right now, although I do try to stay aware of opportunities to do what I…
As I’ve written about extensively for the last few months, I’m currently in the process of creating a tool to go on the Unity Asset Store. Every tool carries within it a set of standards and expectations. Sure, everyone knows…
