In games everything has a clear cause and effect. If you get your face stomped by a cyclops, it’s because you forgot to re-equip your Axe of Extravagant Evisceration after using the Feather Duster of Tidiness for that side-quest, or…
“Anyone who prioritizes the delivery of narrative over support for player agency fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the medium.” – Bizarro Hepler I recently encountered this quotation in my twitter feed, and it got me thinking. I generally agree with…
An enduring problem with single player games that rely on challenge for appeal is that they allow for mastery. Once these games are mastered, there is no longer any challenge to them, and thus no appeal. Due to fluctuations in…
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Okay wow. It’s about 6am. I’ve basically been programming for 10 hours straight and I have… well, not a lot to show for it. Yet. First off: Man I didn’t make this easy on myself. In order to model things…
