Variety
I’ve been having a hard time thinking of things to write about. This is probably largely because my heart just isn’t in it as much any more. For a couple of years this blog was the anchor of my week,…
Category Life in the Machine
Turncoat DevBlog 2: Focus
I’ve been spending a lot of the last week trying to figure out if I really want to be working on this game and, if so, how I want to go about working on it. I’m trying to sort out…
Trapped
In this stupid house, the only place I can afford to live at the moment, with inconsiderates who leave messes and fail to maintain the property – in a web of decisions going back decades, schools and friends and identities…
EverEnding DevBlog 99: Side Tracks
This is a weird one. Well, first let’s talk about where I’m at with the detail editor. The behavior editor is getting close to finished now: It’s kind of ugly, but it doesn’t have to look nice, and all of…
Global Offenses
Over the last week or so, I’ve been sitting here and watching the world go crazy. Well, that’s not accurate. The world’s been crazy all along, and there have been plenty of examples of that popping up all over the…
Cancelled
I’m falling behind in a lot of work right now, don’t think I’ll be able to put together a post this week. I dunno, I feel like in general the amount of attention I’ve been able to put into this…
Familiarity
In this world, there are so many things to experience, weird and wonderful and varied and vivid. Most of us will only see a handful of them – basically nothing, when compared with what’s possible. Even just in the realm of…
Edge of Empowerment
Power is defined every bit as much by what it can’t achieve as what it can achieve. Even an indestructable man can’t save himself from drowning, even a walking god can’t reverse death. Omnipotence is a contradiction, a rock made…
Fear and Forgetfulness
I just realized at 10:20am that I’d been meaning to have something up at 10:00am. Oops! I’ve been, for the last little while, in a state of slightly frantic energy with no particular direction to vent it in. My brain…
Attachments
It becomes necessary, after a certain point, to ask yourself: “What, exactly, am I getting from this?” It isn’t necessary to have a good answer, but it’s necessary to ask. Sometimes it’s terrifyingly easy to spend an hour, a day,…