Scene
Either everyone is hounding me for the things that only I can offer or everyone’s being nice because they feel sorry for me. Either I can’t find time to work on the thing I want to work on because there…
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Fuck it, writing is impossible. All of the words I have are either dumb and self-indulgent or dumb and overdramatic or dumb and untruthful or some combination of those. I’m not sure what my point is, I am increasingly uncertain…
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…
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…
Life in the Problem Machine
As I’ve been maintaining this blog, the focus of my posts seem to have shifted a bit. I’ve been drifting further and further away from the study of what games express, how they express it, and the limitations of our…
Caffeine Interlude
I’m taking a break from caffeine. I end up having to do this every 6-12 months as it gradually loses all effectiveness and I start having to drink unhealthy amounts of it just to get through an average day. At…
Authority
There are a lot of things I don’t feel qualified to talk about. I don’t have a graduate degree, so what insight do I really have into any issues of mathematics or engineering? I haven’t worked as a game designer…
Resistance
For the last few days I’ve been trying to write the first Problem Machine post of 2014, and I’ve been running into a lot of internal resistance. I keep dodging, making excuses, procrastinating, and generally doing anything I can to…
Break
Okay I’m actually finding it completely impossible to keep up to date on the blog while dealing with holiday stuff. I was hoping I could get up one or two things but I think that was just overly optimistic. Regular…
Ludum Dare 28: Crash and Burn
This wasn’t a good weekend for me. Here’s the thing, and maybe I didn’t entirely acknowledge this, either publicly or personally, before I started: I didn’t just want to participate in this Ludum Dare, I wanted to win. I wanted…