I keep on starting new entries only to remember something I’d written before on a very similar subject. I keep being stopped short when I find I’ve written something that sounds very familiar. As the Problem Machine updates progress, more…
I’m a bit late to the party on The Walking Dead, as I tend to be with games in general right now. I would have liked to get in on the series earlier, to enjoy each episode as it came…
Video games are, at their most fundamental level, a collection of numbers. Anyone who’s done any programming has seen this in action, of course, and had a direct hand in what those numbers are and what they represent. There are…
Doing reviews and analyses of specific games is kind of out of form for Problem Machine, but I seem to be doing it a lot nowadays regardless. The thing is, I’ve been playing these games and they’re just too damn…
Last week I played Frog Fractions. Frog Fractions is a fun game! In Frog Fractions, you play as a 4frog. Bugs try to eat your fruit so you have to eat the bugs. When you eat the bugs you get…
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…
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…
Ten days ago, I drove 500 miles. It took ten hours. I listened to music and podcasts and ate crappy diner food and watched the scenery slide by interminably at great speed, fields turn to mountains turn to forests. Quite…
