“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…
Okay, I’ve noticed that Fridays tend to be a) busy and b) tiring, which is making it kind of hard to write a good essay at the end of the day. I’m pretty sure I’m not going to be able…
I fell behind, then I caught up. Gotten a ton of work done on the map editor. It is basically functionally complete at this point, at least to the extent that one can make a fully functional map. I’ll still…
I am having trouble thinking straight for long enough to write the post I had originally intended to write. So I’m going to write something else. In the beginning– well, our beginning anyway– there was Father. He flew through the…
Things are going well, but things are going slowly. You may have noticed there’s no screenshot of the current state of the map editor, and this is because it’s visually exactly the same. This is partially because I genuinely have…
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…
Progress is progressing. I’d originally been thinking of doing a lot of the level and map resizing via choices made through a menu, which would have been, among other things, extraordinarily tedious to program. Eventually, though, after many false starts,…
A few weeks ago Steam came out with their hotly if somewhat anxiously anticipated Greenlight system, and so far it’s… definitely a thing? I wanted to talk about this a couple of weeks ago, but at the time I wanted…
So this is pretty intense. Pretty much as soon as I announced Eve, I got hit with a rush of adrenaline which has yet to subside. I’ve been sleeping 4-6 hours a night, and I wake up feeling like shit,…
