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Well, I’m in the middle of GGJ13, and… not making a game. But, I do hope to have some small prototype done for the One Game a Month movement, which I committed to because I can’t be stopped from taking on projects. Edit to Add: I don’t think I’ll be uploading it to the site,…

Sorry about this, but, just for a moment, I have to talk about me. I develop games and also write about them. I like to think this gives me some insight that some other game bloggers don’t have. The final section of my “games of the year” article touched on game creation. There are more…

Today on Kotaku: The Harassment of Women Gamers by YouTube Trolls So: Let’s say, that, hypothetically, I was very skilled at a particular game. Let’s say, that, hypothetically, I wanted to share this with others, so I started up a channel on YouTube with videos. Sooner or later, from me voice, or my screen name,…

Happy 2013! Let’s talk about lucky numbers. Since I was on the road for a lot of the holiday week, I spent a little time with a game I picked up last year for the DS. Amazon had a real good deal one day on the games Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, and 999: Nine Hours,…

Hello – there’s no new essay here today, but I do want to point you in the direction of a few things I’ve written in December… On Waking Mars: “What It’s Like to Play Waking Mars” guest post on Culture RampOn Halo 4 (and Cortana, and the game’s story themes): “The Naked Vulnerability of Halo…

Eventually this post is going to contain some bad language and slurs, because I’m discussing the prevalence of bad language and slurs, so, trigger warning for that. I play games of all types and stripes. Tabletop, console, PC. So my interests have some crossover from all those communities. Every side of gaming seems to have…

There’s a tabletop game that I played in college called Unknown Armies. You might know of it. It’s a game about fantasy and horror that occurs under our noses in the real world. Unknown Armies has, in its setting materials, the concept of Ascension. If someone in the world really internalizes, and symbolizes, a particular archetypal type…

This month, Blogs of the Round Table wants to know: what are our earliest formative experiences in gaming? I have those. One of the earliest games I remember playing was an educational grammar game made for the TI-99 home computer. With a little digging on YouTube, I found the game, and was instantly taken back.…

Final day of the jam! Last update. And of course the game! Fairies Vs. Scaries on FuckThisJam BMO Here’s a semi-final screenshot. The game may be updated in a little bit to get a final sound file in and make some sound volume tweaks, but I’ve hit my deadline at the moment… I scooted some…

I’m now taking a break from game jam updates to talk about another game I released. Game jam updates later today! In previous years I’ve posted IF Comp reviews. This year I was silent on the matter, because I entered the comp. I didn’t do this anonymously – some people do, but since it was…