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Last updated 20 days ago

A Design Genealogy in Ten Lessons

20 days ago

Approximately ten thousand years ago in August, I submitted a ballot for...

My Games of the Year for 2025

about 1 month ago

Something something industry bad, something something games good Now that we're done...

Thematic expression in game design, or: Why Dune (1992) rules

about 2 months ago

This is the story of three different models of design process, ways...

So I played the Séance of Blake Manor

about 2 months ago

Detective games exist on kind of a spectrum. On one side, you...

I've set up an email newsletter

about 2 months ago

I am planning various game-shaped or fiction-shaped things for 2026, and so...

The São Paulo Interpretation of Immersive Sims

2 months ago

Aura, on Bluesky, posted given no one in this thread can even...

Against 'Metroidbrania': a Landscape of Knowledge Games

3 months ago

Cards on the table: I hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think many...

Impressions of the Magic Arena Powered Cube

3 months ago

Cube is back on Magic: the Gathering Arena, and so I've been...

A spotter's guide to text games

3 months ago

So I don't namesearch on Bluesky, but having just released a game...

KINOPHOBIA is out now!

3 months ago

Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of the tormented souls...

The 2025 Interactive Fiction Competition Is Over

3 months ago

Results have been posted. I've yet to play some of the higher-placing...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

4 months ago

Seven or eight years ago, when I was working as a localization...