It’s been a year since my mom’s partner and my bonus dad passed away, a year and roughly two months since my uncle on my mother’s side passed. A year and a month since my best friend passed. All of them passed due to cancer or complications caused by cancer. Fuck cancer. Needless to say,... Continue Reading →
Game Design Diary – Chains of Command
So today I spent a few hours leading about arrays and data maps, all in service of creating an inventory. There’s an inventory of sorts in both Chains of Command and Murder Mysteries. I also found an appalling amount of spelling errors in the text I wrote for Chains of Command. One never stops learning,... Continue Reading →
Game Design Diary – Chains of Command
Chains of Command is a choose your own adventure story I wrote about 20 years ago. I’ve dug it up from my closet and started to implement it in Twine. It’s very derivative of Star Trek, a star alliance, a planet that wants to join, rumours of slave trade in the capital etc etc. I’m... Continue Reading →
Game Design Diary – Chains of Command
I have a confession to make. I have been unreasonably afraid of game engines for a while. I find the UIs intimidating and the supposed “tutorial” material dense and obscure. Forums I have visited have been tainted with toxicity of varying degrees, questions around basic functionality mocked and the questioner admonished to “git gud”. But... Continue Reading →
Disliking Games
I asked on Twitter which game I should hate play next. I made a poll consisting of Death Stranding, God of War (a.k.a. Dad of Boy, or “Kratos is chopping down birches in a surly manner”) and Jedi: Fallen Order. I have played between 2 - 5 hours per game and I strongly dislike them.... Continue Reading →
The Sexism of the Witcher 3
I’m sorry dear reader, but this is a topic I’ll keep getting back to. Skip The Witcher 3 posts if you find them boring. By now, anyone who knows me also know that I deeply dislike playing male player characters, and they also know I dislike sexism in games. All this makes for slim pickings... Continue Reading →