The writing competition I am in adheres to a very strict, very tight, word count. It’s pretty easy to blow past that limit and have to walk everything back, one word at a time. I managed to wrestle...

I’m doing another one of those writing contest things. Writing very short stories every weekend for at least a little while. I’ve only just started, so I don’t really have much to say about it yet...

Best Games - Full Throttle The early to mid 90s, point and click adventure games were the hot genre. I mean, sure, there were lots of other types of games out there. Sports games were just ramping...

I hope everyone is having a happy holiday.

I would bet that everyone who writes fiction has some basic rules that they follow. Probably, a lot of them are rules learned from courses or instructional books on writing. At least a few of them ...

I don’t have much to write for this one. I thought about writing some stuff about the games I’m working on, but none of that is in a place to talk about. I thought about writing about writing, bu...

Well, I signed up for the weekend story writing competition again. It’s not for a few weeks, so I have time to back out if I want to. I did consider that, instead of writing new stories for the co...

Best Games - Cannon Fodder Do you know Jools and Jops. Do you know Stoo and RJ. If you do, it’s probably time for you to get some annual bloodwork done. When I wrote the last one of these about C...

Making graphics for games is a bottomless task. No matter how deep you dig, you will always find more. More to learn. More tools, more tasks, more ways to build, and more ways to screw up. I watch...

I was going to write something about game dev and making graphics for games and how there are so many layers and intermeshing systems at work that it’s amazing anything ever gets made. I stashed th...