When I started writing this blog, it was a sort of dev diary. I didn’t post once a week and I titled, rather than numbered, each post. While I thought that no one would likely read what ...

Best Games - Super Puzzle Fighter II TurboThe time between the creation of Tetris and someone wanting to play Tetris competitively, in head-to-head fashion, is probably nanoseconds. At first, ...

Whenever I start a new story, I open two documents. The first one is the story I’m trying to write, and the second is all the bits that I want to keep, but cut from the story for one rea...

Best Games - Lode RunnerThe first version of Lode Runner I ever played was on the Atari 800. Then I played it on a Commodore 64. And then on an Apple II. And then on a PC. I just played the Ar...

Sometime in the early 90s, I was flipping through channels and stopped on this amazing movie. I didn’t know what it was, I didn’t know how long it had already been running, and I b...

We’ve had the Steam Deck here for a while now. It’s a great machine. We have played a handful of modern games with it, but, in all honesty, I mostly play old games on it. Mostly St...

Just a short writing update today. I have three short stories in various stages, one in the early edit and rewrite stage, one extremely early with only a concept and outline jotted down, and o...

Best Games - Street Fighter Alpha for the Game Boy ColorThis game has no business playing as well as it does on a Game Boy Color. I bought a Game Boy Color in 2001. The Game Boy Advance h...

I was going to post up a painting today. That was the plan.I try to sketch or paint a bit every week. You know, just to keep limber or whatever.I had a stint there where I was only really draw...

I’ve been doing a lot of stuff with procedural textures recently. I think that might be the way everything will have to go in the future. 3D graphics have gotten progressively bette...