The Global Game Jam was this past weekend. And I didn’t participate. Because I was doing this writing jam. A jam is a jam though. One of the major parts of a jam is that you are given a prompt, or...

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...