Two rather serious, melancholy games reflecting on death and dying within a month of each other calls for something of a palette cleanser, I think you’ll agree. Allow me to present then Twin Hobo Rocket, a little game about space-faring hobos created by Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl for one of the competitions held in [...]
A slightly shorter Comics Are Expensive than planned this week, as work and generally not feeling great conspired against me to to knock the books being talked about down from three to two. While I’m not super happy with the way this week’s piece turned out, the two books up for review are still good [...]
In hindsight, I should really learn to look at the next week’s shipping lists before declaring the subject matter of future columns. Not that this week’s books are bad, mind you, just that, by saying this installment would again be doing the all new books thing, I sorta cheated myself out of the chance to [...]
03.25Leveling up
Hello, twenty-six. I’m usually one to get slightly melancholy on birthdays, taking the path of “I’m getting older and could have done so much more with the last year” and driving it straight into the ground, but am actively trying to avoid such thinking this time around. Because it was a good year. I shipped [...]
Developer Tale of Tales are proving more and more interesting with each project. Their work to date includes The Path, a finalist at this year’s IGF awards offering that turns the story of Red Riding-hood in to a commentary on the expectations we place on young girls in our society, the trials of moving into [...]
So the Thing I’ve kinda-sorta talked around for the last couple weeks is this: I want to make games that can be played as part of daily life, integrating themselves seamlessly into your walk to work, time spent waiting for the check at the diner, train ride, or whatever else you happen to be doing. [...]
This week’s Comics Are Expensive is up at Occasional Superheroine, featuring three books picked somewhat at random that I haven’t read before: Incredible Hercules, Fear Agent, and The Boy Who Made Silence. Check it out, won’t you? Of course, I bought more than three comics this week, meaning there were some titles that got left [...]
Ah, the smell of new comics. As promised (or at least, as suggested might happen), this week saw me grab up a number of new titles I’ve never read before in the interest of seeing what else is out there beyond the tried and true mainstays I pick up each month. Lucky for me, it [...]
03.17Monday Games: Shoot
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned here before, I’m more than a little fascinated by shoot-em-ups (or “shmups”) of the old arcade variety. I love the look of them, the way the camera’s bird’s eye view opens up all manner of possibilities for ducking, dodging, and of course destroying the enemies popping out at you from [...]
03.16Vital Information
Thanks to the gentle proddings of Gallaher last night over drinks, I’ve finally gotten around to updating the About and Games section of the site. I’m particularly glad to see Games finally up, as it contains links to nearly everything I’ve worked on over the last few years. Some appear completely lost to the terrible [...]