Lost in Useless Territory

This is my favorite memory from playing Fallout: New Vegas: I was wondering the desert fairly early on in the game and came upon a small camp held by Cesar’s Legion. There were maybe half a dozen soldiers and two slaves, men taken from a town in the South the Legion had raised, and I [...]

While My Guitar Gently Clicks

Last week publisher/destroyer of worlds Activision announced they were discontinuing the Guitar Hero franchise. It’s a strange thing to hear, though not a particularly surprising one – Activision’s way of handling a successful game is to glut the market with as much of it as possible, and in the few years since original developer Harmonix [...]

Games I Want to Make, pt. 1

- A simultaneous turn-based game pitting two players against each other and the game itself. Each turn, players must prepare to manipulate the game’s input against each other without leaving themselves open to harm from either their opponent or the impartial game. – A game where your environment is made up almost entirely of loose [...]

Expertology & You

As part of my ongoing effort to figure out what exactly I want to do with this space (where “ongoing” means “every once and while, when it occurs to me”), I’ve borrowed an idea from the Michael Bay school of thought – in place of direction, make it bigger. So I’ve added a tumblr to [...]