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Why do we hate AI? It feels emotionally obvious. It's because it's an affront to humanity and our ways of expression; but this is not a way of explaining why, it's just a form of lashing out. I get it, I want to lash out too. But a human/inhuman distinction is a miserable tool to begin throwing around in our ranks. It feels legally obvious. It's because it's intellectual property theft on an…
This post is blog version of a talk I gave at Games Talks Live in April in both Edinburgh and Glasgow. It's largely an industry event, so my usual tone is different. This is a heavily edited piece, whatever the word count is when I publish this it's far more than the 10 minutes allocated to a Games Talks Live talk. If a paragraph looks long, it's probably only the first couple of sentences that…
This last weekend had both the Glasgow 1 Independent Games Festival – which I'd been looking forward to since its first iteration last year – and the 5th birthday for Bevy , the game engine I've been using and intermittently, lightly contributing to over the ~10 months. Glasgow Independent Games Festival 2025 The 2024 GIGF left me giddy and resolute in the underdog position that is "some nobody…
I've been working on a digital, competitive card game for a year now. I started this project with intent to illustrate how to do this kind of thing via some kind of blog post series, but it got out of hand and now it's a "commercial project." Fundamentally this is me falling back on my old compiler and execution model design habits. The technical work has been very intense and somewhat…
At the end of 2023 I was writing from a position of recovery, looking ahead of a new year where I expected to mostly move to working full-time, and heal from old wounds. In 2024 I got a lot of things done. This is about half the things I did: A writing class A GGJ2024 Game A Dream Emulator 2023 Jam Game 8 months of life drawing classes Oil paintings Pretentious Jam (Host) Pretentious Jam (Game)…
tl;dr: go to here and put a widget on your website. If you want to look at the source code, it's available here Update 2024-12-20 : Added on-blog-page examples. In the last weeks of Cohost a lot of energy was put into promoting 3 kinds of "old internet" discovery tools: 88x31 badges, webrings, and RSS/Atom feeds. I like these things, and I use these things, but they all have constraints. 88x31…
I've been thinking about physical distribution. Not just zines, but magazines. I've got a stack of zines on my bookshelf, on the smaller side compared to the people I know, and I think often about magazines as a format. I think about how zines are usually built for artistic expression or an event rather than wide circulation. I think about the magazines the libraries had when I was a kid and how…