There are several old, personal events that I’ve been rotating in my head for a very long time. I’m finally writing about them because I’ve just had the staggering realization that they all form one singular story. In some cases I’d never made the connection; in other cases I just plain forgot that things which happened within hours of each other were related. This isn’t pleasant to write, and it…
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.
(a post rescued from Cohost, originally Aug 2024) Some backstory may be necessary.
vignettes is the spicy visual novel we’ve been plugging away at for the past year or so. It’s about transformation and sex and conflict and magic tricks. I think it’s pretty good! But I’m biased, so you’ll have to draw your own conclusions. By… playing it…? It’s currently ten bucks on itch , but : we’ll be adding more stories over time, and slightly bumping the price every time. So this is…
Eevee grew to level 38! It’s been a few years since I did one of these. My birthday in 2022 was kind of overshadowed by the loss of our darling cat Pearl . But I think I’d like to get back into it, to christen the redone website.
I hit a point where I just didn’t like this website any more. It was too… stuffy . Posts kept getting longer, more elaborate, more time-consuming to write. I didn’t recognize the tone any more, and when I look back at older posts, those are way snarkier than they need to be. I think I was trying to be taken seriously-but-not-too-seriously, and the voice that developed as a result was just really…
Welcome to Monday Night Itch, a harebrained scheme to encourage folks to play more non- AAA games by adding a touch of social gamification. I thought I would be tweeting my adventures here, but I just had an experience so profound it can only be captured within a blog post.
A Chronicling of the Lyfe and Times of one Miss Pearl Twig Woods, who has Passed at a Young Age from Troubles of the Heart. She is survived by Anise, her Arch Nemesis; Cheeseball, her Adoptive Ruffian; and Napoleon, her Star-Crossed Suitor for Whom she Longed from Afar.
GZDoom is the fanciest way to play Doom. Unfortunately, it has also historically been difficult to recommend to newcomers, because its default settings are… questionable . Conspicuously, for over a decade, it defaulted to traditional Doom movement keys (no WASD ) and no mouselook. I am overjoyed to discover that this is no longer the case, and it plays like a god damn FPS out of the box, but there…
Welcome to part 1 of this narrative series about writing a complete video game from scratch, using the PICO -8. This is actually the second part, because in this house (unlike Lua) we index from 0, so if you’re new here you may want to consult the introductory stuff and table of contents in part zero . If you’ve been following along, welcome back, and let’s dive right in!
Eevee grew to level 34! I super almost forgot to write one of these! What a very, very long year. I went back through my dev journal to see what I’d done and could not believe most of this happened in the past year. Even stuff from August feels like it must have been at least a year ago.
🔗 Steam release 🔗 itch release Whoops! I meant to write about this when it originally came out, in April , but never quite got around to collecting my thoughts. Here is a very rushed subset of them. The game is extremely NSFW , but the commentary below is not.
You may recall that I once had the ambitious idea to write a book on game development, walking the reader through making simple games from scratch in a variety of different environments, starting from simple level editors and culminating in some “real” engine. That never quite materialized. As it turns out, writing a book is a huge slog, publishers want almost all of the proceeds, and LaTeX is an…
🔗 Lexy’s Labyrinth 🔗 Source code on GitHub 🔗 itch.io later Here is Lexy’s Labyrinth, a web-based Chip’s Challenge emulator. It’s easy to get into and mostly speaks for itself, so here is a story.
I’m working on a video game! Like, a serious one.
I read J.K. Rowling’s essay . I regret doing so. Here are some thoughts. Trans readers, brace yourselves, especially if you didn’t read the original. Some help came from Andrew James Carter’s response thread , which has many more citations but feels less compelling to a general audience to me.
🔗 Play it on itch.io 🔗 Play it on the PICO -8 BBS (where you can also download the cart and view the source code) (I originally drafted this just after publishing the game, but then decided to start a whole series about its development and wasn’t sure what to do with this! But it’s solid and serves a different purpose, so here it is.) It’s been a while, but I made another PICO -8 game! It’s a…
I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff and put it online where other people could see it was pretty slick, but we did not have very much to work with. I’ve been taking for granted that most folks doing web stuff still remember those days, or at least…
Eevee grew to level 33!
🔗 Advent calendar , with links to individual projects Happy new year! For December, I had the absolutely ludicrous idea to do an advent calendar, whereupon I would make and release a thing every day until Christmas. It didn’t go quite as planned! But some pretty good stuff still came out of it.