Issue 5.13: The SOURCErer's Apprentice
Game Development As the Most Complete Magic You Can Actually Perform [A Metamagical, Ludological, Theological, and Philosophical Analysis]
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Where gaming meets humanity. Games + Arts + Sciences + Humanities. A 2022 Substack Featured Publication!
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Slop, Please: Your Prose Is NOT in Order
OR: Against Pangram scans, virtue signaling, moral cosplaying, moral panicking, witch hunts, and Substack deputizing the witch hunters.
BONUS QUEST: The Gamer's Grimoire
A Tongue-in-Cheek Grimoire of Spells, Enchantments, and Potions for the Discerning Mystical Gamer
Issue 5.12: No Such Thing as a Free Lich
The Forbidden Arts in Video Games, and How They Let You Skip the Bill [An Archetypal, Metaspiritual, Theological, Philosophical, and Ludonarrative Analysis]
Squid Pro Quo
The Eldritch Economy of Worshipping Things That Hate You
Issue 5.11: Gods, Mods, and Sacred Fraud
Deities, Cults, Deicide, Apotheosis, and Playing God in Video Games [An Archetypal, Metaspiritual, Theological, Philosophical, and Ludonarrative Analysis]
My Latest: On Crimson Desert vs. The Gaming Press
An update, a cross-post, and a promise
Is GDC Over?
A Ground-Level Dispatch from GDC 2026
BONUS QUEST: The Banned Bible Book That “They” Don’t Want You to Play
The Book of Enoch, Heaven’s System Failure, and the Video Games That Keep Repeating the Crime
Issue 5.10: Sympathy for the Diablo
Heaven, Hell, and the Open World in Between [An Archetypal, Metaspiritual, Theological, Historical, Literary, and Ludonarrative Analysis]