This one is thick y’all. Chunky. Like ribollita, you could stand a spoon up in it. And then hang a little flag off the soup. And then a group of small mammals can declare independence, building a self-sustaining self-governing colony with a fully bread-based economy. On the soup. Where was I? Oh yeah. Thick. This time with updates. Not soup. It could be that post-vacation energy. It could be the…
We’re back! Did you miss us? Did you miss the soup? I understand some people look outside (if they’re in the Northern Hemisphere), see that the deadly space laser is ablating all exposed surfaces and think to themselves that it is not soup season. Dear reader. It is always soup season in our heart and soul. If you believe in the power of the broth, forever and ever, ramen. It’s been a month since…
They say there’s no rest for the wicked, which seems cruel. Being wicked is a lot of work, and everyone deserves a weekend. Did you know there’s such a thing as Wicked Thai Chicken Soup ? I don’t know what’s meant to be wicked about it. But if it’s an evil soup, I’m down. All my homies love evil, and all my homies love soup. Okay So What Did We Actually Get Done? The tome menu has real pages that…
As the temperature warms up outside many would say soup season has ended. Pifflesquish and hobblesquawk says I. Soup season is the eternal state of mind which surrounds the bowl. And the bowl is life. Think on that. Think on that real hard . Hey, remember how two sprints ago I was like, “tome menu?” and you were probably like, “what?” and then last sprint I was like “tome menu?” and you were all…
This is the part of the post where I extol you, EXTOL YOU, to have some soup. Do you? Do you have some soup? Or do you hurt me with your cold, soupless eyes. Do you rebuke the calming warmth of the avgolemono? How could you? Monster. Hey. Guess what. We’re a company now! Like. For realsie reals. I mean, technically we were already a company. You can be a company too, today, if you decide real hard…
Famished! You look positively famished! Sit down right now, it’s soup time. Cream of Bisque. No that’s not just a fancy name for “I put all my leftover soups in the same bowl,” why do you ask? There’s two big threads to pull, which makes sense, when your company is exactly two people wide. As much as I love juggling plates (fun fact, I never did learn how to juggle), there’s only so many I can…
Good morning. You look hungry. Can I interest you in a bowl of breakfast soup? Cream of Apple. No it’s quite different from apple sauce, why do you ask? Remember how last post I was talking about getting an address for TomeSpire that wasn’t my own? Because CAN-SPAM? No? Okay so here’s the short version: if you want to send a newsletter to people the CAN-SPAM act requires you to put a physical…
Hi. Welcome. Hungry? You look hungry. Have some soup. This might be a long one. You know how sometimes people be like, “I wish I could do a thing,” and then they spend their whole life doing anything but that? I regret to inform you that’s extremely not my vibe. I do the whole thing. With my entire chest. All the time. So I founded a game studio. Did you know you can just do things? You can…
On July 2nd at 10:33 Bruce Straley , director of Uncharted 2 and The Last of Us, received an email. Subject: RE: Notice of Termination Chapter 1 I went to GDC 2026 last week. This is notable for many reasons, not least of which: I am not currently a game developer. And in fact have not been for roughly 20 years. Oh, sure. I’ve got a pile of hobby games deep enough that the cats sometimes get lost…
I don’t know that it got as much traction as it probably deserved, but Sam Seer asked us to talk about three games that were important to us, and I thought. Yes. Yes I think I will. A Tale in the Desert I am not physically capable of being reasonable about A Tale in the Desert . This is my ur-game. This is the game that I literally cannot be allowed to play, because it would consume me whole. It…
Half-tempted to write a massively distributed roll-and-write wargame to be played by All of PAX. Insane? Yes, absolutely. When has that stopped me before?
For those of you who were at PAX Unplugged you may have encountered the Line Entertainment team. And if you found us at night, you may have been presented with the opportunity to participate in the Grand Campaign - a distributed adventure narrative told over the course of the weekend. As each story beat progressed attendees were presented with the current situation and a variety of options, each…
“It sounds like you might be playing the ghost of a better game that lives inside this one.” – Claude Sonnet 4 Previously: Waking Up to Dune Awakening Part 1: How Stella Got Her Groove Back, or, When The Worm Lost its Teeth Okay, so. Uh. I’m still playing Dune: Awakening. Yeah, I also think that’s weird. I’ve never spent so many words explaining why I don’t recommend something…
Chapter 1: Dune. So hot right now. I’m not going to bury the lede. You probably shouldn’t play Dune: Awakening . The rest of this article is going to be an attempt to explain why, despite my own anti-recommendation, I’m still playing it. You should know that Dune: Awakening is mean as hell. Up to a point that meanness is clearly intentional. It’s a Dune Simulator, and Dune’s world is mean as hell.…
A couple times a year I get together with a few tens of thousands of friends-I-haven’t-met-yet at a shindig called PAX . I have the great pleasure of being an [E]nforcer with the Line Entertainment team, which is a great gig if you can get it. Bullying people (politely) into having fun while they wait for a panel? The best way to spend a weekend. We have a few tricks up our sleeve for this.…
There goes a famous saying: Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Variously attributed to just about anyone smart who is both old and dead. Word on the street is Confucius said it, though my money’s on a random high school teacher who wanted his students to believe it came from someone wiser than him. Or, alternatively: Convince someone to pay you for the thing…
A Little Bit About Me It’s possible you might know me , but if you don’t: hi. I’m Professional Internet Wizard Contrariwise . I was born in the late 20th century on the West coast of America, but currently live in the sparkling southern-flavored Midwest[^Texas.]. Over the years I’ve done lots of things. I started my career in video games, worked on an MMO, burned out, did spreadsheets for…