Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Monday, June 17, 2024

"What's on your bookshelf" at Rock Paper Shotgun

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Just a brief update here -- I recently had the honor of participating in Rock Paper Shotgun's "what's on your bookshelf" ...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

The melancholy of screen space in "Universal History of Light" by Stephen Lavelle

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WARNING: This post somewhat "spoils" the 2014 game Universal History of Light. Stephen "increpare" Lavelle's ...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Liner notes: Intimate, Infinite (part 2), on protagonists / race / gardening / chess.

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These are some notes about my process / intent in making my game Intimate, Infinite . Spoiler warning  is in effect for this game as well...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Liner Notes: Intimate, Infinite (part 1)

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These are some notes about my process / intent in making my game Intimate, Infinite . Spoiler warning is in effect for this game as well a...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

new game: Intimate, Infinite

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I've finished a 3+ month project called "Intimate, Infinite."  It is available at a Pay What You Want price with a $0 minim...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

On focalization, and against convenient understandings of immersion / flow.

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This post is significantly changed from a talk I gave at Different Games . It was prompted by Jon Stokes approaching me and helpfully te...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Game narrative as improvisational theater / negotiation.

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The current narrative systems prototype Shakespeare has been somewhat disappointing so far: the director switches, seemingly erratically, b...
Sunday, February 3, 2013

Narrative systems workflow; using Fourier analysis and level design metaphors to systemize stories.

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This assumes familiarity with Shakespeare, a procedurally-branching narrative system that I'm designing. For an overview / introductio...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Radiator Blog: Three Year Anniversary

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Wow, I've been blogging here for about 3 years now. This blog is now approaching the end of its toddler years. Much like last year , ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

7dfps, halftime report

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Hey! I've been chugging away on my 7 Day FPS entry, "The Leaden Circles," a single player squad FPS based on Virginia Woolf...
Friday, June 8, 2012

7dfps: The Leaden Circles, prep

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(I'm making an FPS in 7 days , as are many other designers. This is cross-posted .) "One feels even in the midst of the traffic...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

What games can learn from Sleep No More (part 1): the death of environmental storytelling.

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Part 1 contains VAGUE SPOILERS , as if your friend had gone to Sleep No More and told you about it, or as if you had read a news article...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Dear Esther

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From the Wikipedia article on " cut-up technique ," emphasis mine: A precedent of the technique occurred during a Dadaist rally...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

How to Close Read Video Games

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Novels, poems, plays, short stories -- they all communicate meaning through the ways they use language and how the reader perceives the work...