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let me first define art: art is whatever i think is art. creating games is an art. playing games is an art. gameplay is art and gamers are artists. artistry is itself a game that creates art. in the...

with some awareness of irony as i enter month 4 of my latest creative block, i thought i should write a little post about dream journals, my preferred tool for finding ideas. the practice of dream...

If there's one thing I love to do more than anything it's fucking talking about myself ugh

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this last month or so i have been using the Fennel programming language, a Lisp dialect that transpiles to Lua. if you want the quick pitch: it’s a fast, imperative-oriented Lisp with macros that i...

“Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the ‘real’ country, all of ‘real’ America that is Disneyland.” –some asshole every day i go on a walk because my gf calls me fat if i don’t and it makes...

put screenshake in your game. screenshake is the secret to a game that feels good. if you don’t put it in your game, your game may not feel good. the purpose of a game is to feel good. we have...

two game studios behind two highly anticipated games announced those games’ cancellations within the last couple weeks, those being indie studio Tendershoot’s Dreamsettler, the ambitious sequel to...

Evil Egg naked prostrating on the cold tile as the tub spout pours crashing into the open drain like a waterfall. Evil Egg eating to quell the nausea of overfullness and starving on dandelion green....

i think many programmers are conquerors. they want to bend reality to their will. to this end, making a software is an intense power fantasy, one where the programmer is given a problem and full...