The first month of 2021 is just about over, and I’m doing a little retrospective/postmortem/whatever on what I got up to this month! AI (and Personality) Who’s the best Tic-Tac-Toe AI? by droqen I made and released this small project that got a bunch of nice comments (both on the itch page and on twitter).Continue reading “AI, Playtesting, & Posting! (January postmortem)”
Monthly Archives: January 2021
Designer/programmer problems: I habitually work on code instead of design
Writing code to make videogames has been a part of my life for a ridiculously long time, an absurdly large portion of it. I learned Visual Basic when my age was in the single digits and I like math; programming is second nature to me. I had a conversation with a non-programmer lead game designerContinue reading “Designer/programmer problems: I habitually work on code instead of design”
“Truckle gluttony” might have solved my relationship with twitter. (Or I’m just in a very creative form of denial.)
I’d like to take the opportunity to say “I don’t like this blog post anymore”. I am glad that I recognized this problem, but so what? I needed a solution. I think I’ve started to find one. The answer is complicated and unfinished, but if I ever figure it out maybe I’ll write a newContinue reading ““Truckle gluttony” might have solved my relationship with twitter. (Or I’m just in a very creative form of denial.)”
Should I continue to dream of impossibly large and complex worlds?
I tweeted this mockup last month. 🔚 It seems so easy to imagine and even implement some dreamy mechanics, but so hard to really put them together and make a genuine game out of them.
Individual Language: Demons & Other Things
What do you call a word that was invented expressly for individual use? The perfectly ironic thing is I couldn’t find a word for this; a neologism is at least etymologically defined by its new-ness, so an established piece of personal language need not apply, and a protologism is even more explicit about being aContinue reading “Individual Language: Demons & Other Things”