philosophy

Most of this page points at old articles that originated on the early blog. A couple are from the new blog instead:

• Myst, Doom and false dichotomies (22 February 2020)
• Alternate uses for gamedev tools (9 January 2019)

And a few more originated right here on the wiki (I was still in a blogging mindset then, hence the format and dates):

• Story, context, theme (5 September 2018) — really a bunch of scattered thoughts from a paper notebook
• Making Games Quickly (14 August 2018)
• Pew Pew Motivation (2 August 2018)

More recently, I started collecting some thoughts on virtual worlds and decolonizing games.

• More about diversity and representation (21 February 2016)

• Getting noticed, the perpetual problem (21 November 2014)

• On games as pulp fiction (4 September 2013)
• Game stories, the final frontier (22 July 2013)
• Game development and personal life (2 July 2013)
• Stories and their media (29 June 2013)

• Making games, making money (15 October 2012)
• An original history of first person shooters (24 September 2012)
• Two important postmortems (10 September 2012)
• What porting can teach you (27 February 2012)
• Adventures in Interactive Fiction (20 February 2012)

• Real success is long-term (10 September 2011)
• When “urgent” isn’t (10 March 2011)
• Text, text everywhere (20 April 2011)