Monday, May 18, 2026

The peculiar way I broke into the video game industry

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 A student wrote to ask me how I got into video games. It's a peculiar story, and maybe has a useful lesson. The first time I got into v...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

People are Liking The Caribou Trail

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Lisa and I wrote a game* called The Caribou Trail about the Royal Newfoundland Regiment's experiences at Gallipoli in 1915 . It came out...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Luke Plunkett & A Probably Unpopular Opinion About Mixtape

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Luke Plunkett nails my mixed feelings about  Mixtape : https://aftermath.site/mixtape-review-game-90s /. So first of all, a ton of people lo...
Monday, May 04, 2026

A rose by any other name would vote for AOC.

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The WaPo has a fun article showing the rightward or leftware tilt of a bunch of first and last names. It's not super-surprising that na...
Saturday, May 02, 2026

By the way, Ophelia is pregnant...

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I wrote this in 2008 and put it up on my old website. But now I realize my old website is no longer there. So here it is again: Has anyone n...
Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Vibe Coding in Claude

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 I've been messing around with vibe coding in Claude in Godot, Python and Javascript. Some observations: 1. This is a fantastic resource...
Friday, March 06, 2026

The talk was fun!

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Wednesday, March 04, 2026

I'm giving a talk!

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  I'm giving a talk tomorrow at Cinesite in Montreal about "What Game Devs Should Know about Narrative." ( You can still buy a...