By Quakecon 2012 Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
Denuvo and the "Death" of Piracy
Denuvo videogame DRM didn't actually kill piracy, but it did stop it for several months. Here's what we learned from that.
The Biggest Game Ever
How did this niche racing game make a gameworld so massive, and why is that a big deal?
Top 64 Videogames
Lists of 'best games ever' are dumb and annoying. But like a self-loathing hipster I made one anyway.
Pixel City Dev Blog
An attempt to make a good looking cityscape with nothing but simple tricks and a few rectangles of light.
DM of the Rings
Both a celebration and an evisceration of tabletop roleplaying games, by twisting the Lord of the Rings films into a D&D game.
Twelve Years
Even allegedly smart people can make life-changing blunders that seem very, very obvious in retrospect.
Spoiler Warning:
Fallout 4
Is Fallout 4 the greatest videogame ever made? No. No it is not.
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Until Dawn
A character-driven slasher horror mystery adventure puzzle-based survival walking simulator. It's pretty cool.
The Opportunity Crunch
No, brutal, soul-sucking, marriage-destroying crunch mode in game development isn't a privilege or an opportunity. It's idiocy.
The Best of 2016
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2016.
Games and the Fear of Death
Why killing you might be the least scary thing a game can do.
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