I’m gonna make a bet with you and it goes like this: I’m going to do my best to prove that Starfield is an immersive sim because A) I think it is, and B) I think it’s an interesting thing to try to prove, because I love immersive sims a…

Right now, you are on the threshold of an amazing adventure… ~showtime!~ Have you ever been rock climbing? Big ol’ cliff in front of you that you’ve gotta scale, somewhere in that early morning midsummer sun, where you know the day’s gonna get hot, but it isn’t hot yet because…

article coming soon but i wanted to preserve this short story i’d written. it’s the seed for something i will be working on The bookseller had been found dead in his shop after Old Marty had busted in the back way wondering why it wasn’t open. He found the codger…

When I was a boy, I would often play in the river, sailing paper boats, fishing for catfish, catching — and running from — snapping turtles. Wasn’t much to do in a small town like ours but sit by the river. One day, I made a friend. My friend didn’t…

So, those of you who know me probably know I’ve worked on a lot of video games as a consultant, both indie an AAA, but predominantly AAA. You also may know that I’ve directed some games — including the critically acclaimed Adios and my current project, code named Waifu Death…

AI isn’t just pie in the sky, it’s a cow pie in the sky. Few years back, I read the specifications for 5G, the fifth generation mobile network. It was ambitious, to say the least. Fast forward a bit. 5G starts to roll out, only it’s… well… anything but the…

There are two kinds of impostor syndrome. There’s the one that says “I don’t deserve to be here among all these other people who are much, much more talented than I, what will they think of me” and there’s the one that says “oh no, I am doing something way…

Long-ass fuckin’ time ago, the Coca Cola Company made a change. I don’t know why they made it, but they decided that the formula their entire company was built on wasn’t good enough, suddenly, and they decided to kill regular-old Coca Cola and replace it with “new coke.” People didn’t…

This is not an essay about lore. I mean, it is, sure. We discuss lore, what it is, how to best use it, and how it can trap you into writing worse stories… but that’s not really what this essay is about. …