This piece was originally slated for another publication a few years ago. It didn’t get published. So here it is. Republished from my now defunct Tumblr blog. Screenshots are all ones I took when playing Bloodborne.

This time, I’m confident I have him. Father Gascgoine has been plaguing me for…

So! I wrote an article about why NFTs are bad for game design (please read it first). Tons of discourse, lots of really good feedback, and a handful of cryptobros in my mentions. …

Right, so, you’ve probably read a bunch of great stuff from other people on why NFTs are bad, but I also know how reading things on the internet works, maybe you haven’t. So, here’s the really simple version…

(but first: hey ya’ll, I’m sick! like really sick! I just had…

hi, so there’s A Discourse floating around and I’ve been thinking about it because it’s about How People React To Things, and that doesn’t just mean how we, as artists, make things people react to, but how we react to the feedback from all of this.

I am an artist…

Hi, I’m Doc, and I write games, and people seem to like the writing I do, because over the years, I’ve received literally hundreds of messages from people asking me how to write, and for some reason, I’ve got a lot of recent queries about this, so I should probably…

I write until I feel the writing is complete, but that doesn’t always mean the thought is finished. …

Hey, this is a compilation of what you could consider my personal gaming canon. These are games I think are essential playing — and because it’s me writing this, it’s a way of really getting to understand me, I think. I don’t post these a lot, but they’re games I…

QUICK NOTE: TO GET THIS OUT IN TIME I HAD TO STOP ADDING LINKS AND IMAGES; I WILL ADD THEM WHEN I WAKE UP ON MONDAY

2020 was a difficult year, to put it mildly. Sure, I can tell you about covid or relationships deteriorating or medical emergencies or whatever…