This weekend I did something that I was dreading: I played a game that I wrote.

I'd done a playtest of my game "The Instrument" before, but I didn't finish it because frankly it wasn't enjoyable. I wasn't sure if it was my current headspace around the project or something …

I've felt really disconnected from my work lately. I haven't done anything with my projects and questioned whether I wanted to be a game designer at all. I decided to take this week off around the Thanksgiving Holiday to just relax and take a break from doing much of anything …

I've been thinking a lot about motivation lately, specifically what motivates me to action. Case in point: two plugins for Open Metalcast have aged out (newer versions of PHP have made them so they don't work quite the same and I'm sure that eventually they will break). I'm not ready …

I've found myself stuck on a lot of my writing and programming projects. For weeks (months?) I've been putting off working on them for one reason or other. Today I feel I stumbled on what might be causing it.

Whenever I work on a project I have a tendency to …

I've had a pattern that I'm starting to realize can be an anti-pattern. These are patterns that aren't particularly helpful, though they don't have to be harmful. This pattern is substitution, where I will try to find a substitute for something that I'm no longer able or willing to use …