I've been thinking about the reasons why I wanted to become a game designer. I grew up in an era when arcade machines were plentiful and ubiquitous, and the home video game experience could be had in media like cartridges, cassettes, and floppy disks. I looked forward to magazines like …
read moreGame Design Books: an observation
Last night I was leafing through my collection of game design books. I got addicted to game design books in the hopes that one or more of these would give me some insight into the process of game design. These books are like flypaper for novice game designers like myself …
read moreOdds and sods
This is just a mental dump of what's on my mind at the moment. I don't expect anyone to read this, but if you do I thank you in advance. I literally have no idea where this post will lead.
I've been thinking a lot lately about game design and …
read moreJavaScript, redux
One of the difficulties I'm facing with this unemployment and job search is a theme that I noticed in the last job search: I really need to learn more front-end development. This unfortunately brings me squarely to face the one white whale that has eluded me: JavaScript. So I find …
read moreSocial Media Diet: Day #13
And the wheels fell off the wagon.
I've been pretty good thus far about not doing the whole Social Media and "bad browsing" habits up until around Wednesday of this week. That's when the wheels fell off the proverbial wagon. I chalk it up to a combination of things, but …
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