Part 1 and Part 2 Castle V Castle This is a great game! It’s simple, with no tutorial needed, it’s fun, and the demo ends exactly where it should, teaching the game, but leaving you wanting mor...
Inspiration Everywhere — an Interview with Quinn Murphy
I shared a laughter-filled half hour with Quinn Murphy of Thoughtcrime games, where we discussed the blogging–freelancer pipeline, Pathfinder 2e, and the many forms inspiration can take. Transcri...
May 2025 Roundup
Below are things I’ve learned, remembered, or found interesting in the past month: The words “Quote” and “Quoth” are completely unrelated to each other! Quoth comes from proto-Germanic for...
Reading License Plates
Today I am doing science. Largely, this is inspired by the blog Experimental History. You can’t read impassioned pleas to do science, small science on your own every two weeks1 without catching a l...
Most Cities Sleep
I expected the adverts. Times Square is a billboard turned into an attraction, a subtle trick to make you seek out the flashing signs telling you what you want, what you need. What I didn’t expect ...
Mechs, Grunge, and Blackjack - an Interview with Asa Donald (Rust Never Sleeps)
I talk to Asa Donald about destroying character sheets, the role of music in RPGs, and channeling real-life burnout into mech games. Transcript adapted from an interview with Asa Donald on May 8th...
The most divisive trivia question I've written
Yesterday I wrote 52 trivia questions as part of an expansion for Trivy, my take on a trivia / bingo hybrid. But I’m no stranger to writing trivia questions. Background In college, I used to writ...
Coughing up Inspiration
I want to talk about Inspiration. Some people use Inspiration to mean “a message from a muse.” A quick jolt, a bolt from the blue, the perfect idea that sprouts fully formed, like Athena from the ...
March 2025 Roundup
Below are things I’ve learned, remembered, or found interesting in the past month: The word “Till” (meaning up to) is older than the word “Until”. Until is actually a lengthening of until ...
Crackpot Tetris
The other day1 I bleeted2 about my belief that Tetris may be the best video game ever made. I later clarified that, like a reasonable person, I don’t consider the original3 Game Boy or NES release...