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...
A handful of steam (part 2)
Rogue Waters Pirate-themed XCOM It’s an XCOM, complete with tactical turn-based combat. This is thoroughly pirate-themed, with ship-to ship combat occurring before each fight. You can cleverly ...
A handful of Steam (part 1)
This week, I’m reviewing 5 Steam demos that have either been lurking on my backlog, or (in the case of Monster Train 2) I just found out about today. Possibly because it was just released today. M...
Quick reviews: January 2025
Books and Comics Starstruck (2/5) Sometimes one of my kids will come home from school and tell me a long, involved story featuring people I’ve never met and events I don’t understand. I li...
Leveling up in Excel (Part 2)
Last time, I explained how there are ten tiers of spreadsheet mastery, and that by conquering each of them you unlock a new level of proficiency. The first 5 are competency, while these five bring ...
January 2025 Roundup
Below are things I’ve learned, remembered, or found interesting in the past month: Courtesy of Astral Codex 10, the Southern Television Broadcast Interruption, where a broadcast was interr...
We are all dinos playtest report
Later this year, I will be releasing We Are All Dinos at the Dino Show, a LARP-lite game about pretending to be a dinosaur. Last weekend, I ran the first public playtest for the game. Before I tel...
Leveling up in Excel (part 1)
Long gone are the days where spreadsheets were exclusively the domain of tweed-wearing accountants with horn-rimmed glasses in musty basements and beige cubicles. Today, spreadsheets are identified...