(A long post; mostly a brain dump of my experience at a conference last weekend.) This past weekend my friend Benji and I made the long trek from the Capital Wasteland up to Boston for a new-ish un-conference called GameLoop. Apart from seriously misunderestimating the amount of traffic that would slow us down, the trip […]
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Games of My Life
I’ve been trying to break down exactly what I value in games. What I find fun, what kinds of games I’m drawn to. It’s a hard thing to quantify exactly what makes a game good, especially trying to determine a trend across all the games I’ve liked. So I’m making this page as a kind […]
Whistlin’ Dixie
There’s been some delays on posting blog stuff since I wanted to clear writing activities with the new employer. Now that I have, here’s some backlog. :-) I first visited New Orleans when I was a kid. I don’t much remember the details of that trip, but I came away with a mild-to-moderate distaste for […]
How To Actually Break In
So my last post on how design interviews work really only covers the situation where you’re an established designer. (“Established” in this case can be as insubstantial as “have worked as a designer once.”) Getting that first break is the really hard part. I will always be grateful to the folks that gave me my […]
Design Interviews
(I had most of this written a while back, but have been sitting on it until my next job was settled. Didn’t want to jinx things.) I have a lot of fun going to parties where I get to meet new people. Part of this is because I genuinely enjoy hearing about people’s lives, though […]