When we decide what to build for the games we work on, we often go by taste and intuition. While that’s a good starting point, we can avoid a lot of pain by applying a powerful tool: frameworks.
Fun vs Optimal
Sometimes competitive games ask you to do things that aren’t fun in order to win and make the things that are fun sub-optimal. Why is this and what can we do about it? And why aren’t you pushing the payload?
I’m not vibing with Thronefall and that’s weird
Thronefall is a minimized strategy game and I should love it for that, but I don’t. In this post I briefly dig into why that might be. Spoiler: it’s anxiety!
Movies that are a vibe
This is a list of movies that are a vibe. I forget why I wrote this. I should probably just move this to letterboxd.