Welcome to Survival Horror 101, I'm a mildly broke college student who has been playing Survival Horror games since I was 5 and I'm not at all qualified to be giving a lesson like this. FIRSTLY: The most important elements of a Survival Horror game are found in the title itself: "survival" and "horror". That … Continue reading Survival Horror 101: How to Do Survival Horror →

When it comes to developing games, most people have a preference to where they work. I prefer to sit in a slightly less than comfortable chair, with tons of potential distractions around me, because it helps me figure out problems by being unable to focus on it for more than five minutes. However, there are … Continue reading Idyllic Meadows of Game Development →

Alright, so let's talk another broad topic: Continuity. For this example, we'll be talking about the two most recent DOOM releases from id Software: DOOM (2016) and DOOM: Eternal (2020). The former will be referred to interchangeably as DOOM and 2016, while the latter will be referred to as Eternal. There will be some story spoilers for Eternal, so that's your … Continue reading Games and Continuity: A Light Switch, it is Not. →

When it comes to video games, one of the most important factors is balance— and that doesn't just apply to multiplayer. Balance is found in the narrative and gameplay down to the smallest nuances. For this week's example, we're gonna be talking about Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts III. Kingdom Hearts III. There's a lot to unpack … Continue reading Balance is Found Everywhere →

As a concept, Games as a Service has been around for a decent while now, with the first game to fall under that umbrella that became commercially successful being Blizzard Entertainment's (now Blizzard Activision) World of Warcraft MMO. Games as a Service is, to put it lightly, a game that requires a subscription (or, now, a … Continue reading something something Games as a Service →

Game Design Blog #5 Control is one of the best third person shooters to come out of last year— so much so that it nearly won game of the year twice. However, the most impressive aspect of Control isn't its flow, narrative, consistent and fun to use controls (bah dum tiss), but rather the options it has for … Continue reading Accessibility, The Article →

Game Blog Post #4 At every point, someone will have played a fighting game and thought something along the lines of "oh, that really shouldn't work that way." Balancing and animating fighting games is a tricky prospect for most people (unless you're ArcSys, for some reason— they have a catalog of very good anime fighting … Continue reading The Inevitable Fighting Games Post (complete with some minor hot takes) →