My brother and some friends are working on a video game over at darkflowgame.com. It’s something both wildly classical, and also extremely novel. If you’ve ever played Gradius, Lifeforce, or 1942, then you’ll be familiar with the classical aspect of the game. These games are part of a pretty prolific, while rather fringe genre known…
Tag: gaming
Homage to The Great Dictator
The following is an homage to this speech in the Great Dictator, a political satire comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, scored by and starring Charlie Chaplin in 1940. The speech itself needs no introduction, I doubt anyone can watch it and not be moved. My speech, below, was written with the aim of being an introduction to…
Where the Sand Meets the Sky
I’ve recently been dabbling in a new side project with the working title: “Where the Sand Meets the Sky” The ultimate goal of the project, is to create a retro, atmosphere rich, 2D platformer drawing heavily on a dream I had a decade or two ago. The dream was something of a mashup of Dune…
Why I Don’t MMO Anymore
There was a time in my life where the World of Warcraft consumed the better part of my waking hours. To this day, every time I see or hear something about an MMO I am struck with starkly contrasting reactions. On the one hand, MMO-ing was easily one of the most deeply satisfying, and highly…