I love low-powered formats. I have a lot of bulk. I enjoy limited play, but it’s not always realistic to try putting together a cube and a group to draft. So I had an idea: I’d just build my own format. I call it “Off By One”, or +-1....

I messaged my brother, whose memory for these things is better than mine. me: bro, did I finish FFX or did I watch you finish it? bro: you watched me finish it, you never finished it. And that was how I realized I’d never finished a Final Fantasy game....

No one will ever read these if I don’t post with any consistency. ‘Let’s Go, Pikachu’ (which I’m going to refer to from here as ‘LGP’) is weird. My sister (Arlis) by now has played through the whole main game and into or through a big chunk of the...

We kinda lucked out into a Switch at release, and I’ve put something like… 90 hours in Breath of the Wild at this point, and I still feel like I’ve hardly scratched the surface. I honestly wonder how I should be approaching this game conceptually. Any piece of negative...

This is the origin point for a series I’m tentatively calling “Caught Up”, a place where I can dump my opinions and observations and criticisms of whichever game I’m putting hours into at any given time. I’m calling it “Caught Up” because I feel like I’m perpetually behind. I rarely...

Welcome to “Dungeons By Design”, a series where I’ll be taking a closer look at dungeon design in games. Look, real talk: I love crawling dungeons. Tabletop or video games, it doesn’t matter. I’ve spent a lot of time crawling, delving, and spelunking and I love all the complexity...

I never finished that IRDC US 2015 writeup. The year feels like it’s flown by, but at the same time it feels like it’s taken forever. I need to organize my thoughts more and get some things added to various parts of the site, it’s all in need of...

Short version, I did eventually make it out there to deliver my talk. There’s just so much to say, there will be more in a follow-up post. KVFD disbanded about a month ago after I realized that my momentum was the only thing really keeping the team afloat. I...

I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep and I had an idea. This is becoming a trend. This is why I moved into my car. When I read that there was a separate International Roguelike Development Conference being held in the US this year, I thought, “Ok,...