To the Moon: humiliating a Neurotypical wifeguy into happiness.

The thing about neurodivergence is that people really like to point out when you’re doing something differently. To the Moon is about being on the receiving end of that.

Sable (Demo): The Trouble with a Timeless Desert

My one wish for Sable was that it could escape the baggage of its aesthetic tradition. The demo makes me uncertain.

review poem: a slow walk on The Longest Road on Earth (demo)

I spend a lot of time walking around earphones on in the grey light of the Scottish day, half the time listening to music that affects me more than any game ever really has, the swelling in the back, auditory processing override music. The Longest Road on Earth drawn. us into noir urban mileui. switching […]

A Short Piece On Short Peace: Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day

confusion, animation styles and artistic experience in a forgotten game experiment

No Longer Home: Queer Times at LudoNarraCon

Sometimes, a game is very close to home, and that’s a weird thing to deal with.

Love Shore: Queer times at LudoNarraCon

In this game you can play as a muscular queer woman at one point flirting at a bar, the next kicking down doors to find your gay doctor’s secret lab.

Review: Don’t Forget Me

A jazz-synth, cyber sci-fi game that puts its themes first.

a morbid dusk

reflections on designing for reflection in Pol Clarissou’s ‘orchids to dusk’

the earth is a better person than me: what do you want, player?

I have had Kara Stone’s game the earth is a better person than me on my desktop for about 2 years now. I only played it once, the day before yesterday. Why did it take so long? I do know the answer to that, but it’s not one I like. I was scared. Scared to […]

Return of the Obra Dinn: Trash, boring, Orientalist crap

Return of the Obra Dinn really overestimates how much I’m willing to sympathise with a member of the East India Company