Non-Fiction

Collected here are various musings, articles, and other non-fiction writings.

News

• Floor Kids to Get an Official Soundtrack and Tour

• Show and Tell with Seattle Indie Devs

• Neo Impossible Bosses Captures the Highs and Lows of MMO Raiding

• Outgun the Competition With Style in Treadnauts

• Plan Your Perfect Assault in Tactical Team Shooter Due Process

• Surrealist JRPG Hylics Sequel Looks Mind-Bendingly Weird

• Voracious Games is Brewing Up Something Good with Potionomics
• Download Your Perfect Doki Doki Literature Club Girlfriend with Monika After Story
• Seattle-Based Indies Tackle Game-in-a-Week Challenge
• Nintendo’s Region-Free Policies Have Created Unintentional Discounts

Game Development

• Creating Competition: An Interview with Treadnauts Developer Topstitch Games

• Plagariasm vs. Inspiration: How an Indie Studio Thought Blizzard Ripped Them Off [UNPUBLISHED]

• An In-Depth Interview with Jonas Kaerlev, Creator and Lead Developer of ‘A Hat in Time’

• LOWREZJAM Post-Mortem
• LOWREZJAM 2017

Game Design

• Why an Asymmetric Board Game Pissed Off Me and My Friends

• ‘Laser League’: a ‘Bomberman’ for the Modern Age

• ‘Super Mario Odyssey’: Distinctly Japanese, Uniquely Nintendo, and Fundamentally Fun

• Pixel Perfect: ‘Vermintide’ Brings the Grim Darkness of ‘The End Times’ to Life

• 14 Years Later, the Spirit of ‘Final Fantasy Tactics Advance’ Lives On In Canadian-Developed ‘Children of Zodiarcs’

Game Reviews

• Night in the Woods Switch Review: Foreign, Familiar, and Frightening

• Returning to the ‘Crypt of the Necrodancer’ on the Nintendo Switch

• Treadnauts Review: There’s a Party in My Tank and Everyone’s Exploding

• Enter the Gungeon Review: Bite-sized Blasts of Fun

• Floor Kids Review: Putting the Fun Back Into Funky

• ‘Battle Chef Brigade’ is a Wholesome Dish Chock-full of Fun

• ‘Slay the Spire’ – Get Good or Have Fun Dying

• Fear Transcends Cultural Boundaries in ‘Detention’

• ‘A Hat in Time’ Hits All the Right Notes to Become an Instant Classic

• PAX Decompression and Gigantic (Review)
• Abzu (Review)
• Splatoon 2 / Imperial Assault (Review)
• Children of Zodiarcs (Review; Part 1)
• Children of Zodiarcs (Review; Part 2)

Television/Film/Anime

• Anime Ichiban: Kyle’s Favourite ‘Fun And Catchy’ Opening Themes

• ‘Devilman Crybaby’ Reminds Us What It Means to Be Human

• The Trouble with Recreating The Myth and Magic of ‘Star Wars’

• Lightning Has Struck Twice in Season 2 of ‘Stranger Things’

• Beyond ‘Blade Runner’: Transcending The Legacy Of A Cult Classic

• 5 Wholesome Anime That Will Leave You Smiling

Miscellaneous

• Reflect
• Making