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After spending 5+ years working on my biggest long term project Crystal Slaves I was pretty burned out and spent a year or so not doing much game development stuff. There's a longer post in there somewhere about it I haven't thought about writing, but…

Since covid I have been trying to find an Actually Good mask. When the greater community finally admitted that, yeah, Medical masks, cloth masks, and the like weren't actually protecting anyone and depended on 100% mask adoption to actually work. Post mask mandates, masking depended…

Six months ago I got laid off from Midwinter Entertainment, then a 5 year old game studio in the Seattle area, after our project was cancelled and our studio was shuttered. I had been bracing for this as 2023 and 2024 were marked with mass…

I had not been to GDC in about 10 years, and last time I went it was sort of as a "Victory lap" after having gone about twice before during game design school. In the early days game companies had booths and really good free…