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Confirming my opinions with the 2024 GDC State of the Game Industry Report.
It’s a strange feeling having your suspicions confirmed. An unsettlingly gratifying mix of smug self-satisfaction for being right and the...

Trainer 117
Feb 12, 20257 min read
Well this is awkward
More of an update than a log entry. Very brief. But remember when I said it was high time that I sacked up and dedicated a sprint to...

Trainer 117
Jun 27, 20241 min read
It gets better. In increments.
This is going to be partly my retrospective for sprint 9. But not really because no one showed up to test, so that sprint is kind of a...

Trainer 117
Jun 10, 20242 min read
Dev Log: Goon Game Sprint 9 (6/3/24)
This entry shouldn’t be long as not much happened in the previous week. That is by design, by the way. Progress, as always, marches...

Trainer 117
Jun 3, 20242 min read
Goon Game Retrospective: Sprint 8
So this retro is a little late, as after sprint 8, I took a week off from the project to let things simmer a bit. A lot has changed since...

Trainer 117
May 27, 20242 min read
I'm Not Doc Hammer or Jackson Public
So I was going to attach this to my next retrospective, but the more I think about it, the longer it gets, and the better serving option...

Trainer 117
May 15, 20246 min read
Goon Game: Dev Diary (5/13/24)
I’ve encountered quite a pickle of a problem: I’m getting too good at my own game. I’ve now played it so many times in its current state...

Trainer 117
May 13, 20242 min read
Goon Game: Sprint 7 Retrospective
Another week: another reaffirmation of something I was told in college. This last sprint was interesting – to say the least. Beginning...

Trainer 117
May 6, 20244 min read
Goon Game Dev Diary: Sprint 7-4/30/24
I lost about three days last week because it turns three days without sleep, and a near-constant pinching in your leg doesn’t do wonders...

Trainer 117
Apr 30, 20244 min read
Goon Game: Sprint 6 Retrospective
I went into Sprint 6 with the estimation that it would be one of the more time-intensive and difficult sprints so far. Then, half the...

Trainer 117
Apr 22, 20244 min read
Goon Game: Dev Log (4/12/24) - Movement Classes
Getting a head start on this one cause there’s more to talk about this time. Testing has shown that a rebalance is called for on multiple...

Trainer 117
Apr 14, 20242 min read
Goon Game: Spring 5 Retrospective.
So, originally, this was going to be a much larger piece, as I wanted to talk about an interesting design challenge I encountered while...

Trainer 117
Apr 8, 20243 min read
Goon Game Log: 4/1/24 (Sprint 5)
Okay: so the theme of this sprint is ‘shit I should have been doing all along and just now realizing I should have been doing it.’ People...

Trainer 117
Apr 1, 20244 min read
Goon Game Log: 3/25/24 (Sprint 5)
Probably should have started writing these eight weeks ago, but better late than never. So, sprint five started after my return from GCD...

Trainer 117
Mar 25, 20243 min read
BG3's Act Three is Weird
I (at the time of writing) have over 200 hours in Baulder’s Gate Three but have not beaten the game once. This is partly due to my...

Trainer 117
Feb 19, 20245 min read
Resist the Dark Urge
So Baulder’s Gate 3 came into my life recently, and in payment, I have given it one hundred hours of my life so far. It’s just one of...

Trainer 117
Nov 2, 20236 min read
Simple Doesn't Mean Dumb
So I, like other degenerates, have been watching Chainsaw Man, and while it got off to a rocky start in episode one, the show has been...

Trainer 117
Nov 8, 20224 min read
Can't Think, wrote this.
So it's been a hot hour since I last put anything of worth up here, and while I can make the excuse that it's because of my schedule,...

Trainer 117
Oct 31, 20223 min read
Hiding the Rails.
Recently, a thought occurred to me regarding the nature of linearity in games and, by extension, some of the current dissatisfaction with...

Trainer 117
May 13, 20227 min read
Accessibility Options
As gaming grows larger by the day, the question of Accessibility comes up more frequently. Gone are the days when video games were solely...

Trainer 117
Apr 11, 20224 min read
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