Our friend Kendra is hosting a Video Game Coding Workshop with Instructor M. James Short for kids age 11 to 15. Her goal in preparing this workshop is to expose kids of color to professionals in the tech industry. This workshop is meant to connect kids (who now see themselves portrayed in movies involving technology […]
Category Archives: game writer
Your Videogame and Fair Use Copyright Law
The videogame world and the copyright office do have their collisions. In our modern digital culture, a video game can have as much popular mindspace as a popular film or television show. So, naturally, a big game can create opportunities for parody, comment, and post-modern artistic manipulation. We saw this question on Quora recently: Can […]
Game Design Case Study: Kaos War
At first I was going to subtitle this post “Follow your game-making dreams like a crack-crazed, howling, insensate lemming plunging from the peaks of Mt. Everest into the fiery pits of Hell itself.” So… should you? What am I talking about? I’m talking about big talkers and bootstrappers in videogames. And I’m talking about how […]
The New Tomb Raider Movie Was Written By A Game Writer
This Is Why Marvel Is Better Than Star Wars
Marvel Is Beating the Pants Off Star Wars – Admit It Marvel Comics and Star Wars have always been the polestars of my geekdom, but things have changed and now we have to admit that cinematically, Marvel is better than Star Wars, for some really obvious reasons. Star Wars came to greatness by taking chances. […]
Try Our Free RPG
Get the Free RPG Get the game! You can now play the entirety of our Steam JRPG, The Peloran Wars, on your PC. For the best experience, maximize the window after launch. It was downloadable on David Nguyen’s website, but is no longer available there. No matter – just message us here for a fresh download […]
Okay, These Funny Facebook Game Thumbnails Aren’t Funny Anymore
Ever notice those little game thumbnails that appear in the top right of your browser when you’re browsing through your friends’ baby and half-eaten-meal pictures? Yes, this is the tip of the once-mighty juggernaut that once powered the Candy Crush and Farmville empires. But the Facebook game ecosystem is pretty dead now as mobile dominates everything. […]
JRPGs versus Western RPGs
I just posted on Quora in answer to an interesting question: what do I prefer, JRPGs or Western-style RPGs, and why? Since David Nguyen and I just published the JRPG Crimson Sword Saga: The Peloran Wars on Steam, you’d think I’d prefer JRPGs, but you’d be wrong. I’m a Western guy, and David is the […]
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Tom Clancy’s “The Division” Sequel Announce: Box Art Released
Ubisoft’s The Division console game has been a fairly strong success (with an 80/100 rating on Metacritic)… but it came out in March 2016 and time moves fast in the videogame industry. Thus it was no surprise that the sequel to Tom Clancy’s The Division was announced in July on Sweatypistol. The new game, as […]