Category: Writing
6th October 2022
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Wireframe
Writing
Lore of Babylon

How do you know if someone’s read The Silmarillion? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

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29th July 2022
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Book of Hours
Rare Texts
Writing
To Superintendent Wynford, of Nocturnal Branch —

“It certainly tastes like birth.“

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29th June 2022
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Book of Hours
Rare Texts
Writing
Reverend Timothy Speaks, Part One

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20th June 2022
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Wireframe
Writing
Slouching Tiger, Missing Dragon

A 21st-century Kafkaesque nightmare of boy bands, ‘sang wenhua’ and games.

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6th June 2022
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Book of Hours
Rare Texts
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Tabriz, January 1866: My dear nephew –

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19th April 2022
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Wireframe
Writing
The Little Grey Cells

The best detective games pare back their mechanics to an absolute minimum: the player’s mind.

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8th March 2022
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Cultist Simulator
Wireframe
Writing
You Gotta Have Faith

Chinese gamers live in a forbidden city. Can plucky indie devs (that’s us) sneak inside its walls?

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7th February 2022
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Wireframe
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Here’s Looking At You, Kid

“It’s James Bond fanfiction written by nerds”. Guess the genre?

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13th January 2022
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Wireframe
Writing
Gather Your Arty

You’ve probably heard the phrase “art imitates life”.

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16th December 2021
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Wireframe
Writing
Dangerous Play

Friedrich Nietzsche was a brilliant man whose most famous theory, the Übermensch, has wrongly linked him to Nazi and fascist ideology.

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3rd December 2021
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The Lady Afterwards
The Locksmith's Dream
The Snare of the Tree
Weather Factory
Writing
Nov #2: Xianyang

Announcing The Locksmith’s Dream, a series of invitation-only live events coming in 2022.

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12th November 2021
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Wireframe
Writing
Tend & Pretend: the Secret Life of Gendered Games

Is this Dark Souls in a dress?

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18th October 2021
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Wireframe
Writing
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Making games for a living is almost certainly going to throw you into situations you never expected. When it does, your best hope is to have a clear idea of who you are and what you stand for so you can weather the storm.

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3rd September 2021
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Business
Merchandise
Weather Factory
Wireframe
Writing
The Church of Merch

Step into the church of the merch and take a pew with me.

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6th August 2021
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Wireframe
Writing
The Forbidden City

While under communist dictatorship in the 1970s and 80s, dissenting Czechoslovaks arrived at demonstrations, stood in front of the police and beat each other up with vegetables. This was to save police the trouble of doing it with batons, though it also protested a violent authoritarian regime without doing enough to get arrested. All hail the subversive surrealism of European liberals!

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9th July 2021
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Wireframe
Writing
Horse Face / Plate Face

Here is a game that will ruin your life.

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11th June 2021
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Business
Wireframe
Writing
Trouble in the North

Philip II of Macedon invaded Greece, won a lot of fights and trembled lustily on the borders of Sparta. He sent the Spartans a threatening message asking if he should come as friend or foe. The ephors responded: ‘Neither.’

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14th May 2021
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Wireframe
Writing
Ceci n’est pas une game

I wrote the article below for Wireframe, a British game dev magazine which ‘lifts the lid on video games’. And, inexplicably, lets me have a monthly column.

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