This is the season of the Forge of Days – the hottest August day in the UK for the last decade – so here’s something apposite for you.
MY RAINBOW DOUBLE MOON HEARTACHE: WHERE ARE ALL THE MAGICAL GIRLS?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a gamer in possession of even a few RPGs, visual novels or Nintendo titles is likely in love with Japan.
JUL #2: ORGOGLIO
Our noble HERO truffles up to the gate of a dark castle, met by the hideous GIANT and his evil WITCH FRIEND on a PURPLE MANY-HEADED BEAST BREATHING FIRE FROM BLOODY MOUTHS.
BRITISH GAME DEV SALARIES
Please share this salary spreadsheet as widely as you can! The more data it accumulates, the more accurate and useful it is.
JUL #1: NIGHT
This is a special month for charitable causes. Thanks to Cultist’s free weekend and the release of EXILE we had a bumper June, which means we get to give away an unusually large amount to charity this month.
MOVING THE PAIN AROUND: THE WONDER AND WEAKNESS OF OPEN DEVELOPMENT
“An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.”
JUN #2: MARINELL
Marinell – Sir Marinell, to you – is a knight of the sea whose nervous nymph-mother Cymoent misinterpreted a prophesy that he would be mortally wounded by a maiden. She thus teaches him that LOVE is BAD and he is NOT TO PLAY WITH LADIES.
#STOPCYBERBULLYINGDAY
I’ve been dealing with personal and professional attacks via the internet for the better part of the last year. In that time, I’ve seen at least three people take their lives because of bullying on social media. Here’s what happened to me.
JUN #1: LUCIFERA
The wind is whistling outside like a vengance of ghosts; the dull horizon meets a duller sky with a cold, grey kiss of Thames; a lone, heroic birb hunkers stoically in the crevasse we call our balcony. Ah, June.
OPEN THE GAMEPLAY DOORS PLEASE, HAL
Much of human psychology is about control.
