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A Rant about Comics Part 2 – Grump Week
Read more: A Rant about Comics Part 2 – Grump WeekHey, so this post is a bit of a bummer. Maybe read Part 1 first, where I talk about a bunch of cool comics you should read? For the better part of a decade, I’ve been trying to figure out why I quietly loathe most American comics. I’ve gone through a variety of theories, ranging…
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PAX Unplugged – 2025 – Day 1
Read more: PAX Unplugged – 2025 – Day 1Another year, another PAX! I say that like it’s a bad thing, but to be honest, this has been a pretty chill year so far. As always, I’ll be recounting my day, but first I want to draw attention to a few cool things I think folks should check out. Brightcast Brightcast is great. If…
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Q-Up
Read more: Q-UpQ-Up is a lot of different things. It’s a incremental game. It’s a competitive coin-flipping eSport. It’s a weird satire of live service games and tech startups. Oh, and it has a really cool grid based node engine building system, and slightly less interesting, but still compelling item system. Finally, it’s a game that I…
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I went to a GMG Playtest Event!
Read more: I went to a GMG Playtest Event!Probably shouldn’t have abbreviated that quite so much, but GMG stands for Game Makers Guild! If you haven’t heard of the Game Makers Guild, they’re a group down in Boston that provides a bunch of services for indie designers, including design help, curation, and also runs playtesting events. I’ve written a fair amount about various…
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Ball X Pit
Read more: Ball X PitBall X Pit is Breakout X Vampire Survivors. There are a lot of things it does that I like, and it executes well on a most of its mechanics. Despite all that, I’m not sure that I want to recommend it, because I don’t really feel like I’m having fun with it. More on that…