Category: blog
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Winning versus Achieving Victory
Slay the Spire is one of my favourite games of all time. It’s a top 5 game, alongside the likes of Deus Ex, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Elden Ring. Where it sits in that mix, I don’t know, but being in the Top 5 at all is…
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Till The Heavens… Launch?
With physical copies finally in my hands and with the help of my amazing friends and family, Till The Heavens Burst launched yesterday! I know what you’re thinking. “Till The Heavens Burst launched months ago, I remember the blog post, it’s still up, I can go read it. Actually you’ve linked it, you hyperdork.” Fair…
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Feedback Loop
Last month I released a book, Till The Heavens Burst. I’m very proud of that book, I think it’s great, and I wrote it the only way I know how—I wrote something I want to read. I wrote it in a manner that I would like to read it. It’s not filled with prose, it’s…
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Till The Heavens Burst Is Available Now!
Go and buy my new book, Till The Heavens Burst! It’s available in both ebook and paperback formats via Amazon. I understand that some people don’t like Amazon, and if you fit in that bucket you can buy the ebook directly from me (well, via Patreon). Because I’m using Amazon’s print on demand service, I…
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Helsinki Syndrome
So by now I think we all know that Stockholm Syndrome is bunk science, right? Invented by a doctor who was covering his own arse to explain why the hostages in a bank robbery hated him, it has never been fully accepted as a real disease. At best it’s correlation not equalling causation when some…
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How To Write A Book Satisfactorily
I’ve been playing a lot of Satisfactory. If you’re not familiar, Satisfactory is a base-building game. An active Idle Game, you are effectively one of the grunt workers in an RTS. You build, you acquire resources, you build more. Repeat. It starts out small, with Miners feeding Smelters feeding Constructors. Then you make Assemblers, to…
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Prompted
I’m incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to make a career out of two things I love, Video Games and Writing. It is generally a fulfilling pursuit, although at times it has caused me oodles of stress. The only problem is that doing it recontextualised both video games and writing for me as a…
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Explorers and Tourists
I don’t know if I invented the concept or simply co-opted it wholesale from someone else, but I’ve often held that Souls players* exist on a spectrum. On one end lie the Tourists. On the other, Explorers. Neither style is more valid than the other, and, being a spectrum, most people exist somewhere between the…
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And his name is 🎺🎺🎺
Look, straight up, Joab as a name is a blessing and a curse. I don’t know where it falls on the “Freakanomics” scale of hireability. It’s paired with Gilroy, which is about as white as it gets, so it’s probably not freaking too many racists out, and being a Hebrew name, the racists it is…
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Blackbirded Post-mortem
I’ve been haphazardly writing up a post mortem for Blackbirded after each chapter was published. Here it is, barely cobbled together into a coherent post. I don’t know if this will be of any use. What I do think is of use is The GAP Bonus Episode podcast on the story, a post-post-mortem featuring myself,…
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