The common thing to do, is to start at the beginning. Sometimes, a storyteller gets tricky and starts in the middle and everyone holds their breath as if some sort of narrative magic has occurred. No, I'm going one further. I'm going to start this story at the end because that's the kind of obnoxious [...]
Off-tempo Rambling
My chest is pounding It's not a metaphor It's the literal truth like a shadow on the floor but there's more you see you can't pick it up because the dishes aren't done it's all a mangled garbage truck And I'm out of luck I thought I'd grow up to be a king or at [...]
Jump City: Dynamic Range Subculture [Day 6]
No real progress today. I spent most of the day on other "real" work. I'd like to say that as soon as I was done, I jumped into working on the game but... That would be a lie. Instead, I cooked dinner with the family and played "cultist simulator". That game is both difficult and [...]
Jump City: Dynamic Range Subculture [Day 5]
Okay, I've started actually coding stuff. Nothing crazy, just the bare skeleton of the prototype. I attempted to do some sort of artwork and quickly got irritated. I'm concerned about several things that mostly have to do with visual style issues. Ren'py doesn't seem to support animations. While the game isn't going to be massively [...]
Jump City: Dynamic Range Subculture [Day 4]
Okay, Okay! I didn't update the blog yesterday because I was tired and I'm a lazy bum. Today, I'm going to talk about artwork and maybe a bit about game-play flow. Cyberpunk tends to be defined by the neo-noir world that grand-daddy Blade Runner brought to the big screen. William Gibson wrote the awesome Sprawl [...]
Jump City: Dynamic Range Subculture [Day 2]
Progress: Something in my brain said that this was going to go really smoothly. Reality laughed and kicked me in the balls. I abandoned Unity and Fungus because, although the flow chart system looked really cool in the end, it was complex in ways that I couldn't grasp quickly. So, I tucked my tail between [...]
Jump City: Dynamic Range Subculture [Day 1]
I joined a Game Jam on Itch.io. I did this to compete / cheer on my Son. I am going to attempt to have a completed prototype by the 16th. This means that I have to work fast and focused. This is going to be part of a series of blogs that help me keep my [...]
My brother’s Keeper
This is a story that I wrote with some inspiration from my father. He had some ideas that he wanted me to explore. I don't know if this is what he had in mind. I don't think that it's what I had in mind at first. It evolved. I really like this piece. I hope [...]
The Upstate Home for Dysfunctional Children: The Gauntlet
“You are a broken child.” The 15 year old girl opened he eyes. She was tired and groggy but they wouldn’t let her just sleep. She had to keep running the gauntlet. Keep running. Keep running until she got out on her own. The room was different this time. It was dirty and moldy, like [...]
The black blade pt 1
Raine Waters stepped out of the elevator and into the long hallway at the 14th floor of her apartment building. Her door was the third to the right of the elevator. The dingy overhead lighting barely illuminated enough of the hallway to be officially considered "safe." The walls were bare concrete blocks that were painted [...]
Used Words for Sale 