Book Devlogs About Game Design
If you've played Hollow Knight, you might have noticed something unusual: there are no pass-through platforms. You know, those platforms you can jump up through...
One passage in Spearhand Faring requires names for a bunch of armours (giant robots). As long-time readers will know, I think the best way to go about a task li...
Spearhand Faring stands on its own, and can be read on its own. But Spearhand Faring does relate to Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright , and those who’ve read Kin-Brig...
Durante la fase di finalizzazione di Mater Tenebra , ho concentrato l'attenzione sulla revisione dei PNG (Personaggi Non Giocanti) chiave. L'obiettivo era garan...
Spearhand Faring stems from one part of Malory’s Morte Darthur .* I’ve set out to see what I could take from a story in Malory, with some of his cyclical, s...
I'm happy to report that Book XV of Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright is pretty much in place. I think we might be looking at two or three more books to wrap the poem u...
This is a big heads-up that I am developing a tabletop role-playing game based on Genrenauts. I have a Genrenauts tier at patreon.com/michaelrunderwood that gra...
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As I think of it, Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright has narration, but no narrator. That is, I have a narrating position in mind when I write, one very distinct from me...
Where did the details of the underworld in Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright come from? 1. The shrouded halls and mournful paths have had a rhetorical foothold in the p...
I worked this up from my Afterword, on the basis that some people who haven't yet read CWKB —and some who'll never read it—might like some notes on how I ge...
Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright deploys a bunch of long, showy similes. Why? And what do I hope they do? Extended similes are a noted feature of Homeric style, much i...
Naming people, and naming things: perennial troubles in writing. I find that defining some rules, restrictive though it might feel, actually makes the whole bus...
So last time I did this I talked a bit about the five-beat line (5BL), the workhorse for Kin-Bright . The poem has other metres, some of them very different. To...
After I unleashed Book I of Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright , a reader got in touch to ask how I came up with both the name and the details of the Fold, the story's e...
The Bestiary of Sinners and Saints, volume 1 is up! <3...
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A Bestiary for the world of Sinners and Saints Interactive Fiction Game
Cow tools In this panel of The Far Side comic strip Garry Larson depicts a cow and its tools. The Image is titled cow tools. According to the author the joke is...
Oggi vi voglio parlare del Il Colore dei Fiori, quali sono state le mie ispirazioni. Ma anche di un elemento fondamentale, Il Colore dei Fiori è un gioco assol...
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Hello everyone! Just wanted to let you know we have re-colored these images in this pack! We hope you enjoy them!...
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I didn’t include system-specific tips for converting the magic system in the main book for… you know. Reasons. But I did want to include such tips, just in...
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In this guide on how to get started as a Game Dev, I have added the principles on how to make the game fun...
I figured I should post devlogs now and then, especially now that I’m getting into this new draft properly and have finally escaped the exposition desert. Rea...