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in defense of the insane
manifesto jam 2026
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asking your parents "why?" until they get mad
An Ethical Approach to LeGuinian Magic for Games and Stories
A history of comics' many market problems, how they tie into our current comics situation, and how to, maybe, fix it.
A dive into how the field of comics lies about its own work, and defends bigots, harassers, and more.
An introspective personal essay in bitsy
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A list about videogames and other things
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An essay about playing Blades in the Dark for the "Lessons from the Dark" jam.
a mini-essay on gifting
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A plea to the world about hardware requirements.
clickable non-fiction about glitch horror
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Un essai bitsy francophone sur les monstres mous dans les jeux vidéo
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A game design essay/manifesto by Thousand Embers.
A collection of thoughts about creating art
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A Rambling Essay On Table Top Roleplaying Game Design
A speculative proposal for creating a counter-cultural gaming infrastructure
for #PSYCHOSPIRITUAL, a hypnokink/spirituality essay jam
A heuristic theory for modeling and visualizing effects on player interactions of various game designs.
An essay on the lineage of walking sim games, and how they might continue to develop.
An attempt at formalizing how people approach not just their own gender, but Gender as an entire cultural practice
A manifesto about the intrinsic power of video games
A short, interactive essay on lyric games.
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3 hour and 40 minutes of analytical essays about Samus Aran and the themes of Metroid.
A nonlinear slightly-multimedia essay on color, music, and PICO-8.
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My year in anime and manga, 2017
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Part essay, part nature writing, I make the case for cyberspaces as legitimate venues for nature writing.
A meaningless theological essay on Super Hexagon (2012)
An essay on procedural animation for 2D and 3D characters.​
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Personal essay about the Olympics and Evangelion
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