I am, unfortunately, prone to having thoughts and wishing to express them. This blog features a small selection of the essays I wrote and published on various other platforms between 2020 and 2026, and then whatever I write going forward.
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Case Study: Lies of P(roblem-Solving)
SPOILER WARNING: This essay contains spoilers for both the base game and the Overture DLC. Neowiz/Round8’s 2023 Souls-like Lies of P may as well have been designed specifically for me in a lab. It’s dark, melancholic, and melodramatic; the characters are charming, and the setting is atmospheric. Generally speaking, all that is enough to appeal…
Leyla’s Barely-Solicited August 2025 Game Demo Roundup
Hello from unemployment limbo. I don’t know what it is about my brain, but I really have trouble starting new things. Friends of mine have to accept that any recommendation of theirs will get folded up and thrown into the big raffle wheel inside my brain, to be pulled from at random. If not for…
Notes on a Decade-Long Creative Paralysis
One of my first memories of drawing is copying a still frame of Misty from Pokemon out of a magazine, which helpfully provided a grid to help young artists break the image down. I did this with as much precision as a toddler could muster. I did it right. (I can’t be certain that this…