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When Inspiration Strikes
Happy Saturday to all of you fine folks out there. Though, if I’m being honest, there’s a good chance no one is even reading what I post here. Sometimes it feels like the internet is dead, like we’re all just drifting through some strange digital void. Maybe we’re in the Matrix, and somewhere out there,…
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A Mysterious Package Arrived… Inside Was AZTHENGAR
Today, in my part of the world, it’s raining. And honestly, I’m not complaining. For the first time in what feels like forever, I can actually see my driveway again. The snow is finally retreating, the cold is loosening its grip, and the wind has calmed just enough to remind me that spring is on…
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The Day a Green Beer Took Me Back to the Golden Age of Gaming
On a beautiful Tuesday, one I had deliberately taken off from work, there’s something uniquely satisfying about not having to clock in during the middle of the week. The world moves on as usual, but you get to step outside of it for a while. That alone feels like a small victory. So what did…
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Azthengar: A Forgotten DOS Fantasy Rediscovered
Azthengar, a name that lingers in the shadows of old, forgotten websites where games were once given freely to the world. Some were cracked, others were stored on floppy disks, passed quietly from one computer to another. Then, with the slow hand of time, they began to disappear. Sites that once lived on webrings or…
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Nachos, Knights, and Turning 41
Do you want to know what makes you feel old? Yesterday was my birthday. I had a rich lunch and, apparently, my body couldn’t handle it. I got sick more than a few times. Of course, having Wednesday off and then calling in today probably makes me look like a drunken bum, but let me…
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A Quiet Birthday
Today is my birthday, and so far I’m spending it exactly how I like: working on a game, getting a little blitzed, and watching Code Monkeys, specifically the great E.T. episode. It really puts me in the right mood to do absolutely nothing except enjoy my day off from the hectic world of work and…
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Ten Dollar Treasures and Tower-Building Thoughts
Today at work I was busy working on another expensive item I couldn’t afford, which in my opinion is kind of fun to do. Especially since I’m off tomorrow, which is going to be a big day for me. It’s my birthday, and of course I’ll be partaking in the good old birthday tradition of…
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A Windy Sunday and the Quiet Joy of Making Games
On a day like today, the wind is blowing so hard that my home feels as though, at any moment, I might be sent off to Oz if I weren’t so lucky. Still, I kept to my Sunday ritual and headed out to have my clothes dried at the laundromat. Our dryer finally crapped the…
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The Joy of Strange Games
There was a time in my life when I would wander the streets as a kid, searching for deals at small mom-and-pop video game shops. There was nothing strange about it. I was simply looking for something new, hoping to discover a game that might catch my eye. Many of those adventures happened with my…
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Cryogrid: A Frozen Arcade Dream
While at work today, counting down the minutes until I could finally be free and head home to work on Cryogrid, I started thinking about why I made the game in the first place. “What’s Cryogrid?” you might ask. Well sir or ma’am, let me tell you. Cryogrid is what happens when someone spends far…
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