After becoming some combination of too busy and too lazy to publish any sort of Game of the Year list for 2021, I’m back! My 2020 video was both a format I really liked and a complete pain in the ass to make, so I’m back to the good ol’ written word this year. There…

Making a sequel to any critically-acclaimed piece of media is always daunting, and this is doubly true for Sony Santa Monica’s God of War: Ragnarok. They have to worry about not only living up to the precedent set by 2018’s Norse-flavored God of War reboot, but also whether or not their Norse duology can live…

Advanced Game Design class assignment Contributions: Programming, Art, and Design Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLUvgmNAV-8 Evelyn is a magical realism game in which the player explores a small space in a hospital room, clicking on interactive objects to trigger voiced dialogue vignettes accompanied by interactive visual scenery that fit the theme and tone of the vignette.  The game…

First Voyage of the Gilded Sailfish Contribution: All First Voyage of the Gilded Sailfish is a virtual escape room in which the player is on a steampunk-style submersible that has been sabotaged, and they have an hour to repair the various broken systems within the ship to make it operational again. It was made as…

Or Why The Old Guard and Palm Springs Are the Perfect Quarantine Movies ***** Spoilers for both Palm Springs on Hulu and The Old Guard on Netflix You should watch both! They’re good! ***** Whether they’re about the lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic wasteland or a lone astronaut stranded in the void of space, sci-fi…

I’m playing through Republic Commando because it’s dope and I never finished it. Game audio is too low on this first installment and will be fixed for the next one! Will update this post when I’ve played more.

This year I decided to make a video of my games of the year instead of writing it out. I mean, I still wrote it out beforehand but then I read it into a camera. I also added gameplay trailers of all the games discussed to make it a little more interesting than just me…

These are my favorite 10 games of 2018, a year that was great for games and terrible for everything else! I also included some other honorable mention games that I liked but not more than I liked the main 10. Games are good, y’all. 10. Florence Developer: Mountains Platforms: iOS, Android   Florence is a…

I started a video series called Steamrollin’, in which I roll a d100, go to New Releases on Steam, and then buy and play whatever game I get, counting backwards from the most recent game released. I have released 3 episodes to date, and hope to return to the idea at some point because it…

RPSki Contribution: all I made RPSki for Global Game Jam 2017, the theme of which was “Waves.”  I made it in about 16 hours all at once by myself.  Working along for a game jam was a new experience, and I enjoyed having full control over the final product. In RPSki, you control a Jetski…

A Moment Free From Darkness Contribution: Design and Programming http://amomentfreefromdarkness.com/about.html I was part of the Inflatable Reality team that developed A Moment Free From Darkness.  It is a game intended to raise awareness and empathy for women and girls sold into sex slavery in Cambodia and elsewhere.  The game is split into 4 acts, each of…

Get Home Safe! Contribution: All Available on Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.CoolGuyGames.GetHomeSafe2 PC Build: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0oqisyrlGqsbk96a1h2c2trRkk/view I made Get Home Safe! as an assignment for my Art Games class at DePaul University.  The idea behind the game is to explore the state of bar culture, and point out how hard it can be for women to do what they…