I'm a writer, editor, and narrative designer working in games. Recently, I helped to ship Skin Deep with Blendo Games. I am also a pathological cyclist and transit enthusiast who frequently goes on strange bicycle adventures in the Los Angeles area.
You can see the rest of my site here. The full list of games I've made in my life is here.
The Posts
cool tags: ( #interesting_link | #skin_deep | #my_games | #game_development | #los_angeles | #adventure_guide | #bicycles)
- Blippo+ press event
- Ciclavia 8/17 + minivelo meetup
- Interesting Link: iNaturalist map data sorted by "Locals" and "Tourists"
- Baldwin Hills Steps
- Hooray for Qud!!!
- Wishlist Unfair Flips
- Played The Royal Writ
- I recommend this bird-themed electronic album
- I liked this zine about mold
- I recommend looking at all the iNaturalist observations sorted by favorites
- Check out the Draknek New Voices Grant
- Please look at this ancient music video for Oxygene Part 4
- Weekly round-up: August 10
- Tried to use Blender Video Sequencer
- Daily web games I am currently playing
- The year the music actually came out
- Blaugust...?
- You gotta play Serpentes
- The King is Watching
- Week round-up: Aug 3
- We just realized a Blendo game was part of the Steam refunds lawsuit
- Avoiding text entirely
- Why are games scary?
- I'm still playing Wheel World
- Dead game???
- Week round-up: July 28
- Thoughts about trying to use in-ear headphones higher than gas station quality
- Very busy today with traditions and rituals
- You gotta check out Wheel World
- Played Without A Dawn
- Highly recommend Project Grizzly
- I belong in a museum
- Arctic Eggs at SGDQ
- Spent the weekend making a Quake 3 engine game
- Monster Train 2
- Setting up Plex again
- Kaizen: A Factory Story is really, really good-looking
- Metro biking across LA
- Saw Donnie Yen's The Prosecutor
- Some pictures of San Diego
- Enjoy this video about electronic saxophones
- Enjoy these Blendo dev posts
- My ears are messed up
- Eggshell stickers
- I finally went to the big donut donut shop (Randy's Donuts)
- Some of the things I wrote recently that I'm most proud of
- Photos from Griffith Park
- Week round-up: July 6
- Some of my 4th of July pics
- "Similar Shots"
- Played a bunch of Nubby's Number Factory
- Check out these Skin Deep storyboards
- The Beach
- Biking again, this time in water
- Been using Beets
- We need a movement to ban horse cops
- Skin Deep is on sale!
- Screened "Cube" last weekend
- Things can be good actually
- I am enjoying 9 Kings
- Touching the back wall of the Apple store
- Week round-up: June 22
- Visited the new LAX Metro station!
- Kyocera Cavern Crawl
- Final New Orleans picture dump
- Da Big Clock
- Is it too geopolitically insane to promote our videogame?
- New Orleans bicycle photos
- Week Round-Up: June 15
- Had a very crazy day
- Kiosks
- More pictures of New Orleans
- Walking around New Orleans
- Some pictures of New Orleans
- LA is great!
- Possessors has a demo out!
- I talked about Pill Baby for the Unearthed Treasure Room showcase
- Interesting Link: the Boston Bike Stress Map
- Where do all the thermal printer kids' cameras come from?
- The Center for Wooden Boats
- We survived the train!!
- We were on Script Lock!
- I went on a walk down at the Marina
- I'm going to New Orleans... on da train
- Been playing Ostriv
- Praise for Lossless Cut
- He did it (the river thing)
- Check out DrMelon's Skin Deep mod!
- Week round-up: May 25
- I finally played Mooncrash
- Screenshots of the Mod Museum
- Now is a time to call your reps
- Skin Deep's mod that teaches you how to make mods is out!
- I really liked this shambolic bikepacking video
- Interesting Link: Definitive Stormtrooper Costume How-To
- Week round-up: May 18
- Went to the US Sumo Open
- Proverbs at 25%
- Check out another developer stream of Skin Deep
- Despelote good
- Played The Horror at Highrook
- Went to the Robot Combat League National Championship
- Week round-up: May 11
- Damn, I'm tired!!
- Why not explore Skin Deep modding?
- Check out this Skin Deep designer stream
- Skin Deep Trivia
- Thank Goodness You're Here!
- I saw Sinners
- Working with VO as an indie
- Some thoughts about comedy in Skin Deep
- Please check out Suzy's great Skin Deep mod
- Northernlion played Skin Deep
- Skin Deep is out today!!!
- The reviews are in: Skin Deep is funny, has toilets
- Now is an important time to remember the AC2 Rodrigo Borgia boss fight
- Week round-up: April 27
- Very good jumpscare needle drop
- Two Point Museum
- Epigraph
- Skin Deep is coming out in seven days
- Blue Prince :)
- I really liked this woodworking video
- Week round-up: April 20
- U-lock holsters
- Interesting link: Atomic Zombie/CHOPZONE
- Even more bike photographs (beautiful, good)
- Attended Bob Baker Day
- Skin Deep is coming out in 15 days
- Fresh new bike photographs
- The big ass rally
- Cannot work without my head in a vise
- Here is my minivelo
- Interesting Link: COVID-19 Signage Archive
- I love gaming community drama that I do not understand
- Tried Kenshi
- The real fake islands where people fake bike
- Week round-up: April 6
- Absolutely loved Type Help
- What is endgame Pokemon actually like?
- Here is my canned cheese
- Very good bike saddle factory tour video
- Back on the road miles grind
- Extremely impressed by Ultros
- Week round-up: Mar 30
- Cars aren't always the fastest way to cross the west side
- Played some more research mysteries
- I ordered a wheel of cheese in a can
- Really enjoyed The Roottrees Are Dead
- I was a headcrab on Insert Credit
- Back from GDC
- If you act fast enough you can (maybe?) see this musical
- I have been blogging daily for six months
- Internet stalking Wildflower Studios
- Cool (uncool) consequences of diabetic hypoglycemia
- Enjoy my favorite bike youtuber
- People are already speedrunning Skin Deep
- I did the Marathon Crash Ride for the third year in a row
- Week round-up: Mar 16
- This guy took up his entire kitchen with a 737 cockpit
- How to stop all the online Pokemon players from ruining their own fun
- Blendo Build Machine
- New Mdou Moctar
- How to buy a Pokemon online
- I biked fifty miles on Saturday!
- Week round-up: Mar 9
- Currency Pokemon on Pokemon Home
- I will be at GDC 2025
- A wild Pokemon video that I liked
- Some thoughts on the writing process for Skin Deep
- Blendo WAV Tool
- Stuff I wishlisted during Next Fest
- Thank you to everyone who checked out the Skin Deep demo
- I've had to look at bluesky a lot recently
- I just logged into my Brickshelf account and found it EMPTY
- Some recommendations for weird survival construction games to play
- Some thoughts about the Skin Deep demo
- Skin Deep's release date trailer came out yesterday
- Did my first long bike ride in a while over the weekend
- Week round-up: Feb 23
- Wolf Meat
- Every conversation in the second zone in Avowed
- Baseless speculation about freeware games and free games
- I am enjoying Avowed a lot!
- Places I've considered going in socal but haven't because they are too much of a pain to get to
- Getting my various wires caught on things
- Week round-up: 2/16
- I love my Ass Saver
- I like Citizen Sleeper 2 because it is more of a jerk to me!
- How do you actually make your money?!?
- Some Vintage Story mods
- Some posts from the Vermiculture subreddit
- Okay here's some Skin Deep posting about beans
- Week wrap-up: 2/9
- Civ 7 so far
- Interesting Link: The LAUSD's air quality sensor network
- It's my birthday!
- Dispelling a terrible thing that Grammarly wants you to believe
- I was just thinking about Killer Tofu
- Il gruppo dei ninja
- Week round-up: Feb 2
- This guy made his sander Too Complicated
- I did one of those "legos for adults"
- Vintage Story 1.2 is pretty good!
- Cold weather in LA
- How I feel about Bear after using it for several months
- I can recommend this service for deleting all your tweets
- Week wrap-up: Jan 26th
- More bike pictures from reddit
- I am done with semi-slick tires for now
- Here is a video of a destructive skilift test
- I should finally post about post 10
- I've been string locking since September
- I finally saw Drive My Car
- Week wrap-up: Jan 19
- Read Bruno's article about games industry standardization
- I liked this video about a bunch of broken vacuum tubes
- Hagfish Sliming Video
- Everyone's installed Watch Duty
- Breaker is out
- Pictures of Mandeville Canyon from Spring 2024
- Week round-up: Jan 12
- Our version of reality dating TV
- My Steam 2024 wrapup
- This fire shit is completely fucked
- Check out this Qud wiki page
- It's okay to be a certain type of hooligan
- You should watch Mismatched Couples
- The healthcare provider
- Back from New York
- Someone made a full map of their Qud world
- My 2024 Letterboxd highs and lows
- I have seen the Nosferatu movie
- How to become extremely unkillable in Qud
- Watch this guy demonstrate his man-sized automated litter box
- Why not resolve to drive less in 2025?
- Been playing a shit ton of Qud
- More silly map things: steep streets
- Unsuccessful Google search
- My favorite way to edit a game around 30k words
- I really like it when people do silly map stuff
- A video of a guy putting a tiny model train into a coffee table
- Luck Be A Landlord is about learning a stranger's mental map of the universe
- A map of where my favorite campsite burned down
- Gone for the holidays
- Played some Ballionaire
- I finally got a link to the scariest ad on YouTube
- Late week wrap-up: Dec 17
- Dearrowed Language
- Interesting link: check out Drew Struzan's portfolio website
- Some thoughts about ego, flexibility, and imitation in writing for money
- A game someone should make
- Still playing Witchfire
- The wikipedia page that lists which US grocery chains are grouped under the same operators
- People are really into the color of the switches on their mechanical keyboard now, which is stupid, to me
- This video of hinged bikes is very goodbad
- Interesting link: you can download a giraffe genome
- What vendor is making these "immersive mixed reality" weather channel presentations about disaster conditions?
- My favorite YouTube video of all time
- Audio design school is gonna make you podrace
- Interesting link: all known individuals who died playing soccer from 2014 to 2018
- The story of Skin Deep told with emojis
- Longplay of one of my favorite edutainment games: The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System
- Interesting Link - Some of my favorite writing about interactive fiction
- My Beakman/Bill Nye story
- Interesting link: if you're thinking of building your own airplane from scratch, here's a bunch of free airplane plans
- Some early thoughts on what I'm learning from playing a bunch of GameBoy games
- Been extremely busy lately
- My favorite Weird Web October sites - set 1
- Watched The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
- Week wrap-up: Nov 24
- Do you know about Govdeals??
- I really, really enjoyed Rise of the Golden Idol
- The "genre" of too-strange-to-be-true drama stories on Reddit
- A biking and housing freak (laudatory) won a city council seat in my town
- Played some Sokobond Express
- Checked out Elin
- Week wrap-up: Nov. 17
- Interesting link: the Passage Ride site
- Working with union VO is extremely worth it
- Even more bike photos in a bike photo roundup
- Finished Dragon Quest/Warrior 1 (GBC)
- This is the best bikepacking tutorial video
- Interesting Link(s): all the trees in several cities
- Week wrap-up: Nov. 10
- Interesting link: table of smells by chemical compound
- Ang Lee Hulk Smash
- Every bike in the MSI's bike exhibit from 2013
- Finished Link's Awakening (GBC)
- The Museum of Science and Industry's Mold-A-Rama machines
- Bike guys argue about the color green
- Stuff I enjoyed in Chicago!
- Learn mechanical seal theory with this mime
- Yet another bike photo roundup post
- Turning our old Trek Earl back into a fixed-gear bike
- How to Find an Anvil
- Interesting link: the history of A.N.T.
- First impressions of Witchfire
- Week wrap-up: Oct 27
- I'm going to be in Chicago!
- Someone on reddit is posting weird fanfiction about their company's custom keycaps
- Reminiscing about living near Caltrain
- Interesting link - on iNaturalist, two banana slugs have escaped the west coast
- You should watch these fan-edited movie documentaries
- A new bike roundup post
- Week wrap-up: Oct 20
- Check out Matthew's Music Friday RSS feed
- There is a person who uses Planet Coaster to make rollercoasters that tell the entire plot of a classic movie
- Why you should not make your games writers sprint
- Played Against the Storm: Keepers of the Stone DLC
- Interesting link - comprehensive map of sinkholes
- Interesting Link: a website which catalogs agricultural robots by task and crop
- Week wrap-up: Oct 13
- Played Mouthwashing
- The big bike photo roundup post
- LA Material Culture: VEKS EVICT '24
- Interesting link - The LARGEST LIST of pizza types and varieties IN THE WORLD!!
- The City and the Street
- The tunnels!
- Week wrap-up - Oct 6
- Amtrak's manga "See something, say something" poster
- Interesting link: a guy selling memberships to "then and now" LA film history photos
- Played Arctic Eggs
- I went on a walking tour of waste management facilities in Vernon/DTLA
- Weird Web October - Casualty Report
- Saying goodbye to Cohost
- Week wrap-up: Sept 29
- Weird vehicles of Avalon, California
- Biking in the city is fun, actually
- Just started playing Lorn's Lure
- Interesting link - tamenagerie.com
- Biking Catalina Island
- Check out "Weird Web October"
- Week wrap-up - Sept 22
- Interesting link - Origami Simulator
- The return of the Running Machine
- Fashion Trendsetter Laura
- Biking every road in west Los Angeles
- Interesting link - Maris Freighter Cruises
- I've migrated my blog to Bear
- Interesting Links – and an interactive family tree of extremely wrong elephants
- Tall Bagel
- Industries of Titan is in Early Access!
- I had a story in Realms of Runeterra
- I did localization writing for Pathologic 2
- Strangling my dinner with my own two hands
- I was on Script Lock
- Why I like making bots
- This is a book about French peasants doing religious crimes
- I wrote a scenario for the Ellipses tabletop system!
- Buy things on itch.io
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine postmortem
- Matajuegos translated a post of mine!
- Recent shocking developments in the world of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
- The Grub
- Epistle 3 Jam
- I’m editing Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
- How Nero tried to kill his mom, Agrippina, with a collapsible party boat
- Frog Fractions 2/Glittermitten Grove will be at the Indiecade E3 Showcase
- OBAWCATRVOS will be at Now Play This
- You Got This, Brutadon is now available on your Alexa-enabled device
- Check out Bitsy
- I am now my own webmaster and my power is immense and mindboggling
- You got this, Brutadon! — Global Game Jam 2017
- Check out Utopia Jam
- Frog Fractions 2 is out!!!
- One thing canceled, one thing on hiatus, new (commercial) games in progress
- Ambient Mixtape 16 thoughts
- The Brigand’s Story
- Words Must Die – Pippin Barr Game Idea Jam
- Let’s Talk About Choices: Traditional CYOA
- How two ancient Romans completely fucked each other up
- OBAWCATRVOS
- Six Months Demo
- Recent Twitter Projects
- A bilious 2015 retrospective
- Creating an inherently pathetic protagonist: Six Months and its “reactive” choice system
- Surprise: I’m doing games journalism again
- Monstr and Ludum Dare 33 – Notes
- My favorite LD33 games, so far
- Current projects' statuses
- Slaughtertrain
- Corgi Jam submission: CORGI SUMMER SCHOOL: SUPREME COURT EDITION
- SLAUGHTERTRAIN: Game Jolt Adventurejam
- The Mystery of Skull Island for Teacart 1K
- My ENTIRE opinion about California
- Six Months Inspirations
- About The Hive Abroad
- The Hive Abroad
- Detective City
- Some cool shit with randomized text
- Progress on Six Months
- Some stuff I'm currently working on
- Meeting strangers in the street
- Basketballs in Traffic Cones
- Five years later: what I think about early access
- Spaceship Carptain — Naked Twine Jam
- More word stuff I've enjoyed recently
- Things I’ve recently learned about hypertext
- Desert Hike EX
- Sister Power Activate
- Swan Hill
- Some word things I have recently enjoyed
- My Favorite Molyjam 2013 Games
- Games that are more than they seem
- The games I’ve played for the most hours, cumulative, in my entire life, arranged in descending order
- Bizarre 3D animation reels from the distant past
- Verified Facts coverage
- Verified Facts
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