Game Development

Reports have come in from Polaris, the newer offshoot of Project Horseshoe. The reports are all on topics I'm interested in, so I'm excited to get more time to dive into each. This year's reports included:

The GDC 2025 State of the Games Industry Report has arrived, but it's nowhere near as representative of the industry as Matthew Ball's incredibly thorough report.

Radical Confidence is a breezy entrance to the self-help isle that is part memoir, part confidence advice guide. Bilyeu invites you in for a cup of tea to tell you the story of her transition from shy geeky Greek girl to bored-but-supportive housewife to co-founder of Quest Nutrition to badass Youtube sensation.

In Big Potential, Shawn Achor continues his explorations into what makes us happy and successful. He argues that a focus on individual achievement limits us from achieving the "big potential" we can reach as part of a "star-cluster" community.

Common wisdom holds that if we just get that promotion, lose a few pounds, reach our goals, then we'll be successful, and happiness will follow as a result. Shawn Achor argues that we've got that backwards: success follows happiness.

I learned last year that I have ADHD. This has probably been the single most important discovery of my adult life—on a personal level and especially on a professional and creative level.

Last week I was on a panel for Pax Online about creativity in the time of the pandemic. I spoke about Fortnightly Fiction Jam and how I'm using that as a balance for the other projects I'm working on, which are all long-term, expansive projects. Some takeaways from the panel included...

Fortnightly Fiction Jam is a series of interactive fiction writing sprints that I recently started up. It's been a lot of fun.