Games Over Coffee

14/01/2023

Some tidbits of game design consulting for Lucent Bounds

14/12/2022

Ok, so this has been on my mind for quite some time but most recently after I played a game called Sagebrush by Redact Games. In Sagebrush, you discover a big ranch that used to be home to a toxic religious cult. The game is quite fascinating with first person gameplay similar to Gone Home but in a PS1 styled aesthetic....

Ok, so this has been on my mind for quite some time but most recently after I played a game called Sagebrush by Redact Games. In Sagebrush, you discover a big ranch that used to be home to a toxic …

08/12/2022

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06/12/2022

So as you may have heard, I'm making a game. I'm making one because I need a game to demonstrate my ideas of an interactive narrative and so far, I haven't come across any games that do it. So I'm making my own with the help of a talented programmer/developer.

In the game, I'm trying to achieve something I would call "faith-based", meaning I'm trying to make the practice of Faith into a mechanic. How's that for pretentious?

How I originally pictured this mechanic was forming a sort of meta-narrative where the player believes something about the game that was never proved but rather implied through design.

This is quite literally trying to imitate the way Faith (or any kind of observation for that matter) works in the real world; One sees something happen and attaches meaning to it through the speicifc context they were given. Basically it's a way for the player to ascribe meaning to whatever they're doing. It's actually the same rule that every game has built-in via the core gameplay-loop.

This is a segment of my blog! You can read the rest here if you'd like:

So as you may have heard, I’m making a game. I’m trying to achieve something I would call “faith-based”, meaning I’m trying to make the practice of Faith into a mechan…

04/07/2022

This is Part 3 of 5 leading up to The Evolution of Sonic.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/16dvxg_GpjY
Part 2: https://youtu.be/04mAvsJakcU

17/06/2022

Speaking of Sonic, How did Mario handle his transition to 3D? Joe and I talk about it in the theater.

20/05/2022

The Evolution of Sonic: Teaser 1
An exploration of all the (relevant) 3D sonic games from Adventure to Forces
Releasing August 1st 2022

29/04/2022

Today we design a game that elicits the feelings of dominance, depression, and patience