Author: Zeigfreid

Or, making media for medium noticers Process Is Art There is a pleasure in process. The painter paints, and they experience a profound learning, a deep feeling. The consumer has no access to this through the painting, unless they are a very good painter themselves, and conversely the painter probably doesn’t see the painting in… Continue reading Videogames are process

Dear droqen, It’s funny! I started writing this post before you wrote Platformer Kigo and had it saved as a draft. Now it feels like a reply: Kafka and his Precursors! This post, then is not so much a reply as a jogging companion. In the second part of your post it looked like you… Continue reading Reflections on Awake

Or, notice the medium I can pour latte art, because I was a barista for many years. I love pouring latte art. When I did it again recently, at a friend’s house with their little espresso machine, I felt tears well up in my eyes. It’s mostly nostalgia, but there is something that I’ve always… Continue reading Miraculous Coincidences

I read this and thought, “ah OK! So to make a living platformer I should learn the pattern language for platformers and then BOOM!” But this is magical thinking. I’m reading The Timeless Way of Building and today it occurred to me: I’ve been reading this book with an eye for how I might be… Continue reading Game Designer GO Brrrrr

This is kind of a joke! Droqen had some problems with the impossible games manifesto, and rightly so it is a bit wishy-washy. My feeling is that art manifestos are meant, above all, to be aspirational. A call to arms! So what is this manifesto asking us to aspire to do, and why all the… Continue reading Translating the Impossible

Being on a content conveyor belt moving you endlessly forward from set-piece to set-piece is, ironically, often way more interesting than an open world game, or a metroidvania, or something more “exploration focused”. I believe that this is because videogames have a resolution problem. We can grow more familiar with a person, place, thing, or… Continue reading Brevity is the dark souls of wit