I, a smart individual, exclusively wrote those old posts in the WordPress editor, so I have little record of most of them. I can probably reconstruct a lot of them from the images I had uploaded? As I recall, there was something on:

• Pokemon Dash’s use of its balloon microgame as a meaningful interruption of its core gameplay
• My distaste for the hybrid of pure and directed exploration in A Link to the Past
• The homogeneity of modern mainstream consoles, manifesting in the then-upcoming The World Ends With You remake
• An extremely concise synopsis of the Kingdom Hearts plot leading into KH3 (in hindsight, this turned out to be unnecessary as KH3 completely discarded the foundations built by the preceding games)
• An overview of Flags enums in C# and how to use them for RPG status effects
• I think something about how most RPGs use elemental types poorly, using Bahamut Lagoon as an example?
• There’s something in here about Mega Man Battle Network 3, but I have no idea what that would have been…
• Solvability and bounded creativity in simulation games
• Pokemon’s stagnation being its greatest asset
• An unfinished hypothetical Pokemon Red/Blue redesign by just swapping out which Pokemon are in the game

So, not a lot, but there are a couple things that I’m sure will come up in the future. I suppose I intend to pick up where I left off with that: a haphazard assortment of video game design essays with a little bit of coding thrown in and also just a lot of Pokemon, probably.

There’s gonna be a lot of Pokemon stuff.

Oh, and I guess I should learn some more HTML so I can make this look less like a template design. I should really do some web coding at some point, especially for the aforementioned Pokemon stuff…

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