Hi! So I actually started this blog a couple years ago, mostly writing about classic games I played for the first time on my Twitch stream and some other game dev things and some Pokemon stuff. Then, my friend who was hosting the site suddenly died and I had no way to retrieve those articles before his servers were taken down. Then, I got busy making a video game so I didn’t make time to restore this blog until now.
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…