Immortality is one of the most interesting games of 2022. Go play it.I just got done playing and very nearly completing the new game from Sam Barlow, Immortality. Immortality sits comfortably in the…Jan 16, 2023Jan 16, 2023
Games don’t credit their influences. They should.In my youth I was a stage magician, and I’ve started looking back at the hobby recently. It’s interesting to see what’s changed. There’s…Jun 5, 2019A response icon3Jun 5, 2019A response icon3
Could Red Dead Redemption 2 be a Trojan Horse? And is Fortnite already full of Greeks with swords?Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) will be the biggest release of the year, and there’s no reason to believe it won’t launch on Steam. Afterall…Aug 27, 2018A response icon1Aug 27, 2018A response icon1
Who will win the race to become the Netflix of Games?There is a quiet battle being waged behind the scenes that will have huge consequences for everybody in the games space. The battle to be…Jul 16, 2018A response icon3Jul 16, 2018A response icon3
Published in{Open_Beta}Steam is entering the Age of Rocket FuelThere is a lot of talk about Steam’s policies these days, and almost all of it is (IMO) wrong. The reason is that there are three distinct…Jul 10, 2018A response icon6Jul 10, 2018A response icon6
Should you make a sequel to your Indie game?Before we launched Hand of Fate 2, I had two drafts of this article sitting around. One was “Indie sequels are great, everyone should do…Apr 17, 2018A response icon2Apr 17, 2018A response icon2
The topic every game dev is talking about behind closed doors : The cost of doing businessContent warning : I’ve embedded some tweets to various developers that show the sorts of comments that they receive every day. There’s some…Jan 9, 2018A response icon67Jan 9, 2018A response icon67
What the F*&K is a ‘Gamerunner’?My title on Hand of Fate was “Creative Director,” and my title on “Hand of Fate 2,” says “Gamerunner.” Why? Before I dig in to that, lets…Oct 20, 2017Oct 20, 2017
Why we don’t have Loot Boxes (and why other people do)There’s lots of discussion about Loot Boxes in the last week, and it seemed like a good point to discuss why we don’t have them in Hand of…Oct 13, 2017Oct 13, 2017
