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Picking Apart Baldur's Gate 3, Part 3 (The Only Thing You Should Care About: Loot.)
If I have to wade through your story, I want my dopamine hits, darn it.
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May 2024

Gamer Deep Lore, Exhibit #4. Dragon Magazine, September, 1981.
Building the Tabletop RPG was a huge team effort.
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Gamer Deep Lore, Exhibit #3. The Tomb of Horrors.
Balancing turn-based RPGs is hard.
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Indie Postmortem 2: Geneforge 2 - Infestation. Avoiding Utter Disaster.
Yeah. I grovel. I got product to move. I'm not proud.
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Indie Postmortem 1: Geneforge 2 - Infestation. Funding and Building.
A weird development process that actually sort of works.
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April 2024

Gamer Deep Lore, Exhibit #2. Fringeworthy.
How many hit points does your pancreas have? (Three.)
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Gamer Deep Lore, Exhibit #1. The D&D "Blue Book"
Trying to figure out how to write game rules in real time.
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Picking Apart Baldur's Gate 3, Part 2 (Talkin' 'Bout D&D)
It turns out that game balance was a mistake all along.
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March 2024

We Released Geneforge 2 - Infestation!
Let me hawk to you my wares.
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Picking Apart Baldur's Gate 3, Part 1 (The Story)
Telling a complex story without too much annoying reading.
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What To Learn From The Video Game Recession. And Do It Quickly.
Failure is always an option.
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Understanding the Great Video Game Recession. Or Not.
This has all happened before. This will all happen again.
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