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(Note: this blog post will contain Hollow Knight screenshots, which may be construed as location “spoilers”.)
If you don’t play Hollow Knight, the only information you need to know is that it’s a moderately difficult game with occasional rest spots that feature benches. Your character can sit on these benches to heal and save the game. And they’re designed so well that it’s made me enjoy sitting down in real life.
Read moreI don’t intend to solve everything with blog posts alone by the way. Instead, today I’ll set out quest markers to guide us from here on out. Even if you don’t immediately jump to your feet to design a game for yourself/others after this, I hope you can glide away with the capacity to at least consider some new possibilities for expression and creation.
Read moreIt’s a bit of a desert out there, huh? Which is weird, considering how big of a gaming boom we live in. But: consider the ubiquity of games, vs the ubiquity of writing little poems, scribbling a frustrated blob in the corner of a notebook, taking a picture on your phone to capture a sunrise that made you tear up for unknown reasons… we do little expressive gestures with most mediums all the time.
Just not games.
And, in fact, it’s downright silly for most people to imagine assembling a game with any ease that taking a picture or writing a poem has. A few awesome coders are talented enough to toss together some assets and make a cool thing, but that’s more of an exception than norm.
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