Is the Deadline a Carrot?

Like most people, my strongest motivation comes from having a deadline. Oh look, April 30th. I was thinking about what keeps me going in game. In April I have played, Oxygen Not Included, Guild Wars 2, No Man’s Sky, Stellaris, ARK and a bit of TABS. My interest in each has gone up and down

Lots of “likes” for Angory Tom

Post two of Developer/Content Creator Week. A bit after it’s over. My first three posts I spent so much time writing, I thought I’d try and speed write this one. In my last post I found myself using Subnautica as a comparison. This was unexpected as I haven’t played it for over a year… Too

Evolving and Surviving

One day left of Blapril Developer/Creator Appreciation Week and I’ve got two posts I want to write. Trouble is, when I come to write them I just can’t find the words. Maybe it’s because they’re too close to my heart. I think it’s very hard to write about things you like. It’s hard to walk

Solutions Not Included

One of the games I’ve been playing since we all started staying at home, is Klei’s Oxygen Not Included. You manage a team of “Duplicants” on an inhospitable asteroid. You arrive with very basic supplies and grow your colony by clever resource management. Or that’s the theory anyway. I’m finding it an incredibly absorbing and

Starting a blog

I’ve just read an 11,000-word post on how to start a blog and I’ve learnt a whole bunch of new terms. Most of them seemed to do with getting your blog to the top of Google. I guess that’s what happens when you Google how to start one. I wouldn’t even have thought of writing