25 Good Things

Aug
18
Down Bad for Speed Racer

Down Bad for Speed Racer

Speed Racer follows this template - periods of intense, visceral action, all of it as bright as the sun and subtle as a gun, followed by slower narrative vignettes that serve only to affirm that Speed is right, good, and hot.
8 min read
Aug
11
arboretum: feeling your choices among the trees

arboretum: feeling your choices among the trees

Games gives us the thrill of making big choices with the safety net of fiction - a simulation of the emotional intensity that comes with failure and success.
7 min read
Aug
04
mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes

mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes

A revolt against the homilies by which this world is run, a wilting carnation memorializing a dream of abundance and belonging.
7 min read
Jul
27
A banner image for OlliOlli World. A pink girl floats above a skateboard in a cloud of smoke.

OlliOlli World is a gnarly tombstone worth returning to

My earliest video games obsessions split the difference between two genres: platformers and action sports games. Sonic the Hedgehog on
7 min read
Jul
26
Banner image of a rural landscape with The Crossover Appeal logo and a text title: "25 Good Things"

25 Good Things - An Introduction

23 weeks left of the first quarter-century in this new millennium. Mixed feelings, as per usual with me. For one,
2 min read