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December 20, 2023

2023 Into 2024: Where We Are, Where We've Been, Where We're Going

Hey there! It's certainly been a while. By my records, the last time I made a post here, I'd announced I came down with COVID—which turned out to not be true, but I never made any additional post stating such, confirming anything, or even so much as saying I was okay. Why was that statement incorrect, and why had I made it in the first place? Fact is, a coworker of mine DID come down with COVID;...

June 18, 2023

Update: I got COVID.

A bit of an unfortunate update on things at CORAX studios. If you've explored around on the website, you may have discovered that we're a "one-man wrecking crew". By merit of my living in rural New Mexico, I'd managed to avoid it, but this week I managed to catch COVID. While I am fully up-to-date on my vaccinations, I've still been taking it easy. Fact is, I have an underlying heart condition...

June 06, 2023

Indie Horror Problems and Solutions

(Disclaimer: I originally wrote this post a year ago, but never shared it here.) As a video game designer and producer myself, I sometimes have to take a step back and examine the state of the medium as a whole, ask questions of How, Who, and Why? And tonight I find myself focusing on a particular subset of the horror game genre, that of survival indie horror. And in particular, I find myself...

June 03, 2023

That Abandoned House on Parkview Drive

What have you lost? What have you left behind? What have you abandoned? Stay tuned.

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

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May 20, 2023

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

I feel like I need to defend myself from the outset on this one, and so at the very least, I'm including a disclaimer: I wanted to love this game. I genuinely did. I thoroughly enjoyed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild , and this was to be its sequel....

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March 30, 2023

Arcade Paradise

I very much wanted to get this review out there earlier, but with life catching up with me, it's been hard to find the time. Well, this afternoon I'm making the time. (Hopefully that doesn't come back to bite me in the ass, like it does sometimes in this...

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June 03, 2022

Metroid Dread

I’ve decided I really don’t like Metroid Dread for the same reason I really didn’t like Metroid: Samus Returns . Aspects of the game implemented to solve a prevalent problem make the game not fun. I am, of course, talking about the aiming problem, and the...

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March 07, 2020

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX

It's been a long time since I last played a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game, in fact way back to the first pair. I owned Blue Rescue Team, and I remember enjoying it. The story was interesting, though I didn't get very far; the game came out during a rough time...

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January 02, 2020

New Super Lucky's Tale

When I first saw this game originally on the XBox One, it actually almost made me want to get that console, just for the one game. It's an adorable-looking platformer from an independent studio — always a plus in my book — it looked like an amazing, fun...