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Top 13 of '13

Here’s my top 13 of ’13. This isn’t any sort of attempt to make an objective Best Of list, its just the records that came out this year that I listened to the most. I’m often sitting in a chair, focusing on some sort of project, listening

A Year of Failed Prototypes

It’s been over six months since I released my last game, and almost that long since I’ve updated this blog. I’ve been busy with non-gamedev stuff, but I’ve also been hacking away in my spare time. Unfortunately, most of these projects haven’t really gone anywhere.

Boston, Snowden, and the Death of the Net

I saw the explosion on Twitter, bored in my cube on a weekday afternoon. There were runners in the foreground, city brownstones, and a white cloud of smoke, like vented exhaust.  People stood around the office, cluttered in groups, speaking in soft whispers.  This wasn’t an industrial accident, this

Two Tales

Two new stories posted I wrote earlier this year: Feigrastir [http://daydalus.net/wordpress/?page_id=536]– We jump at sunrise, and our features are cut in silhouette, like woodcuts in an old book. Die Twenty [http://daydalus.net/wordpress/?page_id=540] – There are dead ants in the spine

The Zen of Dark Souls

I played a lot of Dark Souls this summer. I was staying in the basement of my in-laws. My own house had been torn apart by hammers and crowbars, in preparation for a renovation that would last many months. So I had my Xbox and little 26 inch flat screen

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