oh man, it's march??? (Patreon)

We are targeting a March 17th release for Adios on the Nintendo Switch; just getting our store passed through testing now to make sure Nintendo's cool with everything. They asked us to post a message in Japanese saying the game did not have Japanese language support, which makes sense, but I'm surprised that wasn't automated. So it's little stuff like that, but the port, I hear (I haven't played it, I don't have a dev kit personally), is real good.

Stuff has been... well, real rough. Impossibly rough, to be honest. Someone broke into my car and basically ruined it, my medical care is still inadequate, I just went through surgery 12, and I'm doing all of this completely on my own. Sure, I have friends to talk to on voice chat, and they're keeping me going, but that's a world of difference between "sharing the chores with another housemate" or "having a dog to pet," you know?

Still, I'm doing my best to soldier on.

January 1, we posted a piece on Dragon Age 2

Later in January, I wrote about the 79 games I finished in 2021.

Early in February, I began preparation to release these essays on YouTube, at the behest of a twitter mutual who said he'd like to hear them while he's working since he can't read them and work at the same time. I like accessibility and if I could get that done, I think that'd be the right thing to do. I posted my "introduction" script, but haven't released the video due to, well, the car break-in and stuff.

I just--and I mean just, so I still consider this a February piece--managed to finish a piece based on a twitter thread I did around a year ago called "on the art of how to be making your players give a fuck"

That's... tens of thousands of words. I hope they are useful and I hope you enjoy them.

all of these can be found at http://docseuss.medium.com

We are still streaming Metroid Prime--my first run ever, critiquing it as a game designer--over on twitch.tv/docseuss! An essay on that will be forthcoming upon game completion.

The videos will hopefully begin this month, barring any tragedies.

If anyone of you left a request for me to review a game, I am not sure I got everything; would you drop me a line on twitter if you did? Please keep in mind some of these games are difficult for me to cover due to access/health/unfamiliarity (I can't say anything interesting about Guilty Gear, sorry; I don't know anything about fighting games), but I will do my best. I want to make sure I got everything.

Thank you all so much; by funding this, you're allowing me to write educational material I can hopefully use to help people. With the latest piece about motivating players emotionally, I spent a lot of time talking about what I specifically did on Adios, so if you want some insight into how I think about writing, please, check that out. I couldn't make stuff like that without you, and I hope you find it worthwhile. Thank you for helping me write this stuff.