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It's docvember!

Hey! So, I've been hard at work on a bunch of stuff. I'm prepping three different articles and wrote 7200 words last weekend.

I also wrote the final part of my shooter series here. View Post

building a better shooter

alright, so, last month, we published part 2 of building a better shooter, which is about guns.

2025-10-03 20:49:52 +0000 UTC View Post

it's august!

Early this month, I wrote about rethinking how we talk about games criticism.

2025-08-01 15:37:50 +0000 UTC View Post

new article soon

Hey, so I've been working on an article--or rather, a series of articles, likely 7-8 parts long. Part 1 is finished, several of the others are very far along--but they need to be published all at o...

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on violent games

This month, I wrote about violent games.

http...

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2018 article

Hey! Things are rough right now healthwise, so I'll keep it short:

With Kingdom Come 2's release, I thought I'd dig into my old drafts and find my article on the last game, so here you go: View Post

it's 2025

https://docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teenage-exocolonist-and-so-can-you-0946b1...

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it's november!

A microphone is coming in the mail. A script is ready to go. Footage was being captured.

Then my computer died. And my spare parts computer. And my third attempt at a spare parts computer. So...

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new article!

Hey, here's the latest article:

https://docseuss.me...

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september

Hey, everybody! I'm working on the new article. It's about copyright and it's beefy. However, my health has been poor, I've been doing a bunch of medical testing stuff (just had a gastric emptying ...

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new articles!

Locked the script for my next game, codenamed Waifu Death Squad. It's 328,142 words long! Can't wait to show it to you.

Here's the articles (plural!) for this month; a brand new one, and two ...

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cyberpunk part 2 is done!

I am currently editing Cyberpunk part 2, the punks.

Things are very bad for me right now. I have an ultrasound scheduled for next week. I apologize for the time it has taken to write this pie...

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TWO articles in May? YUP, You read that right

First up, we've got IMPOSTOR SYNDROME, PART 2. This piece is about some rough stuff I've been through, and stuff I'm hoping to help people avoid.

2024-05-01 11:44:44 +0000 UTC View Post

new article time!

I'll try to keep this one short.

Originally, I intended to have an article or two out way earlier in March. For several reasons, that didn't happen, but the article is done, and you can read ...

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it is february

Today, we finished writing draft 1 of waifu death squad's final major script file. There's a few interstitials to do, tutorials, stuff like that... but this scene is The One. It's almost 90 pages--...

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january, february

Hey, so, 2023 was a rough year in between serious health limitations, getting WAIFU DEATH SQUAD (still a code name) funded and in development (we have one sequence of the game left to write and the...

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it's december!

Well, the year is basically over. I've written a lot this year--literally like one hundred thousand words over on docseuss.medium.com

Most recently, I wrote a piece on how writers sa...

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IT'S DOCTOBER

Hey! So!

Here's a short story that may be the basis for a game... ;)

Yes, we have a whole game planned out. Phil and I worked it out over a couple evenings and it's something we hav...

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It's September!

Hooray! We made it this far!

Yesterday, we read through Waifu Death Squad's entire past outline. Without reading the finale (which we'd been writing that day and did a read through o...

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oh man, august!

Hey!

So, work is going well on Waifu Death Squad, and the Danganronpa Piece, which is REALLY hard, is still coming along.

I worked on a 'quick' piece (it's like 11-12k words? so it's be...

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oh wow, june!

Wow, it's July already. Halfway through the year! I did a ton of writing, but only published one of those pieces, because I'm actually actively editing another one. That 'other' one is abo...

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twofer! it's june

Hey, I wrote two articles this month:

https://docseuss.medium.com/you-know-what-sucks...

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It's May!

I literally wrote all day yesterday and today!

Today, it was mostly Waifu Death Squad stuff--one of my cowriters, Kevin, suggested a character relationship sheet, and we've got at least 25 ch...

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Thank you! (also it's March now!)

Hey, so!

OUR NEW GAME IS IN PRODUCTION STARTING MONDAY

I mean, we've been working on it for a while, but we've been signed, we're basically funded, like, we're all good to go.

Thi...

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hooray, it's february!

I was gonna do this really cool thing where I posted not one, not two, but three articles in my January update, but then I wrote four articles and one of them took longer than expected so anyways, ...

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it's december

You might recognize this text. It's from an essay here: 

2022-12-02 07:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post

November!

I wish I had good news, but my grandfather passed as I was working on my latest article, and that's made it very hard to finish it up. We're at around 15,000 words; it's almost done, I just have 2 ...

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it's DOCTOBER! and i just published 17,000 words for you

https://docseuss.medium.com/i-am-going-to-solve-the-...

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august

So, there's one article everyone asks me how to write, and I've never known how to answer it. "How do I write a story?" Like... I went to school for years to figure out how to do it, and even then,...

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it's august!

So, hey, over on docseuss.medium.com, after a 3 and a half year hiatus, we brought back the bundle cruft death match: 20 games I got in bundles, flash reviews of all of 'em.

I don't normally ...

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