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Jan 7, 2024

December 2023

#177: See ya, 2023!

It’s end-of-the-year wrap-up time for everyone so that’s a recurring theme in this week’s links. Enjoy!

Dec 31, 2023

#176: 2023 Retrospective

Let’s take a look back at 2023! As far as my work goes: I sent out 51 newsletters, with 44 of them having some kind of original writing and 7 just being…

Dec 24, 2023

#175: Fantasy Cities Volume 1

On the newsletter's patreon, I just published Fantasy Cities Vol 1, which includes improved and expanded versions of articles I wrote last year about 7…

Dec 17, 2023

#174: The Newsletter Needs You!

Every year, I’m going to be annoying for exactly 4 (or maybe 5) weeks and explain to you why you should be actively supporting my work. The upside is…

Dec 10, 2023

#173: Itch Roundup for October and November

Another regularly scheduled roundup of games that have been released on itch.io that caught my eye over the last two months.

Dec 3, 2023

November 2023

#172: Quick Links!

Been a busy week so just a round-up of the links! See you next week!

Nov 26, 2023

#171: The Awards 2023

Nov 19, 2023

#170: Scavengers Reign

Another quick recommendation this week: I’ve been watching the animated TV show, Scavengers Reign this week. It’s a far future scifi drama about a group…

Nov 12, 2023

#169: Elden Ring, Wuxia, Links

Nov 5, 2023

October 2023

#168: The Best Names for NPCs

doctors hate this one weird trick for naming your characters in a way that makes things simpler but also more interesting

Oct 29, 2023

#167: The Art of RPGs

The problem with asking if games are art is that the answer can be as simple and as complicated as you have time for. In some sense, anyone trying to be…

Oct 22, 2023