2016

It's almost the end of the year, which for folks who play games mean one thing, among others: Game of the Year! award, list, nominations, et cetera.

I was planning to make one (with slots filled by The Final Station and Hyper Light Drifter and some), but then, after this semester's classes are...

Review of Go Set a Watchman, along with some nostalgic impression on To Kill a Mockingbird, both novels by the late Harper Lee.

I was around thirteen when I first read To Kill a Mockingbird. As someone who lives all the way across the Pacific and growing up with English as a second languag...

Programmers everywhere will tell you that computers are the source of all woes, and that their craft is a complete utter shitshow. Everything is built up on something else that someone made just couple of years ago and depends on something else that someone else made and it seems like none of thes...

I wonder if part of my anxiety for the passing of time is because of my habits with video games. In games it's easier to see the numbers and carefully plan your actions. If there's only three slots left to play your cards, you don't try to squeeze in two cards that require two slots each, you pick o...

Some short nostalgic ramble about A Dark Room, a browser game. Now also on Android and iPhone.

I came across the the browser game A Dark Room several years ago, about the same time that I discovered other silly idle games, like Candy Box. They look like the simplest possible games, at first gl...