Esteban Fajardo

Category: Newsletter

  • Poinpy GOTY 2022

    Poinpy GOTY 2022

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    Poinpy is my 2022 Game Of The Year. As a mobile game available to anyone with a Netflix login, most people could be playing Poinpy within a minute, no matter where they are or what they are doing. Yet I’ve never talked to someone else who’s played Poinpy! No one has even heard of it!…

  • Changing Frame of Mind

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    Long time no see! When spring rolled around I got caught up in wedding season (so many BEAUTIFUL grooms and brides finally tied the knot this year <3 <3 <3 !!!!) and now that everyone has escaped the danger zone I’ve been relaxing this week with our old arch nemesis: COVID. It has been the…

  • Wandering Above a Sea of Fog (February 2022)

    Wandering Above a Sea of Fog (February 2022)

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    Another month is here! The world sure does keep on spinning, doesn’t it? In addition to everything going on, you know, out there in the world, I have been extremely busy making things big and small. They are either private or NDA projects, so not well suited to a public blog. It has been very…

  • Loving the Obtuse (January 2022)

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    I pay my rent by mailing a check every month. Being the first month of a new year, January is a risky time; I almost always write the wrong year out of habit. This year was an exception! I have naturalized seamlessly into 2022, and saved myself a check. Could this be like the groundhog…

  • New Year Recap (December 2021)

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    Happy New Year! I am typing this from chilly Colorado, where I have been staying with my family for the holidays. The air is apocalyptically dry, and a burst of wind tore through with such force that a car alarm started. Our Christmas tree, naked and discarded in the lawn until the recycling service starts…

  • Good Goomba (November 2021)

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    If I could ask Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, Toshihiko Nakago, or Kazuaki Morita about any one single thing, it would be: Goomba. I do not know if these four original developers of Super Mario Bros. have thought about the Goomba’s origin much in these last 35 years, but it has been consuming me over the…

  • What Does Metroid Taste Like? (October 2021)

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    Whoa, it’s the end of October. I started this as a New Years resolution back in January, and I guess there are only two more of these left before the end of the year! I haven’t decided yet whether I will continue this in 2022, so let me know what, if anything, you’d like to…

  • September 2021 – You Can (Not) Sell Out

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    A bit of a break from the usual this month. I spent September preparing for a big trip, and then going on said trip, so this was actually written in August. No videogames this time, but I hope you still enjoy this very simmered take on a topic everyone has moved on from, and next…

  • Lessons from the Great Attorney, Wroenix Phight (August 2021)

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    Summer is coming to a close! I’m bidding adieu to my beloved long days of sunlight. In my imagination, summer is the chance to be the most productive. Yet this month I only really played a single game: The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Switch). It just released worldwide last month after being region-locked for six…

  • Designing Systems for Games (July 2021)

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    It’s still July, right? Not only have I missed my self-imposed deadline for the first time, but I have missed it by a whole week. It has been more challenging to write anything recently, partially due to travel, but mostly because every day online the games industry brings more heartbreak. The stories out of Activision-Blizzard…