• You Can (Not) Sell Out

    You Can (Not) Sell Out

    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…

  • Lessons from the Great Attorney

    Lessons from the Great Attorney

    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…

  • Designing Systems for Games

    Designing Systems for Games

    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…

  • Absent Design

    Absent Design

    We’ve come halfway through the year! My local farmers market has continued running throughout the pandemic, but this month it seems to have exploded to be…

  • New Pokémon Snap

    New Pokémon Snap

    A very short catch up this month; I am flying out to visit my parents tomorrow, now that we have all been vaccinated. I have been…

  • Looking at the credits

    Looking at the credits

    Sometime near the start of April I needed to research some top-down combat implementations on the GameBoy. This initial quest sparked a tangential curiosity, which would…

  • Gushing on Gnosia

    Gushing on Gnosia

    This month I did not play very many games! I finished playing Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GC), which I had been streaming with friends a…

  • How much is a coin worth?

    How much is a coin worth?

    In my books, this month’s biggest release was actually rather small: Bowser’s Fury — a bonus feature packaged with the Switch reissue of Super Mario 3D…

  • Skateparks

    Skateparks

    Welcome, this is the first installment of Save Game, a monthly newsletter recording my life goings ons and the games I am playing along the way.…

  • 2020 Games in Review

    2020 Games in Review

    At the beginning of the year, I decided to write down every game I played. Turns out, I played a lot of games! Probably more games…