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i completed 69+3 games in 2025, so here’s 81 reviews

Man. 2025, huh? I had some pretty big, bad things happen, which earned me a lot of burnout. My health is deteriorating, and I can’t afford…

Feb 1

i completed 69+3 games in 2025, so here’s 81 reviews

Feb 1

okay here’s the one about planescape

Over the years, I have taken some commissions to write about various video games. One of those was to write about Planescape: Torment, and…

Dec 28, 2025

okay here’s the one about planescape

Dec 28, 2025

some loosely organized thoughts about dialogue sysin games

think of this as me trying to find out what parts of dialogue choices are load bearing game design and what else can be done with dialogue.

Nov 10, 2025

some loosely organized thoughts about dialogue sysin games

Nov 10, 2025

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

Oct 12, 2025

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

Oct 12, 2025

the way of the gun: part 2 of building a better shooter

So! Last year, I wrote a thread on social media talking about how much I missed a specific style of first person shooter — they just don’t…

Aug 31, 2025

the way of the gun: part 2 of building a better shooter

Aug 31, 2025

first person shooters are extremely fun, but the industry rarely makes the ones i like anymore

There’s something about that anticipation as your dropship passes over open ocean and the fighting on the beach comes into view…

Aug 3, 2025

first person shooters are extremely fun, but the industry rarely makes the ones i like anymore

Aug 3, 2025

let’s reconsider how we talk about video games

There’s that moment before a tornado where the humidity gets unbearable, the sky — which is often mostly gargantuan cumulonimbus towering…

Jul 6, 2025

let’s reconsider how we talk about video games

Jul 6, 2025

copyright rules, ai drools, and plagiarism is for suckers who have no soul

Have you ever had a conversation with someone over a topic you know a great deal about, but the person you’re talking to definitely…

May 11, 2025

copyright rules, ai drools, and plagiarism is for suckers who have no soul

May 11, 2025

so i finally played ffxv

originally published august 26, 2018

May 10, 2025

May 10, 2025

how do you make a great video game quest?

originally published september 30, 2018

Apr 27, 2025

how do you make a great video game quest?

Apr 27, 2025

Doc Burford

Doc Burford

I do some freelance work, game design consulting, and I’ve worked on games Hardspace: Shipbreakers and created games like Adios and Paratopic.

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