I'm often confused by people who champion emergent stories in games, but that's largely because the stories they cite are rubbish. That said, I've been playing Crusader Kings 2 an awful lot, and that's throwing stories at me left right and centre, and all of … Continue reading On Emergent Storytelling in videogames
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On Research and the Secret History of Concrete
Doing research for a novel is weird. It feels a bit like cheating, seeing as it's a perfectly legitimate way to not be actually writing your book. Here's an example. I'm writing a book at the moment – a shock, I know – set in … Continue reading On Research and the Secret History of Concrete
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