I’ve been going through something akin to writers block lately. I have a lot I want to talk about, but when I sit down to write something, I never finish because I don’t think I have enough to say. But why do I feel that way?
Another year of Indie Game Book Club (IGBC) is in the books! This is my third time writing about it, and I’m starting to run out of ways to open these yearly retrospectives. We play indie video games and then get together and discuss it like a book club would, and it’s our fourth year of doing it. That’s the highest level overview I can give without repeating myself. I’m sure you get the gist, you’re very smart.
I’m trying a new format out for the blog today, we’re doing Tier Lists baby! I re-listened to all of Childish Gambino’s discography so I could rank everything on a cool little tier list. And then to justify it being a blog post, I wrote little reviews for every release so you can get some insight into how I feel. Let’s get ranking!
Okay yeah look, this is a bit of a morbid concept for a blog post. If I’m being honest, I don’t even really like thinking about the crushing finality that comes with a funeral. But also, I have to admit that I am fascinated about the process of picking a song for such a sombre event. It’s really easy to make a playlist full of bangers or that follows some kind of theme, but I don’t think many people think about picking out the last song they’ll ever “hear”. So let’s talk about it - what makes a good song to play at a funeral?
Throughout my time at my current gig, I have had an ongoing nemesis - alerting. For the longest time, my team has been besieged by an overwhelming amount of alerts. Recently, the opportunity finally arose for us to be able to deal with them, and I thought it’d be good to document how we’ve started our journey in getting our alerting back into a healthy place.