shanodinRecently I’ve been helping my partner by keeping my eye open for jobs he might want to apply to. As a result, I’ve been reading more job descriptions in the last few weeks than I have done in the last few years, and it has really reminded me of some stuff that companies could do […]
The board game Calico is very deceptive. If someone draws you in with a theme like sewing a nice quilt to attract cats then you’d absolutely be forgiven for imagining a chilled out and gentle game. However, it’s actually a really tricky tile-laying puzzle and exactly the kind of game that I love. The ruleset […]
I wanted to take a little moment away from my games-focused content and share something a little more personal. A couple of years ago, right at the start of the pandemic, I was diagnosed with autism. This wasn’t much of a surprise to me – I’d actively sought out an assessment (though I had lingering […]
When I first started getting into modern board games (over a decade ago at university!), my group of friends had a few that we played again and again – being poor students we weren’t exactly grabbing the latest releases or adding to the collection frequently. So when one of the group got a copy of […]
I’ve talked and written a lot about video games, but I love a really wide variety of games and play of all sorts. Video games of course, but also arcades, bowling, laser tag, table top RPG games, karaoke, escape rooms… the list goes on. In fact just yesterday my partner and I went out for […]
A friend recently gifted me the game Strange Horticulture. It’s a puzzle game about plants with a story about the occult and naturally, as the local provider of strange botanicals, you find yourself becoming intertwined in the mysteries as they unfold. The game is told over the course of 16 days plus an epilogue, and […]
This might be a function of my age and what was available when I was growing up, dear reader, but I really miss the days where the best way to get information about a game was from a website like GameFAQs (I’m sure other guide websites were out there, but this is the one I […]
Recently, I took a moment to be vulnerable with folks and talk about my writer’s block and how it was caused (at least initially) by Death Stranding. I was really heartened by the response and someone suggested that I just essentially publish my notes because “anything can be a piece”. I liked that idea a […]
Sometimes (well, most of the time honestly) my own brain is my biggest saboteur. Last year sometime I decided I wanted to write about my experiences with some games. I wrote about Hollow Knight and how completing it was kinda life-changing, and I wrote about Outer Wilds and how streaming impacted my experience and enjoyment […]
I’m going to state this right up front – I am a brand ambassador for Big Potato Games, and that’s what has led me to write this blog post. I’ve been thinking about party games a lot more than I usually would (which would be at a party/gathering, I guess!). I’m sure if you’re a […]