I delivered the Saturday keynote at NarraScope on June 13th. It was a really nice time. There’s something rare and clarifying about speaking to a live audience, getting their reactions in real time, and being able to physically emphasize my points. I talked about the importance of writing as the basis, rather than a modular component, of narrative games. I showed a bit of my early notes and…
It’s been an exciting couple of weeks! I wanted to round up a few relevant links to Perfect Tides: Station to Station announcements, reviews and such.
Perfect Tides: Station to Station is now available DRM-free on Itch for PC and Mac. You can also purchase it as a bundle with the first Perfect Tides game.
There has been plenty of new press since my last update! Since the list is starting to get long, I’ve started consolidating it into a single page. But here’s a list of the latest ones:
A common critique I hear about the Perfect Tides games is that “nothing happens”. This is strange to me, since by my eye, everything - too much, really - happens in these games.
waiting for what?
I write about love and death and passion because these are the basic and eternal concepts that interest me. For a subset of players, to refrain from viewing these themes through a sci-fi or fantasy…
You can get Perfect Tides: Station to Station for just $15.99 during the Women’s Day Sale, running from March 6th - 15th.
This is the first time the game has been on sale, with a pretty nice discount at that! If you’ve been meaning to buy it, or want to pick it up for a friend, this is the best deal you’ll see for a while.
You can check out the full event page here, with lots of other neat…
I’m home! Let’s see if I can zero in on the stuff I really wanna say.
I was up for an award I was sure I wouldn’t win. I did not write an acceptance speech. Mike, on the other hand, was confident I would get it, or at least that I’d want my family’s support if I didn’t. He insisted we go together with Oscar and have a great time in San Francisco.
I saw so many dear friends, met so…
About a year ago, we decided there’d be no more stairs. I carried her from floor to floor, in and out of cars, and onto sofas and chairs like a stiff-legged suitcase. I would’ve done it forever.
Looking now at old photos, I’d forgotten all the changes. I never expected to have such an old dog. I never expected her to be old for so much of her life. She got used to the diminishment of her senses.…
Today marks the release of the very first localization project for Three Bees. The original Perfect Tides is now available in Russian.
There has been much chatter about localization lately, and while I can only speak to my own experience, I believe it’s very personal to translate the writing of a single author, and should be treated the same way in games as it is in books. The truth is…
Perfect Tides was released 4 years ago last week on February 22nd, 2022. I didn’t quite get it together to write this post at the time, but it was nice to just think about it for a while, so here are some thoughts.
I was expecting my first child right from the start of development. In those early pregnancy days, it was a race to make headway on the game before everything was thrown into chaos.…
It’s practically here. You can now pre-order Perfect Tides: Station to Station at a 15% discount for Switch in both the US and EU eShops.
During the pre-sale, I’m also discounting both Perfect Tides games by 15% on Steam. You can get 1 and 2 individually or discounted as bundle.
It’s a thrill that this day is finally coming, and I hope it’s the first of many. I’m very eager for more people…