Written by 
I really liked Lego Horizon Adventures, a game that’s exactly what it sounds like. It tells an embellished version of the events of Horizon Zero Dawn, the first game in Guerrilla’s series of post-apocalyptic open-world adventures, with colorful Lego bricks and the slapstick humor you’d expect from a lovingly made YouTube parody, all wrapped up […]
The family-friendly LEGO Horizon Adventures will launch in a matter of days. To celebrate, its developers delved into the game and revealed that parts of it were made with real LEGO Bricks. This news hit the collective consciousness via PlayStation.Blog. The title is a collaborative effort between original Horizon devs Guerilla Games, Studio Gobo, and […]
Hiya and happy Saturday! How’s your week been? You know, I thought of you the other day when I put lipstick on right before work; it was MAC Sweet Deal, a mid-tone pink that looks like a neutral on my skin. Anywho, I wondered if you were still keeping up with wearing lip color all […]
“My Final Fantasy.” That’s how I described the first 8-Bit Adventures game in 2015. But while my work was heavily inspired by the legendary series, I really meant this as a personal ultimatum. I’d spent four years making games on PC and mobile which failed to turn a profit. So just like Hironobu Sakaguchi (the […]
8-Bit Adventures 2 captures the charming elements of old RPGs and turn-based combat but without the long slogs. I have spent many years on older RPGs, but coming back to some of them has been a bit challenging as there is so much grinding for levels and so many random battles that you have to […]
A new book? I hear you cry. Yes! And it’s one that you’ve helped me write. Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing is my second non-fiction book and it draws on a new approach to reading that I’ve developed over the twelve years of writing this blog. Among the many challenges I had to face […]
This article tells the story of how Stream’s Android team refined our progress tracking process during file uploads in the Stream Chat Android SDK. Our original implementation to track file upload progress worked, but it had some in-code usability and UX issues that we wanted to clean up. The following account gives an up-close look […]
by Tish Rabe ; illustrated by Laura Hughes ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 21, 2016 While this is a fairly bland treatment compared to Deborah Lee Rose and Carey Armstrong-Ellis’ The Twelve Days of… Rabe follows a young girl through her first 12 days of kindergarten in this book based on the familiar Christmas carol. The […]