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Accumulations: A Breakdown of Cyberpunk

An essay about the Cyberpunk series of role-playing games, as well as the relentless societal impulse it essentially represents.

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Worlds Within Circles: The Concentric Method of Worldbuilding

Taking a methodical approach to the practice of worldbuilding, I bring you a fourfold philosophy for imagining the fantastical.

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Worlds Beyond Spaces: The Communalist Model of Game Design

The Open World video game has not lived up to its potential. To remedy this, I try to establish a new design philosophy founded in radical social theory.

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Resistance Fantasies and Where to find Them: A Genre’s Past, Present, and Future

A discursive journey through the history of a genre, in the hopes of exciting its future creation.

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Safeguarding the Female: A Personal Story of Gender and Daoism

An intimate essay on my gender experience, as inspired by the philosophy of the Daodejing.

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Tell, Don’t Game: A Medium Manifesto

A short essay about video tales, a fascinating (if yet ephemeral) undercurrent in the broad stream of gaming.

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Borrowed Thoughts: Anarchy as Natural Order

A short philosophical essay on Anarchy, Order, and Faith.

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The Palpatine Problem

A plot-functional essay about unchallenged characters and corrupted narratives.

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Resistance Fantasy: Another Genre Manifesto

An essay about Resistance Fantasy, a genre that possesses Fantastical, Spiritual, and Radical-Political elements.

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The Anapnoic Precepts: eight simple rules for writing my newish genre

A set of final reflections on anapnoic fiction, giving advice to future creators. Part Four of Four.

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