Art Tickles – Putting Out Gunfire
Written for Haywire Magazine. Super. Hot. Super. Hot. Super. Hot. I love guns. I do not like guns. They are fascinating. They are terrible. This world is beautiful. Muted whites […]
Category Archives: Portfolio
Collected professional works.
Hyper Universe Review – On Many Levels
Written for MMOGames, recreated in-part with permission. Battle is frantic. Explosions burst behind swordsmen as they charge heedlessly forward, through the cacophony of death, in order to crush opposition at […]
Art Tickles – What Lurks Beneath
Written for Haywire Magazine. I don’t really know what I’m doing. Subnautica isn’t a game about anything in particular. At least, not for me. It has crafting mechanics, certainly, and […]
Art Tickles – What Friends Do
Written for Haywire Magazine. The Animal Crossing series has always felt like visiting a vacation home. Far from life’s stressors, it’s a place to wear some favorite clothes, maintain a […]
Art Tickles – Hard Stop, Fresh Start
Written for Haywire Magazine. This was a tough year. A year that brought a lot of political struggle, a lot of social outcry, a great deal of exhaustion, and not […]
Wild Buster Preview – A Violent, Alien Landscape
Written for MMOGames, recreated in-part with permission. It’s all in ruins. The war came, and we lost. Our planet was bathed in war and fire, our people were packed into […]
Escape from Tarkov Preview — Every Round is Sudden Death
Written for MMOGames, recreated in-part with permission. The grass sways gently around me, I am laying prone in the weeds, and I’m increasingly certain that the footsteps I’m hearing aren’t […]
SMITE’s Shadows Over Hercopolis — Flashy and Repetitive
Written for MMOGames, recreated in-part with permission. Really, it doesn’t feel right. Everything is too floaty, my randomly acquired equipment is doing more for my team than I am, and […]
Art Tickles – Heroic Levels of Wisdom
Written for Haywire Magazine. Being a freelance writer isn’t something I’m particularly proud of. It’s not difficult work to get into, but it is hard to do well and to […]
Art Tickles – A Sort of Platypus
Written for Haywire Magazine. It seems like hardly three or four months can go by in gaming circles without the conversation about games writers playing poorly coming up, and despite […]