LOG

Long Form Writings

2024-01-15

• A small piece, written entirely in a few hours in the early hours of a Monday morning, about my current unhappiness with work - attempting to put some words to my thoughts over the last however-so-many months. Its here.

2023-06-26

• Two new pieces in as many days, record breaking pace for me!
• Firstly, another best-to-worst discography ranking for the band Carcass.
• Secondly, some reviews and thoughts on some assorted Steam’s Next Fest Demos that I played during the week (beginning 2023-06-19). 9 Demos in total.

2023-05-07

• Very first long form music piece up! A best-to-worst discography ranking of my very first Metal band, Metallica.

2023-03-12

• Very first game review up! A strategy game I absolutely adore, Master Of Orion (1993).

2023-03-02

• Get 2nd blogpost up, doing a personal retrospective on my first two jobs.

2023-02-14

• Get first blogpost up, looking at why I bothered setting this up in the first place.

Shorts Writings

2024-03-03

• A short, one line review for puzzle platformer, Out There Somewhere.

2024-02-03

• Add another short review, for indie atmospheric 2D platformer, Limbo.

2024-01-27

• Add a short music review for Noism’s ± over on the shorts page.
• Add a short game review for the Roguelike/Dungeon Crawler/Tower Defense mish-mash, Dungeon of the Endless.

2024-01-13

• Added two more short game reviews, this time for the management sim/roguelike hybrid Despotism 3k and the platformer Ninja Pizza Girl.

2024-01-07

• Added the whole music shorts file (all 20k words worth!) - its a bit messy, still not sold on the layout and distinguishing between albums and other types of releases and there’s a bunch of placeholder reviews that I haven’t got round to/tidied up enough to be coherent etc. But I thought it worth to throw this up here, even in this messy-ish state and sculpt it over time.
• Added two more game shorts, namely the turn-based tactics game Wargroove and the visual novel q.u.q.

2024-01-01

• Some minor tweaks and updates to the recent game shorts, mainly to include my rougher grading scale for games I’ve played but would like to revisit to check or re-evaluate my opinion. Opinions don’t quite form in a day after all!

2023-31-12

• Merry christmas and happy new year all! Have been on the backburner to keep churning through my review backlog - which has taken a much longer time than I expected to take, for various reasons. I’m still not done (nowhere near admittedly!), but I’ve got to the point where I’ve churned though a lot of my Games reviews backlog and should be throwing up reviews in more of a dripfeed fashion.
• Music (& Books!) are still in review hell, but they’ll get there, I’m sure. Blame me for setting this ridiculous goal a year ago.

2023-09-17

• Added a whole bunch of short reviews (26 in total) for games I’ve played over the years, all with some basic info and ratings/5. One of my goals has been to work through the majority of my backlog and offer thoughts on them, even if just a few sentences and a number-out-of-five worth of thoughts. Surprisingly, this takes time! And so I decided to throw out the set of reviews I’ve worked on over the past few months inbetween everything else.
• As a side note, while I’ve found it very helpful to revisit, to either re-evaluate or re-affirm my opinion on something, as well as getting said thoughts formed for future revisits. However, it takes a while and has felt like a burden at times (especially when looking to play new games, listen to new music etc.).

2023-04-27

• Second “blog shorts” entry, outlining that the website isn’t dead! and some thoughts about having many projects on the go, the pros/cons etc. And a link to a really nice video game development blog post I read recently.

2023-03-18

• First “blog shorts” entry, about ubiquity of art, derived after spending time going through my video game backlog.

Website

2024-03-03

• Update @svelte/kit to resolve another CVE in undici

2024-01-20

• Small update to last blog post to give it some text, not just leave it a bare link.
• Update vite once again to resolve another CVE, oh I love JS dependency management…

2023-13-12

• Add Dependabot for some dependency management behind the scenes, since I had completely forgotten to keep the dependencies up-to-date beyond initial creation, oops!

• Update a bunch of behind-the-scenes dependencies to resolve some flagged CVEs:

  • word-wrap
  • undici and @sveltejs/kit
  • vite
  • postcss

• Remove all my ‘drafts’ work from the website repo and move into a personal Obsidian repo. Again, another behind the scenes thing that should hopefully make things slicker. December often ends up being month of getting things that have been on the backburner for months sorted for me.

• Also serves as a self reminder to start throwing up all the reviews I have in draft hell, nowhere near done but the turn of the year seems like a good time to throw some things out.

• Some small linting as well, something I always forget exists!

2023-06-17

• Some small typo/wording fixes in Metallica review, writing and proofreading is hard

2023-06-10

• Changed my mind! Centered all images, plus added images to old Master of Orion review (and another paragraph!).
• I’m hoping, this might finally be the end to the experimentation with layout, setup, structure etc. and that I can finally focus on the writing! I’ve been rather slow at getting up to speed in my mind.
• Don’t have much plans to add any images to blogs or any shorts (unless blogs really need it!) - do want it to be used sparingly or to support writings, and put in short reviews would dilute too much.

2023-06-04

• Have started to bring in some images into website, starting with the Metallica Best-to-Worst. Not planning to do a whole lot with them, just add them where appropriate (generally going to be long form reviews only, using front-cover art and in game cases a screenshot or two), and generally going to be small (currently decided on 300x300 or a size around that) and uncentered (can use center html tags, but thats kinda hacky)
• Will add images to other long form reviews in the near future

2023-03-21

• Split out log between Long Form and Shorts writings, otherwise I’d forsee a lot of noise there as I plan on adding a whole load of little shorts over the next few weeks.

2023-03-12

• Minor css adjustments, making width of content larger, increasing line-height slightly.
• Fix date formatting in shorts pages to be consistent throughout website (YYYY-MM-DD vs. YYYY/MM/DD).

2023-03-07

• Adding new books and music section, replicated structure from blog (once again).
• Fix category list links always pointing to “/blog/category…” instead of correct subsection e.g. “games/category…”
• fix typo

2023-03-06

• More minor behind-the-scenes changes, general code refactoring.

2023-03-05

• Add a section for blog shorts, designed for smaller interesting thoughts/observations that don’t quite deserve their own blog page.
• Add new games section, replicated structure from blog.

2023-03-02

• Small behind-the-scenes changes.

2023-02-14

• Begin hosting! Live on Vercel.