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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 17h

Why not have a strange, slightly disconcerting time on the night before Hallowe'en? 'Tis the season, after all.
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Principessa della magia del sangue by BrukhoLevin

I was in town for a death in the family. You never left.

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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 1d

Kenoma: Action Without Action is approaching six hundred wish-lists on Steam. While far from astronomical success, it is a far larger audience than I have seen before, and a far larger audience than I was willing to anticipate. Thank you for your interest.

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 2d

no clever words today. instead, take this reminder: there is a BrukhoLevin mailing list. keep up to date by signing up:
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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 3d

is there any task more loathsome than package management? are there worse tortures to inflict on this grey earth?

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 6d

this week's weblog: item descriptions, and how they can be used to tell stories.

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Item Descriptions & Oblique Lore

When a video-game has an inventory system, items held within that inventory become important not only to depict, but to describe. Picking up a key and then using it on a locked door is obvious, but an...

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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 7d

Crackling and flickering in the clouds, figures lurch through the sky. Are they human? Stretched and warped as they are, there is no way to tell.
I'm reminded of a film I once saw. Silent, backwards things un-stepped across the screen.
Currently playing: "Cowards Way Out" by The Desert Sessions.

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 8d

whenever I automate a task, I wonder to myself: how much else could be lifted from my shoulders? the answer is typically "not much."

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 9d

Budgeting time is always so difficult. Classical wisdom holds there aren't enough hours in a day. Myself, I think we would find ways to overfill our schedules no matter how long they were.

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 10d

underwhelm, overwhelm, in-between; there is a space for all expectations, and that space is a wastebasket. take it on the chin if you can, elsewhere if you must.

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 13d

An experimentally short weblog this week: on the nature of game-overs, and kenoma's implementation.

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P.S. - Don't forget to check out Kenoma: Action Without Action on Steam while the Next Fest is on!

#indiedev #weblog #gameover

Why Game-Over?

Most games include “game over” states as a mix of negative reinforcement and tension-building. If you die when you touch spikes, fall into a pit, or are hit by an enemy, you’ll try to avoid thos...

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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 14d

time flies and time drags. the surest way to know the days and months as they pass into history is to mark them yourself, with events, projects, and the like. a release party, a weekend event, these things ground us and bind us to the world. Play Kenoma: Action Without Action's F-R-E-E DEMO!

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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · Jul 16

Do not forget: it will release this year. And there is a free demo available.
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#indiedev #demo

Kenoma: Action Without Action on Steam

Answer the question of mortality in this sidescroller inspired by point-and-click adventures of old. Wander the depths of two parallel worlds. Confer with gods, locals, and other travelers. Solve prob...

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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 16d

One might think that the game-jam project I undertook just before this NextFest (brukholevin.itch.io/principessa) took valuable time away from promoting Kenoma (store.steampowered.com/app/2933260/...). Perhaps this is true. I can certainly make up for it now, though.

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Kenoma: Action Without Action on Steam

Answer the question of mortality in this sidescroller inspired by the adventures of old. Wander the depths of two parallel worlds. Confer with gods, locals, and other travelers. Solve problems through...

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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 17d

the Steam Next Fest begins today, and Kenoma: Action Without Action is participating. Examine the game and play the demo at your leisure here!

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#nextfest #indiegames #gamedemo #indiedev

Kenoma: Action Without Action on Steam

Answer the question of mortality in this sidescroller inspired by the adventures of old. Wander the depths of two parallel worlds. Confer with gods, locals, and other travelers. Solve problems through...

store.steampowered.com

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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 20d

in lieu of a blog-post this week, I offer a short game. Made in a little under a month for a game jam, please give "Principessa della magia del sangue" a look!

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#indiedev #jamgame #pointandclick

Principessa della magia del sangue by BrukhoLevin

I was in town for a death in the family. You never left.

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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 21d

something interesting: the "dialects" found within the online video sphere are quite diverse. mass-audience videos are quite overblown and overlong, the livestream-highlight genre leans towards snappy and concise, educational/technical video tends to be all business. each of these with clear reason.

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 22d

Some music is hard to discuss because the sound is convoluted and airy. Some music is hard to discuss because it has an extremely convoluted history. Some music is hard to discuss because the band is named "WHORES." These distinctions are important to understand.

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 23d

it was my greatest wish as a younger creative to be the fabled "art goblin", who would periodically emerge from the earth to present a new, wholly complete work before crawling down into the depths again. alas, there is little place for such creatures in the food web.

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 24d

a dinosaur was an amazing kind of animal that lived in a volcano and ate rocks

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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 24d

"Which is more frightening: success or failure?" Failure, clearly. Success has nothing on it in terms of anxiety, fear, and other such negative emotion. Who thinks these questions up?

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 27d

this week's weblog: where Kenoma's world comes from, and the two false starts it had before the current iteration.

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#weblog #worldbuilding #gamedesign

Where, What, and Why: The History of Kenoma's Internal Mythos

Kenoma, being composed primarily of text, is generally more about the world and its people than any game-play loop. For these to feel real, then, the people need to have places they fit into in the wo...

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Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 28d

Since my viewing of "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" this monday, it's remained in my head with a rather strange consistency. There really is something otherworldly, dreamlike about it. Beyond the walls of understandable cognition. Exploring the deeper recesses of the mind.

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · 29d

There are many people in the world with what may be called "opinions". These are noxious emissions of carbon dioxide gas that often are accompanied with sound, in a particular structure that conveys meaning. Typically, the meaning conveyed is subjective. Text can also be a vector for their spread.

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · Sep 30

Messages go out on the first of each month.

Jack L. @brukholevin.com · Sep 30

A reminder: I operate a mailing-list that offers all of: consistent proofs-of-life, brief explanations of what I've been doing, and free gifts that may range from apocryphal music to small, strange games.

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