Electron Dance Highlights
How I Made: The Drake Incident
Oh, I've got an idea for Dark Souls film, I thought. It'll be short. We'll not do anything crazy like half an hour about The Witness. But, somehow, things never go according to plan. Because there is no plan. There is just:
- OOH I'VE HAD A FANTASTIC IDEA I LOVE IT
- oh my god this is way harder than I thought
- YOU DIED
Here's a little behind-the-scenes insight on The Drake Incident.
Shutdown
It's the start of another sabbatical month. I'm taking a month off writing to try to reboot my brain, drain away the anxiety and tinker with other projects that have become stuck.
But what if I walk away from the site for two months? Or three? What happens if Electron Dance goes dark for six months?
Because that is what I'm thinking about.
Five Years of Electron Dance
When I wrote the first post 354 on VVVVVV, I never thought I'd be possessed with the hubris to write a post called Five Years of Electron Dance, let alone have enough readers to justify it.
There's only way to deal with this: I'm going to let it get to my head and get drunk and take off all my clothes. Does this mean I can monetize my audience? Should I run a Patreon? Let's talk about what this means and answer five questions about Electron Dance you never wanted answering in the first place.
Auto-Critique 2
Auto-critique is an infrequent series of posts about the process of writing.
Stop Crying About Choice was meant to be a short post that mused “maybe all narrative games are actually hypertext” and let others debate it out.
That is not what I eventually published. What I published was a 5,000 word epic that made April the most successful Electron Dance month in its four-year history.
But I learnt some important lessons through both its slow development and the resulting wave of attention. These lessons, however, have worrying ramifications for the Electron Dance book.
Auto-Critique 1
As I've often said, I don’t like writing about writing as it’s not what people come to Electron Dance to read about. However, I know there are some writers here who might be interested in crossing swords on the wordcraft itself. So I had a stab at jotting down my thoughts about writing and some of the conundrums I wrestle with.
Only read on if you're actually interested in a bunch of rambling notes unrelated to video games.
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