Blade Edge

This was a piece published in my local area newspaper the Asbury Park Press back in 1999, when I was a Junior in High School and a member of the (very) short-lived Techworld Advisory Panel. We only had one meeting as a group and the panel itself lasted like, a month. Originally [...]

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For the past year I’ve been fortunate to be involved with the folks from Cengage Learning in working on a book series that has collected dozens of GameDev.net articles into 4 books for mass-market publishing. We at GDNet have know the Cengage folks for several years already, but this was my first chance to work [...]

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Last month, I wrote a small feature for Josh Dallman’s blog Casual Indie. The feature was edited down for size so I’ve been waiting to post the full, unedited version here to my journal. Enjoy!
Introduction
Even though I manage to keep myself pretty damn busy these days helping to run GameDev.net, there are [...]

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Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll
So here’s the scoop. Like I said in one of my previous entries, months ago, this was a lazy summer for me. It was a nice summer, working like 9-11 hours a week and just chilling and playing video games… man it’s been a while since I could actually play video games, [...]

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Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll
Well it’s certainly been a busy time coming back from GDC. I was starting to have that feeling of sinking beneath all the work I’m currently doing, which is never a good thing. I’ve found the best thing to do during times like that is to spend time on other things and [...]

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Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll

I’ve had a few of my online articles translated into foriegn languages, but I’ve never really bothered to check them out. So it was kinda neat to see the book I wrote for, Game Design Perspectives, translated into Korean. It’s funny: everything in my bio is translated into Korean except for “Drew [...]

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