Matt Demers on How do you deal with the moments when you panic during a multiplayer game? We can answer this by looking at what we’re afraid of, and what we can learn from analysis.
Read More Matt Demers on Everyone has characters they don’t want to face in fighting games; I decided to think about what makes certain opponents scary, and how my playstyle doesn’t fix the problem.
Read More Matt Demers on Ladder anxiety: the problem that never fixes itself, because you never move forward to fix it. I think about what keeps me rooted, and what I need to do to move on.
Read More Matt Demers on After some reflection, I’d like to start taking two competitive games (Street Fighter V and Dota 2) more seriously. Being able to understand how and why you want to improve is usually a great way to begin.
Read More Matt Demers on After a bit of a break from making things, I’ve come to realize that I should be thinking about it like I’m going to the gym: not finished when I reach a goal, but a process to make myself better.
Read More Matt Demers on Someone rigs up two AI assistants to talk to each other, and suddenly, a meta-narrative develops from the peanut gallery.
Read More Matt Demers on I like New Year’s resolutions post mostly because I’m big on reflecting. A friend noted that I’m big on anniversaries; my birthday (July 1) and New Year’s Day (January 1) fall exactly six months away from each other, so I find they’re good times to look back, plan and learn.
This year was weird. Read More
Matt Demers on I feel like I need to write an apology to someone. Read More
Matt Demers on So today I had a pretty good day of therapy, and it contextualized a couple things for me.
For the last little while I’ve been focusing on “doing nothing” to various success. The idea, though, was trusting a process that my brain was going to be able to fix some things emotionally in the meantime, letting me get back to the “big life stuff” of a career, direction and purpose eventually. Read More
Matt Demers on The second episode of The Ongoing History of RPGs shifts forward to the Super Nintendo where Squaresoft dominated the genre with multiple games. I’ve never played Final Fantasy VI before, so I’m hoping to have a good time with it! I was interested in VI’s place in the Final Fantasy series, mostly because it feels like it represents a tonally darker look before we get into the pure anime of VII and beyond. As I’ve never played it before, this should be quite fun!
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