SeeBotsChat: So two robots walk into a bar…
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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 MoreThe night of the bench: learning from 2016
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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
Diving into Doom: the apology of a fraud
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Matt Demers on I feel like I need to write an apology to someone. Read More
Doing what’s “objectively correct” for you
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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
The Ongoing History of RPGs #2: Final Fantasy VI
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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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On self-worth and identity while creating
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Matt Demers on Today I want to talk to you about identity — well, that’s a pretty broad topic, so maybe just your identity when when you create.
For years, I basically thought that the only way to success was to both be fully invested in your craft, and also have the talent to make yourself stand out. This became an all-consuming thing, and I forgot to take into account something pretty basic: being human. Read More
The Ongoing History of RPGs #1: Dragon Quest
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Matt Demers on This is the first episode of The Ongoing History of RPGs, and I figured I’d start it off with a series I really enjoy, but ironically haven’t played too much of. Dragon Quest, despite not being as big as Final Fantasy in the West, is one of the most important titles in the RPG genre; it gave players an accessible way to enjoy a story while innovating mechanics that are still being used today. Read More
The Ongoing History of RPGs: a new series!
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Matt Demers on So the last little bit has been relatively quiet from me after I felt I needed to take a bit of a break. Coming back wasn’t exactly difficult: not picking up any new projects before I’d actually made some changes was. Read More
Nightstalking: a look at Suramar as a functioning city
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Matt Demers on When I first picked up World of Warcraft in 2005, I had a grandiose idea of how it would be; the concept of an MMORPG was always appealing to me because of everyone playing in the same world, and I expected it to be vibrant, active, and thriving.
An RPG Project Draft
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Matt Demers on I’ve been craving getting into a new project lately since my break. Mostly, I’ve wanted to come up with something that I would ideally enjoy doing even if no one were to watch it — ideally, I would be okay just doing it for the sake of it.
I thought about reviving BetterDota, but after a couple streams I found I wasn’t enjoying Dota at the level I’d need to in order to focus on grinding out MMR. Instead, I turned to what I like playing when I don’t really have any other obligations: RPGs.