Michael Gooch

Hey, I work in games. During the day I work as a Gameplay Scripter (the tech arm of narrative, think quest designer, kind of, it's hard to explain). At night I develop in Godot, write weird stuff, and think too much about card games. Follow if you like, I don't know, I'm not your dad.

The day I can delete my LinkedIn I know I've made it. Till then, I have the same feelings towards it and it's "influencers" as I do swallowing my vomit after some surprise acid reflux.

Given the "Buy Canadian" push amid this asinine U.S. trade war, I rounded up a bunch of games that are both made *and* owned by Canadians. 🇨🇦 🎮 From @thelongdark.bsky.social and @deadbydaylight.com to @gord.games’ Moving Houses & @visaigames.bsky.social’ Venba, there are so many great options!

You indies make cool stuff. Keep it up ❤️

Finished "To the Moon" for the first time. Was really late to that one, but the scene in which all the context is revealed has me yelling at my TV (in a good way).

A good read about intrinsic motivation through good writing. It's from about 2 years ago, but still relevant. My eyes almost fell out of my head when I read about writing 60 quests in two weeks without any flexibility in design considerations. Writing is hard and messy a shit. Respect the art form.

Finished a playthrough of Lost Kingdoms, a From Software real-time card battler from 2002 on the Gamecube. A really clever little title that I owned briefly when I was 12 and returned since allowance money was tight back then. Really happy I gave it another go. A unique experience to this day.