It's docvember!
Hey! So, I've been hard at work on a bunch of stuff. I'm prepping three different articles and wrote 7200 words last weekend.
I also wrote the final part of my shooter series here.
Doc Burford posts
building a better shooter
alright, so, last month, we published part 2 of building a better shooter, which is about guns.
https://docseuss.medium.com/the-way-of-the-gun-part-2-of-buildi...
2025-10-03 20:49:52 +0000 UTC View Postit's august!
Early this month, I wrote about rethinking how we talk about games criticism.
https://docseuss.medium.com/lets-reconsider-how-we-talk-about-video-games-ae8857f12073...
2025-08-01 15:37:50 +0000 UTC View Postnew article soon
Hey, so I've been working on an article--or rather, a series of articles, likely 7-8 parts long. Part 1 is finished, several of the others are very far along--but they need to be published all at once. It's a really difficult project and I don't feel ready to post it yet.
Some stuff has bee...
2025-07-01 21:02:39 +0000 UTC View Post2018 article
Hey! Things are rough right now healthwise, so I'll keep it short:
With Kingdom Come 2's release, I thought I'd dig into my old drafts and find my article on the last game, so here you go:
it's 2025
https://docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teenage-exocolonist-and-so-can-you-0946b1d9ade0
I wrote about I Was A Teenage Exocolonist.
Actually, I wrote about being abus...
2025-01-02 01:25:22 +0000 UTC View Postit's november!
A microphone is coming in the mail. A script is ready to go. Footage was being captured.
Then my computer died. And my spare parts computer. And my third attempt at a spare parts computer. Some other stuff happened--grandma's having dementia and it's getting bad, work stuff got me overloade...
2024-12-01 18:53:05 +0000 UTC View Postseptember
Hey, everybody! I'm working on the new article. It's about copyright and it's beefy. However, my health has been poor, I've been doing a bunch of medical testing stuff (just had a gastric emptying test last week) and so when I had the opportunity to visit Airfest 30 at Argonia this year, (for the...
2024-09-02 22:52:15 +0000 UTC View Postnew articles!
Locked the script for my next game, codenamed Waifu Death Squad. It's 328,142 words long! Can't wait to show it to you.
Here's the articles (plural!) for this month; a brand new one, and two that are more than ten years old, which I managed to dig up and preserve here.
cyberpunk part 2 is done!
I am currently editing Cyberpunk part 2, the punks.
Things are very bad for me right now. I have an ultrasound scheduled for next week. I apologize for the time it has taken to write this piece, but I hope it was worth it. It's a pretty beefy one, probably in my top 5 lengthiest pieces, and...
2024-07-01 18:55:37 +0000 UTC View PostTWO articles in May? YUP, You read that right
First up, we've got IMPOSTOR SYNDROME, PART 2. This piece is about some rough stuff I've been through, and stuff I'm hoping to help people avoid.
new article time!
I'll try to keep this one short.
Originally, I intended to have an article or two out way earlier in March. For several reasons, that didn't happen, but the article is done, and you can read it there.
it is february
Today, we finished writing draft 1 of waifu death squad's final major script file. There's a few interstitials to do, tutorials, stuff like that... but this scene is The One. It's almost 90 pages--that's a feature film length script--and I'm just... sitting here, thinking about it. I had dental s...
2024-03-01 23:27:03 +0000 UTC View Postjanuary, february
Hey, so, 2023 was a rough year in between serious health limitations, getting WAIFU DEATH SQUAD (still a code name) funded and in development (we have one sequence of the game left to write and the main plot is done. it's almost as long as Game of Thrones).
I wish I could tell yo...
2024-02-01 19:24:50 +0000 UTC View Postit's december!
Well, the year is basically over. I've written a lot this year--literally like one hundred thousand words over on docseuss.medium.com
Most recently, I wrote a piece on how writers sabotage themselves and how to get out of that.
IT'S DOCTOBER
Hey! So!
Here's a short story that may be the basis for a game... ;)
Yes, we have a whole game planned out. Phil and I worked it out over a couple evenings and it's something we have to make now.
It's September!
Hooray! We made it this far!
Yesterday, we read through Waifu Death Squad's entire past outline. Without reading the finale (which we'd been writing that day and did a read through on), it took 90 minutes. The past is a big part of the game; it's the series of events that lead up t...
2023-09-01 14:44:32 +0000 UTC View Postoh man, august!
Hey!
So, work is going well on Waifu Death Squad, and the Danganronpa Piece, which is REALLY hard, is still coming along.
I worked on a 'quick' piece (it's like 11-12k words? so it's beefy!) about how to enjoy art more. I apologize, my health, mental and physical, has been quite bad. ...
2023-08-09 21:23:40 +0000 UTC View Postoh wow, june!
Wow, it's July already. Halfway through the year! I did a ton of writing, but only published one of those pieces, because I'm actually actively editing another one. That 'other' one is about 30 pages long and I'm ~getting footage for it~ now. Because. Yes. It's a video. Kevin and Phil, m...
2023-07-03 05:31:44 +0000 UTC View Posttwofer! it's june
Hey, I wrote two articles this month:
https://docseuss.medium.com/you-know-what-sucks-new-coke-c53470b387a4
It's May!
I literally wrote all day yesterday and today!
Today, it was mostly Waifu Death Squad stuff--one of my cowriters, Kevin, suggested a character relationship sheet, and we've got at least 25 characters with opinions about the other. 25 by 25 is 625 cells. 625 cells with an average of ten word...
2023-05-02 03:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostThank you! (also it's March now!)
Hey, so!
OUR NEW GAME IS IN PRODUCTION STARTING MONDAY
I mean, we've been working on it for a while, but we've been signed, we're basically funded, like, we're all good to go.
This slowed down my writing a bit--but don't think I ain't workin on it. I'm actually hard at work on t...
2023-04-02 08:25:53 +0000 UTC View Posthooray, it's february!
I was gonna do this really cool thing where I posted not one, not two, but three articles in my January update, but then I wrote four articles and one of them took longer than expected so anyways, with this update, you are going to see four articles instead of my usual two! Was hoping to do the v...
2023-02-01 22:35:27 +0000 UTC View Postit's december
You might recognize this text. It's from an essay here:
2022-12-02 07:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostNovember!
I wish I had good news, but my grandfather passed as I was working on my latest article, and that's made it very hard to finish it up. We're at around 15,000 words; it's almost done, I just have 2 sections left to write, but it's just really hard right now.
Additionally, my computer decided...
2022-11-02 13:59:51 +0000 UTC View Postit's DOCTOBER! and i just published 17,000 words for you
boom. 17,000+ words on...
2022-10-01 16:03:21 +0000 UTC View Postaugust
So, there's one article everyone asks me how to write, and I've never known how to answer it. "How do I write a story?" Like... I went to school for years to figure out how to do it, and even then, it wasn't enough. It took a lot of writing on my own to get there. But nobody wants to hear "practi...
2022-09-05 03:33:36 +0000 UTC View Postit's august!
So, hey, over on docseuss.medium.com, after a 3 and a half year hiatus, we brought back the bundle cruft death match: 20 games I got in bundles, flash reviews of all of 'em.
I don't normally like listicles, even if articles like these are fun, because I feel like I gotta work harder than th...
2022-08-02 17:46:47 +0000 UTC View Post