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NDA Jam
I’m very lucky. I work at an indie game studio, Doborog. A few weeks ago, my boss said I could spend a whole week making […]
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Wanna Adopt a Ghost?
In these cruel, compassionless times, we need less ghost busting and more ghost understanding. Think about Slimer. The little green guy was minding his own […]
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Super Grateful
Game jams are hard. Surviving a natural disaster is much harder. Last month, Gwen Katz, founder of Nightwell Games, somehow did both. Together we finished […]
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Something to Feel Normal
Last month, I made a game called Cocoanut Hotel with Nightwell Games founder Gwen Katz for the public domain game jam. Also last month, a […]
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Burn, Panera, Burn
Cocoanut Hotel was no ordinary jam game. We developed the game last month in Los Angeles, during the catastrophic wildfires that blazed through the city. […]
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🥸 Play the First Marx Bros Video Game
We did it! Hooray for Captain Spaulding us! After a month of hard work, some of it while on relaxication, Gwen Katz and I released […]
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7 Underrated Public Domain Characters
It’s been a long time since I’ve written a listicle! In the mid-aughts, listicles were how I earned a meager living as a writer. I […]
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The Rules of Relaxication
For the past 14 years, Amanda and I have gone on a trip over New Years. We call them “relaxications,” because they’re distinctly not vacations. […]
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I’m Not Obsessed with Popeye!
Most people start conversations with phrases like, “So, what do you do?” or “Got any weekend plans?” I started more than one conversation last year […]
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Next Year, I’m Doing Less!
I hope you’re having very happy holidays! My wife Amanda and I are hosting family this week, and seeing everyone laughing and smiling under one […]
👋 Hey, I’m narrative designer Geoffrey Golden!
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Equip Story is my newsletter of self-discovery through game development. I’m Geoffrey, a narrative designer, game maker, and interactive fiction writer from Los Angeles with over 15 years experience. I’ve had commercial success working for studios like Disney, Gearbox, and Ubisoft, but I’ve always treated commercial success as the most important goal for my art. Now I’m looking for something more. →
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