Playdead’s Inside is more narratively ambitious than Limbo—strobing from dark to darker to something more, while carrying the player from vulnerable terror to horror to gleeful revenge—with sound design to make your skin crawl, grim level art, and butter-smooth puzzles that create a challenging but polished play-through.
Disney Dreamlight Valley Panel at D23
This past week, I was part of a panel with some fantastic colleagues representing Disney Dreamlight Valley at D23! Full video of the panel is below.
One Sentence Game Review: Inscryption
Inscryption, Devolver Games.
This game is like if a super fun deck builder had a baby with purgatory, a freaky-deaky escape room, a Super Nintendo, your dark student film project from 2011, and a robot—it’s weird and experimental and you have to love it for trying stuff and taking risks… or at least, I did.
Bay Bulls, Newfoundland - October 2024
in photography
Hades II Key Art: Supergiant Games
One Sentence Game Review: Hades II - Heftier, Hail-Worthy, HECATE!
You can really tell that Supergiant’s devs took their first sequel opportunity to improve systems from the first game while, at the same time, adding fresh characters, cool new weapons, double the battles, a whole basket full of easter eggs, and more DARREN KORB BANGERS
Dallmeyer Bees
in video
A little video to practice shooting, editing, and exporting videos in Premiere.
Caveat Emptor & The Dallmeyer Anastigmat
in photography
At times, I’m a creature—a goblin?—of impulse.
For instance: my boyfriend mentions I should try a wide angle lens on my camera. I start hunting around for a vintage lens. I stumble over a Dallmeyer Speed Anastigmat on Ebay, and after watching one (1) review, leap to buying it. This all happens in under 8 hours. Or it did… two weeks ago.
The new lens finally arrived today and.. the goshdang thing doesn’t focus to infinity! (Yours truly has learned a lesson about only buying items that have been TESTED.)
This might be an issue with the focus ring and COULD be fixable. While this did stifle my excitement a little, I still got some pretty rad swirly closeups playing around with it today. I can’t wait to play more with this dreamy lens.
Canon A7IV + Dallmeyer Speed Anastigmat
Call To Adventure
in photography
The internet said this little guy is called a “parsley worm." I figured letting him and his family hang out in my summer garden was worth sacrificing a little parsley.
July 2025
Sony A7IV + Helios 44-2