The times I thought videogame graphics peaked

If you grew up living and breathing videogames, you can likely remember a few times when you thought "wow, this is the most incredible-looking thing I've ever seen, and it can't possibly get any better". At least I did, a few times. I can somehow recall many of these moment

Photography Featured

How did I take this photograph of Karashi?

Last week we were cat-sitting our favorite cats, Moko and Karashi. I took the chance to do some macro photography.

Game Design Featured

Analysing Animal Crossing's Quality of Life update

A way too deep analysis of the cool Animal Crossing Quality of Life Update mockup video that went viral last week.

Thoughts

Pretending to walk

It turns out I found an incredible amount of enjoyment in watching other people walk around cities while I'm sitting in front of my computer.

Thoughts

A third attempt

Yup, I'm writing again. Why? I'm not entirely sure myself. How often? Who knows! It's just my third attempt.

Videogames Featured

I never cared for Kingdom Hearts but I played it anyway

I played through most of the Kingdom Hearts games because I was both curios and bored. Let's say it was an interesting experience.

Game Design Featured

Anti-mafia with 1977: Radio Aut

On the 40th anniversary of Peppino Impastato's death, I write some form of post-mortem of my short game 1977: Radio Aut.

Game Design

A Way Out truly understands co-op

A couple of weeks ago I played A Way Out with my brother, and the game has left a really strong impression on me. A mostly spoiler-free analysis of the most interesting design bits.

Videogames

The player-centric wildlife of Horizon Zero Dawn

An in-depth analysis of the wildlife in Horizon Zero Dawn, understanding how it was entirely created to serve the player while, but heavily lacking of agency and self-determination.

Videogames

People of Horizon

So many people, and yet galleries can only hold 9 pictures at the time.

Travel

Hong Kong Pt. II: Videogame stores

One of the most fun things I did in Hong Kong was roaming around and visiting some local videogame stores.

Travel Featured

Hong Kong Pt. I: Travel & Photography

Holy shit, Hong Kong! Let’s talk about Hong Kong! What a crazy place Hong Kong, I think I need to live in Hong Kong!

Music

Unthinking Majority, Uneducated Democracy

Serj Tankian is by far one of my favorite artists in rock music. His funny nasal voice is clearly love it or hate it (he really makes weeeeird voices while singing); in my case I totally love it. Lead singer of System of a Down, he went on a solo

Travel

Touring around Europe, pt. I

In the past two months, I’ve been traveling quite a lot. From time to time I use this blog as a sort of diary, so I think it’s time to write something about the places I’ve recently visited. I traveled around because I found myself in the

Deactivating my Facebook account

Facebook sucks. Facebook sucks. Facebook sucks. Facebook sucks. Facebook sucks. Facebook sucks. Facebook sucks. Facebook sucks.

Music

Scegli Me - Lei Disse

Sometimes music is the key to escaping some tough times. Unconditional love for Verdena.

Music

My favorite Eurovision 2016 tweets

Eurovision is stupid and the internet unites to create the most amusing memes.

Thoughts

The long silence

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Food

Changing lifestyle and petting cows

Some thoughts on transitioning to a vegan diet. How it worked for me and how I currently feel about it.

Products

Small all-in-one printers exist!

I can't believe I found an all-in-one printer that doesn't suck. I can finally print everything I want. So much power!

Game Design

The Witness: my (short) review

That's it.

Game Development Featured

Steam Greenlight: how I got Memoir En Code greenlit in 6 weeks

Some form of post-mortem on putting an art game on Steam Greenlight (generally not a great idea). Graphs, data and lots of information.

Game Design

Firewatch: is a game as good as its dialogues?

Last week I bought Firewatch and yesterday I finally finished it. The technical issues on the PS4 release kinda ruined it a bit for me. Some thoughts.

Music

Los Padres are my new jam

Some friends of mine made some very good music, so here I am, sharing this music with you.

Game Development

My gamejam history [Part 1: how it all started]

I thought it would be cool to write something about "how it all started". From my small room in Sicily, making horrible prototypes with a bunch of other devs on the other side of the planet.