Archives

2025

30 Nov The Advent of Code
09 Jun Psycho Killer...48 Years Later
02 Jun The Rehearsal is incredible
01 Jun Now: June 2025
31 May Soft-Publishing Fiction
29 May Getting Home
27 May Dublin Airport Actually Has Nice Coffee Now
26 May On Foot
13 Apr The Time Torch and the Slap
17 Mar Trailer for The Seance at Blake Manor

2024

16 Aug Building and deploying from GitLab
03 Jun Writing interactive fiction!
02 Jun Reading (and loving) Cory Doctorow's writing.
01 Jun Deploying from GitLab (and so can you)
28 Apr Working on something new!
05 Feb Building and deploying from the command line!

2023

27 Oct Recapping October 2023
03 Sep Deploying builds to Steam Deck
26 Aug Playing Baldur's Gate III
26 Aug Slurping up screenshots from my Steam Deck
27 Jul Reading The Apple II Age
26 Jul Playing games!
24 Jul Playing Star Trek: Resurgence
24 Jul Trying out Wordpress (again)

2019

10 Feb The one with the tiny human (and six month's worth of news 😅)

2018

23 Jul In the eye of the (fun!) hurricane
23 Mar The (mostly) food edition
17 Feb The one where Ben and Nathalie find a home, watch sunsets, eat pastries

2017

13 Nov FAQ Me, I'm Leaving The Country!

2016

10 Jan The Day Grandad Snozbot Exploded

2015

07 Dec Mayor Mayhem
05 Dec Brave Tank
27 Nov Cooking with Cthulhu
20 Nov The Call of Snozbot
13 Nov Badass Fishing
10 Feb Review – The Wolf Among Us
05 Feb Review – Super Time Force
05 Feb Review – Lego Marvel Super Heroes Universe in Peril

2014

07 Dec Zip and The Misty Mountain
30 Nov My Library
24 Sep Review – Watch Dogs
24 Sep Review – Civilization Revolution 2
23 Sep Review – Threes
22 Sep Review – Goat Simulator
19 Sep Review – Thomas Was Alone
18 Sep My 30 at 30
17 Sep Review – Broken Age
16 Sep Review – République
15 Sep Review – Kentucky Route Zero
14 Sep Early Impressions: Space Engineers
02 Sep Spaaace Faaarm!
01 Sep #GamerGate
23 Aug Call to action: Scandal and Excess
19 Aug Review – The New Steam
24 Jul Steam Library
09 Jun A lady nerd's first E3
21 May Review – Duet
20 May Super Time Force
19 May Review – Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
14 May Review – Monument Valley
12 May Review – FTL: Advanced Edition
07 May Review - Trials Fusion
05 May Review - Child of Light
30 Apr Insider Magazine
25 Apr DX:HR – DC available on Mac!
16 Apr Luton Game Jam – Getting There
11 Apr Luton Game Jam
05 Apr A Week of Updates
19 Feb Sexism and feminism in gaming
18 Feb Holy shit - Irrational Games is winding down
28 Jan Playing Around with Steam In-Home Streaming
25 Jan Steal Real Money
15 Jan Semi-Pro Tip: Mouse-spin in Parallels
13 Jan Museum of Simulation Technology
09 Jan Dev Timelapse "One Take"
08 Jan The Steam Machines are coming
06 Jan My god, it's full of games!
04 Jan Washington Post interviews Gabe Newell
03 Jan Steve Jobs on gaming
02 Jan Amazing FTL Concept Art
01 Jan Disappointment Keeper, more like

2013

31 Dec Design Document Sample
30 Dec Live-Action Minecraft
27 Dec Christmaaas!
19 Dec Is Half Life 3 Out Yet?
17 Dec Dictator's debut gig
10 Dec Testing in Dublin
09 Dec Openings
05 Dec Being the human in the room
29 Nov Creating a Developer Console in Twine
29 Nov Yahtzee done made a game
28 Nov Why cloud saving matters
27 Nov Thanksgiving Steam Sale
27 Nov Designing a Puzzle
25 Nov Added: I Try My Best
25 Nov Dublin Twine & Jam
24 Nov I Try My Best
21 Nov We Are The Champions!
16 Nov Installed Steam Games - Saturday 16th November 2013
12 Nov FTL: Faster Than Light is *breathe, breathe* coming to iPad!
12 Nov The Humble Store is now a thing. Goodbye, money.
11 Nov Want to play a PS4? Next week? For free?
11 Nov Recommend: Device 6
29 Oct CandyBox 2 & Cookie Clicker
21 Oct I Love iOS Gaming
18 Oct Opening Sequences
17 Oct People Management in film and games
16 Oct Jason Rohrer, on v19 of The Castle Doctrine
16 Oct New Build: Platformer V01
15 Oct Streaming, Remote Management & Steam OS Settings
14 Oct I Love That New Game Smell
11 Oct The Steam Controller in action
10 Oct XCOM: Enemy Unknown just got even better
08 Oct Links on Level-Building
08 Oct John Carmack
07 Oct Currently Loving: Dungeon Keeper
05 Oct Manual saving coming to Shadowrun Returns
03 Oct Recommended: Candy Box
02 Oct Updated About Me & Added Games Section
02 Oct Worth a Watch: Eve or Bust
01 Oct Minecraft and South Park: Together at last
26 Sep Steam OS: The Big Debate
26 Sep Rescue Mission: 80s Montage Interlude
25 Sep You did it again, Valve: Steam OS
24 Sep Gamejam 1.0 – III
23 Sep Rescue Mission: FFS
09 Sep Gamejam 1.0 – II
08 Sep A glimpse into artificial intelligence
08 Sep Peter Molyneux, on Godus
07 Sep Not Getting Things Done: Prison Architect
06 Sep Update: BioShock Infinite available for Mac
04 Sep Peter Molyneux
03 Sep New Tex Murphy game coming to PC & Mac next year
30 Aug Recommend: A Life Well Wasted
30 Aug (Better) 2D coming to Unity 3D
29 Aug Book and movie adaptation done right
29 Aug Shelter, the game (no, really)
29 Aug Added Jason Rohrer's development blog
28 Aug Rescue Mission: The Journey Home
27 Aug Gamejam 1.0 – I
26 Aug Rescue Mission: Build Me A Rocketship
24 Aug EEeek!
23 Aug Feast Friday: Tilt-shift Minecraft
20 Aug Harvey Smith
19 Aug Rescue Mission: Initial Sit Rep
19 Aug Growing as a gamer and letting go of the hate
19 Aug Yikes! Life-sized version of Jack
18 Aug Warren Spector
16 Aug Feast Friday: Other Places
13 Aug Recommended: The Besties!
11 Aug Cave Johnson
10 Aug John Carmack's QuakeCon 2013 Keynote
09 Aug Warren Spector
09 Aug I Love it! 8-Bit Brilliance
28 Jul This Week: Civ V: Gods & Kings and KSP
28 Jun Barry's Bespoke Bakery available on the RTÉ Player
23 May Choice is Changing
18 Apr Shortlisted!
08 Mar The Castle Doctrine
24 Feb Things I Learned From Joss Whedon
22 Feb The Festivals Thing
21 Feb Belfast Film Festival
20 Feb San Francisco Irish Film Festival
19 Feb BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
18 Feb Chicago Irish Film Festival
11 Feb 99% Invisible
08 Feb Minecraft Map
04 Feb Fable: The Journey
04 Feb PS Vita
04 Feb My Gear
03 Feb Borg vs. Starfleet
03 Feb Block Breaking
01 Feb Block Breaker
11 Jan Film Shots

2012

17 Sep Temple Bar Photowalk
13 Sep Performance at The Picnic
13 Sep Out and About at Electric Picnic 2012
27 Aug Ballymaloe Cookery School
17 Aug An Unseasonably Warm Day in Dublin
17 Aug Indian Sculpture Park Pt. II
07 Aug Actors
07 Aug The 2012 Street Performance World Championships
07 Aug Myles Manley and The Little People
07 Aug Magpies
25 Jul Indian Statue Garden
15 Jul San Diego Air and Space Museum
15 Jul Textures
14 Jul Santa Barbara
13 Jul Grand Social Market
12 Jul Paso Robles
11 Jul Big Sur
10 Jul Merrion Square
09 Jul The Grand Canyon
02 Jul The Agency
25 Mar The Keys
22 Feb JDIFF 2012
29 Jan Cupertino
28 Jan San Francisco
25 Jan San Diego
18 Jan Pacific Coast
15 Jan Treebones

2011