The Tide Is Turning

And now for something less depressing and irritating than racism – a beautiful, inspiring song by Roger Waters. I don’t know if the tide is turning yet, but I hope it will.

The Music Holds It Together

There’s another lovely review of The Sea Will Claim Everything over at Mash Those Buttons. I was particularly happy about this part: Once the music hits you, I’m not sure how much you’ll care about the game’s setbacks any more. The music is the core of this game, the piece …

Thalassografia

The week since the release of the bundle has been full of disasters of various proportions – the cat has a bladder stone, I had a blocked salivary gland, Verena got hit by a car – but we’re all still here, and doing our best to keep being here. I’ll …

Voices, That’s All

Today was my birthday, but I spent most of it (about 12 hours) working on The Sea Will Claim Everything. Tomorrow I put in some final details, and it’s done. But to be honest at this point I am just exhausted, so here’s a beautiful and soothing song from a …

The Oath

I’m working very hard on The Sea Will Claim Everything. It’s turned out bigger, more political and more personal than I’d expected – all of which is good. A cornucopia of health problems has slowed me down, but I’m getting there. If you liked the previous Lands of Dream games …

Oh My Heart

I still haven’t really gotten over the end of R.E.M., but they chose a beautiful album to go out on. I’ll write about their music and its place in my life someday. Not today, though. Right now I need to go back to writing dialogue for the Thoughtful Lizard. A …

Beards!

I was going to post about Traitor now having its own page here on the site, but that’s boring and irrelevant. Instead, I’m posting this song about beards that made me laugh really hard. It’s by the appropriately named band The Beards, who have dedicated their lives to singing about …

Way Too Long In The Tower Of Song

I have so much to write about, but I’m overwhelmed by work and bureaucracy. I’ll try to write a good update tomorrow. For now, here’s Alistair Hulett doing a Leonard Cohen-style song to criticize Leonard Cohen for breaking the boycott of Israel. “In these days when times are rough / …

Talking about Tracy

Some things just define you; the music you listen to as a child is often one of them. For me, anyway. Maybe I was luckier than some – thanks to my parents, I was exposed to a large variety of truly great songs as a child. This wasn’t really intentional; …