Happy April! Spring is in full bloom, and boy howdy is it already shaping up to be a busy on. Let’s jump right in! Teaching Tech Tip: Use Flipgrid to make short informational videos If you’ve followed me at all, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that I use Flipgrid a lot in my … Continue reading A Writr’s Report: April 2021
Before We Begin If you haven’t already, you’ll probably want to go ahead and read Part One of this blog series, starting here. To summarize: it has become clear that the Pokémon has flatlined in terms of creativity. Sure, we get some new gimmick each generation like Mega Pokémon or Gigantamax, but that’s never enough … Continue reading Making a Modern Pokémon Game: Part 3
Before We Begin If you haven’t already, you’ll probably want to go ahead and read Part One of this blog series, starting here. To summarize: it has become clear that the Pokémon has flatlined in terms of creativity. Sure, we get some new gimmick each generation like Mega Pokémon or Gigantamax, but that’s never enough … Continue reading Making a Modern Pokémon Game: Part 2
Introduction So the Pokémon series has gotten stale. And by stale I mean it closely resembles that piece of bread that fell under your fridge 25 years ago and you just never bothered because you didn’t think it was that big of a deal but oh god now there’s an entire colony of mold living … Continue reading Making a Modern Pokémon Game: Part 1
Those who know me know that I’m a bit of a dork. Those of you who don’t know me probably also know that I’m a dork. I mean, my current photo on this website is of me wearing a dinosaur dress-shirt with a book-laden bow-tie. Pretty sure you get the idea. As a dork, I … Continue reading Legend of Zelda: The Spirit of Adventure
For those who are unfamiliar with it (though in this day and age it’s pretty hard to be), the Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3, for short) is a week-long gala where developers show off their upcoming products to consumers. Typically there’s one big press conference for each of the big developers – Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, … Continue reading E3: All Tell and No Show
Forewarning: this is a very long post about video games. Specifically, this is a post regarding Nintendo’s recent flops with the WiiU, and taking a look at what makes this console different from the successes of the Wii. Now, with that out of the way… I think it’s safe to say that everyone agrees that the … Continue reading The Failures (and Successes) of Innovation
Jacob Ryckman 