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How A Job At Jack In The Box Trained Madeline Cash To Write Fiction

Madeline Cash's Lost Lambs uses ad-copy discipline, pun-based constraints, and mapped geography to structure a tense, constraint-driven family novel.

Video games

fromGameSpot

3 weeks ago

AAA Games' Future "Lies In Smaller Teams," Says AC Unity Director

Smaller, autonomous development teams with imposed constraints produce higher-quality AAA game features than simply adding more people to large teams.

Video games

fromGameSpot

1 month ago

Expedition 33 Studio Won't Scale Up For Next Project, Even Though It Can

Sandfall Interactive will keep a small, creative-focused team and avoid scaling up despite Expedition 33's commercial and critical success, prioritizing game-making over management.

fromItsnicethat

4 months ago

Pencil Magazine reconnects us to the tactility of the humble pencil

13 years later, we have two issues of Pencil Magazine, a hybrid text-image publication that includes drawings, comics, essays, poems, diagrams, and other experiments - all created with graphite pencils. Inspired by her teenage phase of drawing still lifes in graphite, the first issue of the mag took form of a tribute to that younger self. "Over time, the project has come to represent more than just graphite; it's a kind of resistance to the fragmented attention of digital media."

Graphic design

fromMedium

5 months ago

Why designing terrible solutions makes you a better designer

Here's a nutty idea: designing terrible solutions makes you a better designer. I know that sounds backwards. Designer portfolios share only the most pristine of examples. And we're taught about efficiency and time savings. Best practices tell us to move fast, fail fast, and get to good solutions quickly. So why waste your time thinking about the worst possible option?

UX design

JavaScript

fromVulture

1 year ago

What Is a Bottle Episode?

A bottle episode is defined as a TV episode set in a single location with limited characters and budget.