I am a big Game Jam Doer - in the early 2010s I believe I once did eight in one year. I've fallen off pretty hard over the last few years - game jams eat a weekend, and I'm gaining more and more weekend responsibilities that make it hard for me to spend three days in a row desperately making a game.| Laura Michet's Blog
Please read this blog post about being an AI hater.| Laura Michet's Blog
I have been iNaturalist-posting a lot lately. Here's another iNat link: check out Shel Kahn's post about reaching 1000 observations on iNaturalist!| Laura Michet's Blog
I strongly remember, several times in my childhood, playing a videogame and thinking, "wow, this looks just like reality. This is as good as games visuals are going to get!"| Laura Michet's Blog
This weekend, I linked to a good blog post about how to download everything that matters to you. Here are a couple tools I, personally, use which can add to that:| Laura Michet's Blog
if you love it, download it- erysdren| Laura Michet's Blog
In 2024 I tried to watch more movies from outside the US than inside it. I just realized that in the holiday rush, I'd never checked to see whether I actually succeeded.| Laura Michet's Blog
A few weeks ago I somehow found myself at a press event for Blippo+, a game about a weird FMV TV channel which is already out on Playdate but will soon be out on Steam.| Laura Michet's Blog
I attended Ciclavia in Culver City and Venice this past weekend! Ciclavia is an open streets event in LA modeled after Ciclovia, the long-running open streets event in Bogotá. The event is officially styled "CicLAvia", for Los Angeles, and it's a bit less expansive than Bogota's program... but still extremely highly attended! Whenever you go to one of these events, you can tell that LA is hungry for open streets events, and if they threw more of these, people would definitely participate.| Laura Michet's Blog
This website takes iNatural...| Laura Michet's Blog
I have posted a tiny amount here bef...| Laura Michet's Blog
The King is Watching did gangbusters during the same Steam Next Fest that Skin Deep ...| Laura Michet's Blog
There is apparently a thing people do where they blog every day in Augus...| Laura Michet's Blog
I haven't yet written about the whole Collective Shout/Visa/Mastercard adult art censorship thing currently roiling Games World but: it's fucking stupid you ...| Laura Michet's Blog
I set up my Plex server again this week. I use it primarily to access video inside my own apartment... but this time I set it up with my music too, which has...| Laura Michet's Blog
When we heard that there was a bike exhibit at the MSI, of course we had to hunt it down. When I got there, I realized that I could photograph and list out e...| Laura Michet's Blog
Last October, I visited Chicago and stopped at the American Writers Museum, a small museum which seems oriented mostly at school groups. It focuses less on a...| Laura Michet's Blog
My Google Photos account has maybe 20 years of my photography in it. Its "similar photos" feature will sometimes surface pictures which I've taken across the...| Laura Michet's Blog
I have always believed for some reason that everyone around me knows more than I do about "cool kid shit." It turns out that most of the people I know actual...| Laura Michet's Blog
For many years, I've off-and-on enjoyed a certain glorious benefit that some people in games writing can only dream of: I've been working on teams that don't...| Laura Michet's Blog
I have a new Music Playing Device coming to my house in a month or so, so I've been taking some time to organize my music collection and combine it with my h...| Laura Michet's Blog
This one took off during the same Next Fest that Skin Deep appeared in earlier this year, then launched in Early Access around a month ago. It's an autobattl...| Laura Michet's Blog
Here's a dumb story. When I was in high school, my friends and I had a game we used to play at the mall: we would go into the Apple store and try to make it ...| Laura Michet's Blog
The earliest roguelike I ever played was Cavern Crawl, a roguelike inside my babysitter's Kyocera 2000-series cell phone. I had babysitters much longer th...| Laura Michet's Blog
On vacation, we watched three different adaptations of a thriller novel from 1946: ...| Laura Michet's Blog
I spent the last two days of my vacation at my desk making vertical short-form videos about Skin Deep, so that we could upload them to a Popular Short Form V...| Laura Michet's Blog
Here's my favorite pictures I took of bicycles in New Orleans. This bike was parked outside the cathedral several days in a row. It is a PT Cruiser-themed...| Laura Michet's Blog
As you read this I am in New Orleans, but I pre-wrote this post reminiscing about the Center for Wooden Boats, a boat museum I visited in 2022 on a vacation ...| Laura Michet's Blog