And in the Game – these are all the posts with more or less exaggerated accounts of something I’ve experienced in a game. They’re probably my favourite type of post to write, but not all games encourage the form – a certain emergence or at the very least nonlinearity is required to make such posts interesting.

Game writing – all the posts where I discuss the art of writing for games, be it dialogue, plot, story, documentation, etc.

Co-op – wherein I discuss co-operative experiences, games that feature co-op, or the design of co-op gameplay.

Open world – another favourite topic of mine is open world games, mostly because I enjoy playing them, but also because the form poses some serious design challenges.

Level design – fairly self-explanatory, I should think: it’s about thoughts about or problems with level design, various ways to approach the discipline, etc.

Besides properly supporting post tags, this theme has several other advantages: it supports widgets, it makes better use of your monitor width and has two columns, it’s easy to customise, it uses Ajax for the comments, and I think it just looks more professional and sleek than the old one.

I’m not quite done with the update yet though. I’m having a hard time getting the built-in header image customisation to work – or rather, I’m having a hard time uploading my new header image with the built-in media uploader, and I can’t access the FTP at the moment – so for now I’ve just disabled the default header image. Due to my FTP issues, I also can’t replace the default background image for the comments or for the About box, and I can’t add the widgets I’ve found to re-implement my old Twitter box or my XBL gamercard. I also plan to add a few static pages (a short bio, a page on TNM, and perhaps a proper portfolio), and I’d like to get my custom fields (game, music) back on the front page.

But all that can wait of course – for now, let me know what you think of the new theme

I really ought to make a custom theme for this blog at some point, but it’s just so much work and frankly I’d rather focus on TNM. Anyway, if you notice anything wrong with the blog after the upgrade, please be so kind as to mail me about it! Or even better: Post a comment about it here

I’ll be adding my old LiveJournal posts to this blog over the weekend, but there are a lot of them, so we’ll see how far I get.