Why We Write
Brandon Carbaugh
The Black List invited past lab writers to submit to their Substack “Why We Write” series, so I decided to talk about my brother and some recent life events.
Brandon Carbaugh
Protecting the Play
Here are two facts I believe to be axiomatically true about striving to make great games within the studio system: The money wants to protect itself, and thus wants a…
What’s Baking
Howdy! I’m Brandon. This is my old wordpress site, which I’ve maintained since about 2012 or so, when I briefly dabbled in self-publishing. I don’t write much here nowadays, so…
I’m Still Here
A pointless mundane update that I'm only adding because it's been three years since I updated my website and the place is starting to smell.
Designing for Mindplay
In this post, I discuss some of the design ideas that went into my latest game, "Pumpkin.jpg", and explore a particular sort of game I find interesting: those where large…
How to Make a Media-Rich Twine Game and Package it for Embedding on Itch.io
Want to learn how to use Twine to make a big pretty HTML5 game? Check this out.
NEW GAAAAMMMEEE
My new game, “Pumpkin.jpg”, is OUT NOW and free to play on itch.io! It’s a short h̶o̶r̶r̶o̶r̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶e̶ TRAINING EXERCISE about the a̶c̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶i̶r̶e̶ ̶f̶i̶r̶e̶ EXCITING FUTURE of facial recognition…
The Wish
What happens when you accidentally summon a wish-demon but he’s weirdly hot and the two of you kind of hit it off? This 6-page comic written by me and illustrated…
Star Fox Movie Poster
I commissioned a movie poster by the amazing Jessica McGinnis (@jaykittens) for the Star Fox script I wrote in December! It came out SO GOOD!!! You can read the script…
Star Fox, Spider-People, and the Power of Smashing Scenes
This December, I saw Into the Spider-Verse, twice. It’s an incredible film, one of the best animated movies I’ve ever seen, and definitely one of the most narratively dense. Like,…