game design – Kaylriene

I Parsed Zero On Samurai Twice, And Other Thoughts About My First Journeys Into Savage Raiding in FFXIV

I’ve never done current-tier Savage raiding in FFXIV before Endwalker. In fact, I’d barely done current EX trials, and if I counted up the total number of… Read more “I Parsed Zero On Samurai Twice, And Other Thoughts About My First Journeys Into Savage Raiding in FFXIV”

Yesterday, Blizzard announced something that felt inevitable and yet also was a surprise – that access to double-legendaries in patch 9.2 of World of Warcraft will require… Read more “The Double-Legendary Reputation Requirement, On Weasel Words and Grind”

There’s a lot I want to write about WoW and will be writing in the coming days and weeks, but one small thing I can focus on… Read more “The Backlash to the Patch 9.2 Shards of Domination News and Why It Makes Sense”

I’ve leveled both a Black Mage and Dragoon in Endwalker, with the changes that both jobs had to their existing cores from prior Final Fantasy XIV content.… Read more “Ability Design and RPGs – The Difference of Additive and Subtractive Designs”

This one is going to be fun, I can feel it! Like with the first and previous post in this series, on New World, today I just… Read more “The MMO Uninstallation Chronicles Part 2 of 2: World of Warcraft”

This post is spoiler-free! Endwalker has officially been out just over a week, and nearly two counting early access. As I was doing in the lead-up to… Read more “Chasing Goals – My Launch Set of Final Fantasy XIV Goals For Endwalker”

Yesterday was the first day of Square-Enix’s biggest MMO launch, the 4th Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Endwalker. Going into launch day for Early Access, we already knew… Read more “The First Day of Endwalker An Almost-Entirely Spoiler-Free Discussion”

Shadowlands, the 8th expansion for World of Warcraft, launched 1 year and 1 day ago. It has been a contentious expansion, full of moments where players of… Read more ““Existing In A Shared Space” And Other Thoughts After Shadowlands Hits One Year Old”

I’ve written a couple times in the past about two divergent but related topics – wanting to make a game myself and 3D modelling and rendering as… Read more “Sidenote, Sorta: Learning To Properly 3D Render and Model Using Blender: The Beginning”

WoW is in an interesting time right now, to say the least. We all already know that, and much digital and real ink has been spilled over… Read more “Patch 9.1.5, The Investor Call Timing, and That VentureBeat Interview”