Author Archives: jayholden

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Info: Love my family. And good games. I own the @BloodborneGame twitter account.

Designing a Boss Fight for D&D: Vampire Lord Abner

Vampire Lord Abner is my first D&D 5th Edition boss encounter published on DMs Guild. I draw inspiration from a variety of sources. My upcoming D&D ...

Study: Unskilled Players More Likely to Negatively Comment in the Presence of Female Players

Update: Liana K intelligently speaks on aggrieved entitlement theory and how it’s relevant to this study here. On July 15th 2015, Michael M. Kasumovic and Jeffrey ...

Former Square Enix CEO: “Final Fantasy is Finished”

On a Final Fantasy VII Remake and the Sorry State of Square Enix Almost exactly 3 years ago today, on June 26th 2012, then-Square Enix CEO ...

How to Market Dark Souls 3

Recently, one site claimed a source told them to expect a Miyazaki-directed Dark Souls 3 at E3. Then my internet exploded. Let’s not dwell on that ...

Overhype

This article has been a long time coming. It was originally supposed to be a thorough reaming of the marketing push behind Dark Souls II, ...

Volumes Without Words

Story vs System To prepare for a venture into the world of video game development, I’ve been reading articles, listening to podcasts and generally devouring information ...

Bloodborne Mini-Lore: Meaning of Yharnam [Video]

What do Yharnam, Drangleic, Lordran, and Boletaria all have in common? Their names have meaning! Find out what we can learn about Bloodborne’s theme and ...

Everything You Must Know About Final Fantasy VII

The story of Final Fantasy VII is a fairly straightforward monomyth (hero’s journey), at least at face value. Our hero Cloud Strife starts off self-centered ...

Dark Souls and Climate Change

The world is on the brink of despair. Not so long ago, we prospered in a relative paradise by exploiting what was available in nature ...

Zero Sum

Is a “game” really a game if we can’t lose? Most modern video games are a series of encounters. These encounters vary in name genre to ...