Professional Work
Gems of War
Battle your foes not just with swords and sorcery, but with a puzzle board! Match gems to power your spells, and match skulls to smite your enemies! Read more…
Video Games
Hand-to-Hand
A first-person shooter where you use your hands as weapons in “hand-to-hand” combat! Shoot with your handguns or throw them as hand grenades. But beware the mini-drones, duck turrets and handmines. Can you make your way to the end? Read more…
Project POD
Humans have deployed you on a barren planet. Your mission is to terraform the planet for your cryogenically frozen humans to live on. Collect resources, construct supporting buildings, and defend your humans against the hostile alien creatures that live below the surface. Read more…
Get the Fog Out
You’ve crash landed on a desolate planet covered in a thick, ominous fog. Repair your ship and escape before the fog destroys you. Read more…
Other Games
Singles (Custom Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards)
What happens when you’re already designing a custom archetype of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards but you just watched a YouTube video about eclipses? You make an eclipse-themed card, of course. Read more…
On Trial
A roleplaying / card game where you’re in court, but the court cases are so ridiculous that no lawyer will help you. So, you’ll just have to be your own lawyer. Read more…
Holy Bananas!
You’re a monkey racing through ancient temple ruins, searching for Holy Bananas to offer up to the Monkey God, Stanley. But other monkeys from rival groups are also searching for Holy Bananas. Collect the most Holy Bananas to make your offering to Stanley the greatest! Read more…
Fiction
An Introduction, a Dragon, and a Bell
An old knight, General Luther, has been wrongfully imprisoned by a political rival. He is not happy to be rescued at all. Why? Just the giant fire-breathing dragon waiting at the door for its next victims to come out. Read more…
The Wrong Magic
In Landeschne, the temples have decreed that all magic can only be of the gods, all else is stolen and blasphemous. King Wolfgang travels to the elven kingdom to the south in the hopes of persuading the elven king to take in his daughter, a human with elven magic. But his spiritual advisor refuses to let Wolfgang out of his sight… Read more…
True Magic, Chapter 1: Raindrops
At a special sermon, the High Priest of Temperance prohibits emotion-based magic on temple grounds. This worries Vya, especially when she comes home to find that her best friend has wandered off on her own again. Meanwhile, Riven, isolated from the rain by her ever present water magic, is targeted by bullies from her school. Read more…
Non-Fiction
Game Review: Destiny 2’s Starcrossed Exotic Mission
In week 3 of Destiny 2’s Season of the Wish, Bungie unveiled the Exotic mission Starcrossed for the exotic strand bow Wish-Keeper. For my review of this mission, I discussed the story, visuals, audio, mechanics, level design, and any bugs or issues I encountered. Read more…
The Genres of Omelas
In The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin depicts a utopia dependent on the isolation and suffering of one child. In this essay, I discussed how Omelas is utopian and dystopian fiction, argued that Omelas is fantasy, and discussed its coverage of the theme of ethics present in all three genres. Read more…
Magic: The Panacea for Gamers’ Needs
Originally devised to gather the funds to produce another game, Magic: the Gathering invented the trading card game genre. Twenty five years later, Magic is still thriving under by Wizards of the Coast, with over twenty million players and billions of cards printed. In this piece, I discussed how Magic attracts and retains players by addressing all of Barbaros Bostan’s categories of gamers’ needs. Read more…
Sam Huffer 