Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: Paul Graham On The Rhythm Of Writing
“When writing sounds good, it’s mostly because it has good rhythm. But the rhythm of good writing is not the rhythm of music, or the meter of verse. It’s not so regular. If it were, it wouldn’t be good, because the rhythm of good writing has to match the ideas in it, and ideas have… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jordan Mechner’s “The Making of Prince of Persia” (2011)
“I’m having trouble preserving that fluidity and realism when I clean it up and stylize the figures” (33). “The unlimited potential has been replaced by the concretereality of what I programmed today” (103). “Level design is a creative process, like screenwriting: you can’t just sit down and put in ten hours at a stretch, you… Continue reading
