Advice on improving a game’s controls often takes the form of specific tips and tricks, such as letting you jump a few frames after falling off a ledge in a platformer, also known as “coyote time”. This type of advice is often useful but there are a few things stopping it from being a one size fits all solution: First off, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to intentionally make your game’s inputs difficult.

I was digging through my old notes recently and I stumbled upon a big list of Skullgirls balance suggestions I made to the designers back in June 2020. Most of these changes were related to Peacock, one of the main characters I played at the time. I stopped playing the game shortly after winning Evo 2021 so I have no idea whether or not any of these suggestions were implemented, and I assume none of them are relevant to the current state of the game anyway.

Hello! It’s been a year since I wrote a blog post about my goals for 2024, along with a recap of what I did in 2023. So I decided to do it again this year! It will be interesting to see how I did, but I’m going to start by talking about my year on its own terms before I compare it to the goals I originally set for myself.