Paper Weight

Game Dev Case Study: Visual Language in Directed Exploration

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Outlast 2: Visual Language in Directed Exploration

[WARNING] Contains a gameplay image of a mutilated cow

I just had some ideas on visual language in horror game dev and they led me to analyze a section of Outlast 2, but first here is the thought I had:

In my game, the house is a playable area and it’s both pretty and useful narratively inside, while being a necessary component of the viewport from the outside – but not the focal point.

Raw Indignation

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Texans stomped steelers, I refuse to build things on windows through GUIs.

About

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Paper Weight is my technical notebook and build log.

I use it to document things I build, break, debug, deploy, and eventually understand well enough to explain. Most posts live somewhere between engineering notes, project logs, infrastructure experiments, and occasional rants.

The main subjects are:

cloud infrastructure
Linux tooling
static sites
backend and systems work
game development
personal software projects
debugging stories

The goal is not to write polished tutorials for strangers. The goal is to keep a public record of implementation details, tradeoffs, mistakes, fixes, and ideas I would otherwise forget.

Contact

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hugo: A Solutions-First Web Stack

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I spent the last week rebuilding parts of my site stack and figuring out what I actually want my workflow to look like going into the next few months.

Turns out the answer is probably:

static sites
Go binaries
cheap infrastructure
terminal-first tooling
and significantly less JavaScript than the modern internet would like me to use ( but not no javascript ;) )

Getting Going

Hugo felt opaque when I first fiddled around with a theme.

Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000