the lunch table
essays
Essays on games as a cultural artefact, and on the three questions worth asking before you make anything: is it true, does it matter, who else is here. Everything is published on Substack and pulled in here; the links go there.
The Pitch and the Office
Forty-three percent of Premier League players are Black. 4.4 percent of English managers are. A fan who inherited a club looks at what sits in the gap.
Twenty games in a drawer
What a studio of one spends to get found, and the date you can check whether it worked.
Ninety People
Wordle went from ninety players to ten million in fourteen weeks. Almost nothing our industry believes about growth explains it.
The Building Box
A template for building a game around a problem you actually carry. Blank, read across somebody else’s game, then filled in on the one it came from.
The Three Questions Before The Meal
Three billion people play games. What are we asking them to sit with?