Canvas on making your mechanics crunchy and your robots gay

Canvas (he/she), aka bighandinsky, is the creator of crunchy, narrative driven scifi games A Forgetful Loop (2020) and A Day of Maintenance (2022). He’s collaborated with fellow writers and indie devs Freya Campbell and Elliot Herriman, and joined me on this episode to chat about integrating dense narration into mechanics heavy games, writing casual and circuitous conversations with robots, and the struggle of managing energy and stress during longterm projects.

You can follow Canvas on Cohost @peterrobot, and play his games on itch.

Canvas’ Cool/Inspiring Things to Share
- Daily wordplay games Murdle and Redactcle
- How much they appreciate their partner

Things Discussed
- A Forgetful Loop
- A Day of Maintenance
- Two Peas in a Pod (bighandinsky, 2021)
- Ink by Inkle
- Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2022)

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