Hi, I'm Celia Wagar, I'm a game designer, I teach people to design games, and I write about game design on my blog Critpoints.net. I also host an active server for people to discuss hardcore video games and their design here: discord.gg/EfPY4r9

Ren Fair ‘26

I'm out to cause trouble...

she was murdered. I knew it. I fucking knew it. someone murdered that girl they found in Houston. she was murdered by a fucking transmisogynist male. I feel like the walls keep closing in on everyone

There’s a part in the book White Noise where the characters talk about losing their identity once they’ve aged out of being the primary demo for advertisements and marketing.I think about that every time I see nostalgia porn videos because they’re always just ads for old products

Why is this so controversial? It’s true. Okay so let’s assume this is hours of quality work.. because 8 hours of unfocused isn’t the same as focused. Quality hours matter. And they need to be high. Even 10 years ago less than 3% of games art graduates would find work in the games industry. There are simply not enough jobs, and universities are churning out graduates. Most are completely unprepared because they think the degree will entitle them to a job. It doesn’t. Nobody cares about your degree. Only what you can do. You should spend that time utterly devoted to your craft. If you do not have drive to succeed, if you do not want to succeed with your entire heart and soul, you will probably fail. Is it fair? Is anything fair? Are we entitled to anything? No. We can only work our hardest for the things we want and hope it works out. Take a chance on yourself, maximise opportunity by working as hard as you can and being open to the varying avenues for success. If you’re a student and you’re worried about burning out, crunching or having to overwork yourself then your mindset is wrong. Because you’re competing with the guy who puts in the time because they don’t see it as work.

They're teaching us the importance of enthusiastic consent

Mmm…mmm… Mm! Oh-hoh! Forgive me.. I was absorbed in thought.

Their ideal vision of womanhood is as a gated community constantly policed and surveilled by violent men. They're basically mob wives

This was not true for most of modern history and our time period is exceedingly weird for treating it as normal

I just updated this to include citations from The Privilege of Play. I originally intended to cite it after reading exerpts online, but I couldn't find the book when it came time to write the article. I bought a copy of it in the GDC store when I was there critpoints.net/2025/12/14/ag…

Holy shit, new age of accessibility to doujin fighters

this is always one of the most baffling statements transphobes make. my estrogen prog costs me a total of $15 monthly, but my anti-inflammation meds for my ulcerative colitis costs like $25 monthly. why is one worse than the other lol

Why do gamers want photorealistic fruit tucked away in a corner of the environment like I do not understand

Had this one girl come to an orgy we hosted like last week, she was cool and all very nice and a fun time, we invite her back for a foursome and this bitch is quoting Jordan peterson at me in my dining room 5 mins after arriving trying to convince me depression is an illusion.

This has to actually fucking suck to be a woke iranian guy and finally move to a western country but then the first person you meet is a TERF

Susie Deltarune #deltarune

TLDR: a man was shouting slurs at her outside of her place of work, assaulterd her by shoving her down to the ground in a crosswalk, at which point she drew her gun (finger NOT on the trigger), and now she's facing up to 15 years. For defending herself.

deadlock graves

I expanded Ziad's list a little and changed some terms. I might do an article explaining my rationale. Positive = Has influenced people to make better games IMO Negative = Most implementations are bad, probably a bad idea Mixed = Both.