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Laura Michet's Blog

I've worked in the games industry for over 15 years and have posts about game development and narrative design stretching back to 2013. My blog is a general-purpose blog, but the RSS feed provided here contains all the games-specific posts only. These include postmortems, recommendations, posts about development best practices, and more.

  • Created by Laura Michet
  • Located in United States
  • February 2013
  • Free
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August 13, 2026

I sat down and plowed through Knytt Classic in a single sitting. While I was doing it, I had a lot of thoughts about why this game was so influential to me and others, and what it was like to be "in" the "scene" of indie game enjoyers who were talking about this game, and others like it, in the…

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August 12, 2026

It's hard to overstate how important Nifflas was to "the indie games scene" when I first got involved in indie games. Back then, Steam barely existed, and most PC indies weren't releasing on it. "Indie games" were, to me, free web games - mostly flash games, and mostly on sites like Newgrounds. I…

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August 10, 2026

I've played several hours of Big Walk by now. It's a multiplayer puzzle game where you look like this: And solve puzzles in buildings that look like this: In a much more "realistic" forest environment that looks like this: That contrast between the game's bright and toylike tools, structures, and…

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