About

Hi!

I go by Lakespirit these days. This site is a dedicated archive of all previous game crit I've written on Backloggd, and hopefully where I'll be uploading all future game crit first. I have no academic background in game design, but have been interested in the subject - watching whatever I could find in the primordial soup of early 2010s video essays - since I was a kid. I study games while playing them, both casually and occasionally at a high level. What you'll get here is mostly a vibes-based approach to extrapolating on what I find interesting about the DNA of action games, RPG and art games, and arcade games. I also play fighting games at mid-level...

Q&A

    Are there any issues with the site you're aware of, or think we should be aware of?
    The site doesn't always update immediately - especially on mobile for some reason. This seems to be a neocities issue, and out of my control. It's a cookies/cache issue, so you can fix it by typing CTRL + F5, or opening tabs in incognito.
    Has this site really been going since your oldest articles?Nope! I began as a writer on Backloggd, and ported my entire catalog of writing from there - dating between 2021 to 2026. You will occasionally see me refer to "this site" or other meta-humour - which is of course all aimed at the logging site. Anything written after this site was created was made with this place in mind first, though.
    Where can I contact you?I'm posting on bluesky at lakespirit.bsky.social, and you can ask me there for my discord account privately if you come off as trustworthy. You can also contact my email, lakespiritdoesgamecrit@gmail.com

Credits

    My comments sections are from bsky-comments on github