the cruelest month

April fucking sucks harder than I could ever have imagined.

have not yet made peace with the falling leaves

“I don’t wanna die in the hospitalNo, I don’t wanna die in the hospitalI don’t wanna die in the hospitalYou gotta take me back outside I don’t wanna hear all those factory soundsLooking like the girl in the sleeping gownI don’t wanna die in the hospitalYou gotta take me back outside Can you make a [...]

Cross-posting the same thing on blogs that no one reads (yet) is…productive? Yes.

This year is the year that I will be (aggressively, g’damnit) publishing some of my GAMES. The web presence that I will at first be using to do so (and this may or may not make this blog obsolete, I don’t know!) is End|Transmission Games. This is exciting. Oh, you don’t see why yet. But [...]

First Of The Year (Not Even Close)

Since it’s the 6th, I didn’t quite make it. Damn procrastination. So 2011 was a very busy year, so much so that I did a lousy job of chronicling my activities here.  2012 is a new year and a fresh start. Here are some projects that I’m working on or planning on working on going into the [...]

still not dead yet

I’ve been sick (still am sick, actually) or busy or distracted or, intermittently, [SKYRIM]. Something or other for the past several months, but I just wanted to say that going into 2012 I’m really hoping that the activity level of this blog will rise and that I’ll be discussing my game design pursuits here a whole lot [...]

srs bsns

This is not, I’m sure, a strikingly original thought but sometimes I fear, genuinely fear, that the unstoppable rise of the reboot, one of my least favorite world developments of the past ten or so years, signifies the death of culture. Remakes, sequels, and prequels were bad enough, but at least the latter two could [...]

Did you know?

You can use the HERO System to stat god. damn. anything. Unfortunately, I certainly do have more important things I need to be doing…. : (

Pyre (8/6/2011|8/7/2011) [prose poem drunk dial]

While the one person I care about most is suffering more than I can imagine from a tragic loss worse than I can bring myself to contemplate, I cannot help noting that the night of august sixth two thousand and eleven (more accurately the early morning of august seventh two thousand and eleven) was the [...]

Introduction (Catching Up) & Names Not Taken

Hi, my name is Devon Oratz, and I make things. Since I’ve been unable to hold down a steady full time job since graduating from SUNY Purchase in 2008, I’ve had plenty of free time, which I’ve used to make a ton of things. The kinds of things I like to make include tabletop roleplaying [...]