Introduction

Hello and welcome to this… this thing!

Online I go by Vulpes Valentine, and I am a writer and tabletop game designer with a deep and lifelong passion for games of all kinds. So much of my life has been spent desperate to talk about games in a thoughtful or critical manner, but I’ve never really taken the opportunity to do so all that casually or pursued it as a career. But these thoughts, these feelings, boiled under my skin until I realized I could no longer hold it back anymore.

So here I am: with a tiny little blog that I intend to fill with my writings on games (and probably other things) for people to enjoy or perhaps just to have gotten it out of my system, or to improve my writing skills.

Now, the question you must be asking yourself is: why should I care? And that’s a pretty good question. Maybe you won’t, and that’s no problem for me.

But for those of you who are interested, let me tell you about a few little specific things I’m going to do here.

For one, I’ll be regularly reviewing/writing essays about different games I’ve been playing and/or thinking about. I’ll also be doing a monthly series of essays called, “First Time Final Fantasy” in which I play the mainline Final Fantasy games in order for the very first time, because somehow I have never played them before and as someone who would consider himself a gamer this seriously throws my credentials into question. I also intend to write a semi-weekly update essay under the series title “Recency Bias”, talking in brief about things I’ve been playing lately, though it may include other media I’ve been enjoying as well, namely books and movies. These will be shorter, blurb-esque opinions and reflections on things as opposed to the normal, long-form essays.

Also, I write fiction and design games in my spare time, so I will be talking about that here as well and discussing the processes for both and providing updates on my current project.

If you like what you see here (neato!) you can check me out on Bluesky @vulpesvalentine or you can head over to my itch.io page for all the games I’ve developed.

Thanks for stopping by!