Tag: TYIVGB

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This Year In Video Game Blogging 2017 – Post-Mortem

This Year In Video Game Blogging 2017. I have done so many of these post-mortems it’s getting to the point I feel like I may just be repeating myself. Yet, at the same time, I can’t help but look back at the project this year and think of how far I’ve come over the past 8 years. Eight years. Damn. A lot has changed over that time. I was still in college when I started doing this. In 2010, I had an idea. Critical Distance does roundups for the best criticism featured during the week. | more

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This Year In Video Game Blogging 2016 – Post-Mortem

Has it really been seven years of me doing This Year In Video Game Blogging. Good lord. I hate myself for doing this. Without a doubt, every time I do this project, I hate myself and promise myself outrageous things like, “I’m never doing it again.” It’s painful, exhausting and I usually end up miserable for the entire duration of December. Skipping both birthday and Christmas in my efforts to get this shit done. But, before we go any further, I must link the methodology post for how we do the year end roundup. | more

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This Year In Video Game Blogging 2015 – Post-Mortem

January 7, 2016 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Critical Distance, End of Year, TYIVGB Year six of This Year In Video Game Blogging. There is a point every year in the December where I end up shouting at myself for having the stupid idea of doing the Critical Distance end of the year projects. This year was no different. While I didn’t break into tears this time, I was in no less full-on panic mode by the end. | more

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This Year In Video Game Blogging 2014 – Post-Mortem

December 30, 2014 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Critical Distance, End of Year, TYIVGB This is my fifth This Year In Video Game Blogging feature. That means I have been a part of Critical Distance for over 5 years. That still hasn’t quite sunk in. I wrote up the methodology for how the TYIVGB feature gets done at the beginning of the month, but I figured I’d still do a post-mortem talking about how it actually went down. | more

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TYIVGB Methodology

December 9, 2014 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Critical Distance, TYIVGB We have posted our methodology on how I do the This Year In Video Game Blogging feature over at Critical Distance. The last few years I have always done a ‘how I did it’ post here and after the fact. Transparency has always been a bit of a problem for us. Not because we aren’t transparent, but because no one ever seems to pay attention when we’re announcing how we do things. | more

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TYIVGB 2013: An Examination of Methodology and the Nature of Curation

January 6, 2014 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Critical Distance, TYIVGB This is the fourth annual This Year In Video Game Blogging and I think I’ve finally gotten the hang of such an endeavor. I have a few things to say about this end of year roundup and a few things about Critical Distance as a whole. They are divided into sections. Normally, I wouldn’t go to such extreme and just do a quick linking post with an interesting anecdote or two about its creation, but I feel there is more that needs to be said. | more