A collection of moderately useful or interesting articles for reading. Note that articles (one for now) related to Japan are stored separately on that page.
Many people have asked me about Terraria networking or have asked how to do game networking properly, from the perspective of Terraria, which does nothing correctly. Though methods have become more advanced, the basics stay the same:
Perhaps one of my favorite video game writing talks ever is Neil Duckmann's IDGA 2013 keynote (The Last of Us: Writing Honestly). In truth though, this talk is just as much about writing and gave me the vocabulary to talk about writing in a way I never had before (e.g., “Character A does not complete their arc. Character B's arc is already concluded. Character A's arc does not 'feel honest' to me.)
These are blogs or small websites from independent people who are probably less well-known, but interesting and probably worth following or at least checking out.