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Author: Jay Castello

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A screenshot from Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth has a group of people, including a detective gathered together in a ransacked office.

Nooks and Crannies

By Jay Castello • January 13th, 2026

Ace Attorney Investigations’ spaces feel like spaces made for people. Everybody’s here trying to work out what happened, and you’re just one part of that puzzle.

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A screenshot from Pokémon Legends: Z-A shows the skyline of the city of Lumiose.

Habitat Fragmentation

By Jay Castello • December 11th, 2025

Pokémon and people do not live in harmony in Lumiose.

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A screenshot from Herdling shows herders and herd traversing a mountain slope, even taller peaks rising tall in the distance.

Forward to Where?

By Jay Castello • November 7th, 2025

If Herdling wants to make a point about humans being an integral part of the ecosystem, it needs both humans and ecosystems.

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A screenshot from Peak shows several characters running towards a massive desert mountain.

Take My Hand

By Jay Castello • August 12th, 2025

Peak begins with a plane crash. This is approximately how things feel in general.

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Key art from Citizen Sleeper 2 shows and android figure floating alongside a black cat in a yellow void.

Leaving, Staying

By Jay Castello • July 4th, 2025

Leaving the Eye is almost impossible. You’re just going to have to make the most of it.

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A screenshot from Split Fiction shows Mio and Zoe clad in medieval garb, very confused about the baby dragons on their shoulders.

Space Without Story

By Jay Castello • June 6th, 2025

Messing around in a space with a good buddy is hardwired into the human brain and it doesn’t matter whether or not that space is digital.

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A stock photo of an oil barrel painted a bright red.

Ka-Boom

By Jay Castello • April 15th, 2025

I truly, genuinely, do not think I have ever been as frustrated with a videogame in my life.

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A photograph of a lush landscape in Argentina features a stunningly massive waterfall emptying into a large lagoon flanked by green trees.

Worldbuilding

By Jay Castello • March 11th, 2025

I’m building worlds in my brain and I’m being in worlds in real life.

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A screenshot from Chants of Sennaar shows a lone figure standing on a tower balcony overlooking a vast desert landscape.

Language Roots

By Jay Castello • February 11th, 2025

Chants of Sennaar’s world is pieced together from bits of ours that make our understanding of it slot together piece by piece.

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Students mill about in droves and crisp blue blazers in a grand hall at Durham University.

The Local Horror of Dark Academia

By Jay Castello • November 13th, 2024

Babel is one of the books most keen to explore the dark part of dark academia; the power behind it, not just the hue of an 18th century wood-panel library.

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