I’ve been lucky to have a few articles accepted for publication in recent years. I’ve also published a small number to a Medium blog, which I will link here also.
Print publications
- Review of Battle of Tarot card game, The Playing Card journal, vol. 52 issue 6 (Dec 2024)
- Recognising the Christian Mysticism of the Tarot, The Christian Parapsychologist (Spring 2024)
- Esoteric Tarot and A New Generation of Games, The Playing Card journal, vol. 52 issue 3 (Feb 2024)
- The Tarot Is Evil & Other Fallacies, The Cartomancer Magazine, Fall 2023
- Tarot Card Games, Tabletop Gaming Magazine, issue 80 (23rd June 2023)
Online publications
- The Challenges of Independent Non-Fiction, Writing.ie, Jan 2024
- Simon Kenny, Technical Lead and Musician, Otia Magazine, Dec 2019
- Marino Hackathon 2018: A Time Tracking System, Marino Software blog, July 2018
Medium blog
It has been over a year since I’ve written for this blog but I may write for it again.
- The Perennial Philosophy and Syndesiophilia in Christian Alchemy, March 2024
- The Joy of X: Completion and The Tarot, Dec 2023
- The Art of AI Prompt Engineering, Nov 2023
- The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, Demo Review: Sci-fi Remixed Tarot and Revenge, Aug 2023
- ChatGPT as Tarot Oracle, Feb 2023
- Why I Wrote ‘A Critical Introduction to Tarot’, Jan 2023
- TikTok’s AI death prediction trend reveals something much deeper, Sep 2022
- A Critical Introduction to Tarot: Examining the Nature of a Belief in Tarot — Summary, Sept 2022
Bandersnatch deep-dive blog
This was an anonymous blog in which I wrote a 5 part exploration of the Black Mirror interactive film Bandersnatch. I kind of method acted the main character at this time and recreated the fictional mission of creating the impossible and maddening titular game, though on Commodore 64 instead of ZX Spectrum.
Instead of reverse chronological order like all the above, this is in reading order, from top to bottom. They were written between February and April 2019.
- Unified Theory of Bandersnatch, and why I’ll finish Stephan’s game
- How to play Bandersnatch as a game, and what that means
- Congruences between Bandersnatch and other Black Mirror episodes
- Bandersnatch, clues of the game in Stefan’s flowcharts
- Bandersnatch for C64 v0.1: the story so far
Like the protagonist ‘Stefan’, my game remains unfinished, though my sanity returned to me as soon as I stopped working on it and no dad’s heads were chopped off in the making.
You can download and play the working demo of BNDRSNTCH.