Sean Weeks

Gaming Trend — Zhenguo: The First Empire rises to become more than the sum of its parts.

Gaming Trend — An interview with (IMO) superstar designer Cole Wehrle, designer of such titles as Root, Oath, and John Company.

largeheartedboy.com — Thanks for the mention, David! This was about my work on needle drops in TV.

The Steampunk Explorer — Nice little mention of my work in Steampunk Explorer Digest. Thanks!

Trill Mag — Nice little mention in Trillmag.

weeksauthor.com — A description of who I am, my weird career trajectory, and what I value. Written to the Greek poet Sappho and styled after the writings of Petrarch, which were often addressed to Cicero.

weeksauthor.com — I have auditory-visual synesthesia - I hear music and colors in words. These are notes about that part of my work and how it affects my workflow.

weeksauthor.com — Learning to paint is how I discovered that I have auditory-visual synesthesia. Painting with my wife and the lessons I learned from running a small painting business during the pandemic.

Dicebreaker — An appeal to gamers: let games talk about sensitive issues; let them have opinions. An appeal to non-gamers: let games play; let them speak in their own language. It’s our expectations, not the games themselves, which blind us.

Paste Magazine — In an age of deletions for tax write-offs, cancellations, and cable-like bills, it's clear the original streaming promise has been broken. Original title was “On the Virtue of Libraries and the Broken Promise of Streaming.” Many readers felt like putting Netflix in the title constituted a bait-and-switch.

Gaming Trend — This editorial is intended to be a satirical response to recent comments made by Travis Worthington in an interview with Polygon's Charlie Hall about the use of AI generated art as disclosed in the new Terraforming Mars campaign.

Gaming Trend — Frostpunk: The Video Game sports a steampunk coat of paint, the stylish, often meaningless brass cogs and aviator goggles, but the real hook was "global warming in reverse."

Paste Magazine — Original scores bring out the best in our TV shows, elevating emotions, character moments, and atmosphere better than frequent needle drops.

weeksauthor.com — A follow-up to my Venture Brothers article with Paste Magazine.

Dicebreaker — "A vision of what was and the tug of what may be." Really, it's about traveling through time in less than 900 words. It's aimed at a complete novice to the hobby. This article explains the history of the American game market, the European game market, and how they converged into the international game market.

Paste Magazine — House's legacy as both an engaging medical procedural and a loose Sherlock Holmes adaptation has allowed it to withstand the test of time.

Paste Magazine — The exploration of Succession through the lens of mythology.

Dicebreaker — A genre survey of the hidden movement game disguised as a listicle.

Paste Magazine — Review of Harley Quinn V-Day special.

Paste Magazine — Actually got a thank you from the creator for this one! That will always be one of my fondest memories.

Paste Magazine — A polemic about prequels and IP mining disguised as a report card/retrospectus.

Paste Magazine — A tone piece about how Andor made the Star Wars universe feel vibrant and relatable again. This article draws on Le Carré’s masterpiece to show how a sense of humanity has infiltrated the franchise.

Paste Magazine — The dilemma of “hitting your stride” and self-improvement when you’re surrounded by alternatives.

Paste Magazine — My "breakout" article. A Reddit commenter nailed it: “The point of the article is that the fantasy worlds of the Witcher and Wheel of Time novels are also compelling because of their own unique approaches to Tolkienesque high fantasy. (I take the author's word for it, as I haven't read the books of either series.) But the showrunners are just trying to copy the Game of Thrones formula, so they've turned them into Thrones-style political thrillers populated by Witcher and Wheel of Time characters, and in the process they've lost what made those books interesting.” A working title was “The Second Fantasy Gold Rush.”