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This article is not a review of Doki Doki Literature Club!, a visual novel/dating sim by Team Salvato. It is not a review, because I did not complete the game, and really have no right to call this article

So, a funny thing happened on the way to publishing The City and the Dungeon. The cover to the audiobook version I never expected to make. Success happened. Where has Matthew P. Schmidt been? Caught between

As of November 17th, my Kindle Scout campaign for The City and the Dungeon has ended. Kindle Scout, for the unaware, is Amazon's traditional publishing submissions process. You try to get nominations for

tl;dr: vote here for my book, get a free copy if it wins. Yesteryear I wrote a book, The City and the Dungeon. This year I'm submitting it to Amazon's trad publishing arm, Kindle Scout. Basically, one

I’m in an anthology! Go buy it! …OK, you want more information. Fine. Here's the official blurb: It is said that King Arthur will return in Britain’s hour of greatest need. That time is coming. Four travelers,

Previously, I said I would defend a topic even MORE unpopular than the eternal deprivation of human souls from seeing their all-good Creator. That time is now; that article is this. I am going to defend,

As some of you might be able to tell, I'm a writer. Here's some stuff elsewhere: Prince Anak the Immortal My first novella: A hard science fiction young adult Catholic novella. Now that's a mouthful! A

Hell is, to say it mildly, an unpopular doctrine. Who wants to believe that some are deprived forever of the sight of God and are tormented for all eternity with pains greater than any Earthly woe? More

I have never seen a psych ward depicted accurately in fiction. I have the experience to say so, because a few years ago, after a suicide attempt, I signed myself into a psych ward. About a year later,

This guide is much more technical than my last article in the series. However, I've found it hard enough to get into Ethereum development that I want to at least show how I do it. My main project is The

There is a certain bad argument for the legalization of alcohol/tobacco/drugs/abortion/prostitution/gambling/guns/etc that goes like this: Sure, X isn't the best thing in the universe. But really, banning

Graffiti is in some way an expression of the will of the street. Or the ideas, at least, of the population of those willing to commit minor misdemeanors to express said ideas. Including this one. Somehow,

Writing Bipolar (from a Bipolar Writer) I have been, from the age of twelve, been bipolar. It was only recently that what we thought was depression was diagnosed as Bipolar II, but I have for the majority

I'll preface this by saying I haven't spend nearly as much time on Ethereum based games as I have on other kinds. But my involvement with Ethereum from the beginning (and I have been involved since before

There is a common myth that the question, "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" was some critical if pointless point of contention between theologians. In truth, there was no mention

Previously (Part One, Part Two), I've been talking about making games for older kids--middle schoolers, to be specific. More recently, we've dived into making games for little kids--first grade, kindergarten,

My mom and I have made countless games over the years, and hundreds of review lists. The JS coding is nearly entirely by me, and I've learned a massive amount over the years. While my previous article

Once upon a time long ago, my mother, a middle school teacher, received twenty new laptops for her class. (They were brand new and ran Windows Vista, to give you an example of how long ago it was.)

I am, as the title suggests, Matthew P. Schmidt: papist, writer, and programmer. (I do plenty of other things, too, of course, such as breath, play video games, and write long parenthetical remarks (sometimes