spec.cafe

You've just walked in off the street. Good. The place is a bit of a sprawl — essays that go long, experiments that half-work, fragments left on the counter like napkin notes. Nobody's in a hurry here, and neither are you.

essay

What I love about Tiny Glade

My first impressions as a fantasy and chaos enthusiast — leaning into the procedural blending between building blocks and terraforming to create oddities and imperfections, scenes that tell a story, l

experiment

Final Fantasy IX Trivia Quiz

Five rounds of Final Fantasy IX trivia built for live Twitch streams — including a special Ragtime Mouse True/False encounter. Four choices, 60 seconds per question.

essay

Final Fantasy 20 Min Gaming Club

Busy adults. 20 minutes. Three times a week. An unexpectedly effective way to keep making progress through Final Fantasy — and any game with a side quest problem.

experiment

Blue Prince

We almost didn't play it. One run later, we couldn't stop. A field dispatch from the estate — discovered one room at a time.

fragment

A room, not a hallway

A website should be allowed to be a room you wander into, not a hallway you're marched down.