The Danny Wave blog

Off stream.
Still thinking.

Games, music, making things, and everything that follows me away from the screen.

Articles 23

A yellow convertible taxi flies above a steep coastal street in bright sunshine.
4 min read

Crazy Taxi figured out the hard part first

The arrow in Crazy Taxi never gave you directions. It just pointed toward where your fare wanted to go and let you work out the rest, whether that meant...

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Conceptual Arc Raiders fan art. a scavenger pauses over spare parts while bags wait for another run.
5 min read

Arc Raiders is gorgeous. I still don’t know what I’m playing for.

Somewhere around my fifth session of Arc Raiders, I was standing in the Workshop in Speranza, crafting the same kind of gun I’d lost the night before,...

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A paper tally card hangs from a blank monitor above a purple-lit streaming desk with a microphone and empty chair.
6 min read

Support other streamers, then stop keeping score

Ask anyone how to grow a small stream right now and you’ll hear the same advice. Go support other creators. Spend time in their chats, raid them at the...

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A blank monitor lights a designer’s desk covered with sketches and a game controller.
5 min read

AI took my clients. I’m still not cancelling Fortnite Crew.

I’ve been a freelance designer my whole career, and for most of it, losing a client was never a big deal. Ten years ago, if a client walked, I’d have...

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Conceptual Arc Raiders fan art. scavengers plan a shared attack on a huge industrial machine.
3 min read

Arc Raiders should give PvE a proper endgame

Arc Raiders players completed more than 30 million PvE rounds in a single week in October, and then the option was gone. Embark Studios ended the test...

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A single golden token glows inside an open wooden chest on a tropical beach at dusk.