Publications

May, 2026

Horizon: Zero Dawn is Guerrilla Games’s second major title. Their first was Killzone, a first-person shooter in a nuclear war zone. It’s a violent, post-apocalyptic game. The world it takes place in is fairly modern, and it’s very dark and monotone.

In Horizon, they wanted something new. They wanted something bright and colorful, something very green. They wanted to create interesting, futuristic robots. One of their initial concepts was a female huntress in an overgrown, robot-filled world. They started creating prototypes of mechanics for this game in their old Killzone engine.

April, 2025

Are you an American who’s traveling to Europe soon? Have you finally decided to flee the country? Do you want the locals not to know you’re an American? Fear not, we know exactly how you can blend in! I present to you: 10 ways to pretend to be a local while traveling abroad to Europe!

November, 2024

WARNING: This review WILL contain spoilers for the film, The Wild Robot, and the book series it is based on. 

My mom worked as a children’s librarian for several years. During this time, a new bestselling chapter book was released, The Wild Robot. The main character is Roz, a helpful robot who washed up alone on an island after the cargo ship bringing her to her new job sank at sea. She struggles to adapt, and in a freak accident, kills a small family of geese, leaving only one egg intact. Upon hatching, the gosling imprints on Roz and she decides to raise him as her own.