On Blogging Again

Oh good, here we go again.

Edinburgh Castle from the Mound, 30/07/2016
Edinburgh Castle from the Mound, 30/07/2016

I’ve been running a site at https://hntdaab.co.uk/blog for going on 9 years at this point. Over that time, it’s changed platforms, gone through re-designs, refocused on various topics and is now a modern wargames focused blog with schedules and plannings and a trello board. It’s got a brand of itself – I think it’s really cool and I’ve had plenty of nice comments about the stuff I post on there.

The problem with having a brand is that you need to carefully chose what you post. As I found out early on, putting up off-brand stuff is a sure way of losing readers super fast. So, as the wargaming took over, I lost a place where I could write about other things. I lost the place where I wrote about getting my first industry job and then losing it 18 months later. I lost the place where I wrote about films and music and books and games and tech and airsoft and life. Sure I could use Tumblr or Twitter but it doesn’t feel quite as solid as living on my network host, being something that is backed up at a file level to my NAS box. I also like writing long form stuff.

For this reason, I’m setting up Other ChargeBlog. It’s the flip side of the coin to ChargeBlog – everything but the wargaming (mostly – you might see big wargaming news appear here). It’s got no schedule, no major topics, no adverts, no analytics – just me and my writing. There are things I can’t talk about (working for a games developer will do that) but apart from that it’s me writing what I want to.


Okay, you may have somehow found yourself on this site and not know who I am. Somehow you fell through an internet hole and found yourself here.

It’s me

Well, I’m Michael Charge. Born in the 1990’s in the North of England, did four years in Universities (Teesside and Abertay) ending up with a MProf in games development. Worked on mobile games in Brighton for 18 months, gained some funny stories and then had to go find something new. I almost ended up leaving games before being hired by certain AAA developer and moved up to Edinburgh (my favourite city) in 2016. As well as games development I also like wargames (there is a whole site for that though), studying history and warfare, tech and all the usual stuff. I’m probably not as fit as I should, the monthly airsoft having gone down as the lead started piling up to be painted. I listen to a lot different things and have about 60 podcasts lined up in PocketCasts.


Long and the short of it, lets get back to writing about everything. See you on the flipside every so often

Edinburgh Castle from Ross Fountain, 06/02/2017
Edinburgh Castle from Ross Fountain, 06/02/2017