“Do you have any advice for blogging about game art? For example, would it be a good idea for me to make posts for recent pieces I’ve completed and/or works in progress, or should those just be added to my portfolio?”

I would do both.

“As for chronicling design, are step-by-step/detailed accounts or occasional updates about the development process better?”

For a student blog, I’d say the more detail the better. If it can verge on being a tutorial and demonstrate your thought process, that’s going to be a huge leg up in terms of a potential employer looking at your blog.

I find a good rule of thumb with publishing criticism is “would you say this to the developer’s face?”

If you would tell someone “your game was full of bugs that made me give up before I finished, and the third level was painfully badly designed.” then go ahead and write that.

http://alexmaw.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/dc-universe-online-resuming-shit-giving/

It’s a bit of a recurring issue for me, I tend to think things over too long and end up feeling what I have is too long or it’s been too long since whatever I’m talking about occurs. I must try to just put things out there, and make corrections and additions later, I guess.

Do you have any advice for blogging about game art? For example, would it be a good idea for me to make posts for recent pieces I’ve completed and/or works in progress, or should those just be added to my portfolio?

As for chronicling design, are step-by-step/detailed accounts or occasional updates about the development process better? I was planning on writing about my first attempt at making a full Flash game using flixel, but I wasn’t sure how to blog about it (if I should post about the initial game design and concept [art] or just progress updates).

I’ll definitely spread this around to the other IMGD majors at WPI. :)