Casual Game: Delicious - Emily's Tea Garden

I've been working with some great guys over in Eindhoven at the GameHouse studio on a few casual game titles they wanted some writing help with. The first of these titles, Delicious - Emily's Tea Garden, has just been released over at the RealArcade site. If you enjoy playing casual games I'm sure you'll love this one, too, so be sure to take a look.

The game is actually the third in a series and I wrote the story and dialogue for this one.

Award nomination

Although it was announced on Saturday, I've only just discovered the news that I've been nominated for an award. At the Writers Guild of Great Britain Awards, no less. The nomination is in the following category:

Best Videogame Script

Rhianna Pratchett - Overlord
Tom Jubert - Penumbra Black Plague
Rhianna Pratchett, Tameem Antoniades and Andy Serkis - Heavenly Sword
Steve Ince - So Blonde


I wonder if I should dig out my penguin suit...

So Blonde press release

The following press release has just gone out for the UK release of So Blonde.


HOW MANY BLONDES DOES IT TAKE TO ESCAPE A DESERT ISLAND?

Thursday 18th September/... Eidos Interactive, creator of some of the world’s leading video game properties, has today announced So Blonde, an exciting new point and click adventure, will be released in the UK on 26th September 2008.

Set on a tropical island, So Blonde is the perfect adventure game for point and click adventure lovers! The star of the game is a young, pretty 17 year-old pampered American debutante who has wealthy parents and very little to worry about in her life.

While on a luxurious cruise ship with her parents on their way across the Atlantic, a giant storm suddenly materialises from out of the blue. The ship gets into trouble and consequently Sunny passes out.

Waking up on a glorious white sandy beach, Sunny finds herself alone, hair out of place and no mobile phone reception or any contact with the outside world. If that isn’t bad enough, the whole escapade has transported her back in time several centuries and Sunny now finds herself in an age of pirates and buccaneers.

Accompany Sunny on this fun-filled point and click adventure, meet wacky creatures and take on outrageous challenges. Help Sunny escape the cursed island – without getting a single hair out of place!

So Blonde will be available on PC from 26th September 2008.