The interview starts about 20 minutes or so in. Beneath a Steel Sky & Broken Sword with Steve Ince – The Retro Hour EP35

Steve Ince Joins The Writers’ Guild EAST YORKSHIRE, UK (July 26th, 2012): Steve Ince, writer and game designer, is pleased to announce that he is now a member of The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain. Ince, who has nearly 20 years’ experience in game development, believes such a move is important, not only to enhance the growing maturity with which…

Although I wrote and designed this game some time ago and artwork was being shown last year, there has just been an announcement that Reef Entertainment is to be the publisher.  According to the information the game is due out in October this year, so some excellent news, there. There is an official Captain Morgane web site but it seems…

If you don’t already know, the Wii and DS versions of So Blonde are out today in the UK. If you haven’t already ordered your copy or haven’t thought about doing so, please consider it. Even those of you who already bought the PC version will find that this game offers a new experience that acts as the perfect companion piece to that.

I was sorely tempted to add Beneath a Steel Sky to my list of Top Ten games in the previous post, but I think that would be bad form because I worked on it. Although I didn’t do any of the writing and design, I still think it’s not something I should put on a list like that. So here…

The guys at Adventure-Treff posted a compilation video message for the festive season and I contributed to it with a few words. You can view the video here. Much of the compilation I didn’t understand because those parts were in German, but mine and a couple of other parts are in English. I laughed most when I saw the list…

I’m still feeling a little tired from the trip and I’ve been back for two days! The years are taking their toll. 🙁 GamesCom was huge! The fact that it was so much larger than last year’s GC in Leipzig shows that it needed to move and is also a source of encouragement that the industry is in a strong…

I just got back from the voice recording we did for the Wii version of So Blonde. I was working with DTP (the publisher) and the talented guys at Outsource Media, who organised a great cast again and ran a great series of recording sessions that couldn’t have gone any smoother if we’d wanted. If you want to see a…

The website, Adventure Classic Gaming, has just published a new review of So Blonde, which gives it a score of four stars (out of five). “Playing So Blonde brings back memories of why I love adventure games so much.” “Steve Ince, the writer, has penned a great and humorous story for the game. “ Sometimes, working from home can be…

(I know, I know, it’s been ages since I posted…) Over at Just Adventure + they’ve just published a very good review of So Blonde. Greg Collins, who wrote the review, gave it a score of A- and said some very nice things along the way. Again, another guy who really understood what we were trying to do with the…

I did an interview with the Spanish adventure site Aventura y CIA back in 2007 and they’ve been holding back on it until the game’s release over there. We recently revisited the interview, tidied up a few things and added more detail. It’s ended up being quite lengthy, particularly as I like to ramble at times. I hope you enjoy…

Tomorrow night is the awards ceremony for the Writers’ Guild Awards. For those of you who’d like to see me win the Best Game Script category for my work on So Blonde, please wish me luck, keep your fingers crossed and sacrifice a goat in the hope that it will influence the outcome in some way. And while you’re doing…