I’ve decided that updating comic strips 7 days a week on top of everything else I’m doing at the moment is a little crazy. The simplest approach to cutting back is not to post any strips at the weekend, starting next weekend. This means that my cartoons and comics will be appearing Monday to Friday only.
My book, Writing for Video Games, is now available as a Kindle download. If you’ve not yet had the chance to read it, now would be a great time to rectify that oversight. 🙂
Yesterday I gave a talk at the Platform 2011 event in Hull, which went down very well to a full room of people. My talk was about Ideas, Story and Writing for Games, which was a broad topic for a talk lasting just 20 minutes. I originally wrote it to last 25 and only last …
A friend of mine is in the band, The Theory is Sound, and they shortly have their first album coming out. Before then, they want help choosing which song to release as a single. Here’s the information from the band: Participate in the vote for the Theory is Sound’s first singlel! Leave your name and …
Over at the Edge website is a piece about some comments from Danny Bilson, THQ’s executive VP of core games. As is often the case with things of this nature, there is criticism of storytelling in games but no suggestion of a “solution”. To say that cutscenes “are the “failure state” of game storytelling” is …
The blog was down yesterday, which turned out to be a problem with the latest update to WP 3.1. I’ve gone back to an earlier version to fix this so I hope it’s working for everyone.
… unless you have Heavy Rain kind of money. I’ve been reading two sets of reviews over the last few days from which it’s hard not to draw this conclusion. The first group of reviews cover the game, Gray Matter, the long-awaited game from Jane Jenson, developed by Wizarbox, published by DTP/Lace Mamba. The second …
I’ve been asked to speak at the Platform 2011 event in Hull on 27th March. There are a good range of speakers throughout the event, so it looks like it’s got something for most people’s interests. I’ve also said that I’ll occupy a table and chat to people who have questions as well as offer …
Over at Develop Online is a very interesting video discussing game narrative. It’s good to see a wide range of people involved, including my friends Rhianna Pratchett and Charles Cecil. However, the thing that bugs me about this isn’t what any of the developers and writers are saying but one of the questions posed at …
Today is the 18th anniversary of when I first joined the games industry. To mark this momentous occasion I’m now making my game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso, absolutely free to download and play. I first joined Revolution Software in February of 1993 as an artist and did some background work and sprite animation on Beneath …
I’ve just finished reading Roadkill, the latest Cal Leandros novel by Rob Thurman and it was hard work. Such a let-down after the previous four books in the series. Admittedly, none of them have matched the first one because in that there was a well-handled twist that I never saw coming and that’s always a pleasant surprise, but mostly they were exciting, dynamic romps. Which is why this one was such hard work – it failed in so many things with which the others succeeded.