The casual game, Alice in Wonderland, has just been released on Big Fish Games. This is another game I wrote the story and dialogue and for which I did the high-level design. The game has no connection to the Tim Burton film. I went back to the original book and then created a story with a …
After all this time there is some news about the game. At least, there is if you speak German. The German DS version is already out, apparently, with the Wii version following on the 26th March. You can take a look at the website here. There is an English version of the site, but some …
I thought I would create a Zazzle store to sell some of my cartoon art on T-shirts and other stuff. It’s still in the early stages at the moment, but I’ll start to flesh it out more over the coming weeks. If there are any of my cartoons that you think would make a good …
Here are some photos taken today.
I just spoke to my son, David. He phoned me up to tell me the very good news that I have a new granddaughter. She’s called Leilani and weighed in at a good 8lbs 8ozs! Katie and David are as pleased as punch, naturally, and I can’t wait to see the new addition to the …
I was asked to do an interview for Alternative Magazine Online and like I usually do with these things I said yes, so imagine my surprise when I got an e-mail through with the most ever questions for an interview. Thankfully, most of them were pretty good questions and I managed to get through the …
The Writing Industries Conference was great. I’ve never before met so many writers in one place and in spite of lots of news of the demise of print in recent months the attitudes were mostly positive.
I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything this week, I’ve been busy with a few things, amongst which has been the preparations for the Writing Industries Conference on Saturday. I shall endeavour to blog about it next week. Because it’s a non-games event I’m sure that I’ll feel a little out of my depth, but I’m …
My cartoon cat, Mitchell, is now on Twitter. He’s only just signed up, so god only knows what he’s going to post about. I dread to think.
I was reading this post, “You should blog every day” over at the Bubble Cow blog, which got me thinking about my own posting schedule – a hit and miss affair even at the best of times. Should I consider posting every day or is that idea a potential hazard?
Graham Linehan (@Glinner on Twitter) tweeted a link to a wonderful article on the Guardian website: Ten Rules for Writing Fiction. It’s two pages are filled with lots of writers’ rules and tips and I’m sure it’s a good read for writers at all stages of their careers.
I started thinking about the possibility of coming up with my own set of rules specifically aimed at game writing and after thinking about it for a little time my initial thought was that it might not be possible to do this at all.
This post was actually going to be a list of my top ten films, but I got a bit carried away. And there are still tons of others that could have been included in this list. They possibly might have been if I’d done the list at another time. It’s a pretty mixed bag and there are probably a number of films that wouldn’t be in other people’s top twenty.