Author: Steve

Creative crisis. Please comment here if you wish to do so.

And while I’m at it, here’s another specialised site that uses a similar structure to MySpace, but because it’s geared towards comics is tons better. Take a look, tell your friends.

It’s like MySpace for games. And a million times better. Go take a look.

The online sales of the game appear to have dwindled somewhat. I know that people in some places were asking about a version on disk and I wondered how much interest there might be in this. If I could get some idea of the potential numbers I could gauge if it was something I could …

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… like I have a spot growing on the inside of it. Don’t you just hate weird stuff like that? Particularly when the pain travels up into your head – I hate headaches at the best of times. Though “best of times” and “headaches” in the same sentence doesn’t come across as right, somehow… Just …

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Gordon Aplin, over at the Quandary games site, has published a review of my book, Writing for Video Games. I enjoyed reading it and it feels good to get such a positive review. Thanks Gordon. “Ince has distilled his own knowledge and experience of the industry into a highly readable volume” “It could easily become …

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I’ve been a fan of David Bowie for nearly 34 years and today is his 60th birthday. Although it’s highly unlikely that he’ll read this, I’d like to wish him a very happy birthday and thank him for many years of excellent music.

I’d just like to wish everyone all the very best for the festive season and hope that you get plenty of opportunity to spend time with your family and friends. Best Wishes!

While checking some of the referrals to my sites, I came across on from a forum entry which made me laugh. In a nice way. “I am posting it because it is inarguably the single greatest game title of the decade, if not all time.”

Over at the excellent Game Tunnel site they’ve just been announcing their games of the year and in the category of Adventure/Quest they awarded fourth place to Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. Congratulations to all of the other top games and their creators.

For those who subscribe to Develop magazine, the latest issue has an excerpt from my book. If you haven’t decided whether you should buy it yet, this is an ideal opportunity to check out some of the content before you do. There’s also a reader’s offer on the book and you can get it for …

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I’m so sorry that I haven’t been posting on a regular basis, but I’ve been so busy over the last few weeks and I’ve still to do most of my Christmas shopping… The writing and design work I’m currently doing for another game company is going very well. Some days I stare at the screen, …

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