I was rather flattered and honoured to be offered a job as a lecturer at a university in another European country. It involved lectures on interactive narrative and the like and as a full time post would mean moving to the country in question. I must admit to being very tempted by this exciting offer, …
One of the things you rely upon as a freelance creative (in whatever field) is credit for the work you have done. Without it, whatever you put on your website or on your CV will be undermined and could lead any interested parties to believe that you are exaggerating at best or lying at worst. …
You may not believe it’s possible, but there are writers working on stuff that has no connection with games. There’s a whole world out there that’s filled with writers doing other stuff. Last night I went to a meeting of York Writers and thoroughly enjoyed mixing with people writing in other fields. While I read …
A&C; Black, the publisher of Writing for Video Games, put together a rather smart press release which went out to the gaming press on Friday. Sorry I’ve been a lax putting up the news here, but I’ve been having problems getting Blogger to post this. I’m sure that I’ve already thanked Tony Warriner for the …
MCV fell through the letterbox today and I spent a few minutes skimming it before returning to the heady task of writing dialogue. It wasn’t until lunchtime that I read a little more as I chewed on my scrambled eggs. Sometimes MCV scares me because it highlights the wealth of material that’s out there that …
A&C; Black, the publishers of my book (Writing for Video Games, for those not keeping up at the back), have updated their website so that the book is listed at last. 🙂 Even though I have held copies of the book and people have told me they bought it, it seems a little unreal if …
The first Broken Sword game, The Shadow of the Templars, was released ten years ago. So it was a little surprising to find that a thread appeared on the JA+ forums in which the poster asked how to get past the goat. Looking at the puzzle with ten years of additional experience and hindsight, it’s …
Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso has been signed up by Manifesto Games and is the recommended game on the main page of their website. For those of you who wish to go straight to the Nutso page, you can do so here. I must say that it’s a great pleasure and an honour to be signed …
…with this blog, at least. My original intention was to wax lyrical about things to do with writing and design and I seem to be just posting news and links to reviews and the like. Why I think this happened was that I got so caught up in the writing of my book and the …
I turn my back for a short while (well, I went on holiday…) and nice things seem to happen. Not only does Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso get a lovely review (see below), but it also gets awarded Game of the Month over at the excellent site, Game Tunnel. Not only did I have a great …
Karla Munger, over at Just Adventure +, has written a fabulous review of Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. I love the way that she gets over the fun she had playing the game and how it was so much more than she expected, which is exactly what I wanted people to find. “All-in-all, I think Mr. …
“It’s a substantial, informative, entertaining, and, in many ways, enlightening read. I’m particularly impressed by how you manage to cover all aspects of game production – and the writer’s role in the process – in great depth and with great insight, but without losing yourself (and the readers) in microscopic detail.” – Martin Ganteföhr, Game …