Author: Steve

I’ve just posted a new Mr. Smoozles strip on the main page. I know it’s been a long time coming, but I’m hoping to update on a semi-regular basis from now.

The May edition of the downloadable PDF magazine, Adventure Lantern, has a preview of Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. You can download the magazine from here which is only 3.2MB for about 120 pages. The piece was nicely written and I enjoyed reading it. Edit: For those who don’t wish to download the magazine, you can …

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Just saw the trailer over at Eurogamer – this game looks absolutely brilliant. I can’t wait to play it.

Magenta is a new character I recently came up with for the game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. You can see a larger version by clicking on the image.

Preview just posted at Quandary gaming site. Once again the writer gets to the heart of what I’m trying to do with the game. Now excuse me while I get on and finish it. 🙂

There’s a piece on the MCV site which says that Nintendo are calling the new consoles (formerly Revolution) the Wii (pronounced “we”). Because it sounds like another word, have they made a mistake or are they, perhaps, taking the piss? 🙂 (Excuse the language, please.)

The German site, Adventure Archiv, has published a preview of Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. You can read it in both German and English. I enjoyed reading this – it shows that people are enjoying the game in the way that I hoped they would, which is incredibly gratifying.

I’ve just posted a new screenshot from Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso over at the Juniper Games site.

After reading a couple of recent game reviews and chatting with my friend Tony Warriner, it struck me that many of today’s games are developed with the ephasis the wrong way round. When reviews say that a game looks fantastic but that the gameplay is weak, badly implemented or too easy, the only explanation I …

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GameTrove is an excellent new venture and is being run completely free of charge to indie developers. The download links connect directly to the developers files, so reducing bandwidth on the portal.It also means that the developer gets the rewards without the portal taking apercentage of the cover price of the game. Well done to …

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As you may or may not know, the musical soundtrack for Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso is being composed by a talented musician called Josh Winiberg. This is a video put together to accompany Josh’s piece, Gaia.

Another preview has been posted over at Rebell.at Though it’s in German, the author, Bertold Schauer, translated some of it for me and the best bit was: “The story of a game and how it’s told decides if we enjoy playing it and how it motivates to continue playing. This fact combined with the innovative …

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