Over at the adventure gaming site, GameBoomers, there is a preview of the game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. “This is a fun game … and then I suffered the “oh no, I’ve finished, I was just getting into that!” “ The game is very deceptive in the way it pulls you in. 🙂
A preview has been published over at Just Adventure + “Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso will definitely be a game to watch out for.” Thanks go out to JA+ and Sudeep Pasricha for an excellent, if brief, preview of the game.
The German site, Working Title has previewed Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. Although it’s not in English, I used the Alta Vista Babel Fish translator to read the piece and it seems very encouraging on the whole. Thanks Fabian.
There is an excellent article over at Edge Online about humour in games. While it’s clear that people are trying to put humour into games, very few are trying to make comedy games, in which the humour is a major part of the whole experience. Aside from Psychonauts and Stubbs the Zombie, of course. 🙂
The first preview of the game has been published on the Russian website, Broken Sword Rus. Because there is no English version of the piece, I put the text through the Babel Fish translator. Although it wasn’t a great translation, I got the gist of what was being said and it was very kind towards …
The following is a press release that was sent out a little earlier today. Juniper Games – Preview Code Available for Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso YORK, UK (April 7, 2006)Game developer, Juniper Games, is pleased to announce that a preview version of the game “Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso” is available to members of the gaming …
I’ve been so busy lately it’s insane, but now I find myself with 20 minutes to spare. I’ve just finished polishing one of the chapters of my book, Writing for Video Games, and am waiting for a conference call to discuss another writing project. The game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso, is going very well and …
News just announced over at Eurogamer tells of Headfirst Productions going out of business. As well as being behind the Simon the Sorceror games and the recent Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, the were also working on Call of Cthulhu: Destiny’s End, for which I had been working on the story, characters …
Of course, I may be a little slow on the uptake, seeing as GDC was last week, but I just found out that The Excellence in Writing Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards went to Tim Schafer and Erik Wolpaw for Psychonauts. As I’m currently playing this game and loving it, I couldn’t be …
A number of screenshots from the forthcoming game, Broken Sword – The Angel of Death have beep posted over at Adventure Corner.
An interesting piece has appeared on the MCV site about Nintendo’s plans for downloadable content as presented at GDC. Following on from Sony’s similar news yesterday and the fact that XBox live is already running well, this means that we’re developing a game playing culture that’s going to be much more at home with downloadable …
I’ve just read this article over at The Escapist online magazine. It’s the first in a series of four articles by Warren Specter about the future of game development. It’s a must-read for anyone who has even a remote interest in the future of gaming. He really hits the nail on the head for me.