Forum Down Time
The community forums have been down for a few days. The database had to be changed by the hosting providors because of an external attack. Everything should be back to normal now. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Girls with Slingshots
Danielle Corsetto’s excellent strip, Girls with Slingshots, has been around for exactly a year now. As part of the celebrations, Danielle asked for some guest strips for the site. Today you can see the Mr. Smoozles strip I put together for her on the main page. Congratulations on the first anniversary, Danielle.
I’m writing a book…
A few months ago I was approached by a publisher interested in publishing a book on writing for games as part of an established series of books they have of various writing topics. This came about as a direct result of my maintaining a solid presence online, particularly my article, “My Fingers are Blistered and …
Niche Games
This afternoon I was talking with Tony Warriner, a colleague and friend from my time at Revolution, when we touched ont he subject of niche games, which led onto the subject of adventure games. Clearly, the adventure genre isn’t dead because adventure games continue to sell, but it ahs quite clearly become a niche market. …
Yet another interview…
Those kind people over at Adventure Developers were interested in having a chat with me. You can discover what we talked about here.
And the winner is…
The voting in the competition has now closed and the results are as follows: Andy Warthog by Corvus D. Elrod 3%Lucile by Stathis Riso 43%Marcus Roadkill by by Geraldo Ramos Falci Jr. 30%Root Monkey by Colin Panetta 16%Skid by Jean-Louis Sirois 6% This means that Lucile by Stathis Riso is the winner. Well done Stathis! …
Voting
Only a few more days left to cast your vote if you haven’t already done so.
Manifesto Games
Greg Costikyan, over on his blog, has announced the formation and launch of Manifesto Games. This is an incredibly exciting development in PC gaming and is something that really appeals to my sensibilities. I’m sure that the venture will be a great success, but I’d like to wish him luck anyway – Good Luck Greg! …
Character Competition Voting
Don’t forget, if you haven’t already done so you only have one more week to get your vote in for the character competition. Voting is taking place on the Juniper Games forums, here, and you’ll need to register in order to cast your vote. I’m actually surprised that the voting isn’t much closer as I …
Mr. Smoozles Reaches 100
Today’s strip is the 100th Mr. Smoozles strip created. I have some big plans for Mr. Smoozles, which you’ll all find out about in due course.
Game Writers Conference
I’ve been asked to help promote the Game Writers Conference that’s taking place in Austin, Texas on the 26th and 27th October. It’s running in parallel to the Austin Game Conference and the Women’s Game Conference (but don’t ask me how you split yourself in three). Not having awealthy company behind me to pay for …
Development costs
Although I read this piece on Eurogamer with interest, I actually think that it’s quite unclear what is meant by average development costs. For instance, taking only 13 XBox titles makes it very subjective and could be designed to make the other platforms appear better to develop for. What’s also not clear is whether those …