This article over at Eurogamer reports on a study by Klaus Mathiak who concluded that “therefore games train our brains not to distinguish between what’s real and what’s pretend.” However, to me, all he has proved, at best, is that this conclusion can be drawn from gamers playing FPS games. It seems like he’s got …
New Mr. Smoozles strip has just gone up.
…well, kind of. I arrived back from my holiday late on Friday evening and am only just getting back into the swing of things again. Italy was fabulous, the weather was beautiful and we had a great time. I arrived home to find that there was a letter asking me to make an appointment for …
Penny Arcade on Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud. I thought Understanding Comics was brilliant, but Reinventing Comics was dreadful. I’m glad I’m not the only one. 🙂
Just been reading A Gamers’ Manifesto and there is some really excellent thoughts and ideas wrapped up in there. Much of it can be boiled down to, give the gamers substance instead of concentrating on empty style. “the next generation of games will likely play just like this generation. Only shiny.” That’s a really depressing …
I’ve just put up a new screenshot from the game, Juniper Crescent – The Sapphire Claw. I hope you enjoy seeing it.
According to this piece on Gamasutra, ELSPA have decided that it’s going to support a new trade show in London that coincides with GDC Europe. This seems a little strange considering it was only a few days ago that they announced that EGN was no more. While I think that it’s good that London has …
There is a piece on IGN about a forthcoming PS3 game called Project Delta. I worked on the story, backstory and character profiles for this game in the three months leading up to Christmas last year, but was unable to mention it at the time. This was a really great project to work on as …
I’ve been thinking about the three new console announcements over the last couple of days. While I think that the XBox 360 and PS3 are going to be wonderful machines that will give us some fabulous-looking games, I actually think that Nintendo may have been very clever in not joining the power race. Because they …
A large portion of my spare time this week has been preparing for E3. Not that I’m attending, but my business agent, Laura MacDonald is going to be there, talking with publishers and being enthusiastic on my behalf. So a lot of e-mails have been flying back and forth, along with documents for the game …
For those who are interested, there’s a second interview over at the Just Adventure+ site.
Okay, I’m trying Firefox and want to know what the big deal is with it. The Bookmarks system is virtually unusable as trying to organise the bookmarks is a nightmare, particularly putting in separators which seem to be placed almost at random. The order of the bookmarks and folders in the left pane bears no …