Mr. Smoozles – a new schedule
Due to the many things going on in my life at the moment, from now I’m only going to be posting new Mr. Smoozles strips on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Sorry to all those who come for their daily dose of comic fun.
Talented young musician
Josh Winiberg is a talented eighteen year old who has already released two CDs of piano music under his own steam. All the tracks are his own compositions, so if you like the sound of solo piano, take a trip to the site and listen to some excellent samples.
Ignoring the feedback
This article on When to Ignore the Readers is an interesting one to draw parallels from. 🙂
Art Pad
Art Pad is a cool little web-based bit of art fun. Go and be creative. 🙂
Coming soon…
Mr. Smoozles 40
For those who like to keep up with these things, today saw the publication of the 40th Mr. Smoozles strip. A little bit of a landmark…
Ernest Adams on The Act
The Act – Emotion Control with Single-Knob Gameplay is a piece by Ernest Adams on Gamasutra about a coin-op game called The Act. While I think that the principles behind it are an excellent idea, will such a one-trick pony have long-term appeal? Also, I can imagine that a player is going to spend an …
KOTOR 2 woes
I’m 34 hours into KOTOR 2 and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s only a shadow of the first one. What’s really bugging me at the moment is that I appear to have come to a complete dead end and can see no way out of it. What it really comes down to is …
Addictive Game
Mike over at Skudfisher has created this wonderfully addictive game Super Swap Blocks. Go check it out if you have plenty of time. 🙂
Hugo Awards – no games
I was looking at the shortlist for this year’s Hugo Awards when it struck me that there is no category for games. Considering that so many games have a basis in science fiction and fantasy, this seems a little odd. Perhaps SF fandom needs to get into the modern world? 🙂
Sitcom – no luck this time
Just received an e-mail from Channel Five saying that my sitcom script wasn’t suitable for them. Back to the drawing board…
SC1 proposal
I’ve just finished the proposal for my SC1 game. I also have a prototype demo to acompany it, so I now need to start the process of approaching the publishers. So, fingers crossed…