Drive a car on your table top
Take a look at this piece at Edge Online. I thought that the video that went with the piece was pretty amazing. It will be really interesting to see where this kind of technology actually goes.
Nintendo DS
I was a little skeptical about the Nintendo DS when I first saw it and thought that the PSP would have it beat hands down, but the more I see about it, the more I’m shaking that feeling. I saw a demo of one in a shop today and it looks and feels rather nice. …
Seminar
Early last year I was contacted and asked if I would give a seminar to a group of students doing an MSc course. Nothing happened at the time and then I met up with the guys running the course at GameStars in September. We were then able to organise something a little more concrete. Today …
Eight Myths
Here is an interesting essay (by way of Edge Online) by Henry Jenkins. Certainly put things into a clear perspective for me. I particularly agreed with the following: “Meanwhile, a sizable number of parents ignore game ratings because they assume that games are for kids. One quarter of children ages 11 to 16 identify an …
Thin on the Ground?
This thread over at the Adventure Gamers Forums caused me to think about why today’s adventure games might not be attractive to 8-13 year olds (boys, mainly). Aside from the fact that very few of them have the pure fun element that older games like Monkey Island or Day of the Tentacle, most of today’s …
Ask the Developers
The newly re-designed Adventure Gamers site has a new regular feature called Ask the Developers. Bringing together a number of people from the world of adventure game development and posing serious questions, the guests then run with the subject, discussing it in an interesting manner. I hope you’ll take a look.
And the award for best dialogue…
For those who don’t know, The Inventory is a downloadable pdf magazine that concentrates on adventure games. The latest issue is a special devoted to it’s own awards for 2004. It seems that they decided The Westerner was deserving of the award for best dialogue, based on the English language version of the game. As …
Busy weekend
I’ve not spent a great deal of time sitting at the computer this weekend, which may be a good thing – it’s always good to take a break, however short it might be. I spent most of the weekend fixing a fence in the garden, which had blown down in the storms we had a …
Serious money
Eurogamer news item. There’s always a bit of satisfaction knowing that justice has been seen to be served, particularly when it’s infavour of the smaller party.
The End of the World
Watched a television programme last night called Horizon which covered the issue of global dimming. This is the reduction of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface due to polution in the atmosphere. The really scary thing is that this effect is actually reducing the impact of global warming, but as the polution levels fall, due to …
Flying Free
I have chosen to discontinue, for the time being, with an agency acting as my representatives. Therefore, if anyone is looking to hire my services, can they please contact me directly. Thanks.
Telltaled interview
There’s a relatively new fansite dedicated to the company TellTale Games, even though they have yet to produce a finished game. However, the fansite, Telltaled, does have an interview with Dan Connors which is worth a little look.