I was asked to write a guest column for the German adventure gaming site, Adventure-Treff. As this is a new feature on the site and I’m the first to write a piece, it’s quite an honour and I hope my short article is a suitable way to begin the series. The link takes you to …
After chatting on Twitter with the wonderful Amelia Tyler about dialogue and recording, I felt inspired to write a post. There’s a lot that needs to happen in order for great dialogue to appear in a game. Not all of it is down to the writer, of course, so here’s a list of things writers …
I noticed that I’ve been getting a lot of traffic to my Sapphire Claw page. It turns out that the Skyrim game has a quest for an artefact with the same name and people have come to the page after searching for information on it. I was there first! 🙂
I recently had the pleasure of accompanying Mark Estdale in giving a talk to a group of students at the Drama Centre in London about game writing and performance. Mark is long-time friend, runs a voice recording studio called OM and has a huge number of games under his belt. We’re both firmly of the …
Having never been to a dedicated screenwriting festival before, attending the LSWF was a pleasure in itself, particularly being in the presence of so many talented and friendly people. Because I’d been invited to speak as part of a panel on game writing, I felt doubly pleased to be there as I was able to …
Adventure-Treff uploaded a video to their channel on YouTube in which I gave an interview at Gamescom. The grey hairs show up a bit too much in HD. 🙁
Although I wrote and designed this game some time ago and artwork was being shown last year, there has just been an announcement that Reef Entertainment is to be the publisher. According to the information the game is due out in October this year, so some excellent news, there. There is an official Captain Morgane …
There is a new review of my book, Writing for Video Games over at the Gnome’s Lair site. For more details about the book, you can visit the dedicated page on my website.
My book, Writing for Video Games, is now available as a Kindle download. If you’ve not yet had the chance to read it, now would be a great time to rectify that oversight. 🙂
Over at the Edge website is a piece about some comments from Danny Bilson, THQ’s executive VP of core games. As is often the case with things of this nature, there is criticism of storytelling in games but no suggestion of a “solution”. To say that cutscenes “are the “failure state” of game storytelling” is …
… unless you have Heavy Rain kind of money. I’ve been reading two sets of reviews over the last few days from which it’s hard not to draw this conclusion. The first group of reviews cover the game, Gray Matter, the long-awaited game from Jane Jenson, developed by Wizarbox, published by DTP/Lace Mamba. The second …
Today is the 18th anniversary of when I first joined the games industry. To mark this momentous occasion I’m now making my game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso, absolutely free to download and play. I first joined Revolution Software in February of 1993 as an artist and did some background work and sprite animation on Beneath …