For those of you who subscribe to the magazine Develop, I have an article in the latest edition, which has just come out. I talk about the structure of interactive dialogue and how to approach it. For those who don’t subscribe, the Develop webiste is here, but the PDF version latest magazine is not yet …
Over at Gamezebo they have just posted a preview of the game, Special Enquiry Detail. This is another casual game I wrote, creating the concept from the ground up for Floodlight Games.
Gemma Noon, who seems to be out for some kind of interviewing record with the number of people she’s interviewing, asked me to be one of her interviewees a few weeks ago. The result has just been posted on Gemma’s blog, The Literary Project. Thanks for making sense of my ramblings, Gemma.
Yesterday I attended the State of Independence conference at the York Racecourse and thought I’d post something about my thoughts.
I’m attending the State of Independence conference on Thursday this week and was just looking over the programme schedule. There are some great looking sessions taking place during the day with the only downside being a poor 20 minutes at 12 noon. Perhaps I can use it as a way to get into the lunch …
Due to the fact that there has only been very limited response to the possibility of me making a new Mr. Smoozles game, I’ve been doing some research on what might be the next big thing in gaming. I’ve come to the conclusion that the next exciting development will be Porn. Or, more precisely, Social Gaming that mixes Porn and Gambling.
I was just reading the Jane Jensen interview over at Gameboomers when I spotted the following: “I think it’s possible for everyone to finish with a couple of caveats – first, that you have access to the internet and know how to search for walkthroughs!” I think this is a dreadful way to approach the …
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I’m thinking of creating a Mr. Smoozles adventure game. Below is a test screenshot to gauge what people might think about this idea. Please let me know. The idea is that it would be completely silly and fun, but the puzzles would be good solid ones within the context of the game world.
When I spoke at the Games Forum Germany conference in January, the talk I gave was recorded. I’m not sure when it went online, but you can now view the talk in full. You have to scroll down the list of videos a little to get to mine. The talk is about aspects of character …
The casual game, Alice in Wonderland, has just been released on Big Fish Games. This is another game I wrote the story and dialogue and for which I did the high-level design. The game has no connection to the Tim Burton film. I went back to the original book and then created a story with a …
After all this time there is some news about the game. At least, there is if you speak German. The German DS version is already out, apparently, with the Wii version following on the 26th March. You can take a look at the website here. There is an English version of the site, but some …
I was asked to do an interview for Alternative Magazine Online and like I usually do with these things I said yes, so imagine my surprise when I got an e-mail through with the most ever questions for an interview. Thankfully, most of them were pretty good questions and I managed to get through the …