I’ll be attending this year’s Gamescom event in a couple of weeks’ time, which is always something to look forward to, both on a business and personal level. Not only do I get to meet development colleagues and friends, it’s also a chance to see new games and talk with people who are kind enough …
Over at Gear Diary there’s a new review by Michael Anderson of Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand That Feeds for the iPad. At first I was worried that it was going to be a harsh review when the reviewer had a brief reminiscance about a game he played with his wife years ago, but he …
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. 🙂
Yesterday I gave a talk at the Platform 2011 event in Hull, which went down very well to a full room of people. My talk was about Ideas, Story and Writing for Games, which was a broad topic for a talk lasting just 20 minutes. I originally wrote it to last 25 and only last …
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 …
I’ve been asked to speak at the Platform 2011 event in Hull on 27th March. There are a good range of speakers throughout the event, so it looks like it’s got something for most people’s interests. I’ve also said that I’ll occupy a table and chat to people who have questions as well as offer …
Over at Develop Online is a very interesting video discussing game narrative. It’s good to see a wide range of people involved, including my friends Rhianna Pratchett and Charles Cecil. However, the thing that bugs me about this isn’t what any of the developers and writers are saying but one of the questions posed at …
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 …
The gaming world’s head must be spinning with Nintendo and Sony both showing off new portable gaming platforms in recent weeks. While both are likely to be excellent devices in many ways, both strike me as a little backward in not taking up a better approach for software delivery, particularly in light of the fact that the DS was plagued with such piracy problems that it became a non-viable platform for many studios to develop for.