Happy New Year! And what a great start to 2011 – The Director’s Cut version of Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is free today for iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch. If you want to download the HD version for iPad, go here. If you want to download the version for iPhone and iPod Touch, …
I created a Youtube video and I thought you might like to see it. I took a few miknutes to comment on the what’s been happening over the last year. I hope it’s of interest to you. Festive Greetings from Steve Ince I was experimenting because I’m thinking of doing a series of comment videos …
Earlier this year I was invited to the EA offices in Guildford to discuss the possibility of working on a game called Spare Parts, being created under their Bright Light division. It was such a pleasure to get the job and write the dialogue for such a fun game, but what I didn’t realise at …
Inspired by a piece over at the Eurogamer site, but also by the comments on the piece, I thought I’d write my own take on this.
The second part of my article, Designing Puzzles Backwards, has just gone live.
If you don’t already know, the Wii and DS versions of So Blonde are out today in the UK. If you haven’t already ordered your copy or haven’t thought about doing so, please consider it. Even those of you who already bought the PC version will find that this game offers a new experience that acts as the perfect companion piece to that.
Over at Game Design Aspect of the Month, the first part of my article, Designing Puzzles Backwards, has just been posted. I’m not sure when part two will be posted, but I’ll let you know.
Having worked on a number of casual games over the past few years, I’m struck by how quickly casual games evolve. In particular, it’s interesting to see how the Hidden Object genre appears to be evolving towards the traditional Adventure game.
Yesterday evening I visited Leeds where I attended an evening with Alan Bennett, an event for Script Yorkshire members. It was an incredibly enjoyable evening as you’d expect from such a man. Hi book, A Life Like Other People’s, is among my favourites.
It seems to me that the games industry is in danger of becoming like the old bingo industry. That may seem like an outrageous claim, so I’ll explain my thinking…
For the first time in quite a while I won’t be attending the annual shindig in Germany. Previously held in Leipzig and then in Cologne last year and this, I always thoroughly enjoyed attending and meeting up with some of the wonderful people I know. So, if you were hoping to catch me for a …
We’re often asked to see the parallels between the games industry and the film industry, but for those of us who work in Britain we may not want the parallels to go too far or the future of the British games industry may be bleak.