After a little delay caused by my broadband problems, I finally got around to drawing the winners this evening. Nearly everyone got all three questions right, but a couple got one of the questions wrong, so for completeness’ sake, here are the answers:
For those of you who are interested in such things, Rhianna Ford and the Da Vinci Letter is now available on the iWin site. If any of you don’t know, I wrote and designed this game for Green Clover Games. Of course, I’m sure you’ve all bought it from Big Fish by now anyway. 🙂
Develop have just put my interactive dialogue article online. This is obviously great news, but I thought it was a little funny in their summary piece, which seems to go out of its way to be controversial. While it’s likely to get more interest that way, I’m not a great fan of such controversy for …
To celebrate six years as a freelance writer and game designer, I’m giving away signed copies of my book, Writing for Video Games, to the two lucky winners of this new competition. Four Runners-up will receive key codes to the arcade adventure game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso.
Another day, another jump. Special Enquiry Detail is now at No. 3 on the Big Fish PC chart!
Over at the Big Fish site, Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand that Feeds is currently at No. 5 on their chart of downloadable PC games. Not bad seeing as it’s only been released a week. Fingers crossed it rises higher. 🙂
Congratulations to all the people over at Adventure-Treff. This week the site celebrates its tenth birthday, which is a real cause to celebrate. It’s great that they’ve lasted so long and that they’ve done such a good service to the adventure genre. The site has a specific page of messages and although most of them …
Over at Gamezebo, they’ve just posted a really good review of Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand that Feeds. The gameplay of Special Enquiry Detail is top notch, but what really sets it apart is its well-crafted story, which would be right at home in any crime show. The characters are (mostly) realistic, the mystery makes …
One of the casual hidden object/adventure games I wrote and did design work on has just come out: Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand that Feeds. The link will take you to the Big Fish site where it can be downloaded. You can play free for an hour to check it out or buy the full …
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 …
Saying games are art is like saying painting is art or films are art. It’s just not so.
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.