I’ve just posted the first episode of my new strip, 0.5C, which will be appearing in parallel to Mr. Smoozles. Although the strip’s appearance may be a little sporadic at first, I hope to be able to settle down into a regular routine shortly. Feedback greatly appreciated.
At last, the game I’ve been working on has been announced! So Blonde is being developed by Wizarbox in France and is to be published by the excellent German publisher, DTP. It will be published worldwide under their Anaconda label. I’ve had a lot of fun working on this game and I hope that players …
http://www.myspace.com/ttisband Check out this new band, the Theory is Sound. they have a very mature heavy sound which makes me think they’ve been around for years instead of having just put together their first demo songs. Take a listen, I’m sure you’ll be impressed.
For the casual visitor to the blog it may seem that I’ve suddenly gone mental. Last year I started posting my old Developing Thoughts articles on here because the original site no longer had them available. Then I became lazy after the tenth and it’s been nearly a year since that one went up. So …
I just received two copies of the March edition of Writers’ Forum in the post. I wrote a full-page article for them, which was designed to help promote my book, Writing for Video Games. When I set out to write the article I actually found it a little hard to approach – how do you …
Those of use who actively work in the adventure genre and many of those who just like playing the games, are a little tired of reading tiresome reviews in which the reviewer says (ad nauseum) that “the adventure game is dead”. So imagine my pleasant surprise when I read the review of the latest Sam …
Another notch added to the age stick! Birthdays seem to come around ever faster with each passing year and although I’m not usually one to use birthdays as a means of reflection, I do wonder how I’m ever going to fit everything in that I want to do. I was looking back over all of …
A couple of days ago I read a short review of my book in Edge magazine and I must admit that I was a little miffed that they’d missed the whole point behind the book. There’s an element to the writing in Edge at times which conveys a kind of “we know all this stuff …
The strip I’ve just posted is the 200th I’ve created for Mr. Smoozles! I’d like to thank everyone who’s been supporting the strip and hope that you’ll continue to do so and I hope that it go from strength to strength with your help.
Game Tunnel has just published a review of my game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. It’s a very good review that looks at the game pretty favourably. “Players may actually find themselves liking this game more and more as they play.” “Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso is the kind of game that should satisfy the waking hours …
Caroline Owen, a wonderful violinist who has a MySpace page here, asked me to create a cartoon tiger playing the violin. Caroline once toured with a circus where she dressed in a tiger costume to play. Her music is well worth checking out.
The Dutch gaming magazine, PC Gameplay has apparently published a list of what they consider to be the best indie games of 2006 and Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso is one of those featured. There’s no online version of the article, but it’s pretty cool all the same. Thanks to Christiaan Moleman for letting me know.