While checking some of the referrals to my sites, I came across on from a forum entry which made me laugh. In a nice way. “I am posting it because it is inarguably the single greatest game title of the decade, if not all time.”
Over at the excellent Game Tunnel site they’ve just been announcing their games of the year and in the category of Adventure/Quest they awarded fourth place to Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. Congratulations to all of the other top games and their creators.
For those who subscribe to Develop magazine, the latest issue has an excerpt from my book. If you haven’t decided whether you should buy it yet, this is an ideal opportunity to check out some of the content before you do. There’s also a reader’s offer on the book and you can get it for …
I’m so sorry that I haven’t been posting on a regular basis, but I’ve been so busy over the last few weeks and I’ve still to do most of my Christmas shopping… The writing and design work I’m currently doing for another game company is going very well. Some days I stare at the screen, …
One of the things you rely upon as a freelance creative (in whatever field) is credit for the work you have done. Without it, whatever you put on your website or on your CV will be undermined and could lead any interested parties to believe that you are exaggerating at best or lying at worst. …
I was rather flattered and honoured to be offered a job as a lecturer at a university in another European country. It involved lectures on interactive narrative and the like and as a full time post would mean moving to the country in question. I must admit to being very tempted by this exciting offer, …
You may not believe it’s possible, but there are writers working on stuff that has no connection with games. There’s a whole world out there that’s filled with writers doing other stuff. Last night I went to a meeting of York Writers and thoroughly enjoyed mixing with people writing in other fields. While I read …
A&C; Black, the publisher of Writing for Video Games, put together a rather smart press release which went out to the gaming press on Friday. Sorry I’ve been a lax putting up the news here, but I’ve been having problems getting Blogger to post this. I’m sure that I’ve already thanked Tony Warriner for the …
MCV fell through the letterbox today and I spent a few minutes skimming it before returning to the heady task of writing dialogue. It wasn’t until lunchtime that I read a little more as I chewed on my scrambled eggs. Sometimes MCV scares me because it highlights the wealth of material that’s out there that …
A&C; Black, the publishers of my book (Writing for Video Games, for those not keeping up at the back), have updated their website so that the book is listed at last. 🙂 Even though I have held copies of the book and people have told me they bought it, it seems a little unreal if …
The first Broken Sword game, The Shadow of the Templars, was released ten years ago. So it was a little surprising to find that a thread appeared on the JA+ forums in which the poster asked how to get past the goat. Looking at the puzzle with ten years of additional experience and hindsight, it’s …
Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso has been signed up by Manifesto Games and is the recommended game on the main page of their website. For those of you who wish to go straight to the Nutso page, you can do so here. I must say that it’s a great pleasure and an honour to be signed …