After reading a couple of recent game reviews and chatting with my friend Tony Warriner, it struck me that many of today’s games are developed with the ephasis the wrong way round. When reviews say that a game looks fantastic but that the gameplay is weak, badly implemented or too easy, the only explanation I …
GameTrove is an excellent new venture and is being run completely free of charge to indie developers. The download links connect directly to the developers files, so reducing bandwidth on the portal.It also means that the developer gets the rewards without the portal taking apercentage of the cover price of the game. Well done to …
As you may or may not know, the musical soundtrack for Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso is being composed by a talented musician called Josh Winiberg. This is a video put together to accompany Josh’s piece, Gaia.
Another preview has been posted over at Rebell.at Though it’s in German, the author, Bertold Schauer, translated some of it for me and the best bit was: “The story of a game and how it’s told decides if we enjoy playing it and how it motivates to continue playing. This fact combined with the innovative …
Over at the adventure gaming site, GameBoomers, there is a preview of the game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. “This is a fun game … and then I suffered the “oh no, I’ve finished, I was just getting into that!” “ The game is very deceptive in the way it pulls you in. 🙂
A preview has been published over at Just Adventure + “Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso will definitely be a game to watch out for.” Thanks go out to JA+ and Sudeep Pasricha for an excellent, if brief, preview of the game.
The German site, Working Title has previewed Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. Although it’s not in English, I used the Alta Vista Babel Fish translator to read the piece and it seems very encouraging on the whole. Thanks Fabian.
There is an excellent article over at Edge Online about humour in games. While it’s clear that people are trying to put humour into games, very few are trying to make comedy games, in which the humour is a major part of the whole experience. Aside from Psychonauts and Stubbs the Zombie, of course. 🙂
The first preview of the game has been published on the Russian website, Broken Sword Rus. Because there is no English version of the piece, I put the text through the Babel Fish translator. Although it wasn’t a great translation, I got the gist of what was being said and it was very kind towards …
The following is a press release that was sent out a little earlier today. Juniper Games – Preview Code Available for Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso YORK, UK (April 7, 2006)Game developer, Juniper Games, is pleased to announce that a preview version of the game “Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso” is available to members of the gaming …
I’ve been so busy lately it’s insane, but now I find myself with 20 minutes to spare. I’ve just finished polishing one of the chapters of my book, Writing for Video Games, and am waiting for a conference call to discuss another writing project. The game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso, is going very well and …
News just announced over at Eurogamer tells of Headfirst Productions going out of business. As well as being behind the Simon the Sorceror games and the recent Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, the were also working on Call of Cthulhu: Destiny’s End, for which I had been working on the story, characters …