Design Jobs

I just received an e-mail from an agency looking to fill three design positions at an undisclosed developer based in London. The positions are Intermediate, Senior and Lead Games Designer, so if you feel this is something you might want, drop me a line and I’ll pass on your details. The genre is RPG/FPS.

Deviant Art

I’ve just joined a site called Deviant Art, which is not actually really deviant at all, but I guess it sounds good. You can see my page, here. This site has an enormour number of members and, while some of the stuff posted varies in quality enormously, it’s really worth taking a look for there’s …

Merlin has arrived

Our new cat, Merlin, arrived last night, so I thought I’d post a couple of quick pictures. He’s obviously still settling in and is a bit wary of everything, but he’s very friendly and likes having his ears scratched.

Tile based game art

When I set out to make Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso I never realised how much fun I’d have rising to the challenge of creating the tiles for the game’s locations. Even though this style has been around for a long time, this is actually the first time that I’ve created tiles for a game. Part …

Looks like it’s just me…

I’m still unable to see the comments. I’ve therefore activated the Blogger comment system to see if that’s a better alternative. I’ll leave the Haloscan comments up for the moment, but probably take them down at some point.

Problems with the comments?

Is anyone else having problems seeing the comments? Each time I click on one of the comments links at the bottom of each entry, here, nothing happens. If this persists, I may have to resort to the Blogger comments… Of course, if I see that people are posting comments, but can’t read them myself, I’ll …

Blue Cat Jam T-shirts

I ordered a couple of my Blue Cat Jam T-shirts and they arrived this morning. The T-shirts themselves are of excellent quality – quite a thick cotton – and the print quality was superb. Both of the T-shirts were dark blue and the colours were incredibly strong and vibrant. I’ll post some pictures later so …

A new cat

June and I have just been to see a new cat, a stray found by the Cats Protection people. He’s a tabby of about 2 years old and very friendly. With a bit of luck we’ll be taking ownership at the end of the week – we’ve got to wait for him to be neutered …

Nutso Progress

Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso is progressing very well, but because I’m working so hard on putting it together I’m frequently in danger of being too close to be properly objective. So I occasionally let a few trusted people take a look – people whose opinions I respect and who I know will tell me what …

Presentation

I’ve just arrived back from a visit to Hull University where I gave a presentation of a game design I’d created specifically for the students on the MSc course. Although I’m not a strong speaker in these situations, the presentation went very well and the students very responsive to what I had to offer. The …