Yesterday I saw the first roughs for the cover design of my book, Writing for Video Games. It’s a very strange feeling seeing this project drawing closer to becoming a reality. Suddenly it seems a lot more serious than it previously did and the pressure is mounting to deliver a book that’s a worthwhile read. …
Blue Cat Jam is an exciting new side venture that I hope will be of interest to you all. A number of my graphical designs are now available for you to have printed on T-shirts in a range of four colours. You can also have them printed onto mugs and mouse-mats, too. Also, if you …
Having had some niggling doubts about the relatively recent site re-design I did, I just spent the last day coming up with another design, which I believe is much stronger while retaining the warm and friendly colour scheme. You can take a look, here.
Thanks to my friend Mattsius for sending me the link to this song.
Our cat, Acrasia, passed away this morning after more than nineteen years of life. She’d been growing frail for some time and in the end faded away very peacefully in her sleep. Tears have been shed – June quite profusely – and we placed Acrasia in a quiet corner of the garden as her final …
I’ve just posted a new “Nutso” screenshot on the Juniper Games website. You can go to the screenshots page, here or directly to the screenshot, here. The screen is still in progress, but I rather like the feel of it. 🙂
Over at Just Adventure+ a new feature has just been posted entitled, “A Chat with Independent Developers” which talks to a large number of developers about why we’ve chosen an independent route. It’s a pretty large feature that’s spread over a number of pages, but it’s certainly interesting to contrast the different responses. I believe …
At the moment I’m in the process of animating sheep for the game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso. One of the greatest things about developing this game is that I’m doing such a variety of stuff, much of which I never thought I’d get the chance to do again.
After eleven weeks in intensive care, my mother has, over the last week, improved to the point where she’s been taken off the ventilator and moved into the high dependency unit. Considering it was only a couple of weeks ago that the doctors were worried that they’d never get her off the ventilator, this is …
This article over at The Escapist is an interesting look at why the game industry is struggling to have a more mainstream appeal. However, although a lot of what is contained in the piece is well thought through, it doesn’t take into account the much more variable nature of people’s tastes when it comes to …
Small piece on the MCV site about the announcement of Ian Livingstone being awarded the OBE for services to the games industry. Excellent news and congratulations to him.
In spite of the fact that it’s yet to be released in Europe, Eurogamer put Psychonauts at the top of their top 50 games of the year. Congratulations to Tim Schafer and everyone at Double Fine. I’m so pleased that a comedy game is the top game – it really confirms my feeling that we …