Has life become a tad predictable? Do days stretch into oblivion? Is something… missing… but you just don’t know what? Juniper Games has just the thing to put sparkle in your eyes, create envy in your friends and better yet – alarm your family! Yes, you can play a part in the development of a …
While it comes as no surprise that London has been targetted by terrorists, I’m still apalled at the way some people have such a disregard of human life just for their political ends. Working in the games industry means that I have lots of contacts who live and/or work in the London area and I …
Two of my sites have been down for the last couple of days. This was due to a serious server problem at the company that provides my hosting. I’ve just finished putting everything back in place, so I’m hoping that everthing works okay. Please let me know if you find any problems such as broken …
There is no Mr. Smoozles today. The stresses of last week got to me a little and I decided to have a completely relaxing weekend and so didn’t do the strips for this week. The worries surrounding my father played heavily on my mind, particularly as I have an appointment at the hospital myself tomorrow …
My father is already at home and is well on the road to recovery already, which is a great relief and we’re all thankful it didn’t turn out to be more serious.
I find the workings of the universe very difficult to understand, even at the best of times, but yesterday pushed this to the limit. After being contacted by a publisher who wanted to talk about Juniper Crescent – The Sapphire Claw, something which is highly desirable, I got news early yesterday evening that my father …
This article over at Eurogamer reports on a study by Klaus Mathiak who concluded that “therefore games train our brains not to distinguish between what’s real and what’s pretend.” However, to me, all he has proved, at best, is that this conclusion can be drawn from gamers playing FPS games. It seems like he’s got …
New Mr. Smoozles strip has just gone up.
…well, kind of. I arrived back from my holiday late on Friday evening and am only just getting back into the swing of things again. Italy was fabulous, the weather was beautiful and we had a great time. I arrived home to find that there was a letter asking me to make an appointment for …
Penny Arcade on Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud. I thought Understanding Comics was brilliant, but Reinventing Comics was dreadful. I’m glad I’m not the only one. 🙂
Just been reading A Gamers’ Manifesto and there is some really excellent thoughts and ideas wrapped up in there. Much of it can be boiled down to, give the gamers substance instead of concentrating on empty style. “the next generation of games will likely play just like this generation. Only shiny.” That’s a really depressing …
I’ve just put up a new screenshot from the game, Juniper Crescent – The Sapphire Claw. I hope you enjoy seeing it.