If you don’t already know, the Wii and DS versions of So Blonde are out today in the UK. If you haven’t already ordered your copy or haven’t thought about doing so, please consider it. Even those of you who already bought the PC version will find that this game offers a new experience that acts as the perfect companion piece to that.
Over at Game Design Aspect of the Month, the first part of my article, Designing Puzzles Backwards, has just been posted. I’m not sure when part two will be posted, but I’ll let you know.
Having worked on a number of casual games over the past few years, I’m struck by how quickly casual games evolve. In particular, it’s interesting to see how the Hidden Object genre appears to be evolving towards the traditional Adventure game.
Yesterday evening I visited Leeds where I attended an evening with Alan Bennett, an event for Script Yorkshire members. It was an incredibly enjoyable evening as you’d expect from such a man. Hi book, A Life Like Other People’s, is among my favourites.
Earlier this year I wrote a blog post about game writing rules, which seems to be getting a bit of interest again. I thought I’d mention it again in case you missed it the first time.
For the first time in quite a while I won’t be attending the annual shindig in Germany. Previously held in Leipzig and then in Cologne last year and this, I always thoroughly enjoyed attending and meeting up with some of the wonderful people I know. So, if you were hoping to catch me for a …
After a little delay caused by my broadband problems, I finally got around to drawing the winners this evening. Nearly everyone got all three questions right, but a couple got one of the questions wrong, so for completeness’ sake, here are the answers:
For those of you who are interested in such things, Rhianna Ford and the Da Vinci Letter is now available on the iWin site. If any of you don’t know, I wrote and designed this game for Green Clover Games. Of course, I’m sure you’ve all bought it from Big Fish by now anyway. 🙂
It feels like I’ve returned from a long trip where my chance to connect to the internet has been severely restricted. However, the phone line has been fixed and my broadband service has resumed so I can catch up on a few things. I’ve already posted updates to Mr. Smoozles and Octavius and a new Mitchell cartoon will be posted tomorrow, then hopefully the full schedule will resume as normal.
If you’re still thinking of entering the competition, or have somehow missed it, this is a quick reminder that it closes next week so be sure to get your entries in before it does.
Develop have just put my interactive dialogue article online. This is obviously great news, but I thought it was a little funny in their summary piece, which seems to go out of its way to be controversial. While it’s likely to get more interest that way, I’m not a great fan of such controversy for …
To celebrate six years as a freelance writer and game designer, I’m giving away signed copies of my book, Writing for Video Games, to the two lucky winners of this new competition. Four Runners-up will receive key codes to the arcade adventure game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso.