Gemma Noon, who seems to be out for some kind of interviewing record with the number of people she’s interviewing, asked me to be one of her interviewees a few weeks ago. The result has just been posted on Gemma’s blog, The Literary Project. Thanks for making sense of my ramblings, Gemma.
I’m thinking of creating a Mr. Smoozles adventure game. Below is a test screenshot to gauge what people might think about this idea. Please let me know. The idea is that it would be completely silly and fun, but the puzzles would be good solid ones within the context of the game world.
When I spoke at the Games Forum Germany conference in January, the talk I gave was recorded. I’m not sure when it went online, but you can now view the talk in full. You have to scroll down the list of videos a little to get to mine. The talk is about aspects of character …
I’ve started updating Story to Nowhere again. I’m now in part two of the story and I’m looking to post new episodes on Mondays and Thursdays for the time being. For those who are unfamiliar with Story to Nowhere, you can start reading from the beginning if you wish to catch up. This is a …
The casual game, Alice in Wonderland, has just been released on Big Fish Games. This is another game I wrote the story and dialogue and for which I did the high-level design. The game has no connection to the Tim Burton film. I went back to the original book and then created a story with a …
After all this time there is some news about the game. At least, there is if you speak German. The German DS version is already out, apparently, with the Wii version following on the 26th March. You can take a look at the website here. There is an English version of the site, but some …
I was asked to do an interview for Alternative Magazine Online and like I usually do with these things I said yes, so imagine my surprise when I got an e-mail through with the most ever questions for an interview. Thankfully, most of them were pretty good questions and I managed to get through the …
The Writing Industries Conference was great. I’ve never before met so many writers in one place and in spite of lots of news of the demise of print in recent months the attitudes were mostly positive.
I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything this week, I’ve been busy with a few things, amongst which has been the preparations for the Writing Industries Conference on Saturday. I shall endeavour to blog about it next week. Because it’s a non-games event I’m sure that I’ll feel a little out of my depth, but I’m …
My cartoon cat, Mitchell, is now on Twitter. He’s only just signed up, so god only knows what he’s going to post about. I dread to think.
I was reading this post, “You should blog every day” over at the Bubble Cow blog, which got me thinking about my own posting schedule – a hit and miss affair even at the best of times. Should I consider posting every day or is that idea a potential hazard?
Graham Linehan (@Glinner on Twitter) tweeted a link to a wonderful article on the Guardian website: Ten Rules for Writing Fiction. It’s two pages are filled with lots of writers’ rules and tips and I’m sure it’s a good read for writers at all stages of their careers.
I started thinking about the possibility of coming up with my own set of rules specifically aimed at game writing and after thinking about it for a little time my initial thought was that it might not be possible to do this at all.