The last couple of days I’ve been working on a number of things connected with Caroline’s Secret, my personal project. One of these was the story, which has been troubling me for a little while and now I’m much happier with. The other is the portrait of Caroline, above. This is an early version and …
“Don’t even think about touching the keyboard.” Writers’ block takes on many forms…
If any of you tried to come here over the last couple of weeks you’ll have noticed the blog was down. This was due to a problem with the database which even changing server didn’t fix. The tech guys at my hosting provider eventually tracked it down to some weirdness with the username. So, it’s back …
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I’ve been invited to give a keynote speech at this year’s International Conference on Entertainment Computing. Although I’ve known for a little while, I was waiting for the official announcement on their website before posting anything. If any of you are attending I look forward to meeting up with you and having a chat.
I would have liked to have posted about this before now but yesterday was filled with woodwork and computer problems. The Sam Suede Kickstarter page has been updated. There is also an update from Ken Wegrzyn of Wisecrack Games in which he explains the reason for the update. Basically, responding to fans concerns about the …
The Sam Suede Kickstarter project was announced yesterday and as I’ve been looking forward to working on this game (and still am) I was pretty excited to see it go live. I’ve not been connected with a Kickstarter project before. Unfortunately, and almost immediately following the launch, there were some claims made about the project …
The game got a best app award. I think that’s pretty cool. 🙂 Rated 4.3 (out of 5) from 17,474 ratings. Downloaded 1,000,000+ times
In order for the new Story to Nowhere project to work I’m going to be updating some of the images used in the original. Here’s an example of how I’m re-working the images.
I’ve been playing around with ideas for continuing Story to Nowhere as a game (maybe even a series of them) and this test screenshot shows the way I’m thinking about the art direction.
There’s actually been an entry about me on the German language version for a while, but now there’s an English language entry, too. This one is much more comprehensive than the German one appears to be and that’s all due to Willem van der Velden and his sterling efforts to gather all the relevant information. …