Over at Gear Diary there’s a new review by Michael Anderson of Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand That Feeds for the iPad. At first I was worried that it was going to be a harsh review when the reviewer had a brief reminiscance about a game he played with his wife years ago, but he …
Although I wrote and designed this game some time ago and artwork was being shown last year, there has just been an announcement that Reef Entertainment is to be the publisher. According to the information the game is due out in October this year, so some excellent news, there. There is an official Captain Morgane …
Okay, the title is intentionally controversial as I thoroughly enjoyed last night’s episode of Doctor Who, but I can’t help feeling that the ending wasn’t the great cliffhanger Steven Moffat has been promising us. And for those who have ignored the spoiler warning, I really am going to mention stuff you may not have seen …
There is a new review of my book, Writing for Video Games over at the Gnome’s Lair site. For more details about the book, you can visit the dedicated page on my website.
I’ve decided that updating comic strips 7 days a week on top of everything else I’m doing at the moment is a little crazy. The simplest approach to cutting back is not to post any strips at the weekend, starting next weekend. This means that my cartoons and comics will be appearing Monday to Friday only.
My book, Writing for Video Games, is now available as a Kindle download. If you’ve not yet had the chance to read it, now would be a great time to rectify that oversight. 🙂
Yesterday I gave a talk at the Platform 2011 event in Hull, which went down very well to a full room of people. My talk was about Ideas, Story and Writing for Games, which was a broad topic for a talk lasting just 20 minutes. I originally wrote it to last 25 and only last …
Over at the Edge website is a piece about some comments from Danny Bilson, THQ’s executive VP of core games. As is often the case with things of this nature, there is criticism of storytelling in games but no suggestion of a “solution”. To say that cutscenes “are the “failure state” of game storytelling” is …
The blog was down yesterday, which turned out to be a problem with the latest update to WP 3.1. I’ve gone back to an earlier version to fix this so I hope it’s working for everyone.
I’ve been asked to speak at the Platform 2011 event in Hull on 27th March. There are a good range of speakers throughout the event, so it looks like it’s got something for most people’s interests. I’ve also said that I’ll occupy a table and chat to people who have questions as well as offer …
Over at Develop Online is a very interesting video discussing game narrative. It’s good to see a wide range of people involved, including my friends Rhianna Pratchett and Charles Cecil. However, the thing that bugs me about this isn’t what any of the developers and writers are saying but one of the questions posed at …