Today is the 18th anniversary of when I first joined the games industry. To mark this momentous occasion I’m now making my game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso, absolutely free to download and play. I first joined Revolution Software in February of 1993 as an artist and did some background work and sprite animation on Beneath …
I’ve just finished reading Roadkill, the latest Cal Leandros novel by Rob Thurman and it was hard work. Such a let-down after the previous four books in the series. Admittedly, none of them have matched the first one because in that there was a well-handled twist that I never saw coming and that’s always a pleasant surprise, but mostly they were exciting, dynamic romps. Which is why this one was such hard work – it failed in so many things with which the others succeeded.
It didn’t take me long to realise that I couldn’t stay away from Mike and his life. However, I’ve changed the format and am now doing it as a series of journal entries on a blog: Story to Nowhere – Mike’s Journal. There will be no art in this current section of the project but …
With the vacant slot in my comic schedule created by Story to Nowhere coming to a conclusion, I decided to fill the gap with an additional Baked Beans comic strip. This means that Baked Beans will be appearing three times a week from now on – Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. I hope you continue to …
In spite of the title, Story to Nowhere has arrived at a place where I feel it’s best to stop. For those of you who have been following the story you may well appreciate why.
I’m trying to write this entry from my iPad. Last time I tried to do this it didn’t work properly and posted it with the wrong date and time. However, that was from the WordPress app and posted to my other blog. This time I’m trying from the web based dashboard to see if it’s …
I created a Youtube video and I thought you might like to see it. I took a few miknutes to comment on the what’s been happening over the last year. I hope it’s of interest to you. Festive Greetings from Steve Ince I was experimenting because I’m thinking of doing a series of comment videos …
It is now a year since I first started writing and drawing the Mitchell cartoons. Apart from wishing Mitchell a very happy first birthday, I thought I’d take a little time to think back on this first year of cartoons. Today’s cartoon is number 126 and I find myself a little surpried that it’s still …
Earlier this year I was invited to the EA offices in Guildford to discuss the possibility of working on a game called Spare Parts, being created under their Bright Light division. It was such a pleasure to get the job and write the dialogue for such a fun game, but what I didn’t realise at …
I think I may have hit on something that may well explain why I’m not a millionaire writer with an international following and untold numbers of fans – I haven’t managed to come up with a clever, gimmicky or off-the-wall way of dodging serious questions that are put to me by well-meaning would-be writers simply out for a bit of useful advice.
Inspired by a piece over at the Eurogamer site, but also by the comments on the piece, I thought I’d write my own take on this.
There have been a few changes with the Mr. Smoozles comic strip. The first is that I’ve returned to the art duties and have moved the strip size up to something a little larger. There has also been a change in design with all the new pages taking on a slightly cleaner look that suits …