Considering the game first came out three and a half years ago, I thought that the days of new reviews were over. Then earlier this evening I was sent a link to a great review over at Alternative Magazine Online.
I decided to pull out one of the scenes from the “never to be published”, Call of Cthulhu: Destiny’s End. This takes place near the beginning of the intended game. Emily has taken car keys belonging to her father, Michael, and her new friend, Jacob, is waiting for her. ___ Emily leaves the house with …
I’m always wary of people trying to automate aspects of creativity. It always makes me think that the people involved don’t truly know what creativity is. What I’m thinking of are those who want to somehow automate story creation or voice acting – I think they will end up being further uncanny valley endeavours. This …
… at least, something not connected to So Blonde. 🙂 I’ve been experimenting a little with a new style. Not fully sure, yet, how it will actually work in game and which game I’m going to use it on, but I think it would be fun to do.
Either I’ve not been paying attention or there’s a lot more creativity coming out of the gaming woodwork at the moment than there ever has been. I just saw an article on Eurogamer about the forthcoming game, Love. This looks like a truly creative and exciting project and something I find intriguing, particularly as, with …
Yesterday evening I was over at Hull University giving a talk to the local section of the British Computer Society entitled, Games – the Creative and the Technical. Basically, I looked at how the technology of tools and modern game engines allows developers to unleash their creativity. One of the great things about the games …
Beth Dillon asked me if I’d link to Notes on Game Dev, which is a blog style editorial on art and design topics. I’ve not read an awful lot of it yet, but what I’ve seen so far looks very interesting and highly relevant. Much more so than my own blog at the moment. So …
The Writers Guild of America announced last year that it would be creating a new award aimed at game writers. More recently it announced the shortlist, amongst which was the game The Witcher. But because I am not a member of the WGA or its New Media Caucus I was not included in the list …
Well, listen to my weird voice, anyway. 🙂 Although GC in Leipzig was two months ago, the guys over at Adventure-Treff have finally posted a video interview that they conducted with me. I’ve done a lot of e-mail and MSN messenger interviews and with that format I always have a chance to think about my …
I’m in the middle of designing a game. Although it’s hard to be objective about a work in progress, it’s possibly the best design I’ve worked on. (Best being completely relative of course.) The design is much more non-linear than anything else I’ve worked on, which naturally throws up a lot of detail and complexity, …
I gave a talk on plotting last night at a meeting of York Writers. I was pretty nervous, as many of the writers have been published, and wondered how they would take what I had to say. Thankfully, they all seemed to enjoy it and it fired up some interesting discussion afterwards, which resulted in …
And no one told me! Again, I’m sorry for not posting very much just lately, but my life feels full. But I’m going to take a little time to chill, listen to some music (Wishbone Ash at the moment) and write a few words. I’m currently working on a project that I can’t mention just …