They’re re-making the original Monkey Island game: Video Screens I’ve seen some very mixed comments about the way this looks, but I think it looks pretty good. Not as good as if Bill Tiller had worked on the backgrounds, but very faithful to the original while bringing it a little more up to date. There’s …
There seems to have developed a major snobbery in the gaming world – if a game isn’t hardcore then it’s undeserving of any real consideration and you’re an “imbecile” (not my word) if you happen to be a housewife who enjoys casual games. Where did this all come from? Games are meant to be fun …
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 …
I received my first piece of hate mail today and actually find it quite funny. The following is the entirety of the message: “your game sucks, go **** a goat and don’t make video-game stories ever again! Bad bad bad bad bad writer!” Obviously, I edited the line to take out the expletive, but I’m …
There’s a piece on the Develop website, which covers a keynote speech by Jonathan Blow at the Montreal Game Summit. It’s a perfect example of how a person can be so right and so wrong at the same time. While he’s right that there is a need for deeper, richer games, the way he puts …
Over at the Adventure Europe site, they are once again hosting and online conference where they pull together a number of developers and publishers to answer questions during allocated slots over the three days it takes place. More details can be found here. I’m actually going to be doing two sessions.The first one will cover …
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I’ve just watched this gameplay footage for the second time. What a fabulous looking game! What great fun! This is going straight to the top of my most wanted list. Sod those story games if there is fun like this out there. 🙂 It’s weird because I’ve never been particularly drawn to Mario games in …
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 …
A report over at MCV covers the opening of a new Gamestation shop in my home town of Hull. Claiming it will be the second largest gaming shop in Europe, that’s quite an acheivement for a town that reguarly gets a lot of stick from all quarters. “Hull has some of the most dedicated gamers …
The first trailer for Brütal Legend, the next Tim Schafer game, has been released. I must admit, it caught me a little by surprise, but the fact that a game trailer can do this in today’s jaded climate is a good point to start from. Although it’s an action game that looks incredibly gory, the …
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 …