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 was sorely tempted to add Beneath a Steel Sky to my list of Top Ten games in the previous post, but I think that would be bad form because I worked on it. Although I didn’t do any of the writing and design, I still think it’s not something I should put on a …
The trip to Germany was pretty uneventful, although Hannover was really cold when I got there – about -7 degrees centigrade. Thankfully I was met by someone who drove me to the hotel. He was also taking Darius Kazemi to the hotel and it was nice to meet a fellow speaker so soon, especially when …
With no hype or fanfare whatsoever, a new game has just been released – Rhianna Ford and the Da Vinci Letter. I mention this because it’s the first of the casual games I wrote and designed in the last year. 🙂 Although it’s primarily a hidden object game, it contains a number of adventure elements. …
Next week I’m talking at the Games Forum Germany. I was rather surprised when I was invited and, of course, very honoured. I hope I give a talk they’ll be pleased with. I decided to talk about aspects of character, but I didn’t want to go down the route of it being an instructional talk, …
The guys at Adventure-Treff posted a compilation video message for the festive season and I contributed to it with a few words. You can view the video here. Much of the compilation I didn’t understand because those parts were in German, but mine and a couple of other parts are in English. I laughed most …
To celebrate the forthcoming holiday season, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso is now on special offer at the new holiday price: 3.99 USD, 3.49 Euro, 2.99 GBP
I like to read a lot and it’s not unusual for me to have two or three books on the go at the same time as well as magazines. It’s important to read a broad range of books, particularly outside of the game development arena, but it’s also imprtant to keep abreast of what other …
I was looking at the links that brought people to my site when I saw that a few had come from this one today. Imagine how flattered I feel at such kind words. Thanks, Terramax, I’m touched.
The Whispered World is an absolutely gorgeous-looking game from Daedalic Entertainment. I’ve been interested in this game since I first saw screenshots over a year ago, so when they asked me to work on the script editing for the English version I just couldn’t say no. I’ve just been informed that I’m able to talk …
As GamesCom is just a week and a half away I thought I would post. This year I’m hoping to hook up with quite a few clients and friends, as well as help support and promote games I’ve been involved in. Primarily, there’ll be promotion for the Wii version of So Blonde, for which we …
Gosh, it’s been a month since I last posted anything here. This year seems to be passing by so quickly… A new article, by me, has just been posted over at the Adventure Gamers site. It’s the first in what they hope to be a regular guest column using different people from the game development …