The Sam Suede Kickstarter project was announced yesterday and as I’ve been looking forward to working on this game (and still am) I was pretty excited to see it go live. I’ve not been connected with a Kickstarter project before. Unfortunately, and almost immediately following the launch, there were some claims made about the project …
Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill is out now! This is the sequel to the popular game, Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand That Feeds. As regular readers will be aware, I wrote and designed both of these games and I hope you enjoy playing the new installment.
A new video interview has been released for the game, Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle. I gave this interview at Gamescom last year but it’s only just been released today.
I wrote a second SED game and it’s just been announced – Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill. The graphic is from the first game but I’m sure they’ll update that fairly soon.
A new interview with me has just been posted on Gnomes Lair. I hope you enjoy reading it.
I now have an agent. It took a little while to finalise the contract details, but earlier today I signed the contract and am now represented by the SMART Talent agency. From now on they will be negotiating my million dollar deals. 🙂 To contact them, please do so through the e-mail address, jd@smart-talent-group.co.uk If …
I was asked to write a guest column for the German adventure gaming site, Adventure-Treff. As this is a new feature on the site and I’m the first to write a piece, it’s quite an honour and I hope my short article is a suitable way to begin the series. The link takes you to …
After chatting on Twitter with the wonderful Amelia Tyler about dialogue and recording, I felt inspired to write a post. There’s a lot that needs to happen in order for great dialogue to appear in a game. Not all of it is down to the writer, of course, so here’s a list of things writers …
A couple of years ago I wrote and designed a casual game called Rhianna Ford and the Da Vinci Letter, which was released on PC for download through Big Fish and other portal sites. It’s now been released for the iPad. The game has a 4.5 star customer rating, so in spite of a few …
I recently had the pleasure of accompanying Mark Estdale in giving a talk to a group of students at the Drama Centre in London about game writing and performance. Mark is long-time friend, runs a voice recording studio called OM and has a huge number of games under his belt. We’re both firmly of the …
Having never been to a dedicated screenwriting festival before, attending the LSWF was a pleasure in itself, particularly being in the presence of so many talented and friendly people. Because I’d been invited to speak as part of a panel on game writing, I felt doubly pleased to be there as I was able to …
Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand That Feeds is coming to Android devices according to AndroidGuys. “Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand that Feeds was originally developed for PC by Floodlight Games. When the game launched on the iOS platform, it was immediately named one of the best five hidden object games by iPhone Quality Index, and …