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 …
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 …
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.
Earlier this year I wrote a blog post about game writing rules, which seems to be getting a bit of interest again. I thought I’d mention it again in case you missed it the first time.
For the first time in quite a while I won’t be attending the annual shindig in Germany. Previously held in Leipzig and then in Cologne last year and this, I always thoroughly enjoyed attending and meeting up with some of the wonderful people I know. So, if you were hoping to catch me for a …
After a little delay caused by my broadband problems, I finally got around to drawing the winners this evening. Nearly everyone got all three questions right, but a couple got one of the questions wrong, so for completeness’ sake, here are the answers:
For those of you who are interested in such things, Rhianna Ford and the Da Vinci Letter is now available on the iWin site. If any of you don’t know, I wrote and designed this game for Green Clover Games. Of course, I’m sure you’ve all bought it from Big Fish by now anyway. 🙂
It feels like I’ve returned from a long trip where my chance to connect to the internet has been severely restricted. However, the phone line has been fixed and my broadband service has resumed so I can catch up on a few things. I’ve already posted updates to Mr. Smoozles and Octavius and a new Mitchell cartoon will be posted tomorrow, then hopefully the full schedule will resume as normal.
If you’re still thinking of entering the competition, or have somehow missed it, this is a quick reminder that it closes next week so be sure to get your entries in before it does.
Develop have just put my interactive dialogue article online. This is obviously great news, but I thought it was a little funny in their summary piece, which seems to go out of its way to be controversial. While it’s likely to get more interest that way, I’m not a great fan of such controversy for …
To celebrate six years as a freelance writer and game designer, I’m giving away signed copies of my book, Writing for Video Games, to the two lucky winners of this new competition. Four Runners-up will receive key codes to the arcade adventure game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso.
Another day, another jump. Special Enquiry Detail is now at No. 3 on the Big Fish PC chart!