{"id":887,"date":"2011-02-01T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2011-02-01T08:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T08:30:27","slug":"18th-anniversay-and-a-free-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/18th-anniversay-and-a-free-game\/","title":{"rendered":"18th Anniversay and a Free Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 18th anniversary of when I first joined the games industry.\u00a0 To mark this momentous occasion I&#8217;m now making my game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juniper-games.com\/smoozles\/downloads.htm\">absolutely free to download and play<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-888\" href=\"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=888\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-888\" title=\"Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Loading_screen2a.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Loading_screen2a.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Loading_screen2a-150x130.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first joined Revolution Software in February of 1993 as an artist and did some background work and sprite animation on Beneath a Steel Sky as well as some initial work on the first Broken Sword game.\u00a0 I then moved into a producer role for the first two Broken Sword games before moving over the design and writing side of things.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004 I turned freelance and concentrated on writing and design and have been very fortunate to have worked on a large variety of titles, including the PC game, So Blonde, for which I received a nomination in 2008 at the Writers Guild of Great Britain Awards.<\/p>\n<p>My greatest pleasure as a games professional has been meeting and working with a large range of highly talented people.\u00a0 Without all the combined creativity of everyone involved games wouldn&#8217;t have the rich detail and sense of fun they do.<\/p>\n<p>This year promises to be another intersting one and when I&#8217;m able to tell you a bit more about it later in the year I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll find it interesting, too.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;d like to thank all the people that have supported me over the years.\u00a0 June, my partner, is top of the list, along with my family and friends.\u00a0 But I&#8217;d also like to thank the people who follow my blogs, conduct and read my interviews and spare the time to help out with testing and feedback &#8211; it&#8217;s all so valuable to my mental well-being.\u00a0 Also, all of you who have bought the games in which I&#8217;ve been involved &#8211; a big thanks.\u00a0 Without the sales I wouldn&#8217;t be able to do this job I love so much.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to many more anniversaries.\u00a0 Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 18th anniversary of when I first joined the games industry.\u00a0 To mark this momentous occasion I&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/18th-anniversay-and-a-free-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;18th Anniversay and a Free Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,40,50,3],"tags":[7,266,93,9],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-game-writing","category-games","category-writing","tag-game-development","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-writing-for-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}