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A Simple Lifeform I 15 Jan 2009 | 06:37 am
Friends, it is time to close up this old blog o' mine. I am moving house. Some weeks back just before Christmas, I left my job working as a producer and moved to a partnership in a startup company. S...
The Economic Crises: A Game Design Approach 19 Oct 2008 | 03:17 am
With the recent set of turmoil that has engulfed markets all around the world, I can't help but think of it as a game. At the moment the banks are all in trouble, the levels of trust in markets at an ...
Embedding and sharing in the Play Room 5 Sep 2008 | 07:00 pm
The Play Room is proving to be quite entertaining, and it's always fun to share within it. Some tips: It's really very easy to join. Simply register a username on Frienfeed.com (this takes all of ten...
Nine members 12 Aug 2008 | 12:19 am
Well it's a start. So far the activity in The Play Room has admittedly mostly been mine (come on members, get with the sharing) but some of those items have been quite interesting even if I do say so...
The Play Room: Friendfear? 8 Aug 2008 | 07:19 am
Something I hadn't expected. I've asked a few friends, not many - people in games - to sign up to the room. A few have. But some of the reactions that I've had from those who haven't has been somethi...
The Play Room: 24 Hours later 6 Aug 2008 | 11:04 am
Well things have gotten off to a good start: There are 7 of us in the room now. I've had an interesting day talking to a few friends about it in fact, giving them a link etc. All but one of them didn...
The Play Room 5 Aug 2008 | 08:16 am
I don't know about you, but recently I have become very very bored with the whole blogging scene. Games blogging such as it is had this really high wave of activity about 3-4 years ago when people lik...
Zero Tolerance: The new music in Zero Punctuation 3 Aug 2008 | 09:42 pm
I love Zero Punctuation, the mostly-weekly review video that The Escapist have been running for a while now by British emigré journalist Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw. For those three of you out there who ma...
The conference ritual 15 Jul 2008 | 06:47 am
There's this ritual that I have: Every year I log onto whichever of the gaming news sites are showing webcasts of the E3 conferences, and in another window I click open British gaming forum rllmukforu...
A question of value 14 Jul 2008 | 06:30 am
If I were to ask you what you think the value your game's content was, what would your answer be? I think most developers would answer somewhere between 10 and 25 pounds (or 20 and 50 dollars US). It'...
