On March 24th I’ll be heading out to Boise, Idaho, spending some time at Hackfort: the games and tech side of the Treefort music festival. As well as hosting a talk called Games Grown Up – taking a look at how the medium is rapidly maturing, attracting a more diverse player base and…
Continuing my pursuit to learn some C# and familiarise myself with Unity, I figured the best way to speed my learning was simply to make a game. The Unity tutorials are really impressive, but working towards my own goals and objectives I found I was able to lean a lot…
Despite involving a chuff load of work (and learning a lot! That’s the key bit here), everything visibly cool about this little game was supplied in the form of pre-existing models, animations and scripts. While the tutorial allowed me to write the PlayerController script, and a few other bits and…
The eagerly anticipated sequel to last week’s smash hit ‘Tutorial 1™’ has arrived! ‘Tutorial 2™’ is a space combat game featuring high-octane cosmic battles, where a lone ship – lost amongst the stars – must hold its own against a never-ending stream of devastating asteroids. It’s the game that critics…
I’ve decided to teach myself a bit o’ code ‘n that. I’ve got all these game ideas kicking about my head, and it seems the only way any of them will ever see the light of day is if I throw myself into it and learn. If nothing else, it’ll…
Swearing is brilliant. Inventive, well-timed use of a nice rude word or needlessly explicit term adds a certain something to an exchange that really brings it to life. It gives a scene intensity, or a comical edge – or simply makes a character sound cool. And swearing, as we all…
Three Monkeys – the audio RPG I’m writing with Incus Games – has just launched on Kickstarter. As an audio game, with very little in the way of visual assets, it’s hard to sell the vision of the game to potential backers. To that end, our promo video – crafted…
Hello there! I haven’t got the time to do a top 10 – or the heart to rank them – but here are my four favourite games of 2014. Just because. WOLFENSTEIN: THE NEW ORDER Wolfenstein’s an interesting one, isn’t it? It has the DNA of a big dumb shooter…
I’ve written about games for years, but writing for them was always something that was in the back of my mind. In 2013 I got the chance to step up and have a stab at writing on the other side of the fence. Working with Incus Games, I’ve been designing…
In an effort to help out indies and smaller studios, I set up SnickerSnack PR to offer PR solutions on a shoestring. Head over to snickersnack.co.uk for more information