The One Ring
I was really surprised to see this arrive: The One Ring This is the latest game based around The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The art is simply…[...]
It is September in the Year of Our Lord, Twelve Hundred and Nineteen
Having met The Greek, Paul Akritas, at the agreed location in the city of Praha, Tangui ex Bonisagus and his loyal servant, Godfroi, start out on their journey towards Budapest.…[...]
Games Development Seminar – Belfast, 14th Sept
Last chance to register for a games technology development seminar here in Belfast. Wed, 14 September from 10:00 to 12:00 at Radisson Blu, Gasworks, Belfast The speaker is Paul Durrant,…[...]
And the result is…
The answer to my last message was a resounding "Ars Magica". I'm happy about this because I had some of my best fun with Ars Magica back in the 90s.…[...]
Email sent to gaming group
The plan is to have a Plan B game to turn to. I'm happy to run one though you'd have to choose between: Ars Magica (campaigns over years, trouple play,…[...]
Game Prototype development quote needed
I'm looking for a prototype of a RTS game on iOS developed. Just a single level, basic graphics. 2D sprites on 3D isometric plane. Happy for it to be done…[...]
God Willt
Another book arrived in the post that I'd forgotten about. Deus Vult by Mongoose Publishing is essentially playing the bad guys from The Da Vinci Code but back in the…[...]
New Haul: from Cromwell to Cthulhu via Mirkwood
Today I got a new haul of stuff. Some of these were PDF bundles so at some point the dead tree version of the book will arrive in the post.…[...]
Indies on the Mac
From the Oddlabs blog: Many game developers, indie or not, view the Mac as a freak that no one cares for or wants to be associated with. They look at…[...]
Although they are developed in software, games are not software
The title of this post is from this article: You Need $100,000. Users relate to them differently. Immersion matters. Balance matters. Drawing people into the world of the game in…[...]
Skirmish MP
Following on from my last post, I would posit that there is something missing from MP RTS (Multi Player Real Time Strategy) games and that would be the lack of…[...]
Most RTS single player modes suck…
Josh Bycer writes: Honestly, most RTS single player modes... suck. The reason is that designers try to use it to teach the player about multiplayer which doesn't work, as an…[...]
Back again
I've been on a holiday-and-work-fueled hiatus. Two weeks driving in France and Spain and then two weeks spent helping people access seed funding for new ventures in "digital" as part…[...]
It’s full of stars
Ocean Sky from Alex Cherney on Vimeo. Absolutely breathtaking. And if we ever got some decent weather (and I had a decent camera), I'd like to do some more time-lapse…[...]
Gliese 581
[caption id="attachment_815" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Gliese 581 (origins references appreciated)"][/caption] Of course, this is not the first time we have seen Gliese 581 (HO Librae). In 2214, we'll send a Seedship.[...]
QABAL: INTENT vs IMPLEMENTATION
This thread on rpg.net asks why secret magical settings in games tend to be dumb. My problem is, it's never made any sense to me on an absolutely fundamental. The…[...]
Smallvillification
I'm a fan of the Smallville series (so much so that the collected series is on my Amazon wishlist for October when it's released). I've not watched all of it…[...]
Frontier: A Changed Man
Kibwe had returned home a changed man. Kibwe had always wanted to be a pilot. From an early age he made airfoils from balsa and drove his parents to distraction…[...]
Anomaly Warzone Earth
Great videos from the launch team here. Described as a Tower Offense game, it certainly adds a different flavour to the stock re-runs of tower defense games (like Plants vs…[...]
Resonance
On TV, on your phone and online through music and games Something is happening The way people create and engage in stories is changing Resonance is a grand narrative told…[...]