PLAY AT NEWGROUNDS My latest game, Traitor, has just been released. It’s a casual shoot’em up set in a universe not quite like ours. The music, which rocks, is by Chris Davis. Some thoughts about the game itself: Traitor is what you might call a casual game. Its focus is …
There is a tendency in game designers (the very word designer implies it, I suppose), to think of games in an entirely mechanical way: as a set of parts, programmed to perform a certain task, with the purpose of the designer being to make them as efficient as possible at …
Traitor, the casual shmup I made a while ago, was supposed to come out today. Financially speaking, I needed it to come out today. But, as you can tell, it’s not here. So what happened? Well, for reasons I cannot explain, it seems to be bugging out when played in …
No-one knows why the Blue Crow comes, or why it chooses those that it chooses. In some cultures, to see the crow is considered an honour. The people of Billion Toad City, who know a great deal about life-changing events, think of it that way. In other places, those who …
I made a very peculiar trophy for a game of Neptune’s Pride. Wait, what? Yes, I really did. I suppose it must be one of the stranger gaming trophies in the world. To find out more, head on over to Electron Dance.
When you’re watching a country being destroyed and people’s lives collapsing, you realize how inane and childish most art is.
I have so much to write about, but I’m overwhelmed by work and bureaucracy. I’ll try to write a good update tomorrow. For now, here’s Alistair Hulett doing a Leonard Cohen-style song to criticize Leonard Cohen for breaking the boycott of Israel. “In these days when times are rough / …
Some things just define you; the music you listen to as a child is often one of them. For me, anyway. Maybe I was luckier than some – thanks to my parents, I was exposed to a large variety of truly great songs as a child. This wasn’t really intentional; …
I’ve been working too hard to have the time for a proper update, so tonight I’m posting some links. But I’m also working on getting the remaining Compendium images posted (in the mail and on this blog). I’m very sorry for taking so long, but I try very hard to …
The Fabulous Screech can now be played at Newgrounds. Why don’t you go over there and vote for it (him?) and leave a nice comment? The game seems to be having an effect on people that is very much like the effect it has on me, so if you have …
