I’ve been participating in the discussion on Roger Ebert’s article/post about video games not being art, and wanted to share a couple of brief thoughts. On twitter, Anna Anthropy asked why anyone actually cares what Roger Ebert thinks about video games. It’s a valid question, and here’s my answer: Whether …
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Here’s something different for today: the last lines of “William Bond”, one of William Blake’s poems from the Pickering Manuscript. I don’t know about you, but they make me shiver with their beauty every time I read them, especially the last two. I thought Love livd in hot sun shine …
The bad news is that I need to work on Phenomenon 32 for a few more days. The good news is that the reason I need to work on it is that I seem to have discovered the origin of the constant crashing that was so ruining the game for …
The new version of Phenomenon 32 has been compiled. Tomorrow shall be dedicated to playtesting. Let’s hope I don’t find too many problems. Meanwhile, in celebration of this small but perhaps significant victory, here’s Tom Waits performing Shore Leave. It’s not exactly a song, more of a narrative with music, …
If all goes well (hah), tomorrow I begin playtesting the new version of Phenomenon 32, and new posts start appearing here and at Commentarium. It’s been an exhausting few days, but I’m really happy with the work I did, and I’m greatly looking forward to moving on to new projects. …
I’ve made some real improvements to some of the levels in Phenomenon 32. This makes me very happy; they just didn’t feel right before, and now they do. Tomorrow I’ll add a couple more areas. Then I’ll playtest the game and see if the new numbers work. And then it …
I’m annoyed at myself for not posting enough, and especially for updating Commentarium so sporadically in the last few days, but I’m actually working and making real progress. I’ve completed going through the levels of Phenomenon 32 and making various changes, and am now going to add a couple of …
This is bloody excellent. And I love the little note on the side: We’re aware this video won’t mean an awful lot if you’ve never heard of The Daily Mail, but on the plus side, you’ve never heard of The Daily Mail. So true.
I don’t know why people assume that a post like “my ego eclipses the sun” was written in anger. It genuinely wasn’t. I think posting unpleasant comments on other people’s sites is a waste of time, and the behaviour of a jerk. What other purpose can possibly be served other …
