Conquer Club – It’s an online board game in the style of Risk. It has the classic World map but also has over 40 other maps, including Ancient Greece, the US Senate and an enhanced World 2.1. You can play against up to 5 other players and Conquer Club has a host of game modes [...]
Will the paparazzi one day be sneaking snap shots of game developers at their holiday hide away? Someone asked me for my autograph the other day. They wanted me to sign a copy of one of my early games, which was nice, but at the same time felt rather strange. When I started making games [...]
During a recent trip to Hong Kong I went to Lantau Island to visit the Buddhist monastery (founded by three Zen masters in 1920) to see the giant Buddha. When I got there the cloud cover was so low that even after climbing up the 269 steps to the base of the statue I couldn’t [...]
How time flies when your working endless crunch time and sleeping on developers living room/office floor trying to get games finished. I have just completed my 20th year in the computer/video games industry and thought I would share a few survival tips. 1. Buy an inflatable mattress. They roll up really small but make sleeping [...]
After much consideration the devil has decided to add a new level to hell. This level will be a lake a raw sewage, topped with a scum of soap bubbles and washed by incessant rain driven by lukewarm winds. The main inhabitant of this foul domain will be the inventor of the utterly useless automated, [...]
Well I took a couple of weeks holiday, packed my bags and headed off for a break from work. While I was away I went on a short walking tour of the lesser known parts of Kyoto. I guess it was too much to expect to escape entirely from video games in the home city [...]
1. Take an empty suitcase/virtually no clothes. 2. On arrival head straight for the Mall (that seems to be the name they use for a shopping centre) 3. Buy all the clothes you need happy in the knowledge that they are half the price they would be back home 4. If you happen to be [...]
Not really had time to look at the news or spare any brain power for pondering as GDC is approaching and it’s such a busy time. Thought I would just share the joys of a pre-GDC week in the life of a consultant….. Monday Working from home, which was a relaxing start to a hectic [...]
I will belatedly comment on an item from a December ’06 copy of MCV (www.www.mcvuk.com/index.php), having just found the page that I tore from the paper. Page 12 of issue 415 (1st Dec ’06) featured an announcement by Ian Livingston (Director of Acquisitions) that Eidos are keen to create a Championship Manager game using Sony’s [...]
Following the upgrading of the site to a DB driven CMS/Blog (using WordPress) several old posts from 2006 are missing. I will re-enter these at a later date