Hello! Gosh, three months between blog posts isn’t a very good showing, is it?
In my defense, the last three months have been incredibly busy for me – I’ve been working on a series of pretty awesome non-game related projects, which are in various stages of completion/production at the moment. The only one I can really show you yet is these idents we made for the vast and benevolent Crusha corporation, which are airing on Nickelodeon in the UK right now. I watched a bit of Nickelodeon the other day as a result, but I can’t recommend the particular show I saw unless you happen to be a teenage girl. There was a lot of sass. Several characters had conspicuous attitude. I watched through the gaps between my fingers. Possibly I was not of the target demographic.
I’ve also done a stop-motion thingy for BBC online, which I think is going out in a week or so. I promise you it’s the best thing you will ever see apart from some other things. More on that when it’s available.
Also, I’ve been working on a super-secret project for rathergood, although all I can say about it is that I spent the last week constructing a badger.
So! Anyway, game news! Since we last spoke I’ve finished exactly two games! I shall tell you about them right now.
Game one is called ‘Fireflight,’ and it’s the super-secret game I hinted about in my last post.
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It’s a hand-painted 3D dodge-em-up very reminiscent of an old Spectrum game called Deathchase. I was going for fast and simple gameplay, in a Canabalt sort of a way. Anyway, I’m looking for sponsorship right now, so if you happen to be a major Flash game portal, I can promise you that if you sponsor it then it will definitely be a massive success and everyone in the world will be playing it all day every day for the rest of their lives. Also I accept money electronically, or in the form of sacks of gold bullion left anonymously outside my front door.
If you’re not a sponsor, then you can play the game just as soon as it’s released, which should be very soon now. You will be the first to know. Yes, you personally.
The second game was a bit of fun – for a bit of a bet with myself, I made a game in three days for the new Blackberry Playbook. It’s called ‘Rocket Storm,’ and its a little arcadey reaction thing, where you have to defend a space-station against an endless onslaught of missiles and spaceships.
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It came out surprisingly well, so I’m right now this morning having a go at porting it over to Android, with iOS next on the list. Oh, and I’ll do a Flash version too I reckon. I don’t think the Playbook is officially released until the 19th (although some people already seem to be downloading and playing it somehow. Journalists? RIM employees? Time travellers? I literally do not know.)
Anyway if you have a Playbook and you are in the future, you can download it (for free!) from http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/38933?lang=en
Or, you can use this handy magical QR code! IS TECHNOLOGY NOT MARVELLOUS?
Oh! I almost forgot, I did a little guest spot on the wonderful Van Hemlock podcast, in which I talk for a solid half hour about computer games without ever once reaching any sort of point or conclusion. Or remembering to mention the two games I’ve recently written, oops. I am not very good at this.
Listen to my incoherent ramblings over at Consoling Gamers.
Um… I think that’s it for now. I see on my other screen the Android SDK has finished installing, so I’d best get back to work. Bye!
