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A Simple Lifeform I

Published on 2009-01-14 11:37:00

Friends, it is time to close up this old blog o' mine. I am moving house.Some weeks back just before Christmas, I left my job working as a producer and moved to a partnership in a startup company. Simple Lifeforms is its name and social games are its > read more

The Economic Crises: A Game Design Approach

Published on 2008-10-18 10:17:00

With the recent set of turmoil that has engulfed markets all around the world, I can't help but think of it as a game. At the moment the banks are all in trouble, the levels of trust in markets at an all time low. It is, in essence, a game of poker t > read more

Embedding and sharing in the Play Room

Published on 2008-09-05 02:00:00

The Play Room is proving to be quite entertaining, and it's always fun to share within it. Some tips:It's really very easy to join. Simply register a username on Frienfeed.com (this takes all of ten seconds) and then click this link: http://friendfee > read more

Nine members

Published on 2008-08-11 07:19:00

Well it's a start.So far the activity in The Play Room has admittedly mostly been mine (come on members, get with the sharing) but some of those items have been quite interesting even if I do say so myself.Two articles, for example.One is about pirac > read more

The Play Room: Friendfear?

Published on 2008-08-07 14:19:00

Something I hadn't expected.I've asked a few friends, not many - people in games - to sign up to the room. A few have. But some of the reactions that I've had from those who haven't has been something that I hadn't expected: Fear of publicity.Specifi > read more

The Play Room: 24 Hours later

Published on 2008-08-05 18:04:00

Well things have gotten off to a good start: There are 7 of us in the room now.I've had an interesting day talking to a few friends about it in fact, giving them a link etc. All but one of them didn't know what Friendfeed was at all, and there was a > read more

The Play Room

Published on 2008-08-04 15:16:00

I don't know about you, but recently I have become very very bored with the whole blogging scene. Games blogging such as it is had this really high wave of activity about 3-4 years ago when people like Greg Costikyan and Scott Miller and Daniel Cook > read more

Zero Tolerance: The new music in Zero Punctuation

Published on 2008-08-03 04:42:00

I love Zero Punctuation, the mostly-weekly review video that The Escapist have been running for a while now by British emigré journalist Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw. For those three of you out there who may not know what it is, ZP presents 4-minute long > read more

The conference ritual

Published on 2008-07-14 13:47:00

There's this ritual that I have: Every year I log onto whichever of the gaming news sites are showing webcasts of the E3 conferences, and in another window I click open British gaming forum rllmukforum.com, wherein live commentary is provided. It's a > read more

A question of value

Published on 2008-07-13 13:30:00

If I were to ask you what you think the value your game's content was, what would your answer be? I think most developers would answer somewhere between 10 and 25 pounds (or 20 and 50 dollars US). It's what they would likely consider a fair price for > read more