September 2010 – lategaming

NINoWriMO – Northern Ireland Novel Writing Month

I'm taking part in a fiction-writing collective called "WriteWeekly" but this has some relevance as well: Blick Shared Studios, Malone Rd, Belfast 7-9pm, Thursday 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th November 2010…

matt September 23, 2010

Frontier

Frontier fiction: The Emotion Elective

AMARA would always marvel at the human capacity for self-deception; the ability to believe something even though the facts were plentiful for the contrary, even though nothing but faith supported…

matt September 23, 2010

Frontier Game Design Writing

Frontier: Foreword, History of Mbaye Schools, page 23

[I am taking part in a weekly writing task with some friends. The first seed for this assignment was the opening line from Dune by Frank Herbert: "A beginning is…

matt September 4, 2010

Videogames

NO, HUMAN

Simple premise. 50 levels of fun. (iTunes link)

matt September 4, 2010

Ireland Videogames

SyncNI: Exclusive on Galactic Racer by WeeMan Studios

NI-based game development studio, Wee Man Studios just gave SyncNI an exclusive on Galactic Racer! Click through the graphic for the exclusive. Due for release, later this quarter.

matt September 3, 2010

ARG Commentary Game Design

Once, Twice, Three Times a Detective

Dolgion Chuluunbaatar of Gamasutra writes about non-linear adventure games: As I was on vacation, I picked up my sister's copy of Sherlock Holmes stories, and quickly I got caught up…

matt September 3, 2010