As longtime readers may remember, I'm rather a fan of Metroidvania style computer games. I've blogged about how much I like Iji, Untitled Story, Aquaria, and similar games. I regularly check the Metroidvania category on JayIsGames for new releases, and they come fairly frequently these days: about every month or so there's a new one, and I almost ( Read more... )

Here's a random assortment of what I've been up to recently:

( Less Multiverse; Mermaid Liaisons; Puzzles; Watching Bethany walking! )

Fun fact: the plot to the 6th and final chapter of Mermaid Liaisons - its final 20% or less - was originally meant to be the plot to the whole game ( Read more... )

Had a great weekend. Rachael and I saw a Gilbert & Sullivan that we've not seen before, Utopia Limited, which was extremely silly and good fun. I'd decided a couple of months ago that I'd like to make an effort to see each of the G&S operettas that I haven't seen, and Utopia Limited was going to be the hardest of those to find, so I was delighted ( Read more... )

I think it's a reasonably common situation to have an ongoing creative project and find at times that you just don't feel up to working on it. It's happened to me with Mermaid Liaisons a couple of times, most recently last weekend when I was feeling ill... but it continued on into all of last week even when I'd pretty much recovered from the bug. I ( Read more... )

I'm having fun writing my upcoming visual novel, Mermaid Liaisons, which I've mentioned once or twice before. I've got a hard deadline at some point in June when I'm expecting a drop in free time, so I'm wanting to get the game released by May. I have been making progress in January, but pretty slowly. I want to spend more time writing in February ( Read more... )

As you may be aware, I've been writing Mermaid Liaisons, the sequel to Elven Relations, for some time. I started writing script in March this year, so 5 months ago. The game's story is divided into 6 chapters, and I've written basically 4 of them. (Because of assorted branches that can occur within each chapter, it's not quite as straightforward as ( Read more... )

I've been just generally busy. But having fun.
Amongst the things occupying my time have been such diverse elements as:

• ( Writing Elven Relations 2: Mermaid Liaisons )