(1) So it sounds like there may be some people interested in the Wimbledon flat. And about time too. However, I won't get my hopes up. It's time to cross my fingers and hope we get an offer soon.

(2) Borderlands is something of a mixed bag. A strange hybrid shooter/RPG that doesn't quite work in both but is compelling enough to keep me playing. I ( Read more... )

Bloody hell! Check out this impressive in-game editor for Lego Indiana Jones.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/10/14/lego-indy-2-has-cutest-level-editor-ever/

I've never seen a split-screen co-op in-game editor before!

The Swedes did a very sweet thing yesterday. They were keen to see my new game, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, which has just arrived in the shops. I was slightly put out that QA had nabbed the company copies of the game and were going to get to play it before me. I mean, I was only the chief bloody designer on the thing.

So imagine my ( Read more... )

It was my last full day before I sell the car, so I drove down to London for a gaming session with Charles Vasey.

Up first was Jerry Taylor's game Hammer of the Snots, with Charles taking Wallace and the porridge-eaters while I was King Edward. Sadly, I bollocksed the whole thing, losing the Highlands swiftly and soon being levered out of Stirling ( Read more... )

Zipped down to London yesterday for a game with Charles Vasey and Mike Siggins. We ended up pushing around After The Flood, the three-player Sumerian civilization-building game from Treefrog. This is one of those clever Martin Wallace resource-management games with a light sprinkling of warfare. Victory points are scored for building cities and ( Read more... )

I'm so proud of Kei. This morning he was telling me about the Plateosaurus and Apatosaurus. He's really getting a handle on his dinosaurs, including all the obscuro ones ( Read more... )

Interesting. Stephen Rawlings at ATO magazine has approached me about publishing my Dambusters game as a magazine giveaway.

Oddments...

First playtest report on my Dambusters game. Positive but needs tweaking.

Found a snippet of an episode of the bedwettingly terrifying 1972 children's series Escape Into Night on YouTube. It has that slightly stilted drama school kids thang going on. But it's still creeping me out, 37 years later ( Read more... )

Blimey, I got two pages in the latest US Official Playstation Magazine, blathering on about some game or other I'm making. It's accompanied by a photo of a fat bloke who looks a bit like me.

Would you Adam and Eve it! Every night I doze like a baby for the two weeks I'm on holiday, then the night before I go back to work I can't get a wink of sleep ( Read more... )