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Rose and Time on OUYA 10 Jul 2013 | 02:48 am
I’ve been putting together an OUYA version of Rose & Time lately, and it just went live on the OUYA store! The first ten levels are free, and you can unlock the rest for $2.99 If you don’t have a...
No Quarter/There Shall Be Lancing 16 May 2013 | 12:07 am
So here’s a kind of overview of my No Quarter game “There Shall Be Lancing”, how it happened and the other games I scrapped on the way No Quarter is an event organised by the NYU Game Center, each yea...
Art Commissions! 29 Apr 2013 | 08:46 pm
Art commissions are: CLOSED! (Sorry, check back later!) So, want me to draw/paint something for you? here’s the process: Make sure commissions are open. Email me (with a description of what you want i...
The grinding safety-net 27 Mar 2013 | 03:19 am
So I’ve been playing Ni No Kuni lately, and for the most part it’s a lovely experience, until you get to the combat. The trouble is that it claims to have both skill-based gameplay, as well as grindy/...
What’s up with me lately! 12 Feb 2013 | 05:35 am
So then, anyone following me on twitter will have been witness to a few freak-outs of late. The truth is things aren’t that great. Lately it’s been kind of a perfect storm of screwy hormones, stress, ...
SURPRISE! 25 Jan 2013 | 06:01 am
(This blog post was originally a talk I gave at the winter world of love event, then it spent two years in my blog’s ‘draft posts’ bit, I found it tonight and tidied it up since it’s still something I...
Developers: Let’s do digital distribution right. 21 Dec 2012 | 05:23 pm
The odds are that very, very few of us are going to deliver our games through steam. That doesn’t mean we can’t be super slick when distributing our games, but it’s something we consistently fuck up. ...
Leaper★ prequel comic: Resisting the Nechrim 13 Dec 2012 | 05:21 am
Spent today putting together this little comic, it shows the events right before the game begins, and shows off a little of the world until I figure out a better way to present it, here are the links ...
Can Art be Games? 1 Dec 2012 | 04:07 am
The Musée de Louvre is a place in Paris. Every year over 8 million people visit the place, often to view art. Now, that’s not as many people as are currently subscribing to World of Warcraft or anythi...
What steam should do 26 Nov 2012 | 06:23 pm
So a while back I ranted about why steam was damaging to independent developers as a whole (yes they are good for those that make it onto the service, but everyone else has a harder time), in that pos...
