So I was bored today and decided to tinker with the blog… I’ve added a recent tweets section to the sidebar now that I’m back on Twitter and you probably also noticed that I’ve slimmed the header down a bit. Hopefully it looks a little slicker and gives more room to the actual content. I’ve… [more]
I was wondering how long before the Kickstarter bubble bursts and now we have the less than edifying spectacle of a studio with AAA pretensions scrabbling around for funding for a tech demo. Yep that’s right, it’s not the actual game they want funding for, just the demo. Goblinworks was formed in 2011 and has… [more]
Drakkos has posted that he wants to bring back the old Imaginary Realities e-zine (again!). The blog article is long but worth the read and I think he sets out his case clearly. Over at Mudbytes, Idealiad has questioned the wisdom of trying to bring together such diverse game types and while I see his point, from a reader’s… [more]
Xpango is one of those websites that promise “free” gifts if you collect enough points by signing up for various products and services and/or referring other people to do the same. While Xpango has been around for several years, I’m usually very skeptical of these schemes so I thought I would share my positive experience… [more]
Maiden Desmodus has been up and down for a while now and with the official forums offline and uncertainty over the future of the game I thought I’d post a little history of the current situation. If you’ve been following along you’ll know that in March 2011 I sold my shares in The Binary Forge… [more]
I recently succumbed to temptation and bought myself a Kindle Fire so I thought I’d share my experiences of getting it to work in the UK. Getting your Fire Although Amazon will only ship the Fire to a US address you are able to use a UK card and billing address when ordering it. I… [more]
It seems like forever since I updated FMud so here is a new version with some new features that hopefully people will find useful. My versioning scheme went out the window some time ago so I’ve decided to call this 1.0 alpha as there are quite a few major new features and hopefully once they… [more]
The game is provisionally titled Arturem Online and it’s going to be an online multiplayer 3D graphical virtual world. I’m deliberately not calling it an MMO because the concept is more multiplayer than massively multiplayer. What I want to do is focus on some of the more niche gameplay areas like role-playing, politics and PvP… [more]
I’ve been busy on the MUD client front lately with two new commissions from Avalon and The Two Towers. These were quite different projects with Avalon wanting something similar to the client I did for Maiden Desmodus whereas The Two Towers had an existing javascript based web client they just wanted recreated in Flash for… [more]
Arthur James Adcock was born on 16th July at 8.08pm and weighed in at 8lbs 8oz. With all those 8′s it’s a shame he’s not Chinese. It was another section but at least Suzy knew what to expect this time and fortunately in the UK there’s no requirement to eat wallpaper paste for two days… [more]
