This is a novelty app, for iPhone and iPod touch, that I came up with for use in loud drinking establishments.
Going to update the messages with time and indeed, this post, but for now, this is it. Here’s a screenshot (wooo!):
Also, as an added solidarity thing with the anti-Langdell folks, I’ve renamed the releasing co as ‘Edgy Ideas’.
To sign up, go to www.noooz.com
Oh yes. Old skool is the best skool.
Hello.
I can’t code for shit and I want to make I-Phone games. I can design games and do art pretty easily. And by ‘do’ art, I mean in a technically capable, but unfocused manner.
So right now, I’m attempting to make a very simple app where you press a button and it tells you that you’re fat (they don’t like swearing), with a wav file. Just for practice.
It’s harder than actionscript. I think this is *actual* programming. I’m reading tonnes of tutorials and trying to absorb as much as possible. It’s not easy.
I will start documenting what I learn, in a format that non-programmers can grasp.
Stay tuned…
Are you a VAGETARIAN?
I’ll be adding more tees with time, but for now, we have Transflamers t-shirts, Vageterian tops and I’ll be attempting to adapt the Mandigo Tales to a t-shirt friendly format.
Nov 06
EAxploitation. A piece on whether EA deserves the tidal waves of hatorade they get from fanboys.
Dec 06
You can’t spell ‘analyst’ without ‘anal’.
It’s about analysts talking out of their arseholes.
Jan 07
Games that make you cry, AKA making games can make you cry.
How making games can potentially deflate you to the point of tears, and crush your spirit like a pie-loving fattie falling onto an empty yogurt cartoon.
Feb 07
The Oprah Effect.
In this piece, I try to figure out what kind of game Oprah and her minions might like. This is before the world knew of Wii Fit I think. She’d probably dig that. Also, here is the original, ruder, snarkier, funnier un-edited version of this piece. They really edited the hell out of it.
March 07
Not Very Super-heroes.
A rant about shitty superhero movies and the disappearance of testosterone action flicks. Rambo 4 really made me happy when it eventually came out.
These are articles I wrote for Digital Artist Management’s newsletter. Some of them are good, some could be better. I’ll update this as new ones are done.
Indie Developer-focused pieces
An interview with Introversion: Indie devs who made it
An interview with Chris Bateman; designer, award winning writer, design theorist / philosopher and generally good bloke
GDC and the steady rise of Indie gaming
More support for the Garage Developer
Trying to go Homebrew Part 1
Trying to go Homebrew Part 2
A much earlier piece on Indie gaming and homebrew devs. Can you see a pattern yet?
Hollywood and Games
In prep of the Hollywood and Games Summit
Hollywood and Games or Art VS Money?
Other stuff
E3 2006 Pre-show
E3 2006 Post-show
I-Phone: Saviour of Mobile Gaming and the Indie Developer?
Buy it damn you!
Behold! The roller-suit.
Here he is teaching people how to dance.
And here he is, being drunk on TV.
The one Lucas is ashamed of.
Nintendo gives a sex-ed class through their questionable ‘Captain N’ TV show.
There are no words.
This is the kind of thing that the Japanese excel at - mad experimental cool shit. This is coming for PSN (PS3) and PSP. In short, you navigate MC Esher style environments and solve puzzles by changing the perspective.
Brought to you by Harmonix, the ninjas behind the mighty Guitar Hero. This will be the central piece of every party where alcohol is served for the next ten years. You can download FULL ALBUMS and there will be a new album released EVERY FUCKING WEEK.
This game is so full of win I could cry.
