Game Design
Jammy update!
It’s on!
It’s on like Donkey Kong (who I assume is… you know…on).
I’ve begun making my game jam interactive fiction game and all I can say is that I really should have prepared better. (more…)
Game Design
Playing Games – Here be (hungry) dragons
Taking a little break from Harvest Moon DS, I’ve decided to give up on my life as a game designer and become a dragon. I have come to this very real and very serious decision after playing Hungry Dragons on Read more…
Game Design
Playing Games – Work through the confusion (Harvest Moon DS)
It’s coming to the end of Spring on Sunset Farm. My crops of cucumber and strawberries have been bountiful. I have used my slowly accrued income to build myself a lumber shed out of wood. Sometimes I stand outside the Read more…
Game Design
Playing Games – Harvest Moon DS
It’s no secret that I have a lot of games. I’m a game designer. It’s for research. Also, I like games. Problem is: with the constant output of games every year, it’s a bit of a drain on the finances Read more…
Game Design
Getting Jammy
I’m taking part in my first Game Jam this Friday! A Game Jam is where teams of game creators get together and try to make a game as fast as possible in a limited time with limited resources. This one Read more…
Anxiety
Learning can be scary
I recently started a new job. In short, it has been terrifying. At the same time, it has been wonderful. Every day, I’ve learnt something new, and every day I feel I have made a massive mistake. Usually, both of those Read more…
Writing
Second draft complete!
The second draft of this children’s book I am writing has been a challenge. By ‘a challenge’, I mean a sweary, anxiety-fuelled, scribbly, dribbly challenge. I have set so many deadlines for myself to get it done, and I have Read more…
Writing
Treehouse Writer
In a book, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, Lamott says that ‘One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore.’ This quote was firmly in Read more…
French learning
Le Truc
Like many other new language learners, I have a big anxiety when it comes to speaking French to French people. I can speak French to my wife because she speaks… very … slowly … to … me in French and Read more…
French learning
Achievement Unlocked: Premier livre en français !
Yesterday, I made a significant step in my language learning: I read a book in French! And by that, I mean I read the book (okay, graphic novel) in its entirety and understood what was going on. The book I Read more…