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Archive for May, 2008

This Happened Talk

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

I’ve been plugging away at my iPhone/iPod touch game for a little while now, and now have the chance to do a little sharing. I’ll be doing a short presentation at the next This Happened on Tuesday 3rd June. I’m going to do my best to tip-toe about the various SDK agreements to talk a little about my upcoming game called Rolando, and in more general some of the peculiarities of designing for a multi-touch button-less device.

Once again, apologies for the lack of updates but its been busy times once more. I’ve been working with Milo again on a fun new painting-drawing tool/game for CBeebies, working on updates for Bountee’s growth into MySoti, iPhone game as mentioned, as well as ploughing considerable time into the breathtaking GTA 4. Anyone else got to the Patrick McCreary mission thats all got a bit Michael Mann?

Mirror’s Edge - First Person Parkour

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Theres finally some video of this in action after a lot of buzz and very positive hands-on previews. Applying a first person perspective to the kind of maneuverability normally considered the reserve of third person games, it really does look like it could transform the experience. The weight of movement and interaction with the environment are a step forward from the current FPS pinnacle.