I’m going to be talking at this years Creative Quarter at the V&A in London, an event for 13-19 year olds to find out a bit more about a variety of creative industries. I’ll be talking a little bit about Rolando, showing some background on how it got started, and talking about the indie game development process (well at least my own version of it!).

If you’re at school and want to find out more about everything from architecture to fashion design, it looks like its going to be a great event. Theres more information here.

Rolando is in this week’s Design Week Interaction Design supplement, in an article focussing on indie developers working on iPhone games. It sits neatly between two great titles, Dizzy Bee and Trism. You can also read the article online.

I’m nearly finished on the new trailer which will show LOTS of exciting new things from the world of Rolando. It won’t be this week, and it may not be next week (as we need to get clearance for music) but it will be soon.

This blog will stay focussed on HandCircus games and other projects, while my personal blog will be geared more towards commentary, thoughts, observations, and ideas.

Well the trailer for the Rolando site is now live. Go and take a look yourself and sign up for some Rolando news! The video is much better quality than the YouTube one above.

I’m currently knee-deep working on Rolando, the iPhone/iPod Touch game I’ve been toiling away at these past months, and the first official game from Handcircus. I’ve been having great fun creating it - it’s really coming together and the last few weeks have seen it blossom from prototypes and experiments to what feels like a proper game. Despite my best efforts, this one won’t be ready for the launch of the App Store but it will be ready soon - at some point over the summer (hopefully late July/early August).

I’m just finishing off a trailer, which I hope to put online today/tomorrow. Look, read and see at the Official Rolando site. In the meantime, theres a couple of screenshots above!

Also, this month you can take a bit of a peek at Rolando in Edge magazine.

Also, there were updates on a few games, such as a new Super Monkey Ball demo (looking very slick):

There were also some new game announcements from Digital Legends and Pangea Software.

Lots more screenshots on Engadgets coverage.

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?

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.