Category: games
If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.
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The Martian Question: The Weight of Expectation under Martian Gravity, and Other Tales for Children
“You have to have Martians.” my girlfriend says. “People want to fight Martians! On Mars!”
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Democracy: Experiments with Manifestos.
What happens when no-one wins an election? All of the manifestos carefully crafted for the 2010 election by our political overlords were, more than usually, a complete waste of time. But us lovers of alternate histories couldn’t help but wonder how they would have ruled if they’d actually won, outright, and what the outcomes of…
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Interview – Asi Burak – Games For Change
For a quick piece I wrote for the Guardian, about developing games in the developing world, I talked to Asi Burak, co-President of GamesForChange. What is Games for Change? Firstly, to define our unique role and mission: Games for Change (G4C) is not a game studio. In some exceptional cases, like the Half the Sky…
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Better Than Life
So, I fucked up. As is my wont. Regular readers will know that fucking up is something that I feel I have a special knack for – though I’m also aware that I probably fuck up just as much as the rest of the population, but just *feel* it more – or even just that…
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Interview: Cardboard Computer on Kentucky Route Zero
This is an interview with Kentucky Route Zero creators Cardboard Computer (Jake Elliott & Tamas Kemenczy) that I conducted for T3 Magazine for their September 2013 issue, number 219, which is out now.