Time for my first post-Potential Gamer post about gaming. Weird.
Upon completion of Tom Francis’ Gunpoint a blog post is created based upon your activities in the game. You’re invited to choose the precise wording by picking from some glib options and are then presented with your own, personalised Secret Blog. It’s a quietly excellent finishing touch to a game full of underplayed excellence. (more…)
Back in May I put together the HitFilm for Mac Kickstarter campaign for FXhome. We were asking for £25,000 and ended up with £58,126. Which was nice.
I thought it might be interesting to take a look at how we approached the campaign. Hopefully this post will be useful to any of you looking to run your own Kickstarter. (more…)
I recently sent some advice to a friend who is looking to start an online audio drama series. He pointed out that the tips might be of interest to others in a similar situation.
Most of my advice focused around the Arms Race series created by It’s A Trap, of which I am a part.
Arms Race succeeded and found an audience due to a mix of things: (more…)
I’ve got my detailed breakdown of the HitFilm for Mac Kickstarter (and how we did it) coming up soon but in the meantime wanted to mention a couple of other campaigns: Ren I’ve worked with Kate Madison on numerous projects Read more…
The thing about changes is that they are often afoot. So here’s the plan. I am bringing all content from Potential Gamer over to this blog and will be shutting down/archiving/something Potential Gamer forthwith. Why? Because that site was originally Read more…
Platformers are inherently mechanical exercises. So much is reliant on the controls and accuracy being just so, and one element being not quite right can lead to an unplayable game.
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This is one of the more interesting projects I’ve worked on at FXhome. Our visual effects and video editing software HitFilm has been out on PC for a couple of years now and we’ve been asked continually about the possibility Read more…
I’m in the middle of writing a short story that rather prominently features time dilation as a central plot device. Turns out time dilation is a complex little blighter. That’s why it took somebody like Einstein to nail down the Read more…
I don’t normally write tech-type blog posts but having recently endured this utter pain in the arse of a problem, I thought I’d try to help others by posting my solution. I’ll attempt to be succinct. (more…)
Since it was released I’ve been told by friends that I Really Must Watch Taken, and that I’d Really Like It. They all talk about how they expected it to be rubbish and were surprised by how good it was, Read more…