\"No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinised, as someone with a microscope studies...\"

February 10, 2005 | Comments

"creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water"

FP is expanding slightly, again. We're busy and getting busier, which is nice... and the work we're doing is interesting and challenging - it's stretching us, and stretching is very good for you.

Todays song is "Ladyflash", by local heroes the Go Team. Absolutely excellent. Reminds me a bit of a now-long-departed band called The Co-Creators, who released a fab single I forget the name of and then vanished.

Mind-Numbing New Interface Technologies

February 10, 2005 | Comments

Mind-Numbing New Interface Technologies: "Game interfaces often get the shaft. Developers invest tons in graphics or sound or physics, but nobody ever invests tons of time into the control scheme. Often people don't even really think about it. Game controllers are ubiquitous. You push a button, and stuff happens. But the interface is literally a player's connection to the game: it's where the action happens. "

Convenient, quick, and cheap

February 10, 2005 | Comments

How right they were:

"The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) says that when digital distribution becomes a reality there will be a massive swing to it. It's convenient, quick and its gonna end up a damn sight cheaper than conventional CD"

Yep - Kazaa is convenient, cheap - *and* a damn sight cheaper than conventional CDs...

Robot City

February 09, 2005 | Comments

This is one of my favourite ChewedMelon toons er I mean sequential arts...

My First Article

February 09, 2005 | Comments

My first article for TheFeature.com, on "Casual Gaming", has just been published. Comments please!