Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Wednesday, 5 September 2007
first post...
argh...first post scariness...guess its a bit like doing anything for the first time, it seems a lot harder than it is but the more you do it the easier it becomes...
i'd love to say what the definitive idea of this blog is going to be...i just dunno yet...i have lots of ideas mulling around that i think would benefit from being aired in some kind of forum and perhaps this is it...i'll have to see...
the idea came about after writing a blog for IGN about Heavenly Sword...Heavenly Sword is a game that i was lucky enough to work on, as the Producer, and i'm terribly proud of what we've managed to deliver...i enjoyed writing the blog immensely and want to carry on that good feeling here...
so the ideas of content in this blog are:
1. i wanna write a book on game production and development
2. i read quite a lot of project management and production orientated books so i'd like to be able to talk about what i liked and thought
3. i also read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy and might add my 2p on any book that i particularly enjoyed
4. i want to write a novel...so i'll talk about ideas for stories and characters and stuff
5. i play a lot of role-playing games and really enjoy disecting systems and settings...i'll talk about this stuff a lot...i'll also talk a lot about how it could tie in with video games and what could be learnt from either discipline
6. i like to study the theory of fun and enjoyment...what makes people happy and what makes people sad...why do people enjoy watching sad films has always puzzled me...again this ties in with my personal ambition which is to make a video games that has the same emotional attachment as a good book or film
7. i like writing my own RPG game systems...so i'll talk a lot about system design and mechanics and stuff...i'm facinated by the indie game scene (check out Indie Press Revolution) and how this could be a model for the video games industry
8. i am hooked to podcasts and the idea of podcasting...i will talk about the ideas i have in what makes a good podcast and which podcasts are in my iPod right now
9. i play a lot of video games (its part of my job!) and will talk about the games i'm playing and what i like about them
10. i hate the way the country is run right now and so a little bit of politics may creep in, mainly as some kind of a rant but i occasionally have ideas about how things could be done that might be fun to share
11. i have two great kids and may talk about the things they do that make me laugh...and the stuff that i can learn from them as they grow up
12. football...i love Arsenal...i love football...i'll probably mention the occasional verdict on transfers, results and anything else that i think is interesting
that's a dirty dozen for sure...there's other stuff that fascinates me that will probably find its way into the blog...funnily enough, just sitting down to write this post has caused more ideas to spring forth and it's definitely become easier over the space of the last 300 words or so...perhaps this blog might just do what i hope it will do :)
i'd love to say what the definitive idea of this blog is going to be...i just dunno yet...i have lots of ideas mulling around that i think would benefit from being aired in some kind of forum and perhaps this is it...i'll have to see...
the idea came about after writing a blog for IGN about Heavenly Sword...Heavenly Sword is a game that i was lucky enough to work on, as the Producer, and i'm terribly proud of what we've managed to deliver...i enjoyed writing the blog immensely and want to carry on that good feeling here...
so the ideas of content in this blog are:
1. i wanna write a book on game production and development
2. i read quite a lot of project management and production orientated books so i'd like to be able to talk about what i liked and thought
3. i also read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy and might add my 2p on any book that i particularly enjoyed
4. i want to write a novel...so i'll talk about ideas for stories and characters and stuff
5. i play a lot of role-playing games and really enjoy disecting systems and settings...i'll talk about this stuff a lot...i'll also talk a lot about how it could tie in with video games and what could be learnt from either discipline
6. i like to study the theory of fun and enjoyment...what makes people happy and what makes people sad...why do people enjoy watching sad films has always puzzled me...again this ties in with my personal ambition which is to make a video games that has the same emotional attachment as a good book or film
7. i like writing my own RPG game systems...so i'll talk a lot about system design and mechanics and stuff...i'm facinated by the indie game scene (check out Indie Press Revolution) and how this could be a model for the video games industry
8. i am hooked to podcasts and the idea of podcasting...i will talk about the ideas i have in what makes a good podcast and which podcasts are in my iPod right now
9. i play a lot of video games (its part of my job!) and will talk about the games i'm playing and what i like about them
10. i hate the way the country is run right now and so a little bit of politics may creep in, mainly as some kind of a rant but i occasionally have ideas about how things could be done that might be fun to share
11. i have two great kids and may talk about the things they do that make me laugh...and the stuff that i can learn from them as they grow up
12. football...i love Arsenal...i love football...i'll probably mention the occasional verdict on transfers, results and anything else that i think is interesting
that's a dirty dozen for sure...there's other stuff that fascinates me that will probably find its way into the blog...funnily enough, just sitting down to write this post has caused more ideas to spring forth and it's definitely become easier over the space of the last 300 words or so...perhaps this blog might just do what i hope it will do :)
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