Well, it’s June and, so far, 2016 has proven to be… challenging.
First, my flat flooded with poo and I had to frantically find another place to live. That wasn’t the best start to the year. Then I got engaged and started planning a wedding with my incredible (and incredibly patient) partner Sam.…
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Well, it’s the New Year, the time when – across the world – people look back at the past year and work out what went well, what could have gone well-er, what they want to improve and change in the year to come.…
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After the realisation that I ought to rename the character of ‘the salesman’, given he doesn’t ever sell you anything, I went through a bit of a crisis. I trawled through thesauruses. I surveyed people for synonyms. I looked up official industry jargon from exhibitions, call centres, and pyramid schemes.…
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I knew, when I first began plotting out Cuthbert, that I wanted to have a strong combat system. It made sense for the story: in a game where you can royally peeve people off to the point where they won’t help you, it makes sense that they might try and hurt you.…
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When I’m working on something like the front-end design of the game – something that doesn’t require I sit hunched over my laptop with my head clutched in my hands, muttering, ‘Why? Why?’, or gently weeping – I like to put on some TV as background noise.…
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The Adventures of Cuthbert Tattersall is the most anticipated game of 2017. By me. No one else knows about it. Or – knew about it. I guess you know about it now.
Gosh, the expectant audience for this whole project just doubled, that’s a bit unnerving.…
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