I’m growing a tache. For charity. September is the month of TACHEBACK, a sponsored grow-a-moustache event organised by Everyman to raise money to fight male cancers. And for the first time since an ill-advised beard in my early 20s, I’m going hirsute to help. This, of course, means I need your sponsorship. You can follow [...]
Filed under: charity, humour, retro on September 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Have a look at Prakbot. Take my word for it, it is unutterably cool. It may seem a bit techy, but what it boils down to is this: lately I’ve been playing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Infocom, 1984) over Skype. They (Ben and Mind Candy) don’t seem to have released it into the wild yet, [...]
Filed under: online games, retro, text adventure on June 19th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Evidently I’ve mentioned my 1998 game The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen enough times to build up sufficient Googlejuice to bring search-queries to this blog, so I should probably talk about what’s happening with the new edition of the game. First of all, a bit of history. My name, as you know, is James Wallis. [...]
Filed under: Hogshead, retro, rpg, typography and layout on March 18th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’ve learned a lot from video games, but ‘cope’ is the best lesson: basic, profound and absolutely to the point. My schooling came from Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega, 1991), the original, not just a classic but a masterpiece of every element of game design. For those who have never played it, the game starts with a race through the [...]
Filed under: game philosophy, retro on January 24th, 2007 | 3 Comments »