I’m in the final stretch of writing The Curve, my book on how to make money when everything is going free. The heart of the argument is that free is not something to be frightened of, or...

I have very exciting news: Penguin will publish my book The Curve in 2013. Regular readers will know that I believe that the Internet has transformed the way we make games. Successful games companies give their products...

I have started doing a new exercise with many of my consulting clients. I call it “three little words”. The idea is to find the three words that encapsulate the “feel” of your game. It’s not quite the...

To explore this idea, I wrote a novellette of 13,000 words called Mind Games. It's a detective thriller set in London, with a surprising amount about games. It's available right now on Amazon as Kindle book. I'd...

This is a guest post by freelance narrative designer, Tom Jubert. Nicholas argued recently that ‘games are not stories‘. As much as he’s obviously after a sound-bite the TV chaps will lap up, he justifies a slightly...

Thanks to everyone who commented on my original blurb for the first of three volumes of the “Best of GAMESbrief”. I have redrafted it, and here is the new version. What do you think?     GAMESbrief...

5th day of April in the year of our Lord 1716. Forty-five days out of Bristol and my life changed forever. Our merchant brigantine was today captured by the pirate sloop Adventurer’s Revenge. I fear I may...