Dave Gibbons (of Watchmen fame) and Charles Cecil (of Broken Sword fame) hosted a talk at BAFTA earlier this week to celebrate today’s iPhone re-release of the 1994 game for which they’re both famed – Beneath A...

I sometimes get the feeling that although narrative design is all the rage at the moment, maybe it doesn’t get the same level of behind the scenes developmental commentary afforded to the other disciplines. To that end,...

In an interview with Gamesutra, Jonathan Blow – Braid designer and general soapbox hero – spends a lot of time discussing the communication of artistic themes through gameplay, and the narrative / gameplay dichotomy. It’s a great...

www.5minutemystery.com is a new website launched last month and profiled by TechCrunch. It’s a pretty low-tech game. Every day, a 1,200 word mystery appears in your inbox. There are four or five suspects, one guilty party and...

I’ve just written a new article over at casualgaming.biz on the cognitive surplus. An enormous, untapped, and above all free, resource to create content, and potentially the biggest societal shift since the Industrial Revolution. Don’t believe me?...

Slightly off topic, but I’ve had a letter published in the Financial Times today. After Michael Skapinker wrote a piece discussing the role of jargon, I commented that in sailing, jargon has a very useful place, allowing...