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This week, next week; and games

This week’s been busy, and next week may well be busier.

This week was all “Oh, so that’s how it’s gonna be” and “Well, that won’t work, maybe this will” and “My brain can’t even cope with that” and “Sure, but who’s going to pay for it”.

Next week could be “Do we want taller?” and “Well you should have said so” and “I know, but we’ve got to get it done” and “Don’t bother me, I’m learning”.

This weekend is going to be “I can’t bowl to save my life” and “My booze tolerance is so low these days” and “Man, it feels like a week” and “At least it’s Monday tomorrow”.

In the middle of all this, I played a few games.

Finished (deep breath) Penny Arcade Adventures – On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One, which I did enjoy a lot, but didn’t love, like a long-lost relative or whatever. Continue reading

Coagulation

I know I’ve been quite absent lately, but hey – this is what happens when work gets a mite busy and out-of-work gets busy too. Between work, socialising, theatre trips, writing and the (very) occasional game of something-or-other, it’s left very little time to think. Let alone write.

To guilt-trip myself into doing them here are a few posts in the brain hopper, ready to go down the chute:

  • UK Games Expo (in one post) – half, maybe two-thirds written
  • Something on being ‘almost famous’ which is not as dumb as it sounds (I think)
  • Reflection on comments made by Richard Bartle recently… go Google it
  • Something on the games industry, students, breaking in, etc…
  • The reality of, well, working in the biz Continue reading