I’ve had a bit of a play with the Empire: Total War demo and have had a few thoughts on it. So far it looks like it will be a fun game, though there is none of the campaign mode in the demo which, for me, is the most important part of the game. The [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Thoughts from the E:TW Demo
Posted: February 27, 2009 in GeneralTags: computer games, empire total war
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Another Short Story Completed
Posted: February 26, 2009 in writing updateTags: Short story, writing, writing update
Sat down and finished the rough draft of another short story, so far titled The Tomb of the Togosa Kings. Currently it is a bit over 9000 words in length. I’m not releasing it for viewing yet – I want to give it a bit more polishing first, especially the ending. I haven’t quite managed [...]
Are Video Games Adequately Preparing Our Children For the Apocalypse?
Posted: February 26, 2009 in General, UncategorizedTags: computer games, fallout 3, humour, the onion, zombies
From The Onion comes this amusing video, which appealed to the gamer in me immensely. Onion Video
Week in Review: Week Eight 2009
Posted: February 26, 2009 in writing updateTags: writing, writing update
After last week’s stirling efforts I had hoped this week would follow a similar course. I was wrong. While it wasn’t the worse week on record, it was still pretty poor. I had two decent days, without being great, two mediocre days and three days of abject failure. On the positive side, I have got [...]
And Here We Go Again…
Posted: February 25, 2009 in writing updateTags: steampunk, treasure, writing, writing update
So there I was, minding my own business when another story idea emerged from my fevered imagination. At this rate I should almost be outsourcing all these ideas and taking a cut of the profits… Where was I. Ah, yes, minding my own business. Well, kind of. Recently I had been going through my DVD [...]
So there I was last week thinking how well things were going and so I started this week full of hope and even got the fourth chapter done and then on into the fifth. And then I ran into the wall. For some reason chapter five really wasn’t working despite having the synopsis for the [...]
Empire Total War Demo Released
Posted: February 21, 2009 in GeneralTags: computer games, empire total war, writing
I haven’t bought a computer game for a while, not since Fallout 3 was released anyway. I don’t buy as many as I once did – more a reflection of the fact games aren’t made teh way i like and used to remember than anything I guess. One that I am very much looking forward [...]
Some of you may have stumbled upon a site called TV Tropes before. If you haven’t, it is well worth the look – but be warned, it is a trap. You venture in to look at just one thing and two hours later you still haven’t got around to reading it. Tropes are devices and [...]
Week in Review: Week Seven 2009
Posted: February 19, 2009 in writing updateTags: writing, writing update
Week seven kicked off in high gear with a 6000 word day, and while that pace couldn’t be sustained by the end of the week I had managed almost 18700 words, the best weeks output by a substantial margin. All of that was done on Winter Wolves, rewriting the first three chapters and expending on [...]
Been quiet on here for a few days, but that is mainly as things have been bubbling along quite nicely with Winter Wolves. Over the last six days I totally rewrote the first three chapters, cranking out over 16,500 words. The old draft of the first three chapters had only been around 12,100 words long [...]
