Ian Thomas

Solo devs and very small teams often have this inherent cringe about the idea of making people pay $20 or $10 or even $5 for their little game and I can't emphasize enough how much you have to grab that cringing impulse within yourself and strangle it to death

an internet explorer window against the windows xp background with a geocities.com address in the bar "/Kingofkings". The page displayed is a broken image on a black background, and the sentence: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look upon my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

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“Changing narrative is easiest”

Photo of a piece of cling film which I have written the word 'me' all over. Sorry.

I saw this and immediately thought, this film has got me written all over it.

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

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Is a Swedish pleasure house where a wide variety of different entertainments are on offer a smörgåsbordello?

"We would listen to the swashbuckling fisherman, and his tales of herring-do."

Dutch late night TV has its take

Also maybe easy to assign to a body part in a primary classroom!

I think it's just habit. Like seven seas. :-)

I've used smells for live action events and they are *extremely* effective (sometimes without people realising they've smelled anything).

"Which ones can we communicate from a computer game and how?" is interesting. :-D

There's also balance / inner ear, thermoception (heat detection) and things like hunger, thirst, need to go to the bathroom. A fair few more than five. :-)

I think I did my first proper bit of hacking in a hex editor to move through a door puzzle that I just couldn't solve. :-)

Amen to this thread.

Game writing is so often panicked patching and working around.

Many, many scripts go straight to recording without polish or solid editing.

Time to revise and edit shouldn't be a luxury, but it so often is.

Absolutely - quickly followed by the Eye of the Beholder series. Good times. :-)

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 176:
Don't underestimate your reader. Give them space to imagine; to dream. You don't need to tell them everything; just the things they need to know.

Belatedly, one of the odd things - odd, by no means bad! - is the voice is a great match for Harrison Ford, but because it's mocap, every so often a Troy Baker facial expression pops through. :-)

Nailed the Indy feel - really felt like a labour of love. I really enjoyed it.

(We last used it as a non-diegetic accompaniment to a set of Musketeers disguised as nuns sneaking past the Cardinal's Guard, in a larp, but that's a whole different story!)

Oh that is fantastic. I really hope it featured some sneaking. ;-)

Have decided that there are two types of people.

Those who, when sneaking from point A to point B, imagine the Mission Impossible theme tune as their soundtrack.

Those who, when sneaking from point A to point B, imagine the Pink Panther theme tune.

(And then young people, obviously.)

Venn diagram with Bono in the left circle, an oboe in the right, and a bonobo in the centre.

Venn diagram

TIL that the French for "dropped in at the deep end" is "plongé dans la marmite".

As you get older you realise it's Maslow's Hierarchy of Knees.

YouTube video by Madman Films Flow - Official Trailer

Finally got around to watching Flow - what a great movie!

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That is a wrap for Igor: Unplugged. 4 performances of the story that started out as a short musical film and ended up as a stage show in Stockholm.

The first time I've written music and lyrics for a movie. And now the first stage musical I've directed.

Now sleep.