... any title feels like it has sponged up the personality of one of its key creators, it's this one. CharlesCecil, co-founder of Revolution Software, is a famously polite and charming character. Self-effacing and mild, he looks a little bit like Tintin, boy reporter, all grown up and finally rid of that dog. True to form, he helped to construct an unusually decent sort of adventure,...
GameHorizon and Game Republic have announced an international self-publishing conference to be held in York, UK on April 8. The conference is being hosted in partnership with Screen Yorkshire and will focus on developer self-publishing. Confirmed speakers include CharlesCecil (Revolution), Paul Farley (Tag Games), Patrick O’Lunaigh, (nDreams) and Ed Vaizey, MP (Shadow Minister...
A unique one-day conference focused on developer self-publishing is to take place in York in April. The State of Independence event has been organised by GameHorizon and Game Republic in partnership with Screen Yorkshire, and aims to cover a range of topics, including funding, marketing and distributing content and how to keep control of IPs and finances. Speakers already confirmed include Charles...
... creator Masaya Matsuura and the tongue-in-cheek Minesweeper Adventure from Beneath a Steel Sky ’s CharlesCecil. De Ronde hopes both will see release within four to six months. Eventually, De Ronde hopes to get OneBigGame on a schedule where games are being released quarterly, perhaps even monthly. But he doesn’t want to rush games to market and deliver a compromised product. “It’s...
... every gaming platform -- and priorities have changed, for the better, with Broken Sword designer CharlesCecil, Parappa creator Masaya Matsuura (and a stellar handful of unannounced devs) now on board to create their own fully formed games for a variety of devices, with proceeds going to benefit charities like Save the Children and Starlight. The bar for those designers has already...
... every gaming platform -- and priorities have changed, for the better, with Broken Sword designer CharlesCecil, Parappa creator Masaya Matsuura (and a stellar handful of unannounced devs) now on board to create their own fully formed games for a variety of devices, with proceeds going to benefit charities like Save the Children and Starlight. The bar for those designers has already...
... and designers, to raise funds for its children’s charities. Creations from Masaya Matsuura and CharlesCecil, amongst other talented artists, will follow Zoë Mode’s charming Chime. A creative twist on both music and block puzzle games, Chime tasks players with covering the playing field with irregular shapes, each connected to a sound effect from the background music track, to form...
... and designers, to raise funds for its children’s charities. Creations from Masaya Matsuura and CharlesCecil, amongst other talented artists, will follow Zoë Mode’s charming Chime. A creative twist on both music and block puzzle games, Chime tasks players with covering the playing field with irregular shapes, each connected to a sound effect from the background music track, to form...
