Mersey Remakes

“The tale of how one daft idea and a load of encouragement led from one single throwaway comment in an inconsequential thread on the internet to 10 months of absolute utter joyous crazy and ended up with a game on the Xbox 360.”

Read the rest on Way Of The Rodent and buy SYNSO360, obv.

In Praise Of Hard Games (via RPS)

Another day, another Leigh Alexander piece where once again she manages to muddle accessibility and difficulty levels together to frustrating effect. As I said in my talk on Friday, they’re not necessarily the same issue. You can have accessible and still have a hard game, that’s sorta the point and it pains me that the two things are constantly confused as if they’re one.

Scamville (via Robin Clarke)

I’ll admit, I don’t really understand the draw of these social gaming things in the first place and on those rare occasions I bother to log into my Facebook account I want to cry out “I don’t give a fuck if you’ve found a black sheep, you bunch of cunts” but instead I tend to mutter and mumble under my breath about the spam updates and return to swearing in the more comfortable confines of Twitter where I can run 3376m before hitting a wall or something. Anyway! Good piece over at Techcrunch on the economics and scammery involved. And yes, scammery is now a word.

Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure – Daily Rodent

Yup, that about nails it.

Indievision

On the back of Langdell-gate and the great work that Chaos Edge pulled off, Indievision “acts as an international voice for the small developer – we are here to help promote the interests of indie development studios, and to provide information, advice & contacts essential for running a successful studio”. It’s off to a cracking start already and there’s already a wealth of knowledgeable folks signed on the virtual dotted line, articles and interviews are already trickling in including one with the ever wonderful Alex May. Unrelated, really, but I wanted to mention this.

Game Pitching – British Indie

If that’s your bag.

Indie Bingo Halloween Special

I love Indie Bingo. It’s lovely. “Non-linear meaning delivery service through the meaning network. Meaning.”