I’ve had a few weeks outage in development. About 2 weeks ago my laptop completely died, the screen has came off it!
However, I’ve ordered a shiny new laptop, but It’s going to be made and delivered in around 2 weeks!
Alienware M15X All Powerful
Quite a bit of time to wait, I know, But it’s going to be worth it! It’s a lovely Alienware M15X. I figured, why settle for mid-table laptops that are going to break and be outdated in a short time. So I unleashed the money and splashed a little bit!
I’ve gave it some thought. And decided to open my own little online store. I’ll be designing some T-shirts, Posters and Badges. Don’t want to delve in to any other merchandise, I think that’ll be cool enough!
Basically the idea came across when I was wanting a custom tshirt made with my logo, website and maybe some unique scramball design on. Zazzle seemed like a pretty good option for me to create the T-shirtas they we’re cheap and seemed like really good quality!
However! After signing up, it said I could make a ‘mini store’ where I could also sell my designs. So I thought It’d be a neat idea to give you guys a chance to buy some of the stuff too! I’ve knocked the profit down so I don’t make anything and the prices are at their lowest possible.
The main idea for a custom tshirt was for the visit to Casual Connect Hamburg in February! Can’t wait!
Anyway, the store should be added within the next few days, enjoy!
Hey guys! February marks a pretty good year on the calender for me. I’ll be attending this years Casual Connect Hamburg!
You can’t dream the amount of excitement I’m having about it. It’s going to be amazing!
Anyway, I’ll be there from the 9th up to the 12th (Maybe the 13th If I’m lucky). So If anyone wants to meet up and have a chat and a few beers about anything, just drop me a line!
I’ll be hanging out with the Mochimedia guys on the Mochi boothe for a bit of the time as well, So you can swing by and say hi!
Hopefully Highmere will be 100% complete by the end of January So I might be showing it off and talking with some sponsors!
I haven’t exactly created and released a full game in a few fair months. Makes me feel kinda inactive!
However! I promise you 2010 will not be an inactive year from me. Your going to see quite a bit of me, I’ve got plans for a fair few games. And hopefully if they’re as good in flesh as they are on paper, then we’re in for a little treat!
Just a heads up anyway. Also! Highmere, It should be getting pushed for released the back end of January. I’ve had a few commitments lately with work and such, it’s hard to find time to do other things as well. But it’s nearly done!
I’ll post more or other projects and keep you guys updated anyway. All the best for 2010!
For the first time in a fair few months, I decided to go on FGL chat to see if any developers are on that I used to talk to back in my active days on FGL.
Only to be suprised by this chat (I’ll replace his name, in case he doesn’t want publicity):
[Guy] any chance your a programmer?
[Guy] HOLY SHIT
[Chris.J] I am
[Guy] omg
[Chris.J] What?
[Guy] Your roayalty
[Guy] You made scram ball
[Chris.J] Yeah I did
Guy bows down
[Guy] Brilliant Game dude, 10/10
[Chris.J] Ha, thanks a lot. Means a lot.
[Guy] Pure Orginality
[Guy] The UK is lucky to have folks like you
[Chris.J] Thanks
[Chris.J] But yeah, I’m a programmer
[Guy] dont errr, suppose your looking for anotehr artist?
[Guy] xD loooong shot
[Chris.J] Depends on what you can do, I might add you to my contacts for later projects
[Chris.J] Got a portfolio?
[Guy] well
[Guy] i have a portfolio design which alot of people like haha
[Guy] erm
[Guy] 0my portfolio is somewhat “small”
[Guy] *His portfolio*
[Guy] read the info too
[Chris.J] I’ll have a look over it, cheers
I’m pretty amazed by it. Got me smiling all day, It’s nice to get a message and compliments like that. =]
Hey guys. Expo was great! Got to play quite a few pre-release games. Went to a speech about ‘Brink’ which is Splash Damage/Bethesda works’ new utopian first person shooter. I have to say, it’s looking pretty damn good, will be good to get my hands on it, can’t wait for it’s release! I also believe that this was the first set of tech demo’s for the game as well!
Brink; An upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage
The indie side of things was a little bit of a let down, not too much going on really. I would of loved to see a bit more browser based games in there next year, we’re moving forward guys! Apart from that, It was great, the mainstream part of things wasn’t a let down at all, had some good hands on time with Tekken 6, L4D2, Assassins creed 2. Watched pretty much all of the others but didn’t play them; games such as Monster hunter 3, Aliens Vs Predator, God of War III.
I’ve been pretty lucky to see things early, it’s been an experience.
I ended up with quite a few pictures of the event but distilled them and took out the best. Now here’s the funny part, taking photos in EXPO wasn’t exactly the easiest thing, if you got caught, they made you delete them, So It turned in to quite a game to see how many we could actually take without being caught. Didn’t get too many though.
The developer sessions we’re good, I especially liked the talk from introversion about Darwinia and their experience in being pretty much a small development team, porting over to the Xbox 360 Live arcade and other perils. It was more on my level with me being a one man developer.
Darwinia+ an XBLA title, coming soon!
Anyway, that’s a few cents on
the event. It’s overall been a good day, now feast on the pictures! (Click them for a larger view)
Note: There is event pictures here, but wordpress’ alligning is atrocious and ruins it . Be patient, I’ll have them up soon.
I’m getting a load of failed to post messages and error 404 when I attempt to publish my new posts about Expo. Anyone got any ideas and can shine light on the topic?
Also it won’t let me upload pictures from my desktop, screws up and says http error.
Hey Guys! Just a quick update. On the 27th of October I’ll be heading out to Leeds for the Expo Eurogamer 2009 event. It’s going to be pretty damn good! Full of pre-release gameplay goodness.
It’s mainly for consumers with the ability to play pre-release games such as Left4Dead2, Assassins creed 2, Tekken 6 and much much more! I’ve never been to an event like this, So I thought I’d round up some friends and head off there.
Another interesting thing is they have an Indie Arcade games section! Now this is where my interest shines. Downloadable internet games and even browser based flash games.
Time Kufc in it's entirity!
Edmund McMillen and William Good (The guys behind ‘Time Kufc’ ) will be there, along with some other indie guys.
I’ll be taking some pictures and uploading them on here so look out! Probably around 28th. I’ll be sporting a nice Mochimedia T-shirt and maybe a badge if I feel like it 
So look out!
If anyones going just drop me an e-mail or something.
Have fun!
It’s about time! I’ve been waiting for months! But Addicting games finally launched Scramball2 live today!
I’m over the moon. This is great news! They even gave it a description which I like a lot.
Disobedient ball behaviour! What a description! Well I hope the game does well on their site, it’s done decent everywhere else. It’s predecessor still has the most amount of hits, so lets see where this goes.
A good friend of mine has had a bit of an artistic block. So he said he’d make a Fan based wallpaper for Scramball2. It actually looks pretty nifty!
You can see it below:
Designed by Demoncloud. Pretty shiny huh!
Or visit it deviantart here: http://demoncloud.deviantart.com/art/Scramball2-Wallpaper-136569660
Enjoy! Oh and Highmere is extremely close to completion, expect more news very soon!
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