Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 04:21PM According to this very good blog post, where there is passion there are also T-shirts.
You can now get Very Silly Games merchandise from Cafe Press. Including T-shirts.
XNA Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 10:00PM I was going down the escalator in the HMV shop in London yesterday when it occurred to me that soon everyone in this bustling, busy, store would have no reason to be there. In a few years only those who want hardware will actually need to turn up. All the music, movies and games will be available digitally via the Internet. If you factor in piracy, we are pretty much there now I suppose.
I began to wonder what we will actually go out buy in the future. I think that people's love of shopping will drive them out of the house to purchase stuff, but I'm not sure what they will actually take home. Maybe the entertainment vendors will still let us take boxes home, but now they will just contain keys to downloaded material. Maybe eventually all the media shops will vanish. In the future the high street will contain nothing but clothes shops, chemists and Starbucks......
Life Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 03:14PM We went to London today. We went into Foyles, the best bookshop in the UK. Other shops have a self of books about computing. Foyles have rooms. And rooms. Everything you want to know is there. Wonderful. They had my book too.
This is the first time that I've seen my book on sale in a shop. Amazing. Actually, I bought one of the two they had, to give to number one daughter who was with us. That makes two copies of my own book that I've bought, which is probably rather worrying...
Friday, March 7, 2008 at 10:24PM Today was kind of special. We had some of our ex-graduates come to see us. These are people who are now working in the games industry, and they popped by to say hello and see what we are doing. Unfortunately I was moving at speed, having to pick up the pieces that seem to result if I go away from the office for a couple of days. So all I managed to do was grab photographs. There was no time for much chat. I'll fill in the details when Jon lets me know who's what.
The chap on the right (who's name I completely forgot to note down) is an ex-Hull grad who now works for Blackrock Studios. The game that is being played on the big screen is a yet to be released title they brought along to show off. From what I saw it looked pretty darned good.
Now, some of these people I do know. In amongst this gathering are the Electronic Arts posse, including Steven Yau (third from right in dark blue). He was once a project student of mine and is the chap who wrote the article about how how to break into the video games industry. It seemed to work for him.....
Finally, these two look pleased because they are team D&D, who have made it into the next round of the Microsoft Imagine Cup XNA Game Development competition. You can find out more about their entry here. Well done folks, and good luck.
