Throw away the annoying paper clip – here’s how to really confuse your IT department who won’t let you play games at work. Tell them you need the “Ribbon Hero” add-in for Microsoft Office and tell them it is a productivity and learning tool. This application from Microsoft Labs has currently got the internet buzzing, [read more...]

The kids were getting a bit bored and “playful” on a Sunday afternoon and they could do with running off some steam so thinking quickly I remembered an augmented reality game that I had previously downloaded on my HTC Hero. I had been meaning to give it a go and this sounded like a perfect [read more...]

The keynote speaker for this years Game Developers Conference (GDC 2010) has been confirmed as Sid Meier, co-founder of Firaxis Games, and developer of well known simulation games Railroad Tycoon, Colonization, Pirates! and of course the much loved Civilisation series. Sid Meier’s keynote will focus on the psychology of game design and reflects on over [read more...]

Whilst working on a social media project for work, and being a curious software developer, it seemed like a good idea to have a go at creating an online Flash based casual game to better understand the mechanics of the online casual game environment. During this exercise, and after having produced a few other titles, [read more...]

Ever wonder what is involved in the day to day operations of IT? Maybe you have thought "I could do better" a few times – well Intel have released the third wave of their IT Manager games series entitled "IT Manager III: Unseen Forces". There are several factors to the game including managing the helpdesk [read more...]

I recently completed the Pairs Game I was developing as a project in Flash. It was a fun and interesting project to do and I owe a lot of thanks to my play tester at home for spotting strange issues and suggesting improvements. If you have never played pairs the general idea is that a [read more...]

Project Progress So far Welcome to the fourth instalment, and probably penultimate episode, of this development project of a game using Flash and ActionScript 3 – to catch up read Developing An Application Using Flash and Action Script 3. I have been reviewing the design plan so far – the welcome screen is in but [read more...]

Have you seen the Barclaycard advert with the guy who water slides home and using his contact-less payment technology on the way? Barclaycard have followed that stream of thought with a free iPhone application (via the Apple Store or iTunes) called “Extreme Waterslide”, developed by fishlabs and Dare – it looks pretty neat so if [read more...]