Kickstart your MMO

I was wondering how long before the Kickstarter bubble bursts and now we have the less than edifying spectacle of a studio with AAA pretensions scrabbling around for funding for a tech demo. Goblinworks are using Kickstarter to "fund" their Pathfinder Online technology demo. Yep that’s right, it’s not the actual game they want funding … Continue reading Kickstart your MMO →

Imaginary Realities Redux

Drakkos has posted that he wants to bring back the old Imaginary Realities e-zine (again!). The blog article is long but worth the read and I think he sets out his case clearly. Over at Mudbytes, Idealiad has questioned the wisdom of trying to bring together such diverse game types and while I see his … Continue reading Imaginary Realities Redux →

My Xpango Experience

Xpango is one of those websites that promise “free” gifts if you collect enough points by signing up for various products and services and/or referring other people to do the same. While Xpango has been around for several years, I’m usually very skeptical of these schemes so I thought I would share my positive experience … Continue reading My Xpango Experience →

Maiden Desmodus Ownership Woes

Maiden Desmodus has been up and down for a while now and with the official forums offline and uncertainty over the future of the game I thought I’d post a little history of the current situation. If you’ve been following along you’ll know that in March 2011 I sold my shares in The Binary Forge … Continue reading Maiden Desmodus Ownership Woes →

Using a Kindle Fire outside the US

I recently succumbed to temptation and bought myself a Kindle Fire so I thought I’d share my experiences of getting it to work in the UK. Getting your Fire Although Amazon will only ship the Fire to a US address you are able to use a UK card and billing address when ordering it. I … Continue reading Using a Kindle Fire outside the US →

FMud 1.0 Alpha Release

It seems like forever since I updated FMud so here is a new version with some new features that hopefully people will find useful. My versioning scheme went out the window some time ago so I’ve decided to call this 1.0 alpha as there are quite a few major new features and hopefully once they … Continue reading FMud 1.0 Alpha Release →

New Game Project: Arturem Online

The game is provisionally titled Arturem Online and it’s going to be an online multiplayer 3D graphical virtual world. I’m deliberately not calling it an MMO because the concept is more multiplayer than massively multiplayer. What I want to do is focus on some of the more niche gameplay areas like role-playing, politics and PvP … Continue reading New Game Project: Arturem Online →

New Flash Clients for Avalon and The Two Towers

I’ve been busy on the MUD client front lately with two new commissions from Avalon and The Two Towers. These were quite different projects with Avalon wanting something similar to the client I did for Maiden Desmodus whereas The Two Towers had an existing javascript based web client they just wanted recreated in Flash for … Continue reading New Flash Clients for Avalon and The Two Towers →

Another New Arrival

Arthur James Adcock was born on 16th July at 8.08pm and weighed in at 8lbs 8oz. With all those 8′s it’s a shame he’s not Chinese. It was another section but at least Suzy knew what to expect this time and fortunately in the UK there’s no requirement to eat wallpaper paste for two days … Continue reading Another New Arrival →

Bulletin Board Plugin for Avalon

Here’s another MUSHclient plugin for Avalon, though I am sure it could be adapted fairly easily for any mud with an in game note or bulletin board system. The plugin stores bulletin board posts in an sqlite database so you can search for a particular word or phrase or find all posts from or to … Continue reading Bulletin Board Plugin for Avalon →