Imagine you woke up one morning with an itch in your lower back. This itch just got worse no matter how much you scratched it. Then over the coming weeks you noticed a protrusion where your coccyx is. This protrusion got longer and longer.

A change is as good as a rest We have a saying in English: “A change is as good as a rest”. If the meaning isn’t clear to you let me explain. If you change something about your life it will have the same benefit as taking a rest. So instead of going on holiday… Read More

I learnt today that a person I occasionally work with is colour blind. As strange as it may seem I have never met or known anyone colour blind before. He has trouble distinguishing between greens and yellows. Not bright yellow or dark green but the lighter shades.

I’m a little older than the average gamer, not the oldest I know but still at an age where my contemporaries consider my hobby as childish. A typical Monday morning conversation could be:

THEM: “So, what did you do this weekend?”
ME: “I worked on my website”.
THEM: “Oh, I didn’t know you had a website, what’s it about?”
ME: “FPS Computer Games”.
THEM: “You still play games at your age, I would have thought you would have grown out of that by now”.

I've just finished watching Twelve Monkeys and although I've seen it before I stilled enjoyed it. I was wondering whether the concept of being sent back and retrieved in time could be used in a game. Now I know there have been a few games where time travel is part of the story (and in… Read More

Introduction Valve has recently restructured its pricing for games available via Steam. This is of course one of the advantages (from Valve’s point of view) and two of the three new packages seem to offer good value for money. I’m not going to repeat all the discussions about “Screwing Customers” etc.

The Real Meaning of Retoding! There are plenty of mods that are building old games in new engines but how about building some new games in old engines? I propose a team starts to build Half-Life 2 in the original Half-Life engine! Why? Well, making comparisons between games is almost impossible, there are too many… Read More

Introduction I’ve been writing Mod Stories for a while now and they nearly all rely on characters within the story to explain the reasons and motivation for certain actions. Can you imagine Half-Life and Half-Life 2 without voice acting? Of course it’s possible, and recommended, to have subtitles at the bottom but a large part… Read More

Introduction I have been playing around with this idea for a while and I thought I'd share it in its early draft form. It needs a lot more details but it may get your creative juices flowing! Enjoy