Games Banner Evolution

Just a small bonus post. When coming up with the new banner design for the York Vision games page, I experimented a little to see if I came up with a style I liked. There are a few images that predate the …

» read more

Article Catchup: York Vision Issue 208

The last of the articles I’ve written this year, and what will be my penultimate issue with York Vision. This was to be another issue with a guest writer; but that entirely fell through – and very close to the dealine, leaving …

» read more

Article Catchup: York Vision Issue 207

It’s a miracle this article turned out how it did. Although I planned for the content in advance (A mixture of being able to do my own research at a gaming expo event, and holding another brainstorming session at The Spriters Resource …

» read more

Article Catchup: York Vision Issue 206

By this point I had settled into a rhythm with making pages for the paper. While the placement of the content varied from issue to issue, a lot of the basic templating carried over, making the construction of new pages a fairly …

» read more

Article Catchup: York Vision Issue 205

Now that I’d managed to get an entire page published on my own, it was time to step up my game. Issue 204 looked good (at least to me), but there were flaws. Although the page looked good on the screen, a …

» read more

Article Catchup: York Vision Issue 204

This Issue is where I became the main Editor for the Games Page on the York Vision newspaper – at least partially because no one else was interested in doing the job. A bit of a hollow victory; but it meant that …

» read more

Article Catchup: York Vision Issue 202

It’s been a while since I update here last, but I’ve definitely not stopped writing. I’ve finished an entire year working for the York Vision newspaper; and as such I’ve racked up a nice collection of articles. Some of these articles I …

» read more

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dire Wolf?

Games have progressed a hell of a lot over time. That’s something of an obvious statement when you look at the complex and powerful capabilities of the current-gen consoles compared to the Ataris and the Commadores of old, but the way we …

» read more

Indie and the Temple of Homebrew

You don’t need a degree in psychology to know that anyone who has been interested in games for a significant amount of time has – at some point – wished to make a game of their own. It might’ve been a tiny …

» read more