Four million words about me

[davidn]

Over the last few weeks, I've been doing an interview with Tisnart from the Clickteam boards, as part of an ongoing series where he talks to people about their involvement in the community and their current projects.

I had first thought that there would be a few questions back and forth and that would be the end of it, but things got rather carried away and I would now estimate that it contains everything that I've ever done in my entire life. If you're interested in finding out about how I got to being where I am in terms of game-related projects, and details of the other various things that are currently weighing on my conscience, the interview will explain more than you ever wanted to know. Most of it is about the stuff I do with Clickteam, but my music and ZZT get honourable mentions.

It also concludes with a notably bad photograph, a property I seem to manage to lend to all my photos simply by being in them.

Comments

[kibet.livejournal.com]

I skipped some of the interview as it is getting close to my bedtime and some of it went a bit over my head not being a gamer, but what I did read I enjoyed. I may jump back to it as I want to read about a couple of games that I thought sounded like it would be fun to play. I think one was running free.

[davidn]

That's the beauty of iOS (and earlier, Flash, as I remember you getting quite into Couronne when you were in your office in the Purdie Building) - they're games that can be liked by even people who don't think they play games :) Now, while they don't have anywhere near the universal appeal of other media like films and music, everyone seems to be able to talk about them on at least some level.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

yeah I meant game creator speak. I would say I am a procrastogamer more than a gamer. Ah yes Couronne, I got quite good at that and not touched it since.

I forgot to say, I remember Bad Influence, but did not recognise it by name. My first thing was 'ANDY CRANE!', then sort of remembered the woman with the crazy hair before the memory was complete with the guy who stuck passwords to his head.

I remember AvP getting talked about, and the sonic and knuckles game attachment. Although, from what I can remember, to play mega drive 2 games on the megadrive, you had to have a conversion catridge.

[davidn]

'Procrastogamer', I like that. There's a word that should enter the lexicon of the Internet - I think we've all done that at one point :) And we were around for the start of the ability to do so, with Couronne, that game where you dynamite a jeep up into the air to pop the elephant/alien balloon things, and that other one where you have to belt a penguin over a distance of miles.

The most distressing thing about my rediscovery of Bad Influence was that Whitney said that the shed-dwelling password-man Nam Rood reminded her of me! I'd forgotten about him sticking passwords to his head as well until I saw him again.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

He reminded me of Alexei Sayle when I was younger I think. I am sure he used to stick multiple passwords too sometimes.

One of the fun ones I quite liked was Chronotron? It was all about going back in time in order to get enough robots to help you complete the level. Also Primary, which was a recent one was also good. Crypt raider was also a favourite a while back. Oh and of course Boxplode :D