I’ve recently been looking for a way to archive tweets for the #laceproject and it turns out there are no good ways to store tweets. This is actually by design of the people at Twitter, because if you want access to old Tweets you should be paying them a lot Read more…
I am currently involved in putting an online space together for a European project called LACE. Hopefully the space will be filled with great content written by partners on the project. I had thought that setting up the space would be an easy task, this thought had been based this Read more…
I feel my last few posts have been a bit negative, I need to cheer up a little, find some good in the world. How about this video of chap wearing a playable Gameboy costume at Ohayocon 2014. It was apparently done using a Raspberry Pi, you can switch games Read more…
The playing for change event was a fun day and kick off event for the Games and Social Change Network. I popped along to check it out and wrote some rough notes to remind me what happened, I’ve tidied them up (only a little) and thought I would throw them Read more…
I’m currently writing bits of code to tell stories using a variety different data sources; one of my aims is to make the storytelling experience cross platform. My project started life as a web based thing and I see if I could move some of it over to a mobile Read more…
What’s the point? syndrome is a psychological disorder encountered by individuals who do not know what their employable future holds and also shared by individuals who took a job in the hope of helping little people prepare for their future lives only to have that dreams shattered by somebody in Read more…
I have a few WordPress installations on many different hosting companies, some of these support personal sites and some are for work. One of my big concerns is having keeping track of all my WordPress backups; Some hosting companies do not work 24/7 which can be really frustrating when they Read more…
Interstellar Marines is an indie game currently in alpha available on steam. At the time of writing this you can get a copy for as little as $1 in an Indie Gala Bundle, saying that however, if you can afford a little more than $1 then remember the money goes Read more…
For a while I’ve wanted to create a game/story where players are given crazy and random situations. I wanted characters in the story to have relationships, feelings, own things etc, the problem I’ve had is that if I predefine all these then the game won’t be random to me, where Read more…
