I remember our class reading Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man in Year 5 at school. It started with lots of metal body ports forming themselves together into…well, an iron man. I don’t think we ended up finishing it, but the whole thing did seem rather familiar to me at the Continue Reading
Tim
Cold Music for Hot Days
Picture it: you’re reading a book, or watching a film, and the protagonist gets unceremoniously dumped in the middle of a desert. The likelihood is that they’re wearing entirely inappropriate clothing and have basically no supplies, yet still miraculously survive to fight another day. Now, imagine that – but instead Continue Reading
T- Syndicate – Space is Ours
The Syndicate could be one of two things, in my mind. Either it’s another small independent faction, similar to Nova Roma, or it’s a legendary group that may or may not exist. A little like the Illuminati or the Bilderberg Group. They are in control. To be honest, it sounds Continue Reading
Lode Drumlin – Early draft
Another very early draft from two years ago. This one has some potential but there are a couple of glaring issues – like this transparent glassy material that Rook has never come across before or since. Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, especially considering such a material would be Continue Reading
Tyrväl – Early draft
This chapter is a little dated! I started writing it a couple of years back, when Notes from Home was still told from a first-person perspective. It definitely needs a lot of work (why would there be such a concentration of architectural colleges in this very run-down area, for example?) Continue Reading
Future Compatible
This post was written in 2017, titled Temporarily Unavailable: A Point about Backwards Compatibility and Historical Gaming. It might be a little outdated, but I still stand by the single-format future. — Video games are a very young medium. The motion picture has been doing the rounds since the late Continue Reading
PLAY Expo 2019!
You may have twigged that I’m kind of a massive retro gaming nerd. Turns out there’s more than one of us – enough, in fact, to justify a whole boatload of events around the north of England. Unfathomable… One of these is the formidable PLAY Expo, which has been going Continue Reading
The Magical Mystery Arcade
The first series of Mystery Arcade was a great success for me – I got to play some awesome video games, and my brother got to experience them for the first time. I’m so jealous. And with Series 2 coming very soon, with increased production values and a slightly-too-long first Continue Reading
Mystery Arcade S02E01 – Smash TV
Bingo! Smash TV is a 1990 arcade game created by Eugene Jarvis and Mark Turmell for Williams. It revolves around a futuristic, violent game show in which players move through a series of rooms collecting prizes and clearing out waves of enemies using guns and power-up abilities. It is a Continue Reading
Commission for Planetary Colonisation
The Futurist Collective welcomes you and your team, and encourages the colonisation of further planets, moons and other galactic bodies. Please review the following terms, in order to make your application a smoother experience. A party of at least ten (10) must be gathered before application. a. A variety of Continue Reading