Monthly archives: November 2007

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The past month has been really quite exciting. In my last entry, I mentioned that I had recently interviewed at Zoë Mode, Kuju’s casual/lifestyle games studio in Brighton. I have a lot of respect for this sort of market, even though it’s often somewhat less glamorous than the world of fast-paced AAA action titles, because of what it’s doing to include more people in the gaming community. I was therefore quite keen to get involved with that side of the industry, and thrilled to be offered a programming position there.

As a result I’ve now moved to Brighton and am due to start work on Monday. I’m looking forward to finding out what I’m going to be working on – I don’t even know yet which platform I’ll be dealing with. All will be revealed, though, in a mere three days!

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Carcassonne

Carcassonne

Yes, that’s right. My computer’s pretty much broken, so I’m playing board games instead. But that’s no bad thing – the board games that is – as there are plenty of great board games about! Carcassonne is one of these – a city-building game by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede which won the 2001 Spiel des Jahres. Carcassonne has now been released on XBox Live, along with two other favourites of mine: Settlers of Catan and Alhambra. I must say I’m mightily tempted, but of course I’d have to buy an XBox 360 first, and I already own the board game versions!

Thanks to Peter Norvig for the thumbnail (which I stole from him…)