Just in case you missed it, here's my interview with Mark Rumble that I did last Sunday on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. We talk about the new video game consoles and our mutual appreciation of the Sega Master System.
We're slowly reaching the end of the Lunar Panda development cycle and we thought it was about time to start getting some outside opinions on our new game. So in a very professional manner we stocked up on beer, ordered a shed load of pizza and invited two of our chums round to try out the game in its current state. Dean's neighbour Nik and Ian Guebert from Great Bit Blog came to Gimpy HQ where they got to play the Lunar Panda in a darkened room whilst Dean and myself sat close by and took notes.
Dean and I have obviously played the game loads over the past few months as we've been developing and tweaking it, so it was interesting to watch people play these tackle stuff like the hover cars and forcefields for the first time ever. Over all I'd say we're pretty happy with the feedback but we will be upping the difficulty on a couple of levels and easing up on a couple of others.
I met Michael Penman at the Play Expo a few weeks ago and he was nice enough to invite me onto Crazy Horse Gaming for a bit of a chat and some MineCraft action. I'd never actually played MineCraft before, I had a quick run through the tutorial a week before hand though and I'm now completely hooked. You can check out more from these guys at http://www.crazyhorsegaming.co.uk/
We chat about Gimpy Software, my band the British IBM and video games in general.
Dean's Lunar Panda cabinet had another night out last Friday and made an appearance at the Retro Video Game Night at the Centre For Computing History in Cambridge. It was a great night that mainly consisted of eating, drinking and playing the video games of yesteryear. Hopefully there'll be another one early next year!
Photo courtesy of Ian Guebert at www.greatbitblog.com
