Last week, Michael Pachter, an investment analyst at Wedbush Securities caused a stir amongst game developers the world over. His crime? To declare that "unpaid crunch deserves no sympathy". I understand where Pachter is coming from: I used to...

As part of the free public sessions at Edinburgh Interactive, I gave a talk on the power of free. This is my most comprehensive presentation of how I think about it free. If you want a summary of...

Last week, I was asked to give a talk on how to break into the video games industry as part of the public sessions at the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival. I nearly declined. I’ve never worked in...

My first iPhone Game (UFO Invader) was released just one week ago as a $0.99 paid app. It’s also a bit of an experiment so I included an ad at the bottom of the the menu screens...

This week’s question is really entitled “What are the most common mistakes in a business plan?”, but Nic provided a succinct way of thinking about his answers, and I decided to quote that in the headline above.

At Edinburgh Interactive, a team from the games industry’s old boy’s network debated whether the UK games industry is only one life left from game over. I voted that it is, despite thinking that there has never been...

I’m at the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival today. I spoke this morning to 50 people wanting to break into the games industry. (I told them that there is only one sure-fire way to make games: to make games....