Since then it’s been rather quiet on here but that’s not because the project ended. If you are following me on Twitter then you will have spotted that work was still happening but the update posts had moved home to IndieDB. The even more astute will have spotted that I have created an alter-ego for my independent game developing known as Squid In A Box.

Well Squid In A Box finally has a site!

This will be the home of all future news on my games (although the posts will be mirrored on IndieDB still) so you should all bookmark it and such.

I’m going to try and increase the amount of general games designing posts on here but there are only so many hours in the day and what hours aren’t spent in my dayjob trying to ship Enslaved are usually spent trying to finish Waves but you can probably expect a few musings on Crackdown 2 in the next few weeks as it will no doubt steal some of my precious free time.

In the mean time here is the last video of Waves. As you can see it’s come on quite a long way since the last one I posted here.

The week has been an interesting one with RPS linking to my Level Design piece on Sunday which made a complete mess of my my stats graph by putting a big spike in the middle.

However this is a link round-up so here is some reading:

• Soren Johnson posted a piece he wrote for Game Developer Magazine on the challenges faced by Games Designers working on Free-To-Play MMOG’s. It’s an excellent summary of the current state of micro-payments and the various other forms of non-subscription funded Online Games.
• Here is an interesting piece at Cognitive Daily about how your working memory capacity might affect how easily you get distracted.
• I discovered the blog of Wai Yen Tang: Video game research review from a person with a B.A. psychology.
• 1-Up have a video of the latest finalists from Phase 2 of the make Something Unreal Contest. There is a distinct lack of the fun games that made the last MSUC so interesting.  UT2D is probably the most interesting of the bunch.

Oh and of course The Demo of Wheelman is on Xbox Live. Download it and feel free to let me know what you think in the comments.

Have a good weekend!