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Origins: A game of one half
I remember designing games for the Atari 2600 on sheets of lined paper with the intention of posting them off to Atari HQ because of course that’s how games get made. Eventually someone explained that I wasn’t going to get any response from such company, and so the quest to make things interactive began.
Destroying… Flash MX
As a collective, we at Psync Interactive have destroyed an awful lot of things in the pursuit of stealing ourselves a little slice of computer gaming history. I’ve personally lost count of the number of hard drives, motherboards and graphics cards that I’ve had to replace. This is not a cheap business that we’ve chosen for ourselves…
The dreaded ‘ambition’
It’s a relative of the same beast that climbs lamp posts shouting “sequel!”, the ambition either outgrows the current project or guts it before it reaches the starting blocks.
The dreaded ‘T’
The beast that is the subject of this article is one of my least favourite things and my feelings will flow throughout the next few paragraphs. For that reason I strongly advise anyone of a nervous disposition to use your back button and find a less aggressive article for your reading pleasure. Thank you.
Making the most of… PowerPoint
Just because you can’t program C++ or you think DirectX is a science fiction TV series, doesn’t mean you can’t make something you can be proud of. It’s far too easy to give up before you’ve begun.
Origins: Part III – Mr. Sid
With University complete, the option to live in halls of residence expired and student loans spent, it was time for our four to get serious. They all needed to start looking forward, to get themselves a career, so they could put food on the table, and they needed to work out where they would be living for the rest of their lives (or at least the next few years). These were indeed critical times.
Origins: Part II – University Life
During their time at university a lot changed for our four, not-so-young-anymore, fellows, they weren’t all living in Coventry for a start! This, obviously, created some new difficulties for the budding games development company. Still, the long term plan was definitely in sight and each part of the Psync machine (well, at least half of it) was hard at work setting things in motion that would one day produce a completed game.
Origins: Part I – School Days
Whilst looking through a bunch of old files I found a little gem that I wrote for our very first website ‘way back when’ that tells the story of how we all met and started this thing we call Psync. Seems like it’s due for an update, so here goes…
A Guide To: Texture Gathering
Weekends spent wandering almost aimlessly around a town with a camera trying not to look suspicious… it’s essentially a bloody good excuse for a holiday with your mates.