The merits and pitfalls of planning

PLANNING. With coffee.

Do you plan the games you make?

I'd like my answer to that question to be "yes" but, actually, it goes more like this:

"I plan the games I don't make."

The State of the Games Address

As a games developer, 2011 was a great year for me. But it was also a massive wasted opportunity.

I had a completely unexpected but brilliant success in releasing Prime Minister's Questions: the Game. Downloaded a little over nine thousand times, it was in print in the Guardian, covered by Rock Paper Shotgun and even Tom Watson MP tweeted about it. As a gamer and a politics nut my life should quite categorically be complete.

PMQs in the g2 supplement

But that was the first half of 2011.