I’ve been thinking about this. It would be good to talk about it a bit. Certainly it’s intended to be suited to the iPhone, and it’s got a bit of retro about it. It ties back to the original Football Manager game I wrote for the ZX81 and then Spectrum. So it’s not complicated! But, [...]
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I was sent this article to look at. I was amazed to read the following excerpts: “It’s all a far cry from the first version of the game, developed by the Everton-mad Collyer brothers Oliver and Paul, which launched in 1982 for the late, lamented ZX Spectrum computer. Players in those days simply picked a [...]
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It’s been a few years since the most popular games were simple straightforward games. In the genre I am best known for, Football Manager games, even more so. Over time the games have got more and more complex. But the iPhone is disrupting the pattern. It’s hard to play a complex game on the iPhone. [...]
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It took me a long time to decide to add donations to my website. But, I am an independent games developer like many others, and it seemed a good idea. Why is it a good idea? To make money? – That is only a distant possibility. What finally triggered me was listening to Richard Stallman [...]
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