Wootfly: Archive

New Year, happily

Apologies for the radio silence again this year. Things have been busy and difficult here and I’m trying to resolve them as fast as I can to allow me the time to keep doing the wootfly.tv chats. I’ll keep you posted.

Jan 13th

Happy Wootfly Christmas

Happy Christmas to everyone who’s found any interest in Wootfly.tv since it started a couple of long months ago. I hope you’ve enjoyed it. Apologies for being quiet of late - real life gets in the way from time to time. I will make it a resolution to do better next year. All the season’s best to you and yours from me and mine. Over & out

Dec 24th

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Tim Schafer chat, Part 2 Tim is a fascinating guy. If anyone wants to argue that videogame creatives are in any ways less interesting or engaging as creatives in film, TV or music then watch this and drop me a line!

Dec 7th

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Part 2 of the wootfly.tv chat with the very charming @grumpygamer Ron Gilbert

Nov 30th

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crapfart asked: Team Meat

Nov 24th

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Tim Schafer. Part 1. Tim was everything I expected him to be. Only even more interesting. And a bit hairier. Oh, and very funny. I could have talked for hours. Part 2 is to come. Sorry its been slow. Wootfly is my favourite thing but its hard to devote the time. PLEASE visit the wootfly facebook page and follow along on twitter. Remember, its only by getting to know the people who make the games...

Nov 23rd

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Thoughts on a Busy Week

I’m certain that most of you regulars will be thankful that I haven’t done any of my early weekly roundup monologues recently. The reason is that I’ve just been too busy doing my day job (helping Developers promote their games) and annotating the videos I did while I was last in the US. I love doing wootfly chats and believe passionately about promoting the talent within the...

Nov 22nd

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Ron Gilbert Part 1 I had the absolute pleasure of chatting to Ron while I was in the US. As I’m sure you know, Ron is famously the creator of the Monkey Island series as well as Maniac Mansion and, more recently DeathSpank. Ron and I met in a private museum of 70’s and 80’s videogame cabinets - which was amazing and, of course, completely appropriate. Ron and Tim Schafer and the...

Nov 17th

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Guillaume Provost, founder of Compulsion Studios in Montreal. Interesting guy. It takes a great deal of courage and self-belief to go it alone and start a business based on your passion. Credit to Guillaume for taking a big step. He’s incredibly experienced. I can’t wait to play the games he releases.

Nov 15th

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Zandro Chan, Creative Director of Bedlam Games in Toronto chats to Wootfly.tv about game inspiration and muscling rednecks. Sorry for the recent radio silence. Too much work on top of sickness and jet lag. Horrible. Normal service will soon resume…

Nov 10th

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Ryan MacLean, founder of Toronto indie developer DrinkBox Studios talks about his start in the industry and ponders his ideal dinner guests.

Nov 3rd

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Hell of a trip!

I have been in North America for the past few weeks. The keen eyed amongst you may have noticed. I flew into Los Angeles and have been to San Diego, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, and Las Vegas as well. This weekend I’m off to Palm Springs with my lovely (and patient) girlfriend to recover with a wet towel over my face. Its been exhausting but I have chatted to a whole load of...

Oct 29th

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Paul Winterhalder, co-founder of Playbrains in Ottawa, Canada and a committed gamer chats to wootfly.tv.

Oct 28th

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Hamish Millar, Producer at the very hospitable Hothead Games in Vancouver chats about all sort of stuff largely for the benefit of his Mum. Lovely guy. Couldn’t be more passionate about videogames.

Oct 26th

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Vlad Ceraldi, co-founder of Hothead Games in Vancouver, Canada chats to wootfly.tv about inspiration, satisfaction and kids literature. Hothead are a Developer to watch. Great bunch of guys. More to come…

Oct 25th

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Part 5 of wootfly.tv’s chat with the fascinating Jenova Chen. Don’t miss it and please share - the more people that watch wootfly.tv, the more promotion our industry gets.

Oct 25th

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Part 4 of wootfly.tv’s chat with the unique and fascinating Jenova Chen. Please share.

Oct 23rd

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Part 3 of wootfly.tv’s chat with the fascinating Jenova Chen. Genuinely interesting guy who I’d have liked to spend more time with…

Oct 22nd

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@Jenova Chen, Creative Director chats to wootfly.tv. Part 2. Sorry this is taking a while to post but I’m in the US and busy as hell

Oct 21st

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Jenova Chen, Creative Director of That Game Company chats to wootfly.tv. If you have ever doubted that videogames can be more than driving, shooting, fighting and sports then Jenova is a breath of fresh air. His inspirational attitude proves that games can aspire toward art. He’s an amazing guy. This is a the first of a five part series. More to come this week.

Oct 18th

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Ste Curran, Creative Director of Zoe Mode. All round creative genius Ste chats about Jedward, Girls Aloud, stand-up comedy, radio and even mentions a bit about videogames in there too.

Oct 14th

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Paul Wedgewood, CEO and Game Director of Splash Damage Part 3. Paul talks to wootfly.tv about inspiration from TV and movies.

Oct 13th

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End of a busy third week of wootfly.tv. I’m really enjoying it. I hope you are too. Please send me suggestions of who I should talk to. Especially since I’m now in the USA.

Oct 10th

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Tak Fung of Supermono - fast becoming something of an Indie game development legend. Talking to him I really got a sense of his passion and enthusiasm for what he does. I urge you to check out MiniSquadron and EpicWin. He’s definitely one to watch…

Oct 8th

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its the end of the 3rd week of wootfly.tv and im really getting into i. despite not being able to capitalize today. this is being written on a blackberry torch which im in love with but is kinda fiddly for a tumbler video post! im sat waiting for my flight. can’t wait to be there already! have a good weekend and remember to send me your comments

Oct 7th

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Robin Lacey, CEO and co-founder of Beatnik Games - indie pioneers based in London chats to wootfly.tv despite his ‘man flu’ and someone next door trying to hammer through the wall.

Oct 6th

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Robin Lacey, Beatnik Games.

Good chat with Robin Lacey, CEO of Beatnik Games, despite his cold, dodgy fourescent lighting and someone trying to hammer through the wall. Ideas of world domination by the looks of it… Video tomorrow, I’m knackared. // ]] // ]] // ]]]]>]]>

Oct 5th

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Alex Evans, co-founder and Technical Director of the fabulous Media Molecule - makers of the wonderful Little Big Planet, chats about his life in videogames.

Oct 4th

Media Molecule Monday

What a fantastic start to the week. A great chat with an unexpectedly charming Alex Evans at Media Molecule follwed by a very stimulating lunch at Wagamamma in Guildford. A highly telented and creative guy but disarmingly pleasant with it. A rare combination. Really enjoyable start to what will hopefully be a great week. Video to follow…

Oct 4th

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Its the end of Week 2. Thankfully people in the industry are starting to hear about wootfly and understand that I genuinely am interested in the creatives behind the games.

Oct 1st

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Paul Wedgewood Part 2. Paul chats about his favourite videogames…

Sep 30th

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Paul Wedgewood, Part 1. Paul chats about how he got his start in the videogames industry and although initially snubbed by Ian Livingstone on a plane, he got his own back.

Sep 30th

Paul Wedgewood. Fascinating.

I had a great chat with Paul Wedgewood, the CEO and Game Director of Splash Damage yesterday. I’ve known Paul a while and I have a huge amount of admiration and respect for what he’s done in building the studio from a PC development base into a leading console developer. He’s a fascinating guy. I only wish I’d had more time with him - the whole team are working like crazy...

Sep 30th

Going West

With a bit of luck I will be going out to LA next month on business. Unlike a lot of people, I really like LA. While I’m there I hope to chat over drinks with a bunch of interesting videogame creatives up the West Coast from San Diego to Vancouver and points between. I can’t wait. Mail me with any suggestions of people you’d like to see me share a drink with.

Sep 28th

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Control (and I don't mean with a joypad)

I had a call from Jamie Walker on Saturday morning. Jamie was co-founder (along with Sefton Hill) of Rocksteady Studios in North London. If you have never been to a videogame development studio and picture in your mind a cool office with TV screens everywhere showing fantastic quality art and graphics, funky furniture and loads of committed and talented videogame professionals sitting round...

Sep 27th

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Sep 27th

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End of week one roundup. Interrupted me playing DeathSpank! // ]]]]>]]>

Sep 24th

First week. Done.

Its a mighty strange feeling writing and recording video interviews and videoblog posts that no one is currently watching. Its all part of the plan and everything but its still strange. wootfly.tv finally ‘came out’ to my facebook friends this week and got its first followers. One at a time. Since this is a labour of love more to prove a point than with any commercial intent I am happy...

Sep 24th

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Patrick chats with me over a cold one about all things game, his company, his book and his attitude to development, creativity and new talent. And admits on film to listening to Coldplay. ]]>

Sep 23rd

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Patrick O'Luanaigh. nDreams.

Patrick O’Luanaigh is is great guy. I’ve known him a long time and have pitched games, chatted over numerous drinks at trade shows and even shot clay pigeons with him. His approach to videogame development is interesting and unique. Patrick left what is known in industry terms as a Very Good Job as Creative Director of Eidos to create a start-up so he could focus on doing things...

Sep 23rd

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Martyn Brown - one of the nicest and certainly funniest videogame Developers in the industry. // ]]]]>]]>

Sep 23rd

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Martyn Brown

wootfly.tv met up with Martyn Brown yesterday over a cheeky glass of single malt. Martyn is the co-founder of Team17 - the Developers of the ever popular Worms games as well as Alien Breed (available on XBLA and PSN). Martyn is one of the nicest guys in the videogame industry and one of the most universally liked and respected. Personally, I have a huge amount of admiration for him. Martyn has...

Sep 22nd

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Drinking at work with James Brooksby, Studio Head of Doublesix Games in Guildford, UK. VERY nice guy and very into his games - and his Rioja. // ]]]]>]]>

Sep 17th

Experiment

Trying this stuff out to see how it works. Its kinda fun!

Sep 9th

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Day 2. Considering Wordpress...

I haven’t got very far with the Wootfly idea. But then its only Wednesday. I’m really keen to get out and start speaking to Developers. I lay in bed last night thinking of all the fascinating people in the industry that I’d love to talk candidly to and whether or not anyone apart from me would find the resulting clips in the least bit interesting. I spoke to my good friend Shaun...

Sep 8th

Sep 7th

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, its too...”

– Groucho Marx

Sep 7th

Wootfly Day 1

So this Blogging thing is new to me but I figured I’d have to give it a go. I have previously steered clear of blogging simply because I couldn’t bring myself to believe that anyone outside of my house or my office would be in the least bit interested in anything I have to say. However, last weekend while walking with my daughter around the farm where my parents live, I had an...

Sep 7th