The Meaningless Diary of an Indie Game Man

The eye of the Indie Game Man beholds the universe and declares that it is “acceptable in its current form”.

This thing exists in Leamington Spa.  In my mind it is labeled as “sub-Mobius Public Sculpture”.

At the weekend, I went back to my parents’ to remove some things from their house that I’m storing there.  They’re having my childhood bedroom redecorated.  This is the view I use to have when writing music there – doesn’t look like much but it helped write some good tunes!

Won’t make sense if you’re not a muso, but finding a functional Yamaha DX100 in a bunch of stuff is an epic win.  Same sound chip as the Megadrive – there, games-related!

Ditto MicroKorg.  I once heard Calvin Harris slagging off this keyboard = +10 to hatred of Calvin Harris.

I found some great games as well, hiding in the huge piles of terror…

I also found this awesome Guidebook to the land of the Green Isles from King’s Quest Six…

Everyone always slates the King’s Quest games – I loved them.  My whole family used to play them and collaborate on solving the puzzles – it was fantastic.  Proper family gaming, none of your Wii Cycling, Nintendo Sports Joust Horsey Match etc.  One of the reasons I wanted to be involved with making games was the great feeling of possibility they generated in me as a kid.

I had to throw out this huge spaghetti ball because I didn’t have time to separate it all out:

Yes, I salvaged the Megadrive joypad though, don’t worry.

Weird to see that room nearly empty now:

I saw this in Oxford – possibly my favourite bit of vandalism to date:

Finally, I came into the office today and saw official Mode 7 Dog Jasper working hard as usual…

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