Videogames are regularly blamed for many things, the most popular being making children fat and violent. So when something new, such as the Nintendo Wii, comes along everyone is happy. The Wii gets children exercising again, and it doesn’t feature...
As some of you may know I make video games – both for work and as a hobby.About a year ago a chap named Alan Broad posted a demo of a game he was intending to give away on a...
Advertising in games is something that has been getting a lot of media attention recently. Some reports say that gamers love it, provided things are in context (ads on billboards in a city for example) and, more recently, they say...
I read the first two Eragon books recently, the third and final is currently being written. My timing seems to have been quite good because as I was reading the second book, I found out that there was a film...
Binary Joy is a website dedicated to video games, but not just any games. Good games. Games you enjoy. We will feature any game, as long as the person doing the writing enjoys what they are playing. This means that...
I keep finding links to things that interest me but aren’t worthy of a post for themselves. Normally I would post them as links but there are so many of the things at the moment that I thought I would...
I’d been looking forward to Shadow of the Colossus for some time, and on the 17th of February 2006 it was finally released in the UK.For the uneducated, Shadow of the Colossus is the follow up (but not a sequel...
I am almost as excited about this as I am about the new Zelda game (almost, but not quite). New Super Mario Brothers wallpaper Head on over to the official, New Super Mario Brothers, website to get all the info...
This was definitely Nintendo’s year at E3. They wiped the floor with everyone, having the most compelling games and most innovative hardware.I’ve already done a very brief summary of the 3 big conferences over at the 9rules blog but I...
I’ve been very busy recently so the dev diary has been the thing that takes a back seat (again). Also I have never liked releasing things this early in case people aren’t impressed/ interested, or simply because I don’t want...
An interesting article about in game interfaces and how they’re slowly dieing out. First, it’s important to answer the question, ‘What is a HUD?’ A HUD is simply a collection of persistent on screen elements whose purpose is to indicate...
In my last post I mentioned me having my own opinions on the whole “video games are murder simulators” debate. Well I thought I’d run through them briefly – and also point you to a new video game made specifically...
Something I have wanted to do with Binary Sun for a while now is get some online games. The obvious solution would be to add some games made in Flash, but I don’t like to do things the easy way.So...
Well – I got a little behind with my dev diary. First Regulus became rather more popular than I expected, and then EbayEd sunk without a trace (FWIW I never expected it to be popular – it IS rather limited...
I’m a huge fan of Prince of Persia, Sands of Time. It was a visual feast using glowing pastels colours to bring the magic of an Arabian adventure to life. There was a story that was told mainly through the...
I’ve played all the Grow games and think they’re great so thought I’d mention that the latest one, Grow Ornament, has been released. It’s festive so get on over there and have a play.This time there are only 6 objects...
This weekend, I bought, played, and completed the new King Kong videogame.It rocked!As with all Ubisoft games it’s visually stunning – I went for the GameCube version and it has to be one of the prettiest games on the console....
I’ve just read an interesting post on videogame aesthetics all about the quest for photorealism and it got me thinking.Realism is boring, I find the quest for realistic gaming as pointless as photo realistic animated movies. The main problem is...
Now that I have a rough game design worked out I need to start figuring out what features will be included in the game.The feature should be thought of as a baseline to work towards. New things may be added,...
Before working out what sort of game to make I need to find out what is in a design document. These are new to me so a quick Google threw up a handful of sites. The most likely was found...
Something I have wanted to do for a long time is create a development diary whilst making a video game. And when I say a diary I mean something public, like a blog, where people can post comments during the...