With my book, Game Art, being about a month away from release now, I’ve been out and about talking to the media about it. The kind people at Vice did an interview with me about the book, and asked some pretty awesome questions, which I had a chance to rant…
Read MoreHi everyone! This is just a quick note to let you all know that over on Gamasutra’s blog section, there’s one of the many interviews from my upcoming book, Game Art, for your reading enjoyment. The interview is with Alex Norton, an Australian game developer who created the procedural masterpiece…
Read MoreMy publisher, No Starch Press, is currently running a Humble Book Bundle campaign. It’s the same deal as the gaming Humble Bundles – pay what you want and you get a bunch of books to download and read. One of the books in this week’s Humble Bundle is a sampler…
Read MoreAs most of you know, I’ve been working on a book for the last year and a bit. It’s been a major project, but now it’s at the printers and in just a few short months it will be in the stores (look out for it in late August/ early…
Read MoreOne of the upcoming games that we were anticipating a great deal was Techland’s Hellraid. A first person co-operative slash-em-up set in a gothic horror nightmare sounded like a lot of fun to us, especially coming from the team responsible for the creative Dead Island and Dying Light. Unfortunately in…
Read MoreAs I suspect most readers of Digitally Downloaded are aware, for the past year-and-a-bit I have been working on a book about games. Called Game Art, it’s a book of interviews with various game directors, producers and artists, presented as essay-style discussion pieces, and accompanied by visual art works from…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It was a huge week for me personally this week, what with a book that I have spent the last year working on finally being listed for pre-order. And now that it’s up there and I can talk about it at greater depth, I wanted to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Last year I embarked on a epic quest to write a book about games as works of art. Originally I gave Kickstarter a go to try and raise the funds to self-publish the book, but then the good folks at No Starch Press offered to publish…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. If you haven’t seen Princess Mononoke yet, then you really should. Arguably Hayao Miyazaki’s (Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro) truest masterpiece, the 1997 film is almost more relevant now than it was even then. With such an intense debate raging around environmentalism and humanity’s impact on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I love collectible books. And that’s not just because I’ve got my own coming next year. I love them because, for fans, a good book about their favourite hobby is a wonderful way to engage with something they love doing on a deeper level. Like collectible…
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