Malcolm Owen
Why can't things be easier?
Hi, I'm Malcolm Owen, a "Phone Monkey" in Swansea (South Wales, UK) in a customer services role (fun!), and I'm trying to break away from that and into game creation (Huzzah!).
Sadly, I know that my HND will not be good enough to get me a job in one of the big companies doing long hours for less than you'd expect (as opposed to the current situation...), so plan B is to get off my backside and make something myself (aside from food). Cue abuse of Torque 2D and TGB under the name of Stick of Wrong Studios.
Don't ask what "Stick of Wrong" means. Really. I get enough stick from the family for that...
If all else fails, get a shovel...
Stick of Wrong Blog
No, not really. Headline got you going though… April Fools! In reality, I have been concentrating more on Gametactics and the Podcast more than this, I really should work more on the game… ...
Cocaine? Heroin? Marijuana? These are all drugs that are banned. They’re probably less addictive than World of Warcraft, which has sucked in more time from me than anything else, despite my slowness. And that is my excuse for working so slowly on SOW related stuff. WOW. And Geometry Wars. And ...
There are various crisises… crisesis…. crisisis… crisisorations… problems, that are plaguing my current life. These are fairly big problems, but they have allowed me to look at my life more and think about what I’m doing. Including, weirdly, this Stick of Wrong thing co ...
So. the tasks completed list… Colours/Types: Checked if multiple types of enemies can be placed. How to do that in the simplest possible way, with my atrocious art skills? Go in and change the colours on an existing enemy, and give it a newer name. So now I have both red and blue flying ships. ...
This week has been fairly productive. And by “Fairly”, read “if I were doing this full-time, I would be fired from the lack of progress, but it’s good enough based on the current life situation”. This is partly due to Paul Mckenna’s “Instant Confidence” ...
