I was recently asked to do a post-mortem of Super Laser Racer for iDevGames.com. I thought I should share it here too as I haven't written anything on the blog for a while...

Overview
After completing my previous game New Star GP I was considering replacing the racing cars with space ships and putting weapons in the game. It seemed like a fairly simple way to reuse the code that I’d spent the previous 3 months working on and quickly create an entirely new game. Meanwhile I...

I didn't think I'd be revealing this quite so soon but the new game is really starting to come together. It is still a side project at the moment and my main focus is updating NSS4 but I thought I'd show you how it is progressing.

Remember I hinted that it is inspired by two games in my last blog post? Those games are Geometry Wars and WipeOut. So how did the idea come about? Well, I initially thought of reskinning NSGP and putting guns on the cars for some kind of MadMax style apocalypse...

You may recall from my last post that I find it bewildering that FIFA and PES still don't have full 360 degree control. Well, according to EDGE magazine (203) this is all about to change in FIFA 10. This is great news and I'm really looking forward to this version. It should be the best football experience of all time! By the way, the EDGE article is about 10 pages long and a very interesting read, so get out there and buy the mag. It's the only gaming mag I buy and I dream of one day seeing a New...

I've been thinking about the NSS4 gameplay recently. After a few months of not playing the game due to working on NSGP and various other things it has enabled me to look at the game with fresh eyes. And to be honest, I'm not happy with it. It feels a bit glitchy and slippery in places so I'm currently looking for inspiration from playing some classic footie games like Sensible World Of Soccer (on Xbox) and International Superstar Soccer (Snes9x).

SWOS is trememdous fun but I always...

You may have noticed the "tell a friend" buttons dotted around the main website. This is part of my ongoing efforts to improve the New Star Games online profile and reach new customers. I'd really appreciate it if a few of you could test the feature out and let me know what you think. It's a simple widget from a company called Te!! that allows you to quickly log in to your favourite community site or email provider and fire off a message to your friends. It looks pretty neat and I look...