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Building Disneyland

A fascinating time-lapse video of Disneyland being brought together in less than a year. They were still building Tomorrowland right up until opening. New fact for me: Sleeping Beauty was released four years after her castle in Disneyland was built.…

NESynth

Denki hearts NESynth, and especially the skills of Denkitribe playing NESynth.

What has the iPhone Really Changed?

My latest article at Gamasutra is now available, entitled “What has the iPhone Really Changed?”: The phrase I heard used more than any other at GDC this year was “the iPhone has changed everything”; with the emphasis on everything. Every…

Denki In Seattle – The ‘Casual’ Connect Conference

Last week, following my trip to Brighton, I represented Denki at the conference I know only as “Connect“. I hadn’t attended for a couple of years, so the first thing I noticed was that there were far more attendees, but…

Applied Creativity

One of Ewan McIntosh‘s Twitter posts sparked inner fury in me yesterday when he linked to a TED talk (a TED talk, no less!) claiming somehow it would be wrong to try and define creativity. Creativity was unknowable and magical…

Develop 2009 – Denki Does Brighton

This week, Brian and myself have been ensconced by the seaside in Brighton for the Develop 2009 conference. We spent three days inside a hotel, learning from others, talking about Quarrel, catching up with old friends and making new friends.…

Consider Us Flattered!

Was it not Oscar Wilde who once said “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?” No? Charles Caleb Colton, you say? I stand corrected. Someone known only as ‘Anonymous Denkian’ sent me a link to a SEGA blog post from…

Wanted: Part-time Quarrel Test Interns

As you may know, we’re looking for people to come in and play Quarrel for a couple of hours (and if you didn’t know that, see here). But! We’re also looking for test interns. This is a different role, as…

Plussing It

In the recent Quarrel progress report, I used the term ‘plussing it’. It may not be familiar to you, though I’m sure you got the gist of it. This is a term that we’ve… purloined from Walt Disney. To ‘plus’…