The purpose of technology – flush toilets, smart phones, the wheel – is to make our lives easier. When technology is foisted on the unsuspecting public with the promise of being awesome and actually ends up causing us grief, i vote FIRE. Throw it all in a smouldering heap, and stick with what works. Here [...] Keep Reading

NextMEDIA has announced its list of 2011 Digi Awards Nominees. While our viral hit Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure was overlooked, Corus Entertainment placed in the Best Cross-Platform: Kids category with Babar and the Adventures of Badou. Untold Entertainment worked with Corus to develop a preschooler-friendly patterning game for the show’s website. Congratulations to Corus. Our [...] Keep Reading

Untold Entertainment produced A Lotta Dessert, a simple patterning game for preschoolers, for TVOntario’s TVOKids.com site. Click to play Lotta Dessert at TVOKids.com! The game design document, graphics of Lotta’s house and face, and her voiceover, were provided by TVO. Untold Entertainment produced the remaining assets and created the game based on TVO’s specifications. UX [...] Keep Reading

WARNING: Swears and general ribaldry It’s really frustrating when you make a word in a game, and it’s not recognized by the game’s dictionary. It’s the worst when the word is a perfectly natural English word like “PUCE”, but a game like Jumbline doesn’t accept it. (Hear that, Jumbline devs? Ahem. AHEM.) But in other [...] Keep Reading

Meaty arguments break out from time to time on Twitter, but the 140 character limit cramps my long-winded style. Most recently, UK game dev Iain Lobb and US game dev Adam Saltsman were discussing Adam’s article Contrivance and Extortion II: Clarifications, Feedback & Suggestions, in which he condemns certain game design styles as “unethical”. Iain [...] Keep Reading