i felt really honoured to be invited to speak on a panel at the Toronto Fan Expo this weekend alongside a number of other local industry pros. i couldn’t attend the event as a non-cosplayer, so my wife Cheryl whipped up a little something to satisfy my desperate desire for attention, and my [...] Keep Reading

The Vortex Game Conference & Competition, an (increasingly) annual event, has launched its promotional campaign. i’ve been an entrant in the event twice now, and a very vocal critic of it for a number of years. One of my colleagues said it best: “You criticize because you care, Ryan.” And i do! i [...] Keep Reading

So we shopped Spellirium around at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle this past week, and the consensus was that the game was good … for them to poop on. Category Exclusivity i’ve been billing Spellirium as a “word puzzle/adventure game hybrid”, or “Jim Henson’s Labyrinth meets Boggle.” Er – that’s “Boggle”, not “Hoggle”. To the casual games portals [...] Keep Reading

i’m at the Seattle airport waiting for a flight, and i thought i’d blog about the Casual Connect conference i attended this week. The conference is held by the Casual Games Association, or Cuh-GAAAAH for short. This was my second time at the conference, and like most repeat visits to places, the show lost a lot of [...] Keep Reading

We’re just starting to make great progress with Spellirium, our word puzzle/adventure game hybrid. For the past few months, it feels like we’ve been building pieces and elements of the game. Now that they’re built, we’re starting to assemble the actual game. Spellirium has two main modes: the lightning-quick Blitz Mode, where you try to [...] Keep Reading