It’s actually a fairly long time ago. But I just realised that I’ve never blogged about my second iPhone title «Insulting Monk». It’s a fairly simple little thing, being an insult generator, I did however put a lot of work into the presentation of the title. The idea was to make a really friendly application with an environment the user would like to return to. (Despite being constantly abused, that is!)

Anyway, as this blog is geared towards visual storytelling I figured I’d share a couple of videos I made to advertise the title. First, here’s a small one about the creation of the background-graphics:



And to wrap it up here’s the final trailer I made for the title. As I really didn’t have any big earlier titles to refer to I figured it’d be a funny twist to namedrop a couple of big titles.


Those of you interested can read more about the title here.

Tags: insulting,monk,trailer,design

OK, to most of you this probably is as exciting as watching paint dry. Gray paint, inside a library, if you're blind. But this kind of made my day. The nice people over at TheDigitalLifeStyle.tv have found reason to review Ben's somewhat spiffy-looking but ultimately craptastic rock-paper-scissors game!

Frankly I think they got it spot on. After all I like to claim that the game is the most accurately titled game on the App Store so in some ways you shouldn't really need a review at all…

One of the things I have been able to do during my hiatus from the blogosphere is dipping my toes in the iPool, or the world of iPhone development to the rest of you. A couple of months back I released my first game the not too snappy, but incredibly accurately titled Ben’s somewhat spiffy-looking but ultimately craptastic rock-paper-scissors game(tm). Not exactly the kind of title to set the world on fire* but a suitably sized project to start my, no doubt, prosperous career as a games developer.

I’m already working on no less than two other projects and believe a lot of this blog will be occupied with posts pertaining to this. Not to worry though I will try to attack the matter from a design point of view rather than a technical standpoint. As a taster for the things to come, here’s the game-trailer I made for my first game:

You can read more about it here or even buy it here!

*Why would anyone want to set the world on fire?! Surely that would be arson?!

Tags: iPhone, development, Rock-paper-scissors, game, game-design