Disney – Tom Ellard

Man Cave Wednesday Night is Garbage Night

Planning HaunTiki

This essay has been updated - from thinking harder and arriving back from a vacation visiting Halloween fright nights up in the Australian tropics. I've had an interesting conversation with…

October 14, 2025Man Cave, Wednesday Night is Garbage Night2 Comments

Admin Film Sound Severed Heads Technology Critique

Black Friday – tl;dr

Time for the 2024 End of Year round up. Get your popcorn. I should probably wait a bit longer in case something dramatic happens in December - but my yearly…

November 30, 2024Admin, Film Sound, Severed Heads, Technology Critique5 Comments

Game Design Severed Heads Technology Critique

I’M BACK

from America with a whole heap of development advice and ideas, and frogs. Mainly frogs. A Balinese frog sculpture at an "exotic" themed resort. It was curious to be in…

November 4, 2024Game Design, Severed Heads, Technology Critique2 Comments

Ranting

Pop Culture is a cancer and needs fixing

When the Star Wars trilogy was complete George Lucas flew the writer Joseph Campbell over to Skywalker Ranch for a private viewing of all three in a row. Campbell was…

August 25, 2023Ranting2 Comments

Game Design

Ever More Paranoid, Ever More Critical

Game Design In this episode – more paranoia. The swelling continues to the point where my head feels giddy. I sketched out a 3D model of an area the size…

March 1, 2020Game DesignNo Comments

Game Design

Paranoid Critical

I haven’t said much about theme parks recently, even though that’s where all the pain is taking place. It seems time for a Pain Bulletin. A really long one, sorry.…

December 20, 2019Game DesignNo Comments

Game Design

Further lessons from magical kingdoms

In which we draw some technical conclusions. Sanity Clause. Before going deeper it’s worth a sanity check, in that the finances of our test subjects are beyond our reckoning. The…

November 20, 2018Game DesignNo Comments

Game Design

Narrative, Media Art and Donald Duck

In which I go looking in Halloween USA for the pumpkin spice of contemporary media art, and find that interaction design is better done with personalities than push-buttons. I’m in…

November 6, 2018Game DesignNo Comments