Not everyone in the games industry is quite as positive about Creative Europe’s game development hand-outs as the three grant beneficiaries whose views I shared in Thoughts of the Thankful. It would be remiss of me not to give you a taste of the skepticism and suspicion I’ve come across while looking into EU fun funding.
I might as well get my main Commandos: Origins criticisms in early (Playing games before castigating them is so passé). I miss inventories and Lupin the Thief more than I thought I would, and I wish Claymore Game Studios had drawn inspiration from Spellbound’s back catalogue as well as Pyro’s and Mimimi’s.
What in heaven’s name do they teach them at Bovington these days? The British Crusader gets three chances to pot the PSW in Turn 10 and fluffs all of them.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Since THC stumbled into being, I’ve been itching to grant MicroProse’s 1998 chart-topper European Air War, Dusty But Trusty status. Only a nasty bug that delights in crashing careers in both the GOG and on-sale-at-the-moment Steam version has stopped me.
Every Friday, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers.
Not a good sign. Roughly thirty minutes after the released-yesterday Enemy on the tail! arrived on Ada’s hard drive, I was seriously considering unarriving it. Although I wasn’t expecting much for £3.21, I was hoping for something capable of outlasting my breakfast mug of coffee.
I was raised in a region of Britain with a long tradition of commercial bobbin lacemaking. In her spare time my mother made intricate lace on a domed pillow fringed with beaded bobbins and festooned with brass pins, and in his, my father turned fancy wooden bobbins on a small lathe. Happily, thanks to the educational efforts of craftswomen* the world over, some of whom pass on their skills in person, some through books or YouTube videos, there’s little danger the art of bobbin lacemaking will ever vanish completely. However, if it, and similarly fascinating traditional handicrafts, are ever to…