Deb Stephens whome I met at X48 has a blog detailing her final year game project at Newport Uni.

Heres it is Spiritus, check out the lovely art style, thankfully its not your usual bald head marine or metal bikini wearing babe

The painted artstyle has a nice aethetic and the game mechanics give it an accessibility to a potentially wide range of gamers.

So go check it out

Tomorrow and over the weekend, Microsoft and Channel 4 are running X48 gamecamp, where they get loads of university students (in game related subjects) and have them write a bunch of games (to a theme) in a marathon 48 hour session which are then judged and prizes given.

I’m going as a mentor, to help out. I think it should be an exciting couple of days and I expect to see some really interesting game designs. Almost wish I was a bit younger and could join in

Pixel-labs are running it and will be tweeting and posting photo through-out the day.

Main website is here – http://www.x48gamecamp.com/

I’m looking forward to it, so if your going to be there I’ll see you tomorrow and if not please follow and give encourage via the wonders of the inter-web. Its going to be an intense couple of days for those taking part in the competition and should get some interesting results

Just a quick test of Windows Live Writer, for composing blog entries. Its certainly nice to have a offline editor, with all the standard WYSIWYG features.

As I use a private host running WordPress, will be interesting to see if this all works okay. So far so good, its seems to have grabbed categories and stuff okay.

Web preview isn’t quite right, but that purely because it uses a dynamic close of the task bar on the page… The actual article renders fine Hmm actually the preview catagories doesn’t match what i’ve sent, is that a bug in the category system or the preview… only one way of finding out