I'm a real bedroom coder, none of this having a separate office malarkey.Įveryone and everything. I then did a brief bit of work for Maxis and since then I've worked from home making indie games out of a bedroom. I did a succession of weird jobs (guitar teacher, boat builder, stock market computer engineer.) before eventually working at Elixir studios as a game programmer, than at Lionhead doing AI for the movies. I started coding age 11 on the Sinclair ZX81, but never got to finish a decent sellable game back then. The interface for the game is a bit unusual because there isn't really a normal genre for games like this. During the day, a diary shows you how your days has gone, and in the evening you select different menu options to pick how you spend that evening, so there are buttons for you to select from a list of solo activities, and a mobile phone that will flash when people invite you out or have a message for you. The game is in 2D, and you have some indicators which show you how your characters currently feeling about everything. How you spend each day, and what you aim to achieve in those ten years is entirely up to you, and the game is basically about balancing the pressures of life. The game asks you what to do each day after work, and you can either go to evening classes, socialise, spend time alone or do things like read a book.
You can end up being happy and sociable with an average job, or career minded and wealthy but perhaps a bit lonely. You start off with a bad job and not much education, and depending how you choose to spend your time each day, you get a better job, meet new people, have a relationship, and change your personality and mood. Kudos 2 is about how you choose to live your life from age twenty to thirty. Keep reading for his take on why Spore didn't work, and why he hopes indie games developers will never rule the world.Įxplain your game to my mum in 140 words. We put him through the game pitch process to find out more. Kudos 2, his latest indie release as Positech, is a lighter offering.
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