Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Philip Gooch Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Cool Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:44:27 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 38 Message-ID: <37B83FEB.CA216D06@easynet.co.uk> References: <7p7e72$i8s22@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <37B7ECDE.D167A56F@easynet.co.uk> <7p9ahf$i8s29@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.131.140.238 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Nigel Critten wrote: > Well without sounding to up myself, you would think so wouldn't you ;-) The > main problem is that of location, I'm stuck in a happy little rutt up here > in Norwich, I could have gone to London for a lead artist job but I've done > that and no offence to anyone living in London but it ain't a great place > despite what Tony Blair would have us believe, and I don't think it has > swung since the 60's :-) I didn't mind Shepperton that was very similar to > Norwich but with far less shops. I like Norwich - my girlfriend's parents live near there, and my family on my dad's side are all from Norwich. You could always commute to London from there. You could get a lot done of your own stuff on the train on the way down (a friend of mine is writing a fantastic RPG for the Psion Series 5 palmtop, and he's written it all on the bus journey to and from work each day for the last few months!) > > The other problem is that deep down I've always been into games, loved them > if you actually managed to get through my original post you will see I go > back a few years... ever since I got my first ZX81 I wanted to write games, > the first one was one I typed in from a Listings magazine (Remember Those... > arghhhh) it was a skiing game if I remember with a X for the hero and *'s > for the flags :-) oh that takes me back, I also remember it didn't work very > well :) Yeah, I've always wanted to write games. I've dabbled here and there since the Spectrum days but my problem is that I've never been able to finish anything! I'm currently working in publishing doing a load of XML stuff - pays well but it's pretty dull. Cheers Phil