2012: The Year I’ve Been Involved in Making 61 Games!

I’m off now for a couple of weeks for Christmas.  It’s been a crazy year in games for me, personally:

At the start of 2012 we (Red Wasp Design) released Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land and am really proud of how it has done in both sales and reviews.  That was followed up by the DLC, Kaul’s Diary.  

We (Auroch Digital) also have also run four major game jams (Global, Gamify Your PhD, ExPlay-Wellcome & XX Game Jam) as well as a host of other events and consultancy.  We also started our news news-gaming project, GameTheNews.net – phew!  Counting that all up it means I’ve directly been involved in the creation of:

• Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land (plus Kaul’s Diary)
• The Mini-games on Game Design and Science (for Gamify Your PhD, developed by Mobile Pie and Wired)
• 14 games for GameTheNews.net (11 of them are public) including the first ever attempt to cover an ongoing war in the form of a game, Endgame:Syria.
  

Then indirectly I’ve been involved in more, via the facilitation of game james:

• Bristol’s part in the Global Games Jam (about 15 games?)
• Gamify Your PhD (6 games, plus the mini-games noted above)
• The Wellcome Trust-ExPlay Games Jam (20 games)
• XX Game Jam (4 games I think?)

Woah, that is like 61(ish) games on 2012!  A good year, I think!

So if you’d like a bit of reading over the holidays, a couple of older posts I was very pleased with are:

• How We Evolve Fun
• Brink & Climate Change
• The Biology of Cthulhu & Lovecraft’s Fiction
• The Making of Call of Cthulhu (via Game Dev Story)

And if you want to play some games, then we’ve got a host of free mobile ones, including seasonal ones at GameTheNews.net (also plenty on HTML5 too!)

And finally, thanks to all who’ve work with me/us over 2012 and supported me/us and I look forward to more great work and games in 2013!

Tomas (;,;)