Play Dough: On Creating XBLA’s first Claymation Videogame

Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2008

You know what the Internet could use right now? Another Top 10 of 2008 list of course! Man, I can’t believe those things ever went out of fashion… So here to help you parse your year more efficiently is Chewing Pixels’ Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2008. Like, none more droll. 1. Top 10 ...

UGC: Restoring our Sense of Wonder?

Whatever your opinion of Little Big Planet as a game, its pivotal role in shifting user-generated content from gaming’s periphery to its mainstream is indisputable. By giving players a well-featured tool set with which to make their own levels, and then encouraging the promotion of these creations on Youtube, Sony has also formalized a neat ...

Spielberg on Cutscenes

This is an interview that will be linked to a great deal over the next few days on gaming blogs but I don’t mind being part of that stampede because it’s an insightful piece. In it movie director/ game director Steven Spielberg talks about his experiences working with EA on this year’s Wii title Boom ...

Control Freak

This graphical representation of the evolution of game controllers is neat. The hands shown in each image are of a consistent size meaning that the controllers are to scale. But more notable is the stat rundown underneath each image revealing how the number of sticks and buttons gamers have had to contend with over the ...

This is Not An Amazing Photograph

This is an amazing oil painting. By Diego Gravinese. Click on image for further detail. Click here for another. Via This Isn’t Happiness, where else?

Music To Play Games By: One Life Left CD Launched

Best Thing I Saw Today #37: Play Auditorium

I am a sucker for most types of music game but I don’t think you need any sort of heightened interest in the relationship between music and interactivity to appreciate the brilliance of this three level flash demo for Play Auditorium. The game’s best understood through experience but, in short, you must position directional arrows ...

What’s in a Prop?

Mrs Chewing Pixels’ hair conditioner looks exactly like semen (um, not that I know what semen looks like or anything, mum). I think we were around fifteen when my school’s English department booked an avant garde production of MacBeth to perform in front of the students. It was a small troupe, four or five in ...

Bow Street Runner Wins BAFTA

Last night Bow Street Runner, the episodic point and click adventure game I worked on with Littleloud for Channel 4 won a BAFTA. The game’s picked up a few awards this year but the BAFTA is the first one that’s widely-recognized outside of the new media/ Flash game industry bubble so I thought it worth ...