Please play this in the background while reading this post. Remember Shovel Knight? You know, the one that ended up taking the gaming world by storm, making a tiny underdog into an Indie hero that ended up getting its own Amiibo? Of […]
Hey guys and girls, Watch me read a little text the 14th of October! The topic: Cigarettes. The language: English. The teaser: Sometimes, people don’t just offer her a cigarette, but a light as well. How cute. And naive. They haven’t come to […]
Good news everyone! Panta Rhei, an animated short I’ve been writing together with director Wouter Bongaerts and producer/studio Creative Conspiracy, has been granted development funding by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF). This means we’ll be able to continue our hard work on […]
Here’s an interesting article about writers in gaming by the esteemed Sam Lake, writer of the first two Max Paynes and Alan Wake at Remedy in Finland. (He’s kind of my writing hero.) Now, I’ve got no idea whether Remedy’s next game, […]
People often romanticize being a writer. They think it’s just chilling in a log cabin somewhere in the mountains, sipping from a steaming cup of coffee and letting the words flow onto the virtual Macbook paper while people outside wait eagerly to […]
It’s been a bit quiet on the Mia front – which is normal, seeing how a) we’ve been hard at work at our next project and b) it’s been two years since the short was released. (Jesus? Has it really been that […]
Here’s a familiar feeling: You want to like something, but you’re unable to. The stars should be aligned, but somehow, they’re not – instead, you get a nagging feeling of frustration. A feeling that says: Have fun, damnit! So why aren’t you? Sometimes, […]
I’m working on something. It features these two snippets: “Penny wanted to reply she would take Adele’s word for it, but before she could, a microphone screeched, and a crackling voice that sounded like it came from a can of peas echoed […]
Lately, I’ve been wanting to learn something. Anything. Well, not anything. Nothing to do with writing. I tried learning how to draw or how to play the guitar, but those two creative activities are too similar to writing. I also considered learning […]
Hi kids! Today I wanna talk to you about the Disney classic The Lion King (or, as the Germans call it, Der König der Löwen). Now, Lion King and I, we go way back. It was one of the first movies I […]