Previews is the games I'm currently working on and have every intention of finishing one day.
Drifting Aimlessly is the games I'm not currently working on but intend to finish one day. I'm just taking a 'breather' from them for the time being.
An article about A Day In The Life Of A Grave Digger can be found here. The only question is: what are you going to do about it?
DARK LEGACY
A linear interactive text adventure told in flashback.
She went on The Game.
And just in time, for Torgrin the terrorist and his band of ruthless assassins have just hit town. [Sequal to Scene Of The Crime and City In Fear].
Whether Grumble succeeds or not is entirely up to you. But look on the bright side of things: Dusk Town has a very good cemetery and Grumble has been guaranteed a quality final resting place if he fails...
Only YOU can stop them because only YOU are aware that they exist. Of course, you could try telling other people about them but is anyone really going to believe a word you say...?
WHO DIDN'T WASH THEIR HANDS?
It has finally happened: someone has gone to the toilet in the building where you work and NOT washed their hands! Strangely, no one else seems concerned about this appalling lack of hygiene but YOU are determined to get to the bottom of it.
Quite a few games I've started over the years have never got finished for one reason or another: some just weren't good enough, some seemed good at the time but less so later on, others I just lost all enthusiasm for...
The games listed here are those that I've given up on. There's a chance, albeit a very, very small one, that I'll go back to some of these games one day and finish them, but if I were a betting man I wouldn't gamble on it.
An article about The High-Powered World Of Life On The Conveyor Belt can be found here.
BLOOD RELATIVES
A tragic and terrible day in the Sophire household - Great Aunt Petunia is dead! Worse still, she's died and not even left a will naming her nearest and dearest (namely YOU) as heir to her vast fortune. But this fortune exists - it's practically legendary.
You are a lowly adventurer seeking fame and fortune. When word reaches your ears that the King is looking for a brave soul to rescue the kingdom from a dark evil, you just can't sign your name on the dotted line fast enough.
DARK VISIONS
Your psychic powers are are called upon when several people are murdered at a museum. Your unique gift gives you the ability to enter the minds of the recently deceased and see the last thing they saw. But this time you might well have made a terrible mistake...
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A GRAVE DIGGER
You're a hapless grave digger on the worst day of his life. The dead aren't staying dead, you’ve a graveyard inspector coming to pay a visit, a gang of ruthless terrorists have taken over the old tomb on the hill and, to make matters worse, someone has stolen your beer.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PIRATE
To the pirate city of Port Larst you have come to become that which you have always dreamed of becoming: a pirate! Here, one way or another, you'll get what you want. No matter how many people you have to kill to get there...
DRACULA'S OLDER BROTHER
You were just settling down to a nice glass of blood when in lumbered Igor, your hunchbacked servant, with some rather annoying news: vampire hunters were at the front gate demanding your head. It seemed the tales of your neck-biting, blood-draining, changing-into-a-bat exploits had reached the ears of your enemies.
END GAME
On the dying world of Korozin, an ageing professor relates the events which led to the destruction of his home planet - and the evil he unleashed on the universe...
FALLEN ANGEL
Once you were someone special: an Angel. One of God's Special Guard. But then you made a bad bet with a shady character and soon after you found the Big Guy didn't want you on his staff any longer. Now you spend your days working in a comic book store, telling the customers how you used to be a real genuine Angel, and mulling over just how you might go about regaining your powers.
THE GAME
When faced with a debt of £30,000,000 and just four days to pay it in, most people would just have admitted defeat and waited for the inevitable jail sentence to be doled out. But not Sharessa Prendergahast.
GUMSHOE
Booted from the police force following an unfortunate incident involving your gun, the mayor's daughter and a slight case of mistaken identity (not helped much by your "shoot first, ask questions later" policy) you revert back to old profession of the gumshoe. The city might not think it needs protecting, but you know better and you're going to protect it. Whether it wants it or not...
HAMPSTEAD
A remake of the Spectrum classic.
THE HIGH-POWERED WORLD OF LIFE ON THE CONVEYOR BELT
Today is going to be a busy day: you're weeks behind with your work and, to make matters worse, the factory supervisor has decided to an unexpected (and unwanted) visit. Time to get things shipshape.
INTERROGATION
A murder has been committed and three suspects are about to be questioned. Can YOU decide which of them is guilty?
IN THE MIND OF THE MASTER
Step into the shoes of the greatest game writer of all time (in his opinion anyway) and help him write the epic masterpiece the world has been waiting for, whether it knows it or not...
IT HAPPENED ONE WEEKEND
You’ve come to the deserted cabin in the woods for one thing, and one thing only. Sometime this weekend you're going to rid yourself of your troublesome virginity…
THE KING OF THIEVES
Rumours tell of the treasure trove of the Archmagus Kazmiran, and the wealth that can be amassed by anyone brave, or foolish, enough to venture there. Are you that person? Or are you just another pretender to the title ‘King of Thieves’?
A KNIGHT ON THE TOWN
Tomorrow you become a fully fledged knight but today you're still a squire. As part of your last night of wild abandon before the morose duties of a knight are thrust upon your shoulders, you decide to paint the town red.
LOAN SHARKED!
To get ahead in business it sometimes pays to take a few risks. Like borrowing money from the hardest gangster in town and then losing it before you can even make use of it. And then when you find large men with crowbars and hammers at your door wanting to "have a little word", you know it's not going to be a good day...
MIND SHADOWS
A writer of horror fiction slowly finds himself going insane and experiencing strange and frightening hallucinations. But are they hallucinations or are the events he experiences all too real?
MUSINGS OF A FOUL OLD MAN
As the eponymous hero (or should that be anti-hero?) YOU must guide the FOM through the trials and tribulations which make up his daily life: his Peeping Tom routine, cadging free beer from Frank, avoiding run-ins with the ex and - as big a shock for him as the rest of the world - finding his true love. Guaranteed to bring a tear to the eye (and an impending urge to vomit to the stomach) of anyone who plays it.
REALITY
When the waking world and the dream world merge, is there any way of telling which is which?
THE RELUCTANT GOBLIN
The goblin home of Dusk Town is in peril from a dark and foreboding evil and only YOU - an unfortunate little goblin named Grumble - can save it. Armed with nothing more than a broken sword and a lasting desire to run away at the first opportunity, you set off to battle the evil.
THE REMARKABLE MR KAVANAGH
Some men seem larger than life. Such a man is Charles Edward Kavanagh, the most important individual of the twentieth century. And also the most reclusive. But now he has chosen you to relate his life story to…
REVELATION
You never expected to return to the city of Skara Dorne, but time and circumstances have changed you. Now you are drawn back there, to a meeting with an old friend, and a confrontation with a man you thought long dead…
SHATTERED MEMORY
You wake up in a strange city with your memories gone yet a feeling, deep down, that everything is not as it appears. Before long, you find yourself being followed and it is not long after that that you realise that losing your memories was no accident.
STARFALL
The alien civilisation of Vangamma faces destruction from an ancient evil that has been awakened upon one of its moons. All attempts to combat the evil have failed and now nothing can stand in its way. Except, that is, for YOU...
THEY'RE OUT THERE!!!
One night whilst UFO hunting with your $1.99 telescope, you come across what every teenager dreams of seeing (no, this isn't a Christopher Cole adventure!): an alien spaceship. And you receive a message from the beings on board that they intend to destroy the entire world.
WELCOME TO CEMETERY HOTEL
It was always your dream to run an exclusive top of the range hotel, complete with professional staff and a high quotient of quality clientele. Unfortunately, you ended up at Cemetery Hotel where surviving to the end of the first day is an accomplishment in itself. How you're going to explain the ghosts roaming the corridors and the untimely demise of several of the guests, you're not entirely sure…
YEE-HAW!
You’re the nastiest, most hateful, horrible and thoroughly evil cowboy of them all: you’re Jimbob McGoggins and you’ve come to the town of Dead Man’s Creek for one purpose only: shootin’ people!